African Tribe Reflection

Fantastic Job Grade 6! I very much enjoyed all of the presentations, and every group did a magnificent job.
Make sure to write a full paragraph describing your feelings in response to the following questions/statement. Make sure to spell check, grammar check, read out loud, and format with paragraph spacing before you click publish.

What did you [...]

The Great Pyramids Reflection

On your own blog in the title section, write “The Great Pyramids Reflection”
Think back upon the movie we watched about the great pyramids and gather some of the interesting facts an ideas in your head. Then, write a detailed paragraph with the most interesting information that you learned.
Make sure to spell check, grammar check, read [...]

Ancient Egyptian Speech Reflection

Fantastic Job Grade 6! I very much enjoyed today’s class, and everyone did a magnificent job. I especially liked the great costumes people created to help them accurately present the person/god they chose.
Make sure to write a full paragraph describing your feelings in response to the following questions/statement. Make sure to spell [...]

Homework Jan 30/31

Now that we have finished our Ancient Egyptian historical fiction stories let’s see what people wrote. Read at least one person’s story from each one of the 6th grade blocks and post a comment on the person’s blog. Please write specific comments about why you liked the story. Remember, all comments must [...]

Homework Jan 28/29

Your have two  homework tasks for next class.
First, you must hand-in all drafts of  your Ancient Egyptian Story. Your work should be stapled in this order:
 

rubric on top
final draft
1st draft (with evidence of peer review)

Then, you must create a blog post.  Your post must include:

title
story
pictures

Homework Jan 24/25

You must bring a hard and soft copy of your first draft of your Ancient Egyptian Story to class.  We will be conducting peer conferences and revising our work.

Reminder

Don’t forget to double-check your current events date for this quarter on my current events calendar.  The date you find your name on the calendar is the date that your event should be posted on your blog and presented in class.  The name you see in parenthesis () is only showing the response people who [...]

Homework- January 15th/16th

Please finish the study guide for the Ancient Egyptian information that we were researching.  Click on the link below for the site we used  in class.
Mr. Dowling: Ancient Egypt

Alexander the Great (2nd half)

Reflect on the second half of the movie and compare it to the first half.  Write about how people feel about Alexander the Great and if their views have changed or stayed the same. Have your ideas about him changed?  Would you describe him differently now? In the end how do people around him feel [...]

Alexander the Great

Reflect on the movie so far and write about what type of person Alexander the Great is. How would you describe him? How do people around him feel about him as a person/friend/leader/king? Please try to write about as many different perspectives (views from different types of people) as you can. [...]