Don't forget how to use Infinite Campus

Infinite Campus

https://ic.pvschools.net/campus/portal/paradisevalley.jsp

Once you log in, click on "Schedule" which will give the student schedule by term.

Click on the course name for the current term to see grade information.

Remind your parents about conferences...

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Parent - Teacher Conferences -

Monday, Oct 25th - 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct 26th - 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

These are the only days for conferences.

All teachers will be available at the listed dates and times with the following exceptions:

Tammy Newell: Oct 25th 6:00 - 8:00 p.m and Oct 26th 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

Kathy Chesser: Oct 26th 3:00 - 4:30 p.m and 5:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Holly Mitchell: Oct 25th 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Susannah Suchin: Oct 25th 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. and Oct 26th 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Lucy Hawking: No conferences

Teri Engle: Tuesday only

Bruce Laks: Oct 25th 6:45 - 8:00 p.m.

Early dismissal at 12:00 p.m. - Wednesday, Oct 27th

Early dismissal at 12:00 p.m. - Thursday Oct 28th

K-8 recess - Friday, Oct 29th

Student Council News

Student Council News

Join us at Yogurt Builderz on Tuesday, October 26th

from 11:00 a.m. - 10 p.m.

14202 N Scottsdale Rd #167

Scottsdale, AZ 85254

Please bring the flyer with you and 30% of the sales will be donated back to us!

10/22 Block I Homework/Tasks

1. Read the introduction to The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

2. Work on your section of your group's product redo. Due Tuesday, November 2nd!!!

***IT WOULD BE WORTHY TO DECIDE WHAT YOU ARE CREATING AND THEN

YOUTUBE TYPES OF THOSE PRODUCTS TO SEE A WELL-EXECUTED PRODUCT

a. Possible Product Types...Be CREATIVE to the MAXXX!!!

1. Students' Choices...put into a Glog

a. Whatever you choose....if should reflect originality and creativity!!!!

b. The audience should be engaged and learn insight into the author

c. Ideas

1. Music Video or Remix

2. Digitally Narrated Animation

3. Mock TV show....style-wise...include an opening, the actual show, and upcoming

episode scenes

4. I urge you NOT to do parodies because the content is NOT light and poorly

translates into comedy unless you are doing a satire or dark comedy.

5. Interview

6. Movie Trailer

7. Creative Book Review

8. Documentary

9. ??? Student Choice ???

b. Product Content

1. Relevant/Essential life facts that translate into Crane's writing or gives the audience

further understanding of the type of person Crane was

2. Well-developed analysis of his writing style

3. Dissection and explanation of samples from his writing (novels, poetry, etc.)

4. ??? Student Choice ???

c. Don't make "Rookie Mistakes..." because the ante goes up second quarter. You

should always be thinking about your audience FIRST!

1. Have a consistent theme and/or color scheme

2. Link the topics together

3. Mood music..NO LYRICS....ORIGINAL SONGS

4. Large, meaningful images

5. Well-Timed narration

6. Varied movement

d. Assessment

1. Group Leader Evaluation

2. Group Member Evaluation

3. Overall Product Grade

You made an original product. You watched the products and reviewed each. It was critiqued by outside sources. You watched the other block's products. You then analyzed their products. You now know what you should and should not do. Now take this opportunity to play into your strengths and make something WORTHY.

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination," Jimmy Dean.

Lincoln Douglas Debate

C-SPAN Lincoln Douglas Debates, Galesburg Re-Enactment http://www.abrahamlincolnperformance.com/debate.html

*Look at the images and text and view the link at the bottom of the page. :)

Lincoln Douglas Debate Format

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5_nAtHh9Xk

10/20 Classwork & Homework

Block I

1. For tonight, you want to make sure that you have a Google Doc shared (to edit) with your 3

group members. In the doc, you should have a table set up with the questions from the

Douglas or Lincoln files (depending on which side you are analyzing and debating).

Click on The Douglas Files, The Lincoln Files, OR the Evaluator Files to find your

excerpts and questions to fill in your matrix in the Google Doc.

~For example: The Evaluators made a Google Doc, shared it with each other, assigned each

person a color and divided up the questions to answer. In each cell, we copied and pasted

the questions from the Evaluators Files into each cell. Whoever was assigned a question answered it in their color.

a. Tomorrow during class we will complete the matrices.

b. If your group finishes the matrices early, then you will want to start youtubing

Lincoln/Douglas Debates and Google searching "Lincoln Douglas Debate Format" and

start getting an idea of how you will formulate your answers into the specific parts of the

Lincoln/Douglas Debate.

c. On Friday, we will formally write our debates in our groups.

Block II

1. Complete your products.

*Due to unforeseen tech delays, the vids will be shown on Friday instead of Thursday. :(

2. Complete Lesson 3: Slavery in America (in class)

*For tonight, you want to make sure that you have a Google Doc shared (to edit) with your 3

group members. In the doc, you should have a table set up with the questions from the

Douglas or Lincoln files (depending on which side you are analyzing and debating).

