Wednesday, August 11, 2010

New Units: Cultural Diversity and The Perfect World!

6th: Today, we reflected on why we write and used our thoughts from the last night's survey to create a bulletin board on this topic outside the classroom. We discussed classroom jobs and assigned jobs to each table. Then, we discussed the unit that we are about to start, Unit 1: Exploring Cultural Diversity. Then, we took a unit one pretest to show our current level of knowledge of the topics that will be the focus of unit one. No homework tonight.

7th: Today, we reflected on why we write and used our thoughts from the last night's survey to create a bulletin board on this topic outside the classroom. We discussed classroom jobs and assigned jobs to each table. Then, we shared our shields in small groups and then with the larger class. Then, we did a shield-sharing activity using our shields to deflect obstacles that keep us from success. It was a symbolic activity. Parents, ask your students about it. We started to go over the unit overview for our first unit, The Perfect World.
Homework: On the back of the overview, write one thing in the unit you're excited about, one thing you're concerned about and one question you have.

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