Homework:

Homework: Reading every day for 30 minutes is standard homework in Mrs. Scott's class. In most cases, books are independently selected.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Writer's Notebook at 5 weeks

WN English 9                                         9/28
Write about what causes people in groups to become enemies.  (What causes people to hate each other?)
List at 5 weeks:
9/6 Poem
9/7 List of 50 things you love
9/13 What if you were president?
9/14 Revenge story scenario
9/15 Advice to your crazy friend who has love at first sight
9/19 Initial thoughts on R&J
9/21 Feelings got out of hand
9/23 Blame for the deaths in R&J
9/27 Most interesting character in R&J
9/28 Enemies

WN English 8                                                 9/28
Copy the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost into your WN.  Now tell what you think it means.

List of WN topics for English 8 @ 5 weeks
9/6 50 Things you love
9/13 If I was president…*
9/14 A time you felt like an outsider
9/19 Someone you’d like to trade places with in modern media
9/21 A time you did something you shouldn’t have and regretted it later
9/26 Your kitchen, etc
9/28 “Nothing Gold Can Stay” poem and response, interpretation
*Not required to be 12 lines

English 7                         Writer’s Notebook topics @ 5 weeks
9/6 What has surprised you on this first day of school
9/7 50 things you love
9/13 What if you were president?*
9/15 What should be done to the worst bully?
9/19 Whose life would you like to live? (modern media)
9/21 Being uncomfortable
9/26 An outside memory
9/28 Who are you?





Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Supplemental reading for Touching Spirit Bear   English 7


Go to the following link to read more about Circle or Restorative Justice:


You also have a printed article you can read about circle justice.
 
Here is a link where you can read more about spirit bears:



Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper.  Turn it into the sub by the end of the period. The answers to these questions require you to read and add your own thoughts to what you learn from reading.

1.  How is the system of justice you read about better than traditional justice?  Why do you think the Restorative system isn't used in more areas?

2.  How is the way Cole reacted to the spirit bear different from the way others react to them?