Click on The Douglas Files, The Lincoln Files, OR the Evaluator Files to find your

excerpts and questions to fill in your matrix in the Google Doc.

~For example: The Evaluators made a Google Doc, shared it with each other, assigned each

person a color and divided up the questions to answer. In each cell, we copied and pasted

the questions from the Evaluators Files into each cell. Whoever was assigned a question answered it in their color.

a. Tomorrow during class we will complete the matrices.

b. If your group finishes the matrices early, then you will want to start youtubing

Lincoln/Douglas Debates and Google searching "Lincoln Douglas Debate Format" and

start getting an idea of how you will formulate your answers into the specific parts of the

Lincoln/Douglas Debate.

c. On Friday, we will formally write our debates in our groups.

10/19 Classwork & Homework

BLOCK II's Task List

1. Projects should be uploaded to the Starboard laptop on Thursday morning before school.

2. Start where you left off and complete each section through Lesson 3: Slavery in America.

3. Remember to be keeping track of CITED EVIDENCE for the theme (community, conflict,

justice, or wealth) that you will be debating AS YOU COMPLETE EACH TASK.

CITATIONS ARE KEY because you will be referencing stats throughout your televised

debate. I would store this in several places, so that it can be accessed no matter

where you are: Word Doc, Google Doc, body of an email, and on your thumb drive.

4. We will get to the prep and mini debate on Thursday (tentatively).

BLOCK I's Task List
1. Start where you left off and complete Offense & Defense: Views on Slavery

a. You will have today to work and anything that is left unfinished is homework.

2. Remember to be keeping track of CITED EVIDENCE for the theme (community, conflict,

justice, or wealth) that you will be debating AS YOU COMPLETE EACH TASK.

CITATIONS ARE KEY because you will be referencing stats throughout your televised

debate. I would store this in several places, so that it can be accessed no matter

where you are: Word Doc, Google Doc, body of an email, and on your thumb drive.

3. Block I has a discussion on 10/20 and prep for the mini debate (the next lessons after the ones shown above.

10/18 pvOnline Check Point

Complete

Lesson 1: A Physical Divide between the North and South

10/13 Homework

I am so delighted with the overall discussions from today!!!!

Block I - finish your PROJECTS!!!

Block II -done

Smiles,

:)Miss Bailin

10/12 Homework

Below you will find our brainstormed list of causes for the Civil War. Feel free to add anything that you feel is missing in your original post. In order to achieve some of the answers, you will need to research.

ONLY SUBMIT ONE POST with each objective answered!!! I advise you to write your response in a Word doc, body of an email, or a Google Doc first and then copy and paste it into your comment.

1. Order the events in chronological order.

2. Order the events by which one contributed the MOST to the Civil War.

3. Look at each event and come up with overarching categories. Some events may seem like overarching categories and you may keep their names and put subtopics below each one.

Causes of the Civil War

Different Economies: industry v. agriculture, taxes/tariffs, labor forces

Opposing Social Views: social classes, etc.

Slavery

Dred Scott Decision

Frederick Douglass

Nat Turner Rebellion in 1831

Fugitive Slave Act

Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

King Cotton….Christy publishes proslavery Cotton is King

Election of Lincoln in 1860

Abolitionists

Mass. Senator Sumner v. S. Carolina Senator Butler

Emancipation Proclamation

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Kansas/Nebraska Act…Bleeding Kansas

States’ Rights v. Federal Govt.

Land from the Mexican American War & Louisiana Purchase

John Brown (all inclusive of what he was involved in)

The South Secedes

10/11 Block I Homework

Work on your projects that are due this Thursday.

Please refer to your group for what you are expected to do.

10/5 Block I & II Homework

Block I & II

1. Complete the assessments from today's student presentations. Email them if you have

NOT received it. These MUST be done tonight.

a. Cody

b. Robert

2. In pvOnline (distancia.pvschools.net, Middle School, Search DLC, Select DLC Bailin, scroll to

the bottom of the Putting the "Us" in the Industrial Revolution unit), complete the two

sections below. Make sure that you use the CORRECT posting

and commenting format and that you do each completely and with thought.

• Interactive Concept Games for the Industrial RevolutionResource
• Industrial Revolution Gaming Disucssion Forum

10/4 Block I & II Homework

BLOCK I

1. Complete the survey that Jake T. emailed you by THIS EVENING because his group will need your answers for class tomorrow. It is in your pvLearners email. If you do not have it, then you need to email jtoews@pvlearners.net and request that he sends you it.

BLOCK II

1. If you weren't able to present your IR lesson yet, then I would spend tonight reviewing your content and practicing your part.

2. Complete the survey that Jake T. emailed you by THIS EVENING because his group will need your answers for class tomorrow. It is in your pvLearners email. If you do not have it, then you need to email jtoews@pvlearners.net and request that he sends you it.

*IMPORTANT: WE WILL BE STARTING THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE BY STEPHEN

CRANE THIS WEEK!!! We have ONE class set of novels. If you would like your own copy, then

you will have to purchase one or check it out from a library.