Summer Assignment 8th Grade PreAp LA-SS - Camas School District
Summer Assignment 8th Grade PreAp LA-SS - Camas School District
Summer Assignment 8th Grade PreAp LA-SS - Camas School District
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<strong>8th</strong> <strong>Grade</strong> Pre-AP <strong>LA</strong>/<strong>SS</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Assignment</strong><br />
To prepare for next year’s initial literature unit in 8 th grade Pre-AP Language Arts and Social<br />
Studies, students are required to read Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 by Elisa<br />
Carbone. You will need to purchase or check out a copy of the novel and complete the<br />
assignment described below.<br />
The purpose of this assignment is to:<br />
• Build upon outgoing grade-level skills<br />
• Foreshadow Pre-AP strategies<br />
• Target state EALRS/GLEs in writing, reading, and social studies<br />
• Prepare for the year’s first literature unit.<br />
• Prepare students for 8 th <strong>Grade</strong> Pre-AP<br />
Part One: Active Reading Notes: Dialectic Notes (10 pts per section)<br />
As you read, complete use the attached dialectic note sheets to complete<br />
reading notes for the three sections of the book listed below. After you have<br />
completed notes for each section, write a short paragraph responding to the<br />
guiding question using direct details from the text to support your responses.<br />
Section #1 - Chapters 1-8;<br />
Section #2 - Chapters 9-18;<br />
Section #3 - Chapters 19-Afterword<br />
Part Two: Edmodo Response: Jamestown Journal - (50 pts)<br />
• Notes format matches the sample.<br />
• Notes must be legibly handwritten or typed.<br />
• Notes will be due on the first day of school.<br />
• Notes will be graded on completion, depth,<br />
and effort.<br />
Imagine that you are either one of the Jamestown settlers or one of the Powhatan Indians. From the list of<br />
hardships generated in your Active Reading Notes, choose one significant event and write your own account<br />
of what happened. Your entry should be 200-300 words in length, and fully describe the event through a<br />
detailed, first person narrative. Write in the first person from the perspective of a Jamestown colonist or an<br />
Algonquin Indian as if you were keeping a journal.<br />
The journal must be typed in plain 12 point font, and submitted to the instructors online via our online<br />
classroom at www.Edmodo.com by August 30, 2012, the Thursday before school starts. Create an Edmodo<br />
account and use the group code: m4oyue join the <strong>Summer</strong> Pre-AP group. This assignment will not be<br />
accepted late, so please do not procrastinate.<br />
Above and Beyond: Attention to Detail, Creativity, and Depth - (10 pts)<br />
To earn full credit, show that you notice the little things. Do you have a full heading? How about a title page?<br />
Are fonts and margins consistent? Did you add elements like maps or images (both with captions)? Did you<br />
incorporate outside research in your journal? Did you cite outside research using a M<strong>LA</strong> formatted<br />
bibliography?<br />
Scoring<br />
Reading Notes! ! ! _____/30<br />
Jamestown Journal! ! _____/60<br />
Going Above and Beyