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RESEARCH PAPERS!!

The 6th grade research project is DUE TOMORROW!!!!!! Please make sure these are turned in on time!!! Any late assignments will be lose minimum of 1/4 a letter grade for every day late.  No exceptions.

So many papers to grade! :)

Weekly News Broadcast: By Christian

By Christian Monreal

Changing the World: Dollar Project

Here are a few photos from one groups Dollar Project! These students took the initiative to band together and earn money to help the Homeless by giving out hygiene items in pre-made kits.  One dollar can go a long way!! These students have made a total of 39 hygiene kits, and are currently passing them out as I type this.


Students, you make me SO proud!! Great job working together!!

Buying the items

So many band-aids!

The Team

Working Hard

Dedication

39 total kits just like these!

A card like this was placed in each kit.

Final Research Report Due Friday!!

The date for the final draft has been extended to this Friday, January 25th.  Please make sure all of your work is completed on or before this day,and is ready to be submitted.  There will be very few exceptions for late work, so please turn in your project on time.

Dollar Project Field Trip

Here are a few photos from yesterday's trip. More footage to follow!

January Novel: A Wrinkle In Time

While watching this video, imagine yourself at the center of the cube.   If this were really happening, you would be hurtling through time and space at nearly the speed of light.  This is a digital version of what Mathematicians think the Wrinkle in Time portal would look like.   In the novel, the concept of a 'tesseract' is something like what in science-fiction is called a wormhole; a kind of portal that creates an opening through space and time and from one place to another.  This is how the three Mrs. W's are able to take the children to rescue their father, and how their father first finds himself trapped on a foreign planet!

Here are a few discussion questions we will be going over in class:

1. What are the most important lessons that Meg learns over the course of the novel?
2. In what ways does Camazotz resemble Meg's neighborhood on Earth? How is it similar to  Russian neighborhoods during the 1960's?
3. How are Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which distinguished from one another?
4. SPOILER ALERT: Why do you think the author  represents IT as a large disembodied brain? 
5. Think About It: Charles Wallace is an extraordinary child. How do his unusual traits both hurt and help him on Camazotz?

Extra Credit Question: Who says this quote in the novel?

"God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...."