April 2, 2024

Tuesday April 2, 2024

Friday: It looks like we definitely won't have school on Thursday and a really good chance Friday either.  Both of those days are remote and you will have an assignment in the classroom that will need to be completed to count for attendance.  Mr. Truman and Toohey will be available  during the day on Friday to answer questions via email.  You will also be checking in with your VST teacher both days.

Phones

Vocabulary: Consonance, assonance, hyperbole, enjambment, onomatopoeia, repetition

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

Circle: Best April fools joke you were ever involved in or you heard about?  Why do you think the Cape Elizabeth is always rated one of the top school systems in the state?  Are they just smarter?

Cape Trip: What did the kids learn?  Here are the questions our students are going to be asking.

Question and answers about Rumford: Quincy Edson, Hannah Gomes and Lindsay Bannister will be answer questions about their trip to Cape.  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.

Writing paragraphs

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"