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Achieve 3000 Homework for the Week of November 17-21

READING HOMEWORK: Complete the following 2 articles and activities:

Due Wednesday, November 19 “Remembering Maya Angelou”

Due Friday, November 21 “Who said that? Ask an Elephant”

ENGLISH HOMEWORK: Complete the Thought Question for “Many US Students are Homeschooled”on the Achieve website. It’s due Tuesday, November 18. Mrs. Hiller will be grading your writing and submitting your grade through your Achieve email for you to see the comments, points, and badges you might earn.

Imagine that you are going to be homeschooled. Help design your ideal experience by thinking and writing about the following

-Would you use books or computer programs to learn your main subjects for Math, Science, Social Studies, English, and Reading? Maybe you would use both. Explain.

-Would you include fieldtrips to visit different places to help your learning? Where would you want to go to learn something in each of your subjects? Explain

-Would you work on any special projects such as woodworking, cooking, gardening, etc? Explain

-Would your day still include some extracurricular activities like sports, art, dance, music, etc? Explain.

Your paragraph should include lots of details and explanations for each of the above thinking questions. Be sure to write using junior high sentences with FANBOYS, Conjunctive Adverbs, and Subordinate Conjunctions!!!! Remember to spell check before you submit.-

Reflection on Contest: ENGLISH HOMEWORK- due Thursday Nov. 20

In many real life situations you will be asked to participate in team activities whether it’s for sports, working on a project for school, or project or committee for a future job. It is important that everyone “pull their weight” meaning that everyone needs to help equally.

  1. What do you think happens when people don’t “pull their weight?”
  1. What do you think happens when all team members “pull their weight” and succeed?
  1. Think about the outcome of a team who works hard but is still not successful at winning?

Positive:

Negative:

  1. How has competing in the Achieve contest made you feel? Explain why.
  1. How did you contribute to the group’s challenge?
  1. What would you have done differently if you had a second chance?
  1. Many companies reward their employees for hard work and extra effort with things like trips, extra days off, bonuses (money), and gift cards. Achieve 3000 will be rewarding the winners of this contest by sending your teacher a gift card to spend on a class party. The reward is for meeting the goal set (completing 8 activities in 4 weeks) AND scoring the highest points on the true effort while completing the goal. What do you think about this?