TKAM Blog Post

Now that we're done with the movie, compare and contrast it to the book in a blog post of your own.  Then comment on the posts of others.

• COMPARE means to find similarities.
• CONTRAST means to find differences.
• How did the movie compare to your expectations?
• What would you have changed?
• Was anything better than you imagined it in your mind?
• Include any other relevant thoughts or conclusions.

National History Day, 2018

History Day Resources

The following links can help you with your project for this year's National History Day theme: Conflict and Compromise.

https://www.docsteach.org/topics/nhd

https://www.nhd.org/students

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/finding.html

https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_the_United_Kingdom:_Primary_Documents

http://www.shsulibraryguides.org/worldprimary

http://guides.library.duke.edu/c.php?g=289297&p=1929346

https://www.archives.gov/research/catalog

https://www.nhd.org/conflict-and-compromise-history?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq93-1oaZ2AIVgbjACh1irgGcEAAYASAAEgLIuvD_BwE

Financial Literacy Investigation

Investigate all the episodes at http://bizkids.com/show.  Find some of the topics you gave low ratings on our financial literacy pretest.  Educate yourself!  We'll report out what we learned at the end of class.

When you're done, try some of these financial literacy games:

https://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/play

http://www.genirevolution.org/

https://financialentertainment.org/

http://financeintheclassroom.org/student/activities.shtml

https://www.mymoney.gov/Pages/for-youth.aspx

http://www.richkidsmartkid.com/

http://senseanddollars.thinkport.org/

http://bizkids.com/games

https://handsonbanking.org/htdocs/en/k/

Iowa State OPPTAG Experience Reflection

7th grade GOAL:

Reflect on your day in Ames.  Answer the following questions in a thoughtful paragraph.  Back up your opinions with evidence and/or explanation.

Here's a link to the official track titles, if you need them.

• Describe your first class.  What did you learn?  What did you do?  
• Describe your second class.  What did you learn?  What did you do?
• What was the most educational part of your day?  Explain.
• What was something you learned about Iowa State University?
• What was the most fun part of the day?
• If you could give one piece of advice on how to improve the experience, what would you say?  Explain.
• What is your biggest "takeaway?"  In other words, why did we do this?  What did you get out of the experience?

Thesis Statements

Here's a quick and easy guide to writing thesis statements.

Persuasive Paper Topics

Not sure what to write about?  These links might give you some ideas:

https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/writing/persuasive-essay-topics/

https://www.thoughtco.com/persuasive-essay-topics-1856978

http://www.myspeechclass.com/persuasivetopics2.html

http://www.k12reader.com/persuasive-essay-and-speech-topics/

Deep Thinking Friday

Here are some videos to get us thinking about plastic water bottles... why we have them, their impact, and what we can do about the problem of SO MANY of them.  Watch these in any order you'd like.  Comment with your thoughts and ideas.

Plastic Bottle Village from MEL Films on Vimeo.

Coding

Computer Science in Education week is coming up.  Let's celebrate a little early!  You will develop your own independent study course for coding.  Come up with a plan about what you want to learn.  You may use any of the following options:

https://code.org/ (drag and drop/block coding... this is the beginner level for those who haven't tried coding before)

https://scratch.mit.edu/ (more block coding... this site lets you use your imagination to create more than to solve puzzles like on code.org)

https://www.madewithcode.com/ (several coding activities... I don't know much about this one... maybe you could become our expert on this site!)

https://www.codeschool.com/learn (this is where you can learn different computer programming languages like HTML, JavaScript, and iOS)

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing (a variety of computer programming experiences in the Khan Academy course platform)

https://www.codecademy.com/ (another site to learn different coding languages)

Look through the sites and find an area that interests you.  Decide what you will learn between December 5 and December 25.  You will be submitting your plan & goals next week into Canvas.  Create an account for yourself using your school e-mail and password, and start learning!

Sentence Diagramming

Mandarin Chinese

Today you will explore on your own, listening and practicing words made up of the initials and finals we went over in class on Tuesday.  Get some headphones, watch the following videos, and talk out loud when you need to repeat things.  Don't worry... everyone will be talking.  You won't even notice it if you're concentrating on your own learning.  Have fun! 

When you're done, leave a comment here about what you think is difficult about Mandarin Chinese so far and what, if anything, is easy.  Build on the comments of your classmates, and have a conversation.