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Our first field trip will be to Franklin Institute on 10/11/16. Admission is free. We ask that you bring $5 for car fare if you do not have a transpass issued by the school. Mrs. Fanning will have tokens for purchase.
We will be taking the Route 10 Trolley, so you only need one token to get there. If you do not know how to get home from Franklin Institute, please see Mrs. Fanning to plan appropriately.
If you had to choose between making a public idiot out of yourself in one night or do fifty stupid things in one year that only you knew about, what would you choose?
Me personally, I would rather commit fifty stupid things that only I knew about. The stupid things in life that you do, you regret right away. As time goes on, you look back on those memories and laugh at yourself. You try to think of the reasons for doing what you did, but your mind goes blanket. Life is all about doing things in the moment. If you don’t ever do things you wouldn’t normal do or be spontaneous, what great memories would you create? Though they say to think before you act, acting before you think is more of an adventure. Sometimes things don’t play out the way you'd hope they would, but that's life.
Making an idiot of myself in public is something I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to do. Doing such acts to resemble myself as a fool is different when there's a crowd. People will be aware of what you did whether you want them to forget it or not. The thought of you being a fool will sit in the back of their minds. In this world, people are judged for anything you can think of. You will be teared down and picked apart for making a fool of yourself. But you can’t be teared down if you stand tall. If you are able to disregard the comments people make towards you, making an idiot out of yourself doesn’t seem so bad. Unless you’re like me. I stand tall but slowly start to crumble and after awhile, I fall.
Nobody has the same opinion on everything and that’s normal. Some would agree with my reasoning for doing fifty idiotic things rather than being a public humiliation, others would not. It all comes down to how you deal with the weight of the world and what you let get to you. I am not capable of embracing the things that would be said about me if I were a public humiliation like some people are able to do. I’d be happier knowing that the fifty foolish acts I did where safe with me. If I ever wanted to share those moments, I’d be able to. This way I pick and choose what the world knows about me.
SLA@Beeber
Rising 10th and 11th* Grade Summer Reading
An important goal of the English curriculum at SLA Beeber is for students to become lifelong readers. Reading should be fun because it opens up new experiences to us and allows us to think more critically about more familiar experiences. It is a form of entertainment and life-long education that we hope you will value!
For your summer reading you must read two books from the list below. You must choose books that you have not read in the past. If you are a rising 11th grader, one of your books must come from the “classic” category.*
For each book, you must complete a response to the book from among the following choices. You must complete a different response for each book:
1) 2 Page Double Entry Journal: Draw a line down the middle of a page. For one column, label it “Notes from the Text.” Here, you should write down notes from the text that stand out to you as important (Be sure to label it with the page number). For the other column, label it “My Response.” In this column, you write what you are thinking about the text or the questions that you have about the text.
Page # | Notes from Text | My Response/Analysis |
2) Body Biography of a Character: Draw an outline of a character, this could just be a stick figure. Then, for each major body part: hands, heart, eyes, nose, arms, feet, knees, stomach, head, ears, etc. you should make a metaphorical body part that would represent a part of the character’s identity. For example, the eyes could be closed shutters if they are not able to see and appreciate their friends or family. This is a characterization activity. On the back, or on a separate paper, explain how and why you chose each body part to represent the character you chose.
3) It Says, I Say, And So Inference: This is a process for making inferences about what you read based on your own questions. You go through the following process. The total word count should be 400-500 words:
1) Question: Ask a deep, open-ended question about the text I am reading?
2) It Says: What details and information from the text will help me answer this question?
3) I Say: What do I have to say about the topic of this question that comes from my own knowledge and experience from the world?
4) And So: By combining the references to the text with my own knowledge and experience, what is my inference, my answer to my question?
5) So What?: What is the broader connection of my inference to humanity or society in general?
4) Create a High Quality Book Trailer that will be shown the first week of school. This should include information about setting, characters, and the initial conflict. Be sure not to give away the ending! Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrNyVhSJUU
Here are choices of novels that you can choose from. If you would like to read another book, just email your English teacher from last year.
