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Ms. Schulz’s Class

Miss Flynn’s Class

WEBQUEST

THINKQUEST

Introduction

Life has changed significantly over the years. Today, you are a Colonial American: apothecary, carpenter, foodway, milliner, printer/binder, tailor, wheelwright, or wigmaker. Through this Web Quest you will discover what your life may have been like. You will then compare that life to a person living today. What has changed? What time would it have been easier/better to live in? You will create a visual display to present this information to your classmates.

Task

Complete research about life in Colonial America from the point of view of the person to whom you have been assigned: apothecary, carpenter, chandler, milliner, printer/binder, tailor, wheelwright, or wigmaker. Questions to consider are:

• What was daily life like?
• What was your “job”?
• Do we still have this role in society today?
• Is it called the same thing?
• Were you wealthy?
• Were you poor?
• Did you own property?
• Did you have to care for others?
• What difficulties did you face?
• What things were easy for you?
• What could have made your life easier?

After researching, you will be responsible for developing a visual display to summarize your research. The visual display will be a poster depicting the questions above.

Process

Ponder the questions:
What were jobs like in Colonial America?

How was life different in Colonial America than it is today?

Do we still need these jobs today?

You will research a Colonial occupation, such as (but not limited to): apothecary, carpenter, chandler, milliner, printer/binder, tailor, wheelwright, or wigmaker.
Consider the questions above in researching and note taking (see attached documents below).  In creating your visual display – consider whether the person who had your occupation was wealthy, poor, a property owner, working for themselves or someone else, or any other important detail you discover. Make sure to include this information in your visual display.
Visit the internet resources to help you in your research.

Make sure when creating your visual display you remember to present the information in first person. Today I….My job….etc.
Your visual display should include: your name, the occupation you researched, a description of the occupation in Colonial Times, a statement explaining if the occupation is still necessary today and if it has changed or remained the same, and at least 3 other important facts as found in the research process.
Please refer to the rubric in the evaluation tab when completing your visual display. Your visual display should be neatly developed, not have any distracting features, etc.

Today we held our annual Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader challenge.  Our contestants were Mr. Eaker, Mr. McCracken, and Mrs. Ford & Mr. Belvel.  The children spent time reviewing all the concepts they have learned over the year in ALL subjects.  They learned about different types of questions and then wrote questions for each subject.  The contestants were asked these questions in the fashion of the popular game show.  Unfortunately, two of our contestants were NOT smarter than fifth graders.  Our students were great classmates by offering contestants to peek or copy their answers they wrote on their i-Pads using the BlackBoard app.  We all had so much fun learning today!

You can click on the link to my screencast and watch a demonstration OR you can simply follow the directions below to upload your poem to our classroom wiki.

1. Open your file in Pages.
2. Command P as if you were going to print
3. In the bottom left corner, click on the PDF button
4. When you see the dropdown menu, click on Save as PDF
5. Save it to your documents folder as your name and then poem (Tracipoem)
6. Close Pages
7. Open up my blog
8. Go to our classroom wiki
9. Click on the tab at the top labeled “Pages and Files”
10. Click “Upload”
11. Select your file and click ‘Open”
12. Next to your file you can click on “More”
13.  Select “move” from the drop down menu
14.  Choose “Our Original Poems”
15. You have now added your poem to our wiki!
16. Take some time to check out the work of your peers

by Debbie Fox and Allan Beane

Assignment from Mrs. Ford and Mr. Belvil:  Be nice to someone who is not normally nice to you!

OH…what literary element did I just use in the title above?

Following the lesson on test taking tips, the students created their own lists of the “Top Ten Test Taking Tips”.

Multiple Choice Tips

More Tips for MC

Basic Rules for Multiple Choice

Rockin’ the ISAT Blog

Today we worked on ISAT practice by taking some online tests.

1.  What skills did you find difficult?

2.  Were there terms you did not know?

3.  What can you do to make sure you do your very best on the ISAT?