Digital LEarning Updates
5-11 Update
This will be the last week of the semester! You will be working on your outline for the argumentative essay and completing the essay. For this essay, you will argue if you think college is worth it or not. Use the information from the Springboard articles as your evidence, and don't forget to address the counterclaim.
We will accept just the outline if you want to do that. All work must be turned in by Friday! Please email me if you have questions.
Argumentative Essay Outline
Rubric
5-4 Update
This week you will complete the research part of the Argumentative Unit by reading pages 81-90 in Springboard. Next week, you will begin the outline and rough draft process, so make sure as you are reading you keeping the essay topic in mind, "Is College Worth It?" because you will be using evidence from these articles to support your argument.
Pacing Guide
4-27 Update
This week we will start our final unit: Argumentative Writing. This is part of Unit 1 in Springboard, and the essay topic is "Is College Worth It?" where you will read several articles arguing both for and against the value of attending college. Your final assessment will be your argumentative essay.
This week, you will begin reading some of the articles and should complete pages 66-75.
If you haven't already, please look through the following PowerPoints:
Introduction to Rhetoric
How to Write an Argumentative Essay
Pacing Guide for this week
4-20 Update
This week students finish To Kill a Mockingbird and complete the Body Biography project. Please reach out to me if you have any questions!
Next week we will start our final unit: Argumentative Writing. If you would like to get a head start, you can look through the following PowerPoints:
Introduction to Rhetoric
How to Write an Argumentative Essay
4-13 Update
This week week and next week you be finishing reading To Kill a Mockingbird and completing the Body Biography project. Please reach out to me if you have any questions!
3-30- 4-3 Assignments:
This week you are to read through Chapter 15 in To Kill a Mockingbird. After spring break, you will have a project based on the book, so make sure you are caught up!
Springboard assignments this week:
1. Lesson 3.3 Jim Crow Laws on pages 195-202
2. Lesson 3.6 Civil Rights Timeline pages 212-213
3. Lesson 3.10 Reflective Texts pages 226-229
Optional Pacing Guide
If you have not already, please take the Survey, and if I have not heard from you yet, please email me!
We will have another optional Zoom meeting on Friday-more info to come.
3-26: Please complete this Survey as soon as possible!
Also, tomorrow 3-27, we will have a Zoom session at 1:30. Go to Zoom and sign up, and tomorrow I will send out your Session ID and password so you can join!
And follow me on insta @mrs.minick
Updated 3-23: Hopefully you all completed your Springboard assignments from last week and read through Chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird. If you have not started reading TKAM yet, you can still catch up fairly easily if you read 2 chapters a day this week (stop at the end of Part 1).
I am linking a pacing guide for this week's activities. This is just a suggestion!
Information for March 16- ?
Springboard books were sent home on Thursday. Copies of To Kill a Mockingbird were sent home on Friday (If your student was absent on Friday we are attaching a digital copy of the text). There are also audio versions available online. Assignments are as follows:
Week One March 16-20:
Students are to complete pages 117-126 in Springboard if we are out for one week. (REQUIRED)
Read chapters 1-8 of To Kill a Mockingbird (REQUIRED)
Week Two March 23-27:
If we are out for two weeks, they will complete pages 127-140 in Springboard in addition to the first week's assignment. (REQUIRED)
If we are out for two weeks, they are required to complete part one of To Kill a Mockingbird. (REQUIRED)
Week Three:
*If we are out for longer than two weeks, additional assignments in Springboard will be communicated to you.*
*If we are out past Spring Break, students are required to read the entire novel.
There is also online access if your student would prefer to complete it that way or if they were absent on Thursday/Friday and did not bring home the physical copy of the book. Please look under the tab labeled "Helpful Resources" for instructions on how to access Springboard digitally.
Optional:
Springboard is a really great resource that the county spends a lot of money on, so please feel free to complete other sections from the book in addition to the required assignments.
I will also be assigning articles and activities for students to complete on ZINC for extra practice.
