Welcome Back 8th Grade Historians!
Announcements:
**Believe it or not, October 1st is the midterm for academic quarter #1! This year, all students will get a printed grade report and students will be required to get a teacher signature. After the 1st quarter, only students with D's or F's will have reports mailed home.
Weekly Agenda:
This week is the primary research and note-taking week for 8th grade history's American Indian Research project. Students will be collecting historical details from the media center's vast non-fiction and reference collection. These details will be used to create historical fiction short-stories.
Monday:
1. Review Weekly Goals: Finish research, note-taking and citations.
2. Brainstorm of note-taking procedure. What details are needed for the short story? "The Unbreakable Code" by Sara Hunter is used as a model.
3. Media Center - Non-fiction, reference research.
Tuesday:
1. Indian Boarding Schools: Teacher modeled note-taking strategies.
2. Students read "Boarding School Blues: Rules, Punishments and Resistance" using the note-taking system modeled by the teacher. There will be an open-notes quiz on this material on Thursday.
Wednesday:
1. Back in the Media Center - More students will be finishing the non-electronic sources and moving to Online subscriptions and databases such as United Streaming, Nettrecker and Brain-pop. Students are gathering details that will be used to create an historical fiction short-story. There will be one more day of research in the media center!
Thursday:
1. Open-notes quiz: Indian Boarding Schools.
2. Online resource research and notes.
3. Elements of a short story - mini-review .
Friday:
Final day of media center research. All notes and citations are due at the end of class today for review.