1. What character did you get matched up with?
2. Based on what you know about "The Hunger Games," would you agree with the personality quiz? Why or why not?
3. If you could be anyone in the book/movie, who would you want to be? Explain.
Who are you?
1. What character did you get matched up with?
2. Based on what you know about "The Hunger Games," would you agree with the personality quiz? Why or why not?
3. If you could be anyone in the book/movie, who would you want to be? Explain.
CATCHING FIRE AND OTHER SURVIVAL SKILLS
Here, in the Training Room (https://sites.google.com/site/hungergamestraining/training), the Game Makers have set up stations to
teach you techniques for survival as well as setting traps for your
competitors. The more time you spend training in these areas, the more
likely it is that you will survive through the Hunger Games and be
crowned a Victor.
Your mentor has suggested that you spend time learning things you
do not already know instead of showing off to others what you are good
at. Pick things that you are unfamiliar with and learn how they can
help you survive the Hunger Games.
Then, return to the blog and post a reflection to the following questions:
1. What five topics did you read about?
2. Which one was the most interesting to you? Explain.
3. If the Capital were to add any training stations, what do you think they should add and why?
4. If the Capital were to eliminate any training stations, what do you think they should cut and why?
If you finish early, check out Trial by Fire or Tribute Trials (http://www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/games/index.htm) and see how you do! Happy Hunger Games and May the Odds be ever in your favor!
8th grade SS Lab - 4/27/12
Sometimes you can learn a lot about a story merely by learning something about its author. Suzanne Collins has authored numerous books and the following link (http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/index.htm) is her homepage. Click on the link and read about her through WORKS, BIOGRAPHY, and INTERVIEW. (Tabs in the upper right-hand corner of the webpage). Then return to the blog and summarize (in your own words) who you think Suzanne Collins is and how her life and ideas have influenced "The Hunger Games."
8th grade SS Lab - 4/26/12
We are half way through our time together and you have been challenged with a lot of knowledge. Now it is time to test that knowledge. Click on the following link (http://www.gradesaver.com/the-hunger-games/study-guide/quiz1/) and take the Hunger Games Quiz 1. Once you have completed the quiz, return to the blog and reflect on the following questions:
1. What was you score?
2. What percentage of questions (20%, 50%, etc.) were you able to answer correctly based on lessons from class?
3. What percentage of questions were you able to answer correctly based on context clues and educated guesses?
4. If you had to write a quiz question based on the knowledge you have gained so far (Listening Logs, Analysis Activities, Blog Activities), what would your question be? What is the answer?
1. What was you score?
2. What percentage of questions (20%, 50%, etc.) were you able to answer correctly based on lessons from class?
3. What percentage of questions were you able to answer correctly based on context clues and educated guesses?
4. If you had to write a quiz question based on the knowledge you have gained so far (Listening Logs, Analysis Activities, Blog Activities), what would your question be? What is the answer?
8th grade SS Lab - 4/24/12
Go to the 8th Grade SS Lab Links and click on the "Hunger Games." This will take you to two games: Trial by Fire and Tribute Trials. Play both games and then return to the blog and reflect on the following questions:
1. In the Trial by Fire, contestants test their abilities and see if they will be able to survive the real thing. There is only one path to survival. Did you survive? Explain. What decisions would you have changed? Explain.
2. Think you could survive a situation like the Hunger Games? It takes more than just strength, or smarts, or stealth. Take the Trials to see your likelihood of survival – then try to discover how you might improve your chances. How did you do? Explain your results.
1. In the Trial by Fire, contestants test their abilities and see if they will be able to survive the real thing. There is only one path to survival. Did you survive? Explain. What decisions would you have changed? Explain.
2. Think you could survive a situation like the Hunger Games? It takes more than just strength, or smarts, or stealth. Take the Trials to see your likelihood of survival – then try to discover how you might improve your chances. How did you do? Explain your results.
8th grade SS Lab - Training in Pictures
Click on the following slide show (http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/08/training-perfect-athlete-olympics08-forbeslife-cx_avd_0708health_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=undefined), view the pictures and read the captions. Then, return to the blog and respond to the following questions:
1. What kind of "time" do you think Katniss and Peeta have "put in" in preparation to the Games?
2. How have the Career Tributes made training a full-time job?
3. How has Haymitch "planned it out" for Katniss and Peeta?
4. What kind of "pain" has Katniss "put up with?"
5. What kind of "constant feedback" would you give to a tribute during training?
6. What kind of fuel would you recommend to the tributes to "pump up the calories?"
7. In your opinion, what do you think tributes see beyond the Hunger Games? (In other words, what comes after success?)
8th grade SS Lab - Competitve Training
Different training stations have been set up by the Game Makers for tributes to train. Katniss and Peeta work on knots and snares as well as camouflage. Other tributes work on areas of strength as well as intimidating other tributes.
