French and Indian War

Watch the video and take 7 notes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0vwxJ-0m_I&feature=related

Creative Writing: Publishing

You are going to create digital stories of three of one of the following: your fable, your fractured fairy tale, your myth, and your tall tale.

I recommend that you use myplick.com in conjunction with PowerPoint, since you are already familiar with PowerPoint.

The first step is to make each story into a 3-10 slide PowerPoint with pictures to illustrate your story.

The second step is to upload your stories into myplick. Please note, you DO NOT have to register to upload and create a digital story using myplick. If you need some help getting started, you may want to view the tutorial to using MyPlick:

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Access the questions for pages 83-128 on Google Docs.  Working in a group of no more than three, write a complete paragraph response to one of the sets of questions that have not already been claimed.

After you have finished your paragraph response, make sure that you have synonyms and antonyms for ALL your vocabulary words.  If that is complete, start drawing pictures for each word.

Ancient Egypt: the Sphinx

Watch the following video: Riddles of the Sphinx by PBS's Nova.

You will need to break up your viewing in two days.  Day one (Tuesday 10/30) watch Chapters 1-4, and watch Chapters 5-7 on day two (Wednesday 10/31).

For each day that you watch, record the following:

• 10 facts
• 3 questions that YOU have (if these get answered as you read, include the answer)

Saving and Investing

1.  The definition of pension is: a retirement payment plan.
2.  Watch the Saving and Investing Video to answer the questions on your worksheet.

3.  Savings and Investing Powerpoint.

Editing & Prepping for Publishing

Task 1:  With your teacher, edit your stories.  Resubmit the edited drafts of: your fractured fairy tale, your tall tale, and your myth.

Task 2:  Watch the following videos to help you understand what digital stories are and to see examples of digital story telling.  Then, write a short paragraph that explains what digital story telling is, what it involves, and any questions or concerns you have about creating your own digital stories next week.

Digital storytelling videos:

What is Digital Storytelling?

The Three Little Pigs: a digital story example

Baseball digital story example

Digital Storytelling Fairy Tale Example

Task 3:  Start a writing prompt titled: "I Remember."  Start the prompt with the statement: I believe.  You may write in detail about one or two different memories or a brief explanation of many different memories.  Please write at least fifteen (15) sentences.  This list might help you come up with some ideas about personal narrative-inspired topics for the future.

Multiple Intelligences

Remember:  In 1983 Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner published his theory of multiple intelligences in his book Frames of Mind. Gardner identified eight separate intelligences. He defines intelligences as independent mental abilities characterized by core operations. For example,  musical intelligence focuses on the core operations of recognizing pitch and rhythm. Gardner states that most people have at least seven of these intelligences, but that in some people one intelligence may dominate, and in other people the intelligences blend. Below are descriptions of Gardner’s eight intelligences.

• Linguistic intelligence: the ability to use language to express one's thoughts and to understand other people orally or in writing
• Musical intelligence:  the ability to hear music in one's head, and to hear tones, rhythms, and larger musical patterns
• Logical-mathematical intelligence:  the ability to manipulate numbers, quantities, and operations accompanied by a love of dealing with abstraction
• Spatial intelligence:  the ability to represent the spatial world visually in one's mind
• Bodily kinesthetic intelligence:  the ability to use the whole body or parts of the body to solve a problem, create a product, or put on some kind of production.
• Intrapersonal intelligence:  the ability to know and understand one's self, including goals, tendencies, talents, limitations
• Interpersonal intelligence:  the ability to notice and make distinctions among other individuals; a strong understanding of other people
• Naturalist intelligence:  the ability to discriminate among living things and to see patterns; also, a sensitivity to features of the natural world

Your Task

GO TO: Literacy Work's Multiple Intelligences Assessment, take the survey, print out the results, and answer the following reflection questions:

• According to your results, what were your top three intelligences?  (If you don’t know what some of these terms mean, please look them up on dictionary.com)
• Do any of the other intelligences sound more like you?  If so, click on them to learn about them.
• How do you think you learn best?

Budgeting

1. Some of you've done a great job budgeting money with good careers, and those of you who did not, please adjust your budgets so that you end up in the black (positive).

2. Now, what if you aren't able to get those kinds of careers?

3. Look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics chart about how education affects pay.  What do you notice?

4. Play the game Spent to see if you could survive below the poverty line, which is where you will most likely end up if you do not get a good education.  After you have completed the game, print out or show Ms. Kappelman your results.

5. Last, play the game Counties Work to see how budgets work on a larger scale!  Show or print out your results from the game for Ms. Kappelman!

Ancient Egypt Bibliography

AKNsolutions.com.  Ancient Egypt for Kids.  Tour Egypt.  2011. Web. 16 Oct. 2012.

<http://www.touregypt.net/kids/>

Barrow, Mandy. Ancient Egypt. Woodland Junior School. 16 Oct. 2012. Web. 16 Oct. 2012.

<http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Egypt.html>

Trustees of the British Museum.  Ancient Egypt.  The British Museum.  1999.   Web.  16 Oct.

2012.  <http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html#>

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Questions, pages 42-82.

Working in groups of no more than three, completely answer one question for this section of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.  Remember, do not answer the same question as another group and read ALL directions first!

Colonial Videos

Mayflower: Deconstructed

Creative Writing Week 6

For creative writing this week, simply use your teacher's suggestions/questions as well as your own ideas after a second look to revise the following papers:

• fractured fairy tale
• tall tale
• myth