Vocabulary Info.
Gifted and Talented Enrichment - Newton 4
LOGOPHILE, BIBLIOPHILE, GRAPHOPHILE
Notebooks, including Vocabulary Collections due 9/26
I will be collecting Writer's Notebooks on Friday. Vocabulary Collections, research notes, thoughts, and rough drafts regarding the 9/11 Memorial Project should be recorded in student notebooks.
Vocabulary that should be included:
Week 1 (9/15) Adversary, anti, and 2 words of student's choice
Week 2 (9/22): Trivial, semi, and 2 words of student's choice
Instructions and Rubrics for Vocabulary Collections are in the student's folders. I went over these instructions in great detail with all students.
Students rotate to Mrs. Land and the STEM Lab on Monday. They will be with her for the next 3 weeks. During this time, students are to continue collecting vocabulary words from their reading and choosing 4 to display in their notebooks each week. They are to have 3 collections complete when they return to my class in October. I will remind them along the way.
Remembering September 11th, 2001
Recent interviews with families that lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 revealed it was of the utmost importance to them that the children of today, and the children of our future, be educated about the events of that day. These families don't want the focus to be on the hurt, horror, and loss of those events - but more so the healing, heroics, and love of the actions of people around the world.
Please visit the Voices of September 11th website with your student and view the memorials that have been created across our country to honor the events of 9/11. You also might want to look at other well known memorials here. Once your student has a feel for the different types of memorials that are designed and created I would like them to design and create their own memorial to remember 9/11.
ASSIGNMENT:
Design and create a memorial that captures the "healing, heroics, and love of the actions of people around the world" affected by 9/11. The memorial should be school appropriate and sensitive - no burning buildings, etc.
*Design - you should brainstorm ideas, sketch, lists supplies, and thoughts in your Writer's Notebook. Consider the places - New York, Pentagon, Shanksville, PA. Consider the people - those that died, those that survived, families that lost someone, were there children, women, parents, grandparents? Try to be specific to whom or what your memorial is memorializing.
*Create - means build. Be creative: Legos, clay, painting, cans, straws, Styrofoam, buttons, clothing, anything!
Mrs. Hartmann - can I . . . .
Above are the only directions you are receiving. Please DO NOT come to me and ask if you can do "this" or if you can do "that". I'm doing this purposefully, so you will learn to think critically and work with your own ideas! Think and then trust yourself.
Due Date: Friday, September 26th.
Contact Info
Email: lhartmann@oconee.k12.sc.us
Website: http://www.oconee.k12.sc.us/webpages/lhartmann/index.cfm
Location: 710 North Townville Street, Seneca, SC, United States
Phone: (864) 886-4445