Today we began our unit on To Kill a Mockingbird by discussing the neighborhoods we live in. Several of you had, ah, interesting stories about unusual characters in your neighborhoods.
I passed out a reading schedule of the book. Please note that there’s a test on the first part of the novel on Thursday, 1/10, and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘7th Grade’
January 2, 2008
To Kill a Mockingbird: Intro
December 13, 2007
Students 2.0
Here’s a blog that just launched that I immediately added to my feed reader:
Students 2.0
It’s being written by eight students from all around the world who are questioning how education should change with the changing times. These are really great models of the kind of enlightened writing blogging can produce. Here’s an article that I [...]
December 13, 2007
Haitian Immigrants in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Weekly has a compelling story of a few people who are trying to help Haitian immigrants in Philadelphia:
You Can’t Go Home Again
I wonder how you feel this story jives against the stories and experiences you’ve read about in class?
December 11, 2007
Foil Phishing
This morning I received this e-mail:
Dear MasterCard Member,
For the User Agreement, Section 9, MasterCard may immediately issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend or terminate your Credit Card and refuse to provide our services to you if we believe that your actions may cause financial loss or legal liability for you, our users or us. [...]
December 10, 2007
What’s happened to the blogging, guys?
Dude, 7th graders: What happened to all the blogging you guys were supposed to do?
You guys should be discussing a specific aspect of storytelling in class, and then analyzing that aspect in a story on your blog that night (taking turns, of course). Is that happening?
And why aren’t you guys commenting on each other’s posts? [...]
December 3, 2007
7th Grade Short Story Assignment
Short story due Thursday, Dec. 13. Any topic, any genre. It’s rare that I’ll give an assignment this open-ended so take advantage of it, and show me your creativity!
At least 5 pages, typed, double-spaced, 12-point font. I’ll be collecting it by hand on Thursday, Dec. 13.
Make sure your story has all the elements of [...]
November 20, 2007
First Crossing – First Post
On your blog, you need to post your thoughts on the obstacles and conflicts immigrants might face.
Make sure you assign the “First Crossing” category to that post!!!
For extra credit, find your qali on my flickr page, click on it, click on “All Sizes”, grab the image url, and post the image on your blog (along [...]
October 31, 2007
7th Grade Blog Feeds
Today, you guys learned how to subscribe to blog feeds in Bloglines, a feed reader. You can also see my video on how to subscribe using Google Reader.
FIRST, make sure you are subscribed to the 7th grade posts on this blog. Click on the link below for the RSS feed:
http://cubinclass.wordpress.com/category/7th-grade/feed
SECOND, visit and subscribe to your [...]
