Gather pictures – either from your family or generic pictures to represent your family – to illustrate your “Where I’m From” poem. If you have electronic copies of the pictures that you can save to a disc or thumb drive and bring it to school with you, that would be best, but you can bring hard copies of pictures, too. Pictures can also be emailed to me and we can save them here for you to use. You will need these beginning Wednesday when we start working with Windows MovieMaker to create your “Where I’m From” audio/visual presentation.
2nd Period EL students – if you need to see the directions for this week’s paraphrasing activity, you can click here —-> Shakespeare
MONDAY We began with DGP and are conducting this activity differently this week in order to prepare for our final DGP test which will concentrate mostly on sentence structures. To see the 3 sentences that we are working with this week and read all the directions for this week’s assignment (which will culminate in a quiz grade), click on the “DGP” link at the top of this page and open the document titled “DGPweekofApril26″.
After DGP, we sang and reviewed both of our new “Rockin’ Vocab” songs – “Amazing” and “Spitball in the Eye”. The test over the vocabulary in these two songs will be this Friday, 4/30/10. That date was announced to students over 2 weeks ago and everyone should be prepared. However, those who are sitting in class and not taking advantage of the opportunity to practice the new vocab and those who are not spending time each night working with the vocab will have difficulty passing the test.
Once DGP and vocab were finished, we began creating story boards for the audio/visual representation of our “Where I’m From” poems. For more information about this project that we began in class last week, you can download and review these two attachments that were given to students in class last week. where i’m from Where I’m From Handout
The final audio/visual project will be due on Tuesday, May 4th.
TUESDAY After completing today’s DGP, we played a review game with the vocabulary words that will be covered on this Friday’s “Rockin’ Vocab” test. Students were given anytime that was left to continue working on their story boards for the “Where I’m From” audio/visual poetry project.
“Rockin’ Vocab” Test – Friday, April 30th
“Where I’m From” audio/visual poetry project due Tuesday, May 4, 2010.
WEDNESDAY After DGP and singing our “Rockin’ Vocab” songs, students were given access to wireless laptops in class to begin working on their “Where I’m From” audio/visual poetry project. Only students with completed story boards were able to begin working with the movie maker and audacity programs today to complete the project that is due on Tuesday, May 4th.
Don’t forget your “Rockin’ Vocab” test that is this Friday, April 30th.
THURSDAY
After DGP and singing our “Rockin’ Vocab” songs, students were given access to wireless laptops in class to begin working on their “Where I’m From” audio/visual poetry project. Only students with completed story boards were able to begin working with the movie maker and audacity programs today to complete the project that is due on Tuesday, May 4th.
Don’t forget your “Rockin’ Vocab” test that is this Friday, April 30th.
FRIDAY Students completed the “Rockin’ Vocab” test in class today.
Don’t forget that your “Where I’m From” audio/visual poetry project is due on Tuesday, May 4th. Tuesday is the only day next week that you will have access to the laptops in class. Plan accordingly.
