2081 Handicaps

Harrison Bergeron, a story about a future society where the government imposes handicaps to keep all citizens equal, was this week's short story.  Below are examples of how we would be handicapped if we lived in Kurt Vonnegut's 2081.

 

Good Morning Fireworks

Paul Koch's post on Vine.

Grammarphobia: Blog | Grammarphobia

Grammarphobia: Blog | Grammarphobia.

By the writer of my favorite grammar book



 

 

 

American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream

American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream.

Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream

 

I Have A Dream-online play - Youku video HD Watch.

Full text of the speech

 

"Am I the homework teacher?" A Look at this Week's HW.

Week of August 26th

Friday

Review Geography Illustrated for quiz Monday

Thursday

Next draft of Process #2

Wednesday

Tonight, please pronounce, share and explain this week's vocabulary words with someone at home.

Grackle
Whanging
Consternation
Hindrances
Doozy
Vigilance
Birdshot
Impediments
Riveting
Luminous
Calibrated
Gamboled

IR30

REMINDER - Process Writing #1 due on Friday

Tuesday

RD Process #2 due tomorrow

Choose a different type of writing that last week.

 

• Reader Response - based on something you have read for this class


• Creative Fiction – a story you made up


• Original Poetry – any form or style


• Personal Narrative – non-fiction about you


• Business Letter/Technical Writing


• Expository Essay – Compare/Contrast, Persuasive or other thesis-driven style of academic writing

For those of you working on the business letter, here is a sample rubric to help you out.

Info on Business Letter


Monday

Finish Harrison Bergeron activity on your personal handicaps

Vocabulary:  Choose 5 words on the list you know and write your own definition - what you think it means. Choose 5 words on the list you don't really know and research a definition.  For the remainder, make up your own definition.  Keep this in your vocabulary folder for tomorrow.
Grackle
Whanging
Consternation
Hindrances
Doozy
Vigilance
Birdshot
Impediments
Riveting
Luminous
Calibrated
Gamboled

IR30

2nd Week Success by Sunny

In the two weeks of school we had so far, we have read two short stories in each week and annotated important parts of them. 'Harrison Bergeron' was the name of this week’s story. Our annotations fall into six categories; setting, characterizations, vocabulary, plot elements, irony and theme. Later in the week, we used our vocabulary annotations to come up with 10 vocabularies for our words of the week list. We then used those vocabulary words to find their definitions and to do other activities with these words. This leads onto our vocab Project.

For the vocab project, Mr. Koch gave each partner group a word from our words of the week list, and each pair had to make a project defining the meaning and the use of that word. For example a video explaining the definition, a question and answer that uses the word, a drawing that shows a visual definition, or even a short drama performance. We students in 7-7 especially found the videos quite interesting and entertaining.

Also something we did that was reading related was the Torch test. One of the pre-assessment tests that we always have at the beginning of this year is the Torch test. This is a reading test to see how well we can read and understand stories. For some people this is easy, for some it is hard, but for a major amount of people, it requires a lot of thinking. This occurs because it may be asking you something you know, but does not always give you the right word or vocabulary for that answer and also don’t always give you the answer in the passage that is given to you to read. It is a reading test but it also tests your knowledge.

The first writing assignment that we had was our first process writing papers. It was our choice to choose one of six types of writing: Reader Response, Creative Fiction, Original Poem, Personal Narrative, Business Writing/Technical Writing and Expository Writing. We chose one of the six and wrote a first rough draft on our own. Then at school we had a peer revision, we exchanged our drafts and gave each other comments and advices on parts that were not needed or parts that needed to be added with more detail.

To end the week, we had a class activity during our mentoring time on Friday morning. Our class got in 2 teams, each with 11 people. The 2 teams got in 2 lines facing each other and 2 opponents on the end of each line walked through the 2 lines facing each other. While the 2 people were walking through, the people on the opposite team were allowed to make you laugh by saying things or making faces but without touching, and if you laughed while walking through the 2 lines you were out and went on the other team's side. The point of the activity was to teach us about peer pressure, especially since we were in middle school now and we really cared a lot about what we wore, what our friends wore and what they did that sometimes influenced us to do, we had to know how to control ourselves and be able to decide what was okay to do and what was not.  

We had a fun week and most of us went to the STUCO Function to have some extra fun on our Friday night.

-Sunny Lee

Faces

Thanks 7-7 and 7-8 parents for filling the room for Back to School Night last night.  Great energy in the room, much like everyday when your children are here.  It was nice to put the faces of the students with the faces of the parents, to see friends, and to talk about how great your children are.

Thanks again for coming, and I hope to see you again soon.

- PK

APAC Baseball Information

 Canadian Academy Field

This is our field on campus

It has an artificial infield and outfield

Metal cleats can not be worn on this field

And...We're Back

Thank You 7-7 and 7-8 for making this a great first week in our Humanities class.  We did some goal setting, read the short story, All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, dusted off our mapping skills, but most importantly, got to know each other pretty well.

[caption id="attachment_7" align="aligncenter" width="300"] free-hand maps of "my world"[/caption]

Way to go 7-7 and 7-8 for your great performance in the 7th grade scavenger hunt - total domination!

Have a good weekend and thanks for coming to class.

-Coach Koch

 

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