Period 3 Classwork

Check out these news reports of how Japanese Americans - including survivors of Manzanar and their descendants - are remembering their past. Why do they consider it important to remember the past? How does their experience relate to the present?

Write your answers as a paragraph on Google Drive.

For more information on Manzanar and other Japanese-American internment camps in World War II, see these websites:

https://www.nps.gov/manz/learn/historyculture/japanese-americans-at-manzanar.htm
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/documentary/viewguide2.html#Anchor-Facts-11481
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation#

Period 2 Classwork

What causes the aurora borealis?

Read this article: earthsky.org - What Causes the Aurora Borealis? and listen to this video NOVA Science Now - Tyson on the Aurora that explain what causes the aurora. Then answer the questions:

Use these vocabulary words to answer 1 through 4:

atmosphere
particles
poles
react


1. The sun sends _______________ out into space.

2. The particles are attracted to the earth's magnetic ______________ (north and south).

3. Atoms in Earth's _______________  become "excited" when the sun's particles hit them.

4. The atoms ________________ by releasing colored lights.

5. What causes the different colors of the aurora?

Write your answers in a new document in Period 2.

Thank you!

Period 8 Classwork - Author's Point of View and Purpose

Each student should choose a region of the United States - Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Great Plains, Northwest, Hawaii / Pacific, or Alaska - and read the article on how climate change is affecting that region of the United States.

Articles can be found here:
https://newsela.com/text-sets/198010/climatechangeeffects

Don't forget, you can change the level of the text so that it matches your reading level.

After you read your article and answer the questions, write a short paragraph describing the author's point of view (or purpose). Was  the author trying to inform, entertain, or persuade? Was the author successful?

Period 7 Classwork - 5 number ones

Using superlative forms.

Make a short presentation on Google Slides to practice using superlative forms. Choose 5 different examples of the same kind of thing, and explain how each one is "the _____est" or "the most _____."

See example:

Five stringed Insruments

1. The violin is the most beautiful instrument, and the most important for the orchestra.
2. The guitar is the easiest to learn and play, so it is the most popular. It is also the most versatile, because you can play many different styles of music.
3. The bass is the biggest and has the lowest sound.
4. The banjo is the most modern, and the most uniquely American.
5. The harp is the oldest and the simplest of the stringed instruments.

Per. 5 and 7 Classwork

Now and Then - Comparisons

Choose a location or a site in a city that has changed over time. Here are some good websites:

https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/new-york-then-and-now/
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/landmark-architecture-then-and-now-slideshow/all
https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/real-estate-news/washington-dc-past-and-present-a-visual-tour/

Write a paragraph, comparing the place "then and now." You must use three types of comparisons in your paragraph:

____-er

Example: The new apartment building is much larger than the old building.

more ____ than

The neighborhood used to be residential. Now, it is more commercial than it used to be.

(not) as _____ as

The previous cathedral was not as tall as the new one.
The new cathedral is just as beautiful as the old one.