Friday, February 10th 2017

What are we doing today? Bellwork: SILENTLY complete activity Homework Checked: None Classwork: New York Times Picture Maniac Magee Part 2 Test Word Generation – NFL Washington Redskins Homework: READ. Finish anything you didn’t complete in class. Get progress report signed

Bellwork Answer this question and continue writing about it. Make sure it is at least one paragraph (five sentences). If you could participate in an Olympic event, which one would you choose and why? After you have finished writing, study for your Maniac Magee test! Make sure to put the date beside your response and keep all bellwork responses for the week on the same page. They will be due the first day of the following week. Be sure to stay organized and keep up! Make sure to put the date beside your response and keep all bellwork responses for the week on the same page. They will be due the first day of the following week. Be sure to stay organized and keep up!

Remove everything that is not a pencil from your desk. Clear Your Desks Remove everything that is not a pencil from your desk.

Maniac Magee Part 2 Test Try your best! Flip your test and answer sheet over when done. I will collect them once everyone has finished.

New York Times What’s happening: Inside Mattel’s sprawling test lab here, scores of technicians are doing their worst: setting Chicken Dance Elmo dolls on fire, wrecking Hot Wheels cars and yanking at the limbs of Dora the Explorer. The lab workers are paid to break toys, pick apart their innards, and analyze the raw materials that go into them. Write about how you react to this picture now that you know what is going on.

Word Generation – Should the Nfl require the washington redskins to change their name? Make sure to COMPLETELY answer the question. Use the five words from this week plus five from any other week: Derogatory – insulting or disrespectful towards a person or group of people Stereotype – (verb) to mentally classify an entire group using a single characteristic; (noun) an unfair or untrue belief about an entire group of people Connotation – the feeling or association suggested by a word Slur – an insulting or disrespectful name or remark Stigmatize – to label or brand negatively Once you are finished, turn it in to the pink bucket.

Homework READ YOUR AR BOOKS!!!!! Finish what you didn’t finish in class Get progress report signed

Announcements 1/30 – Maniac Magee Part 1 Test 2/3 – halfway point of 3rd 9-weeks 2/8 – Official progress reports go home 2/20 – no school 3/6-10 – Case 21 exams 3/12 – Daylight Savings (spring forward) 3/13-3/17 – Spring Break!

1. PACK UP (and put your backpack in your seat) 2 1. PACK UP (and put your backpack in your seat) 2. CLEAN UP (check for assignments, C Block) 3. LINE UP (if everything is not clean and quiet, you will not be able to leave my room)