September 20

Marking Period 1 - Week 3 

Thursday

• I can use my own ISN as a resource to create Unit 1 Vocabulary Tables.  CCWL.6-8.4
• I can follow team discussion and decision making rules to solve problems.  SS GLCE P1.4, CCSL.6-8.10
• I can summarize the American Symbols article in a 10% Summary Type 3 Writing. CCWL.6-8.2, SS GLCE P1.4

Homework
2nd & 4th Hours:  Using your American Symbols notes, write a 10% Summary Type 3 Writing.  See description below.

3rd, 5th, 6th Hours:  Complete the Unit One Vocabulary Tables
Warm-Up

Unit 1 Vocabulary

Look through your ISN and locate these words. Highlight them:

ideal suffrage

symbol popular sovereignty

patriotism liberty

posterity domestic

insure tranquility

Collaborate
Roundtable

Words of Wisdom

3rd, 5th, 6th Hours:  Learn and create Vocabulary Tables for the 10 Unit 1 words.  Table is on pg. 23 in ISN

Download
3rd, 5th, 6th Hours:  Getting Started Team Test

2nd & 4th Hours:  The 10% Summary T3Writing

Eighth grade students have been asked to submit clear and informative summaries for a student-oriented website called studentarticles.com.  This site posts summaries of interesting articles for upper elementary and middle school students.  Students who go to this site are like you in many ways.  They have a variety of interests but not enough time to read as many full length articles as they would like.  Your writing will be a ready-to-post summary whose length is about ten percent of the original article.   Your writing will include the most important ideas from the article, but without your opinion. 

Article:  American Symbols 

Focus Correction Areas (write these on your paper)

1. S.A."T". topic sentence (10 points)
2. Include 4 main points/examples of the article in about 80-100 words (20 points)
3. Proper nouns correctly capitalized (10/-2 points)

This is the S.A.T. topic sentence - notice the quotes, underline, and capitalization(you may copy mine this time):

     In "American Symbols" from The Mini Page Kalamazoo Gazette, B.Debnam, L.Tarry, and L.Lien

describe how our American symbols represent our ideals and show our pride for our country. 

Closure
Think about the T3W you did, what was the most difficult part?