How to Combat Racism?

Based on the films watched in class and some of our day to day experiences, we know racism still exist today. What can we do to combat racism? Remember to respond to at least two of your six grade peers.

Analyzing the use of Foreshadowing in Text and Film

 How does the use of foreshadowing assist the viewers and readers of "Life of a King "and Scorpions? You must provide details from the text and movie to defend your claim.

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Video

Persuasive Appeals Commercial

Using the handout from class (Analyzing Persuasive Techniques in Advertising), answer the questions located under strategies 1-3 for the videos above. Answers must be written in your Reading ISN.

Middle School

After completing two weeks of school, how do you feel about sixth grade at W.J.C.?

Who's to Blame for Scho's Mishap?

You must provide textual evidence to support your claim.

Socratic Seminar

We have been using the "Socratic Seminar" this week to help with our discussion of the novel " The Children of Willesden Lane". How has the socratic seminar helped you and what suggestions would you make to improve it in your class?

Show Not Tell

The Life and Legacy of Nelson Mandela

Use the following video to answer the questions below.

These questions must be turned in by Monday, January 6, 2014 and written neatly on loose-leaf paper, NO EXCEPTIONS!

1) HOW did Nelson Mandela first come to the world’s attention?

2) WHAT was apartheid?           

3) WHAT is the African National Congress?

4) WHAT did Mr. Mandela say in his courtroom speech when he was arrested in the 1960s, a speech this video calls “one of the most eloquent of his life”?

5) WHERE did he spend 18 years in prison?

6) WHAT was “one of the most momentous decisions of his life,” made without consulting his comrades in the African National Congress because he knew they would resist?

7) WHEN was he released from prison?

8) WHAT was South Africa like at the time he was freed?

9) WHO is F. W. de Klerk?

10) HOW does this video depict and describe Mr. Mandela’s political campaign and the elections of 1994?

11) HOW did he use rugby to win over white South Africans when he was president?

12) HOW, according to the video, did Mr. Mandela fall short as president?

13) HOW did Mr. Mandela spend his life after he left the presidency?

14) According to Bill Keller, for WHAT will he be remembered first and foremost?

The following questions must be answered on the blog by Sunday December 22, 2013.

In his obituary, Mr. Keller writes:

The question most often asked about Mr. Mandela was how, after whites had systematically humiliated his people, tortured and murdered many of his friends, and cast him into prison for 27 years, he could be so evidently free of spite.

Read the first page of this obituary. WHY do you think Nelson Mandela was so able to “keep hatred in check” and be the leader he was?

WHAT lines, details or quotations in the obituary, or in any of the other Times pieces about Mr. Mandela, do you find most moving, compelling or interesting?

Creating and Sending Emails

Google Docs (Sharing and Collaborating)

Scorpions Blog # 1

What internal conflict does Jamal experience in chapters 1-5 that you can relate to? Explicate how you are able to relate. Remember to respond to at least two of your peers.

CNN Student News

What did you learn from the CNN Student News clip today( September 11, 2013), and how does it affect your daily life?

New School Year (6B/C) 2013-2014

Now that you have been in school for the past three weeks, how do you feel about six grade thus far?

The New School Year 2013-2014

You have been in school for two weeks. How do you feel about sixth grade so far?

Helpful Videos for Your Movie Maker Project

Remember that your project is due Monday. Each member in your group must have a copy of the dvd, and you  must turn one (dvd) in to Mrs. Lavender(will not be returned).

 

 

 

Group Projects!

Discuss some of the things you have learned about working effectively in a group during your movie trailer project. Do you feel as though you have grown during this process? Explicate how so or why not.

Freedom Riders

After viewing the video clips in class, explicate what you found  most surprising about the Freedom Riders, and if you were given the opportunity to speak to one of them, what would you say?

Cyberbullying

Analyze Samantha from the movie, "CyberBully". Compare and contrast her character to Lorraine's mother in The Pigman. How does Samantha's past experiences have an affect on her decision- making process?

The Pigman Movie Trailers

 

After viewing the two movie trailers, explicate how they are similar and different. What uses of symbolism did you see in the first and second clip, and which clip did a better job with displaying symbolism throughout the movie trailer?