Mrs. Sitta's science classes recently completed amazing projects showing interactions among Earth's spheres. They are currently learning about natural disasters and how to prepare for them. Hurricane Matthew gave us a close look at how hurricanes are tracked as well as the devistation afterwards. You my look forward to a personal brochure full of important and relevant information that may save your property and lives prepared by these inquiring and knowledgeable students.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again! Civics students have been learning about the weaknesses of America’s first form of government and how the Founding Fathers had to start over! The US Constitution has now been in place for over 230 years! Algebra students just completed their District Quarterly Exams and will be starting their unit on Functions. PreAlgebra students are learning about Slope and Proportional Relationships. Students will be working in collaborate groups this coming week to complete their slope projects in class. 7th grade ELA students were engrossed in Piri Thomas’s story of the “Amigo Brothers”, two friends who are boxers in Spanish Harlem in 1949. They have looked at the historical context of the time, acted out the boxing match themselves, discussed the relationship between the two friends, and done a deep character analysis of the two characters and the ways we know so much about them through their thoughts, actions, dialogue, and author’s description. Students will continue Felix and Antonio’s story in to the future focusing on switching point of view next week in a creative writing activity. 6th grade ELA has traveled back in time to the Gold Rush era to find some adventure through a Jack London short story. Students have analyzed the text for how setting affects tone and how plot and characters intertwine to move the events of story forward. Next week, they will begin to create a fictional Gold Rush character of their own for a creative writing activity. Learning of the toughness it took to survive in those conditions has been a great experience for our students. Breaking News! 6th Global Tech is popping open a novel from a great author and bursting into reading to take them to a place that they would never have imagine. Where will their reading take them? It may be to The chocolate Factory, Neverland, Treasure Island, Olympia, or The Diary of a Wimpy Kid….hmmmm….I don’t know, but I am excited to see! In a few weeks, the 6th grade students will bring their novels to life. Stay tuned for further updates! LCMA News Flash……Have you heard about our innovative 7th grade Global Tech students? They are taking Global Tech to another level with “Kidpreneurship”. They are giving entrepreneurship another name on a kid level. Now that we are in our 2nd half of the semester, the students will be creating a business plan for our T-shirt project. This is just the beginning, we will keep you update as we reach our target goals. Lavelle’s classes have begun examining the impact of a story’s setting on everything else: characters, plot, conflict, theme, mood, tone and meaning. They started by discussing superheroes. What is Batman without Gotham City? What happens to the plot of Black Panther if there’s no vibranium in Wakanda? How does Superman’s story change if we change Krypton? What does time mean to Wonder Woman if she can exist during World War I and also in contemporary society? Students will extend these ideas to the three most recent stories they’ve studied: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, and Thank You, Ma’am. For their final Summative Assessment for this unit, they will be tasked with resetting the time and/or place of one of these short stories and predicting how the rest of the story changes as a result. “TAKE NOTICE!” Students have taken on the role of various historical figures from neutralist, loyalist, and patriot perspectives to determine if rebellion against Great Britain is justifiable. It has been decided that war on the Freedom Park green is inevitable! Will students join the patriots in their fight for liberty or remain loyal to the safety and security of British rule?! LCMA's Fourth Annual Hispanic Festival is Friday, October 26th at Freedom Park 6th graders - 6th period (12:25-1:07) 7th graders - 7th period (1:10 - 1:55) 8th graders - 8th period (1:58 - 2:40) -All parents are welcome to come! Live Music, Games, Cultural Booths, Arts and Crafts, Sports! -Please send money with your students as there will be six food trucks selling Hispanic food and drinks, shaved ice, churros, donuts, Limbers (Puerto Rican Ice) and a lot more! Comments are closed.
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