The training the tributes experience is similar to the training practiced by Olympic athletes. Read the following article (http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/08/training-perfect-athlete-olympics08-forbeslife-cx_avd_0708health.html) and then return to the blog to respond to the following questions:
1. In your opinion, what are the similarities between tributes and Olympic athletes? Give examples.
2. In your opinion, what are the differences between tributes and Olympic athletes? Give examples.
3. If you would add a training station for the tributes, what would it be and why?
4. If you would eliminate a training station, what would it be and why?
8th grade SOS #33
He's a whale of a tale!Take the Herman Melville quiz (http://www.online-literature.com/quiz.php?quizid=558) and return to the blog to reflect on the following questions:
1. What was your score?
2. Did any of the questions/answers surprise you? Explain.
3. Based on the quiz, how do you think "Moby Dick" will end?
4. Based on the quiz, what to you think Melville's inspiration for writing was? Explain.
7th grade SOS #33
Do you agree with Mazzini's definition? Why or why not? If you were the edit the definition, what else might it include or exclude? Explain.
8th grade SOS #32
We read that Horace Mann, MA lawyer (p. 412), lengthen the school year to 6 months, improved the curriculum (what is taught), doubled teachers' salaries, and developed better ways to train teachers. He said, "If we do not prepare our children to be good citizens, then our republic must go down to destruction, as others have gone before."
'The trouble with schools is they always try to teach the wrong lessons, believe me, I've been kicked out of enough of them to know..' This line from the musical "Wicked" lends itself to the struggles in education today.
If Horace Mann could see the path we are on today in education, what do you think he would say? Explain.
8th Grade SOS #28
Read a variety of articles from the following news sites:
US News and World Report (http://www.usnews.com/)
Scholastic News (http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scholasticnews/index.html)
PBS News (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/)
ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/)
CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/)
CNN (http://www.cnn.com/)
C-SPAN (http://www.c-span.org/)
Post summaries of groups of people struggling for their rights throughout the United States and the world. (What did you read about? What rights are being denied? How do you think the situation will be resolved? Explain.)
8th Grade SOS #27
Using the Fact Monster website (http://sf.factmonster.com/quizzes/amendments2/1.html) take the US Constitution Quiz on Amendments 11-27. Make sure you read the answers to the questions (regardless if your answer was correct) and then return to the blog to reflect on the following questions:
1. What was your score?
2. Based the amendments you were quizzed on, which one stands out to you as most important to the American people? Explain your opinion.
3. Based on the Reconstruction Amendments you learned about in 17-2, which one stands out to you as most important to the American people? Explain your opinion.
1. What was your score?
2. Based the amendments you were quizzed on, which one stands out to you as most important to the American people? Explain your opinion.
3. Based on the Reconstruction Amendments you learned about in 17-2, which one stands out to you as most important to the American people? Explain your opinion.
7th grade SOS #27
As the Industrial Revolutions come and go, new occupations and opportunities are created. Click on the "Who am I?" Fact Monster quiz http://sf.factmonster.com/quizzes/occupations/1.html and see how well you do. Then, respond to the following reflection questions on the blog: 1. What was your quiz score? 2. From the list of job descriptions, were there any that your would consider studying to become? Why or why not? 3. Choose fact that was "new" to you and what did you learn?
7th grade SOS #26
Research and Writing Skills - Compare Primary Sources
As you learned in Chapter 10, primary sources are "snapshots" of history. They are created by people who were there at the time of the event. On p. 472-473 in your Social Studies textbook, you will need to read the What, Why, and How about two primary sources; the English Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Then, answer the "Think and Apply" questions 1-3 on p. 473 on the blog.
As you learned in Chapter 10, primary sources are "snapshots" of history. They are created by people who were there at the time of the event. On p. 472-473 in your Social Studies textbook, you will need to read the What, Why, and How about two primary sources; the English Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Then, answer the "Think and Apply" questions 1-3 on p. 473 on the blog.
8th Grade SOS #26
Visit the Boys' Life site (http://boyslife.org/games/online-games/575/morse-code-machine/) and try TEST 1 or TEST 2. Play for a few minutes and then return to the blog and respond to the following reflection questions:
1. Which test did you try and why?
2. What did you find challenging about the test? Explain.
3. Based on your knowledge of the United States during and after the Civil War, how was Morse Code useful to the American people? Explain. How was it ineffective for the American people? Explain.
* Check out the Morse Code Translator in the 8th grade Lesson Links!*
8th Grade SOS #25
The theme of a literary work is an insight about life or human nature that the writer presents to the reader. In "Across Five Aprils" Irene Hunt offers some of her ideas about inflexible beliefs, about war, and about hardship. Below are several thematic statements. After reading them, give examples from the novel, the Civil War, and life today that illustrate those themes.
