Write and Illustrate a picture book! Either make it on paper, in power point or on Khan Academy!
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Time to make more joke books! Check out these joke and riddle books from students in past years! Dylan: https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/joke-book-1-riddles/5246290785468416 Desmond: https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/joke-book/5577748980957184 You can also make stories: Nina: (Click to go to the next news story) https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/news/4636377821478912 Bonus: Add images to your book! Bonus Bonus: Add animations to your book! Feel free to work with a partner and use these examples and the people who made them to help you! One day you stumble upon the discovery that your classmates and teachers have been ____________ in disguise all along!
Tell the story of what you do now that you know they're ________! _______ can be anything. Some common things that come up in stories are unicorns, dragons, aliens and royalty, but you can make it anything you want! What would you do if your school said it was only going to teach you the good things America did and pretended that everything, like the struggle to end slavery, segregation and give woman the ability to vote and work never happened.
Watch the video and/or read the article then give your thoughts in the comments! http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/09/23/jeffco-students-plan-to-protest-history-proposal/ Go to kiva.org and check out the about and lend sections. In the comments tell us why people go on Kiva and link to some people you think we should help and why.
Check out this video about John Green visiting and understanding what's amazing and troubling in Ethiopia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJmg4pwLBQ&list=UUGaVdbSav8xWuFWTadK6loA Leave your thoughts in the comments! There are an infinite amount of ways to learn, and an infinite amount of ways to teach. Comics are one of these ways.
Read this funny comic: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon and then write your own comic that teaches people something! Bonus: Write a sentence about how the comic you read bullies people who are fat. Read about the new war and answer the 3 questions at the end. Additionally give your opinion in the comments about whether you think that America should be in this war.
http://www.dogonews.com/2014/9/21/isis-the-new-threat-to-world-peace Find out more about World War 1!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-wSL4WqUws https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/history/euro-hist/world-war-I-tutorial/v/empires-before-world-war-i https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2ch4XV84s&index=5&list=UUX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history You can watch videos if they are TV-PG. and you may watch the other videos on those channels about World War 1 as well. Express what you learned with a drawing, a report, a story, a comic, a program, or some other means. Whatever the means, classmates should be able to learn many things from what you make! Have fun! In Afghanistan, ranked the worst country in the world to be born a girl, some parents are bringing up their daughters as sons. Then comes puberty and the ‘bacha posh’ are expected to to switch back
Read the article: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/sep/22/girls-boys-afghanistan-daughters-raised-as-sons-puberty-bacha-posh and then write a story about what it's like to be a bacha posh: a girl who has to pretend to be a boy so that she can live freely. 400,000 People Marched in Manhattan Yesterday for 6 Hours to Work Towards Ending Climate Change9/22/2014 Go ahead and check out the videos here:
http://time.com/3414633/peoples-climate-march/ and here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/21/peoples-climate-march_n_5857902.html You can look at some pictures of the march here: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2014/sep/21/peoples-climate-march-in-new-york-in-pictures 2,100 similar marches happened all over the world yesterday. Write a few paragraphs about why you think so many people came from all over to join the march? Learn a little more about climate change by reading here: http://climateclassroomkids.org/climate101/ and playing with this: http://climatekids.nasa.gov/time-machine/ Go ahead and answer the questions at the bottom of the page List a few ways you can help in the battle to fight climate change in the comments. Then you may play this game! Citizen Science!: http://www.brainpop.com/games/citizenscience/ For bonus points make a poster on Khan Academy that you would like to carry at a climate march using your programming skills ! Racist People Verbally Attack an 11 Year Old Boy for Singing the National Anthem at an NBA Game9/18/2014 Racism shows up all over the place; in 2013 it appeared in the internet attacks on a young singer who sang the American Anthem at an NBA game.
Watch the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGL4kDQHSgw And then tell me about what you would do if you were that boy? Also, why are people racist and what can we do to make them stop? Make an account on:
http://www.vocabulary.com/ and take The Challenge! Tell how many points you've earned in the comments and show me in class to get points! 9/11 happened when I was 13. In my 8th grade science class we weren't told what was happening. We knew something was up, because teachers kept popping into the classroom and whispering to our teacher, and students were getting called out to go home to their families. They had us go home early and only then did I see on my parent's television what had happened. It felt very unreal to me, but some of those kids who had been called out during class had parents who had died or been injured in the attack.
Today we remember 9/11 because it is one of the largest attacks on American soil in recent history. We also remember it because it was a time when many people came together to help and support those who needed it. It also led to hate and racism towards groups of people who had nothing to do with the terrorists who attacked, and that should be remembered to so we can avoid it after future disasters. Read the following articles: http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=5307 http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3756390 https://www.dogonews.com/2014/9/10/9-slash-11-slash-2001-the-day-americans-came-together Answer the questions at the end of the dogonews article and for each of the articles write one paragraph about what it made you think about. Paragraphs should as always be at least 4 sentences. Hand in a printed copy of your thoughts and leave them in the comments. Make your own projects!
In the comments below create projects for you and your fellow students to work on! Include the description of the project and what skills it helps you learn! If they're great I'll add them to the official list of projects! In a group of 3-4 make an outline, then assign each person parts of the outline and have them write their part. In the end help each other make all of the parts as wonderful as possible, and then post your mega story into the comments!
Enjoy! Make an outline and trade with another student. Then write the other person’s story. Lastly, read over what the other student wrote of your story and help them make it even better!
Include both of your stories in the comments so everyone can check out the cool stories you made! Go to:
http://www.storynory.com/archives/myths-world-stories/ and read, or listen to one of the stories there. Then write a few sentences about what happened and what was enjoyable about the story. Lastly make a story of your own for people to enjoy! Include those stories in the comments so other students can read and admire them! After reading some classic myths about why the world is the way it is here:
http://greece.mrdonn.org/myths.html make your own crazy myth that explains something. Include your story in the comments so other students can enjoy it! Tell a story about the biggest liar in the United States lying to their class about what they did for their vacation.
Include your story in your comment so other students can enjoy it! Tell the story of someone trying to commit a crime and having it go terribly, horribly, awfully wrong.
Include your story in your comment so other students can enjoy it! Describe the character traits of the worst villain ever and then draw them. Make a story where they’re the main character!
Include your story in your comment so other students can enjoy it! Write a fantasy story where someone close to you is the main character.
Include your story in your comment so other students can enjoy it! Tomorrow it starts snowing and never stops, 10 years later the snow sits over 30 feet high. Tell us a story from your life at 22 in this world.
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