Create A Board Game

Creating a Board Game Assignment:

You are a board game manufacturer, and you have been assigned the task of creating a board game that will help students review everything they read in a fun and interesting way!

 Requirements:

____ Using poster, colored paper, colored pencils, and markers, create a game board.
 Make it neat, colorful, interesting, and creative!

____ Create at least 25 questions and answers for your game that relate to the novel.
 The questions must be somehow incorporated into playing the game.

____ Relate the format and purpose of your game to helping students review ELA content.

____Write directions for your game that would make it perfectly clear how to play the game.

____Type the directions and glue them to your game board

____Make sure the content and difficulty of your game are appropriate for your novel and for your classmates’ abilities.

 * I recommend using Chutes and Ladders, Sorry or some other example game to guide you.

Monday 3/28 ALL CLASSES

6th Grade Reading-

Take EASYCBM assessment
Blogs ARE due this week.


6th Grade History-

Take EASYCBM assessment
Blogs ARE due this week
Ensure both essay and resubmit are turned in this week

7th Reading-

Take EASYCBM assessment
Blogs ARE due this week
One poem with rewrites showing improvement must be turned in this week

8th Reading/ELA-
Take EASYCBM assessment
Blogs ARE due this week
Last week had three important assignments (webquest from Monday, questions from the two stories and three paragraph comparison of the two stories, all info available on blog)

DUE MONDAY

Write a three paragraph comparison of the themes in each of the two stories we read.

This is DUE MONDAY It will be graded.

Guiding Questions

How does the author show us the theme of his stories without directly explaining them?

How is the theme similar and different?

How do the character’s personalities help make the theme clear?

You must use at least one quote from each story to support your answer.

Mother & Daughter By Gary Soto

http://www.syracusecityschools.com/tfiles/folder716/mother_daughter.pdf

Mayhem Poets Study Guide-7th Grade Poetry Slam

http://www.whbpac.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Mayhem-Poets-Study-Guide.pdf

8th Grade Tuesday 3/22 Assignment

Read this story. When you are done, you will analyze the characters and summarize the story.

http://www.mooreschools.com/cms/lib/OK01000367/Centricity/Domain/1514/Broken%20Chain%20Short%20Story.pdf

After Reading “Broken Chain” , get in pairs. You can answer all the questions together on paper or, I prefer, e-mail it to me from your phone, but you must be prepared to read or say your answers out loud.

Let’s analyze this story according to skills we reviewed this year. You MUST answer in complete sentences and be ready with verbal responses.

1. What could a possible theme (lesson or message from the author) be in this story? Justify (explain) your reasoning for your answer.
2. Describe the characters Alfonso and Ernie in detail. What can we infer about them from the story?
3. What external and internal conflicts are in the story. Describe at least one of each.
4. Does Alfonso feel about himself the way most teens feel about themselves? Explain.
5. What advice would you give Alfonso?
6. Summarize the story in one paragraph
7. Now summarize the story in one sentence

Teen Violence WebQuest

Step 1

Read at least two articles on teen violence. If you want to research it on your own, you may.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/dc-school-shooting-coolidge-high-school_n_1898538.html

http://signofthetimes.yuku.com/topic/1258/Brenda-Spencer-Grover-Cleveland-Elementary#.Vu_dkuIrIdV

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/baltimore-teen-students-stabs-high-school-science-class-article-1.2446172

http://www.kcra.com/news/brutal-high-school-attack-caught-on-video/36069474

Step 2

Review the statistics on teen violence at this site. 

https://www.teenhelp.com/violence-anger/teen-violence-statistics/

Step 3

Analyze the text.

Is there anything that is a common thread among these instances? Why do you think teen violence is so problematic? Why are teens often the most aggressive age group?

E-mail a two paragraph response to teacherkait@gmail.com