Announcements and Reminders:
The term ends on Monday. Bring treats on Monday. We will have a "working party," playing games with words and sentences. For the new semester, you may be in a different class period for English. If you missed any of the final tests on coordinate adjectives (with commas), fact and opinion, or theme, please arrange to take them as soon as possible after school or during cave time. If you would like to, you may take home your character box. |
Today's Activities:
Hand in your reading log for December if you haven't. Hand in the worksheet from Monday in the media center if you haven't -- the one with the cartoons on it.) 1. Individual reading: Today you may read anything you want, but I highly recommend reading your historical fiction book, or at least trying one out. You will sign up for your historical fiction book next week. Sign ups are due by Friday, January 17. Watch for the January book assessment.  2. In your composition book, on the next page, list all the things you can think of that are NOT FAIR, in your own life, in our community, state, nation, and world. Label: UNFAIR with today's date 1-9-14. 3. Fair or Not? Right or wrong? Receive a packet to read (or if you are absent read the materials online at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnunicoi/mary.htm) and a worksheet for reading and writing about nonfiction. You can open the worksheet from here: Mary the Elephant Questions.doc Order for filling out your worksheet:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3C68P7c8pc Some questions to ponder: Are you responsible for the things your ancestors or people who used to live where you live have done? Are you responsible for things other people in your area or group have done? Is judging others unfair? wrong? Is stereotyping unfair? wrong? Why do different people tell different stories -- that may disagree with each other -- about the same incident? Here is another link -- with news from 2013 about a play based on the hanging of Mary: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local//arts-culture/53493-horrific-case-of-animal-cruelty-basis-for-pifas-murderous-mary- Another account: http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2013/09/elephant-hanging.html A program about this incident was aired on NPR's Fresh Air. nprfreshair.tumblr.com/post/.../on-september-13-1916-a-five-ton-elepha... Another source for the video is http://www.hiking-trail.net/video_youtube/Hanging%20Over%20Erwin: %20The%20Execution%20of%20Big%20Mary/I3C68P7c8pc |
If you were absent: See the announcements and reminders above.
Read the article and poem online. Watch the video online. Fill out the worksheet: See above for the order for filling it out. |
