Honoring Our Veterans

 What do you know about Veterans Day?
Explore the Web site given to learn about the national holiday.
Answers are found on this site Veterans Day


Scavenger Hunt was Challenging!

Super Sizes

Students read informational text, Super Size in the Scholastic News. They will determine the author's main points in the article, and then identify reasons or pieces of evidence that support each point.

Then watched, Supersize Me in 7 mins: How too much of McDonald's will make you feel! Selected scenes from the documentary "Supersize Me" directed by Morgan Spurlock, focusing on what too much McD's does to your body and how it makes one feel.

What point is the cartoonist trying to make?

 

Character Writing

 Creative writing

Students are creating a character to use in their writing. The idea developed after watching singer Taylor Swift, a live classroom webcast. She shared how she wrote stories about her friends. She expressed, "When I was 12 or 13, my family spent the summer like at the shore. And I missed my friends back home so much. That, I would spend all my days locked in the den at ah computer just writing a novel. I did add all my friends from school in my novel so I didn’t miss them as much. It ended up being like 400 pages long.” 
My students were excited about using their friends in a story.

She also talked about the Genre she read as a kid.  She shared when reading adventures, “It’s fun to escape from where you are in your life and jump into someone else’s.”
referred from, TaylorSwift Webcast

They will create and customize their character using the
 Handmade Template

Kids are creating their character. "Are we going to do it again tomorrow?" a student asked. I replied, "Yes." "Goood!" he answered.
Begin with, [Homework] character writing = done
First Page of packet = done 

Then, Create your character 

Characters in my story.

Here are a few characters from 5th Period.

Designer Characters












Accordion Paragraph color.pdf

Homework Club

Creating a character for her story.

Students meet after school to work on homework assignments. They are watching CNN Student News on their iPad. The aftermath of Sandy. "It blowed everything down and they were comparing what happened before then after." [From a student's notes]

November Storms in S. E. Alaska

USCG Heading Back! In 80 - 99 mph gusts.

retrieved from David Nelson

We have November storms but this one is a bit early.
You can leave our island on the MV Lituya 
or by Float plane
A student sent me the following text. "Hi, Mrs. Brooks, this is Jay I was like in 10 - 15 footers and I was walking around and it was fun. He was on the Inter-Island Ferry
headed to Prince of Whales 

Hurricane Sandy

On the Road: Children of the Storm

Resiliant Youngsters
Some kids are feeling a renewed appreciation for their moms and dads. Another shared, "Actually it changed me a lot." Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com

Writing Prompts from Their Homework

They will create and customize their character. Then the writing begins!
Hand Made Character Template

Homework Writing Assignments are on our blog ~ Homework (Planbook)  Try Planbook.com

Today was a Rehearsal of writing prompts.

Writers are sharing their ending to  . . .  I thought a voice saying, "Pick Me,