Open House, Subplans, and New Unit

Hello Parents!

While Open House is this week on Thursday, since I am the Yearbook Adviser, I'll be selling yearbooks during Open House hours.  If you'd like to schedule a one on one conference, please feel free to contact me.  If you'd just like to touch base about your student, emailing me is the best way to contact me. 

We've just finished up our introductory unit in Multicultural Lit and are beginning to start working with the Springboard texts.  Students can access this text through clever.com, logging in with Active Directory at school, and with their firstname.lastname@students.cobbk12.org accounts at home (the password is your computer password).

Yearbook is beginning to get into the swing of things and planning how we are going to focus our coverage.  Students will continue this conversation and discussion of how we want to showcase the school this year.

Hello Students!

As I stated in class today, you'll have a substitute teacher on Wednesday.  This does not mean it's a free day!  We'd be doing the same activity if I were in class.  I expect that you will treat the substitute teacher with respect and make me proud as I read my notes on Thursday morning.

Multicultural Lit:
I expect you to finish all of the following steps.

1. Today you will complete activity 1.3 in Springbroard on pages 7 and 8.  You will turn this in to the teacher before you leave.
2. You will start with annotating the Learning Targets (circle the verb, underline the direct object).  Read the instructions under “How Are Perspectives Different?” carefully.  This gives you the scenario you’ll be analyzing as well as how to complete the graphic organizer on page 8.
3. Complete the graphic organizer on page 8, answer the question to Check your Understanding in “My Notes” section on page 8.
4. On another sheet of paper, complete the Narrative Writing Prompt.
5. Staple both of these together and turn in with your name on the front page.

Yearbook:

I expect you to finish all of the following steps.

• After you finish with the IDs, I want you to continue to work on the ladder.
• You will turn in a completed, in pencil, list on the attached pages.  You can leave page topics blank, but I want to know how many pages will go in which section, which order of sections do you want.  
• Ie: how many pages will we use for the opening, student life section, senior life section, senior portraits, junior portraits, sophomore portraits, freshmen portraits, faculty section (4 pages!), athletics, clubs and organizations, academics, ads, and index.  Don’t forget 1 or 2 pages for dividers between sections (do we want a spread?  Or just either a right side or left side of the page for a divider?).  
• Use the stickies to help inform your decisions.  Make some decisions about the clubs (do not cut anything out at this point, but you might want to assign more than one club a page--if so, which would make sense to go on the same page?)
• You may also discuss whether we want to stick with 176 pages, or go up to 180 or 184 pages (those are really our options based on price). 

Have a great week!