2.5: December 16-20

Kinkakuji, Kyoto

Math
Challenge # 1 Tank Volume, Assigned Monday, Due Tuesday
Challenge # 2 Third Tank Needs Fish, Assigned Tuesday, Due Wednesday
Challenge # 3  Water for Fish Tank, Assigned Wednesday, Due Thursday Click the link!
Japanese 
カタカナ二.五, Study for Friday's Quiz

*Writing

Complete introduction paragraph on Friday, December 6, (continue revisions until December 20)

Complete three body paragraphs on Friday, December 13 (continue revisions until December 20)

Complete conclusion and hand in final draft on Friday, December 20

* We will have individual writing conferences this week, Monday through Wednesday. Make sure you can clearly identify your lead, thesis statement, and the three topic sentences in your three body paragraphs. You will be asked to read some or all of your story. 

Outline

Imaginative Narrative- 2038: A Hopeful Future
Five paragraph narrative/essay reviewed
I: Introduction- Lead, setting, thesis statement- includes topics for three body paragraphs

II: Body paragraph one- Topic sentence (refer to thesis statement) and transition
III: Body paragraph two- Topic sentence (refer to thesis statement) and transition
IV: Body paragraph three- Topic sentence (refer to thesis statement)  and transition
V: Conclusion- Intention to make or remind the reader change in order to make your 2038 possible. A Christmas Carol was about positive change too!

Systems Thinking 

Positive Change Project Phase 1

• list of 3-5 topics you are considering, due December 20

Chautauqua optional

See Chautauqua Page

Hot Topics in History: Slavery-Underground Railroad; Harriet Tubman 

Revolutionary figures: General Washington, Ben Franklin, Paul Revere, Thomas Paine

Civil Rights: Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks