History and Language with Denise and Wendy
This year, for the upper el consortium, Historical Halloween will have several related components:
- creating a list of 5 possible historical figures DUE Friday October 2
- ensuring the individual has made a significant contribution to humanity/ planet/animals/plants
- coming up with a home-made costume
- submitting a write-up (specifics to follow, once the DWA’s evaluations have been completed), which integrates a discussion of how the character met his fundamental needs, and info related to the character’s time, space, and environment
- and a self-selected ‘Show-What-You-Know” project — this is where your child can become truly creative (models, posters, demonstrations, dioramas, mobiles, video clips, PowerPoint’s, newspaper report, interviews, the sky is the limit!)
Week of September 29-Oct. 2
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We have started to implement the weekly Current Events aspect of the Social Sciences curriculum, and I’m very excited about the process  .
I spoke with your cohort, The Green Rocks(!!!), and they will be handling the third week: this assignment is due Friday morning, October 2, bright and early. Please check with your child to see which category he or she will be researching. Remember, there are only eleven spots available: if your child didn’t get an assignment this time, they will get first dibs next month.
Here’s a brief synopsis of how it will work:
Once a month, eleven children from a given cohort will be responsible for bringing in a newspaper article from one of eleven categories to present to each other, in a brief summary (in their own words!), as follows:
- Space – Cameron
- Environment/Ecology – Rebekah
- North America – Daija
- South America – Yuichi
- Europe – Brianna
- Asia – Romina
- Africa – Jessica
- Oceania – Devyn
- United States – Lucas
- California – Isabella, and
- Bay Area – Eeshan
We discussed how to search the newspaper for relevant articles, using the San Francisco Chronicle (very clearly formatted and delineated), and we reviewed the ground rules:
- Scores from athletic events don’t count, nor do articles from the Editorial or Opinion pages;
- ‘Pop Culture’ does not equal Current Event
- The selected article should be news of a positive, uplifting nature, which highlights achievements and accomplishments.
- As they are skimming to find an appropriate article, the title of the article should offer enough information as to whether the content is worthy; if not, they are to skip and look elsewhere.
- The article should be mounted onto a standard-sized sheet of binder paper, as many as needed.
- Student should be able to identify the geographical location on a world map in the classroom. (Later, it might be on a globe or in an atlas…)
- Students can either summarize in their own words, or ‘bullet-point’ the 5 Ws; but they must know enough to present the article without reading anything verbatim.
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