Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Important Reminders
- keep an eye on morning announcements for important updates regarding elective signups for next year

Science 
- redo the WRITE prompt for the last Newsela article (South Carolina teen raises $70,000 for community by organizing basketball games) if you did it on the wrong one — the correct prompt is:

Research one organization you would like to help support if given the opportunity to organize a fundraiser or. What is the one you would choose? What does this organization/company stand for? (What is their mission or cause? Who/what are they advocating for?) Why did you choose this organization to help out of all the ones you've read up on?

- read over the My Place in a Changing World project website (the pages that are not blank); contribute helpful resources to our village (make sure you are signed into your CUSD Google account)

- fill out one row in the Research Collection Template (posted in Google Classroom) tonight after doing 5-10 minutes of research/learning; check out the project symbaloo as a starting point

- keep up with the required reading in the Energy Roundup: read/annotate Introduction to Energy tonight and be ready for the reading quiz

Newsela article due Mon. 1/13: Greta Thunberg "a bit surprised" to be Time Person of the Year
(make sure you take the quiz at the right lexile level)


Language Arts
Newsela article due Mon. 1/13: Greta Thunberg "a bit surprised" to be Time Person of the Year
(make sure you take the quiz at the right lexile level)
 
- NoRedInk Assignment #15: Verb Tense II - Perfect and Progressive Tenses

- NoRedInk Quiz #7 TOMORROW 1/8!!!
covers: 
Recognizing Titles of Long-Form and Short-Form Works
Capitalizing and Formatting Titles 1
Identifying Prepositions 
Distinguishing Contractions and Possessives
"Who's" vs. "Whose"
"It's" vs. "Its"
Correcting Errors with "Yours," "Hers," Theirs," and "Ours"
Forming Comparative Adjectives
Forming Superlative Adjectives