Homework: Feb. 5

Today is the MSCD Debate!  Be sure to say good job to the school's debate team!

For Homework:  Compare and contrast the treatment of Jewish people during WWII to the treatment of people of color during times of segregation.

Homework Feb. 3 and 4

Hello Everyone!  
We are reading Night bu Elie Wiesel.

Feb 3 and 4's homework is two parts.  

Part one:  Ask someone at home what they know about the Holocaust.  Try to gather as much information as you can.

Part Two:  What questions do you have about the Holocaust? (We are half way through the week, what questions are beginning to rise?)

Homework: Feb 2

Ms. Tuck                                                                     Homework: February 2, 2015

Today we started Night by Elie Wiesel.

For Homework:  Read the following biography of Elie Wiesel.  Use the reading to answer the following questions.  

 Please read through this with someone at home.  Have them help you answer the questions.

In 1944, Nazi Germany forced Jews who resided in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania to relocate to labor and death camps in Poland. At the age of 15, Wiesel and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz as part of the Holocaust, which took the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Wiesel lived in the camps under deplorable, inhumane conditions, gradually starving, and was ultimately freed from Buchenwald in 1945. Of his relatives, only he and two of his sisters survived.

Level 1:

1.)            What year did Germany force Jews to Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania? __________________

2.)           At what age did Elie get moved to Aushwitz? ___________________

Level 2: Answer the questions above plus the following:

3.)           How many Jewish people lost their lives? ________________________

4.)           When was Elie Wiesel freed? ________________________________

Level 3:  Answer all the questions above plus the following:

5.)           Who from Elie Wiesel’s family survived the Holocaust? _______________________________________________________

Homework: January 19- January 23

Monday January 19	Tuesday January 20	Wednesday January 21	Thursday January 22	Friday January 23
No School “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.	This week we are focusing on writing a newsletters. John Hersey wrote Hiroshima by interviewing survivors of the first atomic bomb.  This week, I would like you to interview someone from home (friend, family member, neighbor), anyone you want to know more about. For Homework: Ask someone at home the following questions. 1.)   What is your name 2.)  How old are you 3.)  What do you during the day?	. This week we are focusing on writing a newsletters. John Hersey wrote Hiroshima by interviewing survivors of the first atomic bomb.  This week, I would like you to interview someone from home (friend, family member, neighbor), anyone you want to know more about. For Homework: Ask someone at home the following questions. 1.What is something you think you are an expert at? 2.How did you learn to do this?	This week we are focusing on writing a newsletters. John Hersey wrote Hiroshima by interviewing survivors of the first atomic bomb.  This week, I would like you to interview someone from home (friend, family member, neighbor), anyone you want to know more about. For Homework: Ask someone at home the following questions. 1.)   What did you want to be as a child? 2.)  Why?	This week we are focusing on writing a newsletters.  John Hersey wrote Hiroshima by interviewing survivors of the first atomic bomb.  This week, I would like you to interview someone from home (friend, family member, neighbor), anyone you want to know more about. For Homework: Ask someone at home the following questions. 1.)   What is something you wish you knew when you were my age?

Homework: Week of January 12-16

Monday January 12	Tuesday January 13	Wednesday January 14	Thursday January 15	Friday January 16
Text: Hiroshima Author: John Hersey Homework: Ask someone at home the following questions: 1.) What is something hard that you had to do? 2.) What made it hard? 3.) How did you keep motivated? Level 1: Two sentences Level 2:Three sentences Level 3: Five sentences Levels are based upon student ability.	Text: Hiroshima Author: John Hersey Homework: Ask someone at home or a friend to help. What do they say is your best quality?  Why? Level 1: Two sentences Level 2:Three sentences Level 3: Five sentences Levels are based upon student ability.	Text: Hiroshima Author: John Hersey Homework: Tell about a time you were scared. Level 1: Two sentences Level 2:Three sentences Level 3: Five sentences Levels are based upon student ability.	Text: Hiroshima Author: John Hersey Homework: Tell about a time someone else has helped you. Level 1: Two sentences Level 2:Three sentences Level 3: Five sentences Levels are based upon student ability.	Text: Hiroshima Author: John Hersey Homework: Tell about a time you were proud of a family member or friend.  What did they do that made you proud? Level 1: Two sentences Level 2:Three sentences Level 3: Five sentences Levels are based upon student ability.

Homework: Jan 6-Jan 9

Tuesday January 6	Wednesday January 7	Thursday January 8	Friday January 9
Mrs. Nakamura decided to not leave after the siren sounded.  When the bomb hit Hiroshima, her house got destroyed and her children were buried. Homework: What is a choice you made that you wish you could take back?  Why? Level 1: two sentences Level 2: three sentences Level 3: five sentences	Throughout Hiroshima, families had emergency plans.  Homework: What would be your emergency plan?  Explain where you would go and what you would do. Level 1: two sentences Level 2: three sentences Level 3: five sentences	Mrs. Nakamura traveled far to help keep her children safe.  Homework: Who is someone you would want to keep safe? Why? Level 1: two sentences Level 2: three sentences Level 3: five sentences	Mrs. Nakamura was not upset with America for bombing Hiroshima until she thought she lost her sewing machine.  Homework: What is something you lost and you wish you could have it back?  Why? Level 1: two sentences Level 2: three sentences Level 3: five sentences

Homework: January 5

 Welcome back!  I hope you are all safe, healthy, and happy.  I am excited to be working with you all in the New Year!

Today we have started our new text HIROSHIMA by John Hersey.

For homework: Listen to one of the podcast found on this website.  Answer the following questions.

REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA- NPR podcast

1.) What is the title of the podcast?
2.) What is the podcast about?
3.) What do you think?  What are your thoughts on what you heard?