I graded the Great Depression Test and entered the scores in infinite campus for you to check out.
If you're an honors Social Studies student (or honors English), you might want to try the following creative writing activity:
(anyone can try it, really)
Pretend that you were a teenager living with a farming family in the Dustbowl in the 1930's. Write a series of short diary/journal entries that would show what it was like to be getting ready to leave your home to head out west. Include realistic details wherever possible. Things you could mention are the following:
A) Losing the farm like the Joad family in Grapes of Wrath
B) What you eat for meals on a regular basis. Think poor.
C) What you hear on the radio (research FDR Fireside Chats)
D) What you pack up in an old Ford as you prepare to leave & what you leave behind.
E) Who is coming along with you.
F) What your hopes are for the future.
G) What route you take from your state to California. Describe it.
H) What you see as you depart. How family reacts.
I) Hazards you meet along the way.
J) Describe the duststorm experiences!
OR just write what you think will best show what the experience of migrating away from the Dustbowl was like.
When we return from vacation we'll spend one more day in the great depression and then begin World War II (in a manner of speaking).
GREAT (DEPRESSION) VIDEOS LINK:
http://www.investing-for-beginner.org/1929-Crash.html
See/Hear many of Roosevelt's Fireside Chats
Social Studies:
WARNING: SS TEST ON GREAT DEPRESSION ON THURSDAY FEB 16. If you missed it, be prepared for it when we return after vacation.
ENGLISH:
Adjective test soon after we return from vacation. Review your notes to stay sharp.
Already tested out of Nouns and began Adjectives.
Adjective packet will be handed out on Tuesday, February 14.
Study Parts of Speech Notes.
TEST ON NOUNS BY WEDNESDAY 2/8
Last NAPVACPI test based on poem this week.
Both tests have been graded and entered in the online grade-book families have access to.
We are studying the eight basic parts of speech:
Nouns
Adjectives
Pronouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Conjunctions
Prepositions
Interjections
Students who performed poorly on the NAPVACPI tests are encouraged to memorize this poem to earn back the lost credit.
See poem below:
Guide to Good English
NAPVACPI
Nouns are names of everything,
Like width or wisdom, child or swing.
Adjectives tell about a noun,
Like great, small, lovely, rich or brown.
Instead of nouns the pronouns stand,
He for John, she for Anne, it for hand.
Verbs express action such as run,
Will read, is building or has done.
How things are done the adverbs tell,
Like slowly, quickly, badly, well.
Conjunctions join the words together,
Like boys and girls, wool or leather.
The preposition stands before
The noun as at or through the door.
The interjection you exclaim,
Like Ugh! It smells, or Oh! He’s vain.