1. Individual loyalties can conflict with the values and loyalties of a community.
2. Most often there are no real winners in a war; both sides suffer.
3. Some decisions in life are difficult because they are not clearly right or wrong.
4. Our lives are affected by circumstances beyond our control.
5. Hardship and the challenge to one's beliefs offer the opportunity for growth.
6. Justice does not always proceed according to human timetables or individual ideas of right and wrong.
7th grade SOS #25
Leonardo da Vinci
When you complete the 10 questions, return to the blog and answer the following reflection questions: 1. What was your score? 2. Would you have known any of the answers without the art analysis lesson from class? Explain. 3. This website was created specifically for our Social Studies textbook. Would you be interested in using it again? Why or why not?
7th Grade SOS #22
When you are done, return to the blog and reflect on the SOS activity by answering the following questions: 1. Did you pass all three tests? Explain. 2. Does this story remind you of any other folktales/myths/legends you have heard or read? Explain. 3. Think of a time when you had to ask someone for help. Did that person ever return the favor? Explain.
8th grade SS Lab
Use the following link (http://www.19cbaseball.com/) to create a Comic Life page illustrating the major points of baseball's history in the United States.
Your comic life will be printed and secured in your lab notebook.
8th Grade SOS #21
Issued after the battle of Antietam, a bloody battle in which Union forces claimed victory, the document raised the stakes for both the Confederacy and the Union. European nations, which had abolished slavery, were now less likely to recognize the rebellious Southern government. Free blacks in the North welcomed the added moral dimension to the conflict and joined the U.S. army in increasing numbers. With the subsequent passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, the promise of the Proclamation was kept, as four million people were freed from bondage, and chattel slavery came to an end.
Using your textbook, read the Emancipation Proclamation (A14), and respond to the document through the eyes of various Americans of the time. You are assigned the group by the first letter of your last name.
A-C = enslaved people, D-F = free blacks in the North, G-I = abolitionists, J-L = plantation owner in the South, M-O = Union soldiers, P-S = Confederate soldiers, T-V = factory workers in the North, W-Z = factory owners
1. Identify the group your person represents.
2. Prepare a brief biography of your person.
3. Speaking as that person, explain how you would have viewed slavery.
4. Speaking as that person, explain whether or not you would have supported the Emancipation Proclamation.
5. State one argument that a person from one of the other groups would have given in response to your point of view.
7th Grade SOS #21
Welcome to Third Quarter!
Please click the following link: http://www.freerice.com/category and Identify Countries on the Map. You will play for ten minutes and then reflect on your achievement by answering these questions on my blog: Have you used this website before? How many grains of rice did you earn? Did you use any resources (planner, textbook, neighbor) to complete the quiz? Why or why not?
Please click the following link: http://www.freerice.com/category and Identify Countries on the Map. You will play for ten minutes and then reflect on your achievement by answering these questions on my blog: Have you used this website before? How many grains of rice did you earn? Did you use any resources (planner, textbook, neighbor) to complete the quiz? Why or why not?
7th Grade SOS #20
Konnichiwa! Based on yesterday's activity, compare and contrast the lives and training of spartan and samurai warriors. Then, based on your comparison, decided who would win if faced on the battlefield and explain why. Proofread before you post!
8th Grade SOS #20
1. BACKGROUNDS: Civil War battles often had two names. The North named battles after landmarks and the South named battles after near by towns. If a battle were to have occurred in Iowa; hypothetically name a battle in Linn County with a Northern and Southern title.
2. TALKING DRUMS: If you had to make a drum pattern to signal wake-up calls, formations, and meals; what would they sound like and why? (Use IMAGERY to describe the sound and tempo.)
3. AN EASY TARGET: Sharpshooters favorite targets were drummer boys. Do you think there should have been a "rule of war" protect the lives of drummer boys? Why or why not?
4. JOHNNY SHILOH: Johnny Clem was honored with the title of sergeant for his heroism at Shiloh. What kind of honors can kids earn today for their heroism? Explain.
5. THE LAST DRUMMERS: When drums and bugles became more difficult to hear during battles, what do you think would serve as better communication and why?
8th Grade SOS #19
"Across Five Aprils"FYI - BACKGROUND
Read Butternuts, Life on the Battlefield, All the Comforts of Home, and Ulysses S. Grant. The reflect on the following questions and respond on the blog. Make sure you proofread and make sure you "sign" your post (no anonymous).
1. Butternuts: Think of resources found in the Union, border states, and the Confederacy. Then, develop a nickname to reflect each region and explain why you created it.
2. Life on the Battlefield: Brainstorm names for temporary housing that might have been built during the Civil War. Create three and explain why they are worthy of the name.
3. All the Comforts of Home: Soldiers were very resourceful and invented what they needed out of necessity. Invent a comfort of home using canvas fabric, tree sap, and/or playing cards.
4. Ulysses S. Grant: Of all of Grant's achievements, what would you say is most important and why?
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