Thursday, March 23rd, 2017

Pass out Folders

Review Blog

Circle: One thing, other than the lunch, that you liked, found interesting, or had more questions about?
Reminder: Interview a business, job shadow
Purpose for the day.
Mock Economy Video

Activity: Writing your Economy Essay
A successful essay will use one of the following scenarios:

• Write a letter letter to an 8th grader advising them of the competitive nature of what they are getting into and giving them specific advice about how to succeed.
• Write a letter to your future child explaining how to succeed in life.
• Write an essay explaining what decisions you should to be successful based on what you have learned.

A successful essay will meet the following English criteria:

• Successfully organize your essay to build your arguments so that no paragraphs are out of place
• Every paragraph will begin with a  claim that logically supports your thesis
• Every paragraph will have at least one piece of specific supporting evidence
• Every paragraph will have warrants that fully explain how the specific evidence supports the claim.

A successful essay will meet the following social studies criteria:

• Use at least five of the following vocabulary words correctly in context: economy, opportunity cost, capitalism, choice, scarcity, societal value of the profit motive, surplus value of labor & competition.
• Successfully integrate at least six of the following sources as specific examples: Roger & Me, The Rivals, Mock Economy video or experience, Mock Economy Survey,  Crash Course Capitialism, Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt, Here Comes the Neighborhood,  Rumford Demographics and Cape Elizabeth Demographics, interviews with local businesses, your research on Habits of Successful People

Additionally a successful essay will be double spaced, free of avoidable errors, use a standard font (Arial, Times New Roman).

Activity: Independent Reading
Target: After completing this unit, you will be able to determine how an author develops a theme in  a literary text.
When you're done working on your essay, read.
-Use the template in Classroom to write about the meaning in your book.
-Use this list to understand different values.
-Coming up: Write an essay about your book.

Coming up: Book Essay Summative Assessment
Learning Target: After completing this unit, you will be able to determine how an author develops a theme in  a literary text.
Performance Indicator: The student uses inference to explain the character’s or author’s values and how those values change or become clarified over the course of the book and explain how those changes or clarification develop the book’s theme(s).
Description: You will be given a two more weeks to read a book of fiction.  As you read, you will continually write paragraphs explaining the values of your character. In two weeks, you will write an essay about your character's values.
A Successful Essay will use the your analysis of your character's values -- and hopefully changing values -- to explain the authors message (theme). For example, if your character values fierce independence in the beginning of the book but then later in the values the need to connect with people, that change in values lets you know what the theme is: "While sometimes you think that independence is important, you can't make it in life without connecting to others."