Friday Aug 30 What is a Task?

Good Morning,

Let's find out what a task is.
To use the Project Canvas to keep our work organized and moving along smoothly we need to create tasks.

Project Canvas

Simply tasks are the ingredients that make up your project or work.
You write those 'ingredients' on a sticky-note and stick it to the appropriate column.

Let's practice making tasks today for the 2 or 3 projects you were developing this week.
On a piece of paper you will be slicing up the project into the bits and pieces you need to do to finish it.
The images below are example tasks from a project last year. You can see there are spelling mistakes. The point is the group knew what they were doing and how much needed to get done before the project is completed.

Wednesday Aug 28 What Do You Want To Make?

Good Morning,

First, at 12pm PST today 50 years ago (1963) Martin Luther King Jr. started his famous "I Have A Dream" speech at the March on Washington. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom

We are going to continue exploring the 7th grade material by finishing the questions we were answering yesterday. The questions from yesterday:
1)What is the section about?
2) What about the section grabbed your attention?3) Why did it grab your attention?
4) Using descriptive words describe the images in the section.
5) What modern day comparison can you make with the information from the section?
6) What type of project could you create to represent the information?

We'll spend about 10 minutes finishing the questions. After let's move on to "What Do You Want To Make"

In this class you will be making lots of projects to demonstrate your knowledge of history. To get our brains started with projects let's answer the questions below:

1. Make a list of 2-3 projects you would like to make.
2. Provide 2-3 complete sentences to describe what it include.
3. Write 2-3 complete sentences why you want to make that particular project (do this for each project idea).
4. Include a materials list (the materials you need to build the project)
5. Sketch 2 or 3 of the projects, (draw the projects).

Tuesday August 27 Intro to World History

Good Morning,

You are probably wondering about netbooks. We are waiting for the shipment of new computers to come in either today or tomorrow.

In class: we are going to flip through the text to become familiar with the civilizations we will study during your 7th grade year. Feel free to share with your neighbor any you found interesting. Take about 5 minutes.

After you've had about 5 minutes to flip through the book go back to one section you found interesting and in complete sentences answer these questions:
1)What is the section about?

2) What about the section grabbed your attention?

3) Why did it grab your attention?

4) Using descriptive words describe the images in the section.

5) What modern day comparison can you make with the information from the section?

6) What type of project could you create to represent the information?

An Excellent Summer.... Now a New Year

Welcome to 7th grade!!

I'm really excited for this year, we all have new ideas and I can't wait to see what you'll make. In an effort to get to know you a little better and have us headed in the same direction....

I'd like you to fill out the Discover Student Talents sheet here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fDP7Yv6f9b1lJfl3GkSEARlsmuixYSRvWFd-bgVOm-k/pub

If you have questions feel free to contact me:
cscottsy@gmail.com
805-215-8864 (please include your name in the text)