Dystopian Novels | House of the Scorpion Hunger Games Series Divergent Series Maze Runner Series The Selection Series Matched Series Uglies Series Delirium Series Unwind Series Gone Series The 5th Wave Series The Legend Series |
Social Issues/Coming of Age | Thirteen Reasons Why Everyday Speak One For the Murphy’s Perks of Being a Wallflower The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Winter Girls My Sister’s Keeper This Song Will Save Your Life Fat Kid Rules the World Saint Iggy Being Henry David Smashed The Future of Us The Hate List |
Historical Fiction | Roots Code Name Verity Between Shades of Gray Out of the Easy Chains Copper Sun The Boy in the Striped Pajamas When the Emperor Was Divine Snow Flower and the Secret Fan The Girl With The Pearl Earring Sarah’s Key The Buddha in the Attic Girl in Reverse |
Memoir/Biography/Autobiography | The Color of Water I Am Malala Diary of Anne Frank Black Boy Born on a Blue Day Steve Jobs Tuesdays With Morrie Into Thin Air I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Last Lecture The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Night The Glass Castle A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
Romance | The Fault in Our Stars Looking For Alaska Paper Towns Anna and the French Kiss This is What Happy Looks Like The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight The Geography of You and Me If I Stay/Where She Went Just Listen |
Fantasy/Sci Fi | Harry Potter Series Ender’s Game The Hobbit Lord of the Rings Series Cinder Series Fallen Series Twilight Series Daughter of Smoke and Bone Series Fahrenheit 451 Feed I Am Number Four Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Talon Series |
Classic Books | Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights The Awakening The Red Badge of Courage Don Quixote The Three Musketeers The Scarlet Letter Catch-22 Brave New World The Metamorphosis To Kill a Mockingbird The Call of the Wild Beloved The Bell Jar The Grapes of Wrath Treasure Island Uncle Tom’s Cabin Candide Slaughterhouse -Five The Color Purple The Picture of Dorian Gray Native Son Frankenstein Dracula Heart of Darkness Lord of the Flies Things Fall Apart Anthills of the Savannah No Longer at Ease |
Detective Fiction | Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Margery Allingham, The Tiger in the Smoke Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest A Hardy Boys, The Shore Road Mystery, and a Nancy Drew, The Secret in the Attic Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night Sara Peretsky, Hard Time Barbara Neely, Blanche Among the Talented Tenth Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time Henning Menkell, The White Lioness Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn. Nixon, Joan Lowery. The Weekend Was Murder! Rose, Malcolm. Framed! Newman, Robert. The Case of the Baker Street Irregular: A Sherlock Holmes Story. Agatha Christie, Murder in the Vicarage |
SLA Beeber 9th Grade Summer Reading 2016-2017
Dear Incoming Ninth Grader,
Welcome to SLA! Before coming to school in September we'd like you to read one of the following books: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie), Everyday (David Levithan), or The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer).
While you may get the book from the library, we strongly suggest that you purchase your
choice text, as we will be referring to it in English classes in September. We are selling all
three titles at discounted prices on New Family Night to make obtaining summer reading easy
and effortless. Of course, feel free to read them all! They are all so great!
Below are some questions to help you navigate your novel and help you prepare to discuss it
with your classmates and teachers. As you may already know, SLA utilizes guiding questions
that help focus our studies and make learning more meaningful for us all. As you read your
book, think about the following larger questions as they apply to the characters, action,
conflicts, and resolutions in your choice text and also as they apply to your life. Part of active
reading includes some writing. Prepare to hand in a journal consisting of at least eight entries,
each one longer than a half page. Before you write, consider the following questions to explore
in your journal. Each entry could be a response to a question as it relates to the book. Include
your own personal responses to these questions, and how these questions might apply to your
choice text. This will be collected in September.
• What is family?
• What is the power of friendship?
• What does it mean to be a caregiver/mother/father?
• What is education and where can it exist?
• What is love?
• How does a person become evil?
•In what ways can the line between good and evil be blurred?
• How do you justify the idea that a person can be both good and evil at the same time?
• Who is a survivor? Why?
• What does it mean to be human?
• How can children create their own paths in a world run by the adults?The video both Talib and I made was a short learning video on the Vinyl cutter which we used for our 3rd quarter project. Using the Vinyl cutter was a little tricky because we both never used it before, but after a few lessons from Mrs. Hertz and Youtube videos we figured it all out. Now the benchmark for this quarter was based on making our own video of how to uses the Vinyl cutter which was easy. Both Talib and I created many stickers for our laptops, so just explaining how we did everything was another day on the job. We choose to make small thing first because we’re still rookies using the tool. Nevertheless I had a great time using the Vinyl cutter which I never knew we had till this year. I am planning to use it more it more next years and put big stickers all around the school.
For this project my design was a better way to keep the girls bathroom a cleaner, fresher, and safer place. The problem that occurs in the girls bathroom is the lack of feminine baskets. My goal was to create waste bins and put them in each stall and create a clean fresh environment. I made my first outline/blueprint/model on Tinkercad, and thought that it would be a splendid idea to make a tutorial on how to use it. I didn't really know how to work it at first which is also a reason I wanted to do a tutorial because it is actually a complex tech tool. Others may find it difficult as well and this could very much be a small bit of help. I felt like I learned a lot using this tool. From precise measurement, accurate angles and positioning, make me feel like I was actually building something or planning something like a real architect. I really enjoyed making this tutorial and hope that it could be beneficial to someone else.
Product:
I used my locker for this project. I used my locker because I thought it was to boring. I also wanted to make my locker look like the sky at midnight. So I thought it would have been cool to paint it blue. I think it shows that my favorite color is blue and I love the sky at night. The locker was a different approach when it came to making something light up. It carefully hides the circuit behind the door.
