12/14/18

Today in Mr. Seaton's class, we worked to finish our projects that are due today. We are working on our book projects for writing. We can do a podcast, book talk or companion book.

Updated by Sriya Mudumba

 

12/13/18

This day was a work day on our WAR projects.

12/12/18

This day was a work day on our WAR projects.

12/11/18

This day was a work day on our WAR projects.

12/10/18

This day was a work day on our WAR projects.

12/7/18

This day was a work day on our WAR projects.

12/6/18

This day was a work day on our WAR projects.

12/5/18

This day was a work day on our WAR projects.

12/4/18

On this day, we completed session 8 of our unit.

12/3/18

This day was a work day on our WAR projects.

11/30/18

Today, we completed session 5 of our unit.

11/29/18

On this day, we completed Formative #2.

11/28/18

On this day we took a grade level field trip to the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts to see a production about Gwendolyn Brooks.

11/27/18

On this day, we began Formative #2.

11/26/18

Today in class we were doing reviewing & analysis of our formative assessments.  If we didn't get an exceeding, we had to explain what we could have done to get an exceeding. If we did get an exceeding, we had to explain how we did.

Updated by Kristie Kregel

11/20/18

On this day, students were given the opportunity to review/analyze their Formative #1 assessment. Their job was to see what "rating" they received for each standard, and explain what they should've/could've done to earn an "exceeding." If they earned an "exceeding," they were to explain what they did to earn an "exceeding."

11/19/18

On this day, we completed session 4, as well as continued reading and annotating our books.

11/16/18

On this day, we began session 4 of our unit.

11/15/18

This day was a day for the students to read and annotate their books.

11/14/18

This day was a day for the students to read and annotate their books.

11/13/18

On this day, we completed session 3.

11/12/18

On this day, we began by telling our personal positives and filling in our planners for the week. The we began session 3 of our writing about reading unit.

11/9/18

This day was a day for the students to read and annotate their books.

11/8/18

This day was a day for the students to read and annotate their books.

11/7/18

This day was a day for the students to read and annotate their books.

11-6-18

In today class we read some more of the story the stolen party it was all around a girl named Razara and she was invited to her friends birthday party and her mom went to her and said that her friend was just using her and that she was not her real friend and so Razara went to her mom and said "I will die if I don't go to that party" so that when her mom allowed her to go to the party so her hair got washed with apple vinegar mix to make her hair all shiny so she made it to the party and the monkey went to her and was talking to her but after a while in the party she will sneak out to talk to the monkey.

Updated by Kristie Kregel

11/5/18

After realizing that Mr. Seaton jumped the gun on session 1, we revisited session one to practice some writing about reading using "The Stolen Party." Students listened to an excerpt of a story and wrote about it.

11/2/18

This day turned out to be more of a free day. The work time for this session provides students with time to read and annotate their chosen books; however, many of them don't quite have theirs yet, although it is on the way.

11/1/18

On this day, we began session 1 of the WAR unit.

10/31/18

On this day, students completed the unit's pre-assessment.

10/30/18

On this day, students began the unit's pre-assessment.

10/29/18

On this day, the students did an activity that would help them narrow their search for a book for our current unit. They will be working closely with this book the entire quarter, so it is important that they choose wisely.

10/24/18

On this day, we continued to watch "The Great Debaters."

10/23/18

On this day, we continued to watch "The Great Debaters."

10/22/18

On this day we watched "The Great Debaters."

10/19/18

This day was a rebound day, an opportunity for students to turn in missing assignments or redo assignments they wanted to improve upon.

10/18/18

This day was a rebound day, an opportunity for students to turn in missing assignments or redo assignments they wanted to improve upon.

10/17/18

On this day we took our argument unit post-assessment.

10/16/18

This day was a rebound day, an opportunity for students to turn in missing assignments or redo assignments they wanted to improve upon.

10/15/18

Today we did our gca which was a personal positive, then we filled in our planner, and we did rebound time and work time.

Updated by Sam Green

10/12/18

This day was a work day, a day for students to "rebound," turn in missing work, redo assignments that they want a better grade on, or work on "Round 2," which consists of a buffet of assignments that are alternatives to writing a 5-paragraph essay.

10/11/18

This day was a work day, a day for students to "rebound," turn in missing work, redo assignments that they want a better grade on, or work on "Round 2," which consists of a buffet of assignments that are alternatives to writing a 5-paragraph essay.

10/10/18

This day was a work day, a day for students to "rebound," turn in missing work, redo assignments that they want a better grade on, or work on "Round 2," which consists of a buffet of assignments that are alternatives to writing a 5-paragraph essay.

10/9/18

This day was a work day, a day for students to "rebound," turn in missing work, redo assignments that they want a better grade on, or work on "Round 2," which consists of a buffet of assignments that are alternatives to writing a 5-paragraph essay.

10/5/18

This day was a work day.

10/4/18

On this day, we completed session 12.

10/3/18

On this day, we began session 12.

10/2/18

On this day, we completed session 11 of our unit.

