Humanities 7 – Homework – Dec 10

Today in class, students continued the readers workshop for Enrique's Journey in small groups.

 Reading Discussion Questions Instructions (How-To-Guide)

Homework - p. 27 - Read Chapter 5 (pages 94-116) of Enrique's Journey and create eight (8) discussion questions on page 27 of your notebook, using the questioning strategies from Humanities.

Humanities 7 – Homework – Dec 9

Today in class, students assessed the organization of their Interactive Student Notebooks so far in Term 2 by taking a notebook quiz. Students also continued the readers workshop for Enrique's Journey in small groups.

 Enriques Journey Matrix

 Reading Discussion Questions Instructions (How-To-Guide)

Homework - p. 25 - Read the rest of Chapter 4 (pages 70-93) of Enrique's Journey and create eight (8) discussion questions on page 25 of your notebook, using the questioning strategies from Humanities.

Humanities 7 – Homework – Dec 6

Today in class, students continued the readers workshop for Enrique's Journey in small groups.

 Reading Discussion Questions Instructions (How-To-Guide)

Homework - p. 22-23 - Read Chapter 3 (pages 53-64) and Chapter 4 (pages 65-70) of Enrique's Journey and create eight (8) discussion questions on page 20 (for Chapter 3), and eight (8) discussion questions on page 21 (for Chapter 4) of your notebook, using the questioning strategies from Humanities. Don't forget to include page numbers for each question!

Humanities 7 – Homework – Dec 5

Today in class, students continued the readers workshop for Enrique's Journey in small groups.

 Reading Discussion Questions Instructions (How-To-Guide)

Homework - p. 21 - Read the first part of Chapter 2 (pages 34-50) of Enrique's Journey and create eight (8) discussion questions on page 21 of your notebook, using the questioning strategies from Humanities.

Humanities 7 – Homework – Dec 4

Today in class, students began the readers workshop model for Enrique's Journey in small groups. Students were introduced to the strategies we will use throughout the readers workshop for developing and discussing questions.

 Reading Discussion Questions Instructions (How-To-Guide)

Homework - p. 19 - Read Chapter 1 (pages 19-33) of Enrique's Journey and create eight (8) discussion questions WITH THEIR CORRESPONDING PAGE NUMBERS on page 19 of your notebook, using the questioning strategies we practiced today in Humanities.

Humanities 7 – Unit 3 Enrique’s Journey Readers’ Workshop

Unit 3 Enrique's Journey Readers' Workshop

The goals of the Unit 3 Readers' Workshop are: 1) to better understand the reasons why people migrate from one country to another; 2) to put a human face to the statistics and facts about immigration to better empathize with those that make the journey to the United States; and 3) to begin to articulate a better pathway forward for those that decide to come to the United States in the future.

 Reading Discussion Questions Instructions (How-To-Guide for Your Notebook)

 Presentation on Strategies for Questioning (from ELA class)

 Enrique's Journey Letter to Families

 Enrique's Journey (Website)

 Enrique's Journey Interactive Timeline

 StoryBoard That

Humanities 7 – Homework – Dec 2

Today in class, students previewed the book Enrique's Journey and the process for readers workshop.

 Central American Immigrants in the United States

 Enrique's Journey Letter to Families

Homework - There are THREE parts to your homework tonight, make sure to do them all!

1) Get your letter on page 16 signed (and sign it too)

2) Complete the reading on Central American Immigrants with ANNOTATIONS (5 comments/questions) and answer the questions

3) Read the prologue of Enrique's Journey (pages 1-16)

Humanities 7 – Homework – Nov 26

Today in class, students continued to describe and discuss the myths and facts about immigration to the United States by completing the Myths of Immigration Station Activity that they started on Monday.

 Myths About Immigration Chart

 MythBusters Immigration Wall Activity

 The Truth About 10 Immigration Myths (Source: Teaching Tolerance)

Homework - There is no new HW for the Thanksgiving break, enjoy!

Humanities 7 – Homework – Nov 25

Today in class, students discussed the myths and truths about immigration in the United States by doing a carousel activity in groups.

 MythBusters Immigration Poster

 MythBusters Immigration Wall Activity

 The Truth About 10 Immigration Myths (Source: Teaching Tolerance)

Homework - p. 14 - Create a poster that educates others about one of the myths from class today – make sure that your poster is neat and colorful!

Humanities 7 – Homework – Nov 22

Today in class, students investigated the statistics of migration patterns to the United States and around the world by completing a WebQuest activity. Students also had a chance to discuss and summarize their learning about migration to the United States based on their reading yesterday in class.

 Immigration WebQuest Activity

 Immigration WebQuest Handout

Homework - p. 13 - Complete the Immigration WebQuest Activity that we started in class today.