March 29, 2024

Friday March 29, 2024

Quarter Ends Today- Some of you are still missing assignments and quizzes.

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Vocabulary Quiz: Demographics, Culture, personification, metaphor, simile, alliteration

Reading books for a quiz....Have one and are on task reading it.  Easy 100!

Circle: 1.Where do you think you would have an easier time fitting in, Rumford or Cape?  Do you think rich people look down on poor people?  If you became rich do you think you would do the same?

Rumford Trip: What did the kids learn?  Here are the questions that we wanted answers to.

Question and answers about Rumford: Quincy Edson, Autumn Palmer and Carson Stevens will be answer questions about their trip to Rumford.  During this time you will be sitting in a circle with a paper and pen and you will be taking notes about what then learned.  This will eventually be turned into a paragraph.

Predictions about Cape: Here are the questions our students are going to be asking.

Writing an introduction:  You will be writing an introduction that sets up the reader(Truman and Toohey) for what you paper is about.  Here is an example of some Introductions

Census Data: Rumford.  Cape Elizabeth  Norway. First you will explore the demographics of each Cape and Rumford.  What do you notice?  Then you will create a chart to compare side by side the three towns.  We chose Norway as a representitive of the Oxford Hills.  You will open up three separate windows so you can view the demographics and then create a pencil T-Chart the shows some of the biggest differences and similarities.  You will then be asked to report out from you table what you believe this means and the implications for you child and where you move.  This will become a paragraph.

Unit: Rumford or Cape -- Time to Decide

Learning Target: I can use research to make a decision and back up my decision with information.
The Scenario: You have the opportunity to raise your child in either Cape Elizabeth or Rumford.  Your family will earn $140,000.  One parent is a chemical engineer and the other a nurse.  This amount of yearly income would allow you to buy a house in either town up to but not over 350,000.  That will mean very different things in each community -- you will very comfortable in Rumford, and house poor and struggling in Cape.  Your child will have very different experiences in each.
1) Your child. Make and determine the values you want your child to have in order for them to have a happy, successful life. Write three on the back.
2) Quick research on each town. Cape Elizabeth High School   Mountain Valley High School
3) Turn and talk -- what did you find?
4) Make your choice: Cold call. Your pick and why.
5) Place your child.

Unit: Rumford or Cape? The Rivals

Research: We watched the documentary Here are the segments:

Part 1 of "The Rivals"

Part 2 of "The Rivals"

Part 3a of "The Rivals"

Part 3b of "The Rivals"

Part 4 of "The Rivals"

Part 5 of "The Rivals"