This will be the last week of the semester! You will be working on your outline for the argumentative essay and completing the essay. For this essay, you will argue if you think college is worth it or not. Use the information from the Springboard articles as your evidence, and don't forget to address the counterclaim.
We will accept just the outline if you want to do that. All work must be turned in by Friday! Please email me if you have questions.
Argumentative Essay Outline
Rubric
5-4 Update
This week you will complete the research part of the Argumentative Unit by reading pages 81-90 in Springboard. Next week, you will begin the outline and rough draft process, so make sure as you are reading you keeping the essay topic in mind, "Is College Worth It?" because you will be using evidence from these articles to support your argument.
Pacing Guide
4-27 Update
This week we will start our final unit: Argumentative Writing. This is part of Unit 1 in Springboard, and the essay topic is "Is College Worth It?" where you will read several articles arguing both for and against the value of attending college. Your final assessment will be your argumentative essay.
This week, you will begin reading some of the articles and should complete pages 66-75.
If you haven't already, please look through the following PowerPoints:
Introduction to Rhetoric
How to Write an Argumentative Essay
Pacing Guide for this week
4-20 Update
This week students finish To Kill a Mockingbird and complete the Body Biography project. Please reach out to me if you have any questions!
Next week we will start our final unit: Argumentative Writing. If you would like to get a head start, you can look through the following PowerPoints:
Introduction to Rhetoric
How to Write an Argumentative Essay
4-13 Update
This week week and next week you be finishing reading To Kill a Mockingbird and completing the Body Biography project. Please reach out to me if you have any questions!
3-30- 4-3 Assignments:
This week you are to read through Chapter 15 in To Kill a Mockingbird. After spring break, you will have a project based on the book, so make sure you are caught up!
Springboard assignments this week:
1. Lesson 3.3 Jim Crow Laws on pages 195-202
2. Lesson 3.6 Civil Rights Timeline pages 212-213
3. Lesson 3.10 Reflective Texts pages 226-229
Optional Pacing Guide
If you have not already, please take the Survey, and if I have not heard from you yet, please email me!
We will have another optional Zoom meeting on Friday-more info to come.
3-26: Please complete this Survey as soon as possible!
Also, tomorrow 3-27, we will have a Zoom session at 1:30. Go to Zoom and sign up, and tomorrow I will send out your Session ID and password so you can join!
And follow me on insta @mrs.minick
Updated 3-23: Hopefully you all completed your Springboard assignments from last week and read through Chapter 8 of To Kill a Mockingbird. If you have not started reading TKAM yet, you can still catch up fairly easily if you read 2 chapters a day this week (stop at the end of Part 1).
I am linking a pacing guide for this week's activities. This is just a suggestion!
Information for March 16- ?
Springboard books were sent home on Thursday. Copies of To Kill a Mockingbird were sent home on Friday (If your student was absent on Friday we are attaching a digital copy of the text). There are also audio versions available online. Assignments are as follows:
Week One March 16-20:
Students are to complete pages 117-126 in Springboard if we are out for one week. (REQUIRED)
Read chapters 1-8 of To Kill a Mockingbird (REQUIRED)
Week Two March 23-27:
If we are out for two weeks, they will complete pages 127-140 in Springboard in addition to the first week's assignment. (REQUIRED)
If we are out for two weeks, they are required to complete part one of To Kill a Mockingbird. (REQUIRED)
Week Three:
*If we are out for longer than two weeks, additional assignments in Springboard will be communicated to you.*
*If we are out past Spring Break, students are required to read the entire novel.
There is also online access if your student would prefer to complete it that way or if they were absent on Thursday/Friday and did not bring home the physical copy of the book. Please look under the tab labeled "Helpful Resources" for instructions on how to access Springboard digitally.
Optional:
Springboard is a really great resource that the county spends a lot of money on, so please feel free to complete other sections from the book in addition to the required assignments.
I will also be assigning articles and activities for students to complete on ZINC for extra practice.