10/1/18

Hello today in class we were learned about different writers and how they can accomplish their goals and they aim for a target and we had to describe three thing that they will might put in their work. Well if they are doing a argument. Today we also finished the Homeschool vs. Traditional school we did a assignment saying we had to have three goals and how to accomplish it. we also talked about using our planner  and putting the slim chicken fundraiser for avid that's on thursday.

Updated by Logan Moseley & Kristie Kregel     

9/27/18

Today we had no GCA! The entire hour was just work time for our Argument Essays.

Updated by Evan Wang

9/26/18

Today we were working on our Argument Draft (Session 10) we wrote a few notes then we had some work time we had to take a piece of the other person's argument and cut it up into your own words so it will make their sound bad and make more people belief that our argument is better then the other persons.  

Updated by Logan Moseley and Kristie Kregel

9/25/18

This day was more of a work day after completing session 9.

9/24/18

On this day, we began session 9 of our unit.

9/21/18

This day was a work day. Our formative assessment on leads ran over a bit.

9/20/18

Today what we learned in class was writing the intro of a argument and how to hook your reader into your story you could start your story off with a question or quote it will make the reader almost make a prediction what you are going to write in your story. When you make your (hook) you want to keep the reader attention strong and make a clear clam were you will not lose the reader's attention.

Updated by Kristie Kregel

September 18, 2018

Today, we worked and caught up on some work, after working on some grammar.

September 17, 2018

Today, we did Session 4 of the argument unit. We learned to engage readers and keep them in our logic.

Updated by Manmitha Gunasekera

9/14/18

Today, we had some free-write time at the start of class. After, we continued work on our Argument Essay Outlines.

Updated by Evan Wang

9/13/18

We worked on our argument papers learned about session 3 and ranked some evidence. We debated about what evidence was better.

Updated by Sam Green

9/12/18

Today, those classes that began session 3 completed it. Those classes the were working on outlines continued that work.

9/11/18

For the moment, classes are a little bit staggered, as far as content goes. On this day, some classes began session 3 of our unit, focusing on ranking evidence, picking out the strongest evidence to support a reason. Other classes were working on their outlines for their essays. All in all, it was a productive day!

September 10, 2018

Today we debated our points in Session 2

9/7/18

On this day, we began session 2 of our argument unit. We watched clips from "The Great Debaters" in order to get tips on how to be a great debater!

9/6/18

Today was makeup day for MAP, not much to write home about today. The testing went much smoother today!

9/5/18

Today we learned about debate listing details from each point of view to see what perspective side you should chose we started off by taking notes from website on google classroom. we made a paragraph that was like A piece of information can be different in a way depending on the source because most people will gust make a concoction by only hearing one person's point of view. It is good to get your resources off of arguments, videos, and articles,etc for the debate practice starting your clam with reasons  and lots of evidence so you will know who's side you should really be on.     

Updated Kristie Kregel

Sept. 4th, 2018

Today we did an intro to debating on our topic; Homeschooling vs Public Schooling, and created a 3- chart to organize our info.

Updated By Manmitha Gunasekera

8/31/18

We used this day as a rebound day, where students are able to turn in or enhance work that has already been turned in or is past due. Mr. Seaton was not in attendance this day.

8/30/18

Today, students seemed to enjoy our GCA - a grammar battle on Kahoot! Afterwards we began our argument unit pre-assessment.

8/29/18

On this day, we had a VERY interesting day with MAP testing. We did the best we could to complete testing despite crashing servers on MAP's end.

Aug 28, 2018

Today we took the career cruiser learning styles assessment to determine what learning styles suited us best; Visual, Auditory, or Tactile.

Updated by Monmitha Gunasekera

Monday, August 27

We did our Personal Positives today, and then started work on our Social Contract.

Updated by Evan Wang

Fri, August 24, 2018

Today was essentially a work and reward day; students got the opportunity to complete work that they did not turn in. Students who finished got to have free time. Mr Epton also visited us with the opportunity to win candies.

Updated by Monmitha Gunasekera & Logan Moseley

8-23-18 what we did today

Today, we did the virtual Artifact bag where you write things that describe you. We wrote it on google docs or slides then copied the URL and pasted it into google classroom. We wrote who our favorite teacher was in google classroom, and turned in the personal writing assignment.

Updated by Ellissa Faraci

Writing Class

We were finishing our autobiographies/memoirs and did a google classroom activity where we created a simile and comparing it to learning.

Updated by Swarup Majumder

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Today, after doing the NoRedInk GCA, we did a autobiography/memoir activity. when we completed that we answered what do you need to make a good story.

Updated by Monmitha Gunasekera & Logan Moseley

8/20/18

On this day, we completed our "Many Hats" activity. Students were grouped in common groups, based off of the like roles they play in their lives. From there, they had quick group discussions on various questions to help them get to know each other better.

Friday August 18, 2018

Today, we did an activity called the GTKY: Many Hats Activity; where we created hats representing what roles we play in our lives.

Updated by Monmitha Gunasekera & Logan Moseley

8/16/18

On this day, we went over some class and school expectations. The students did a great job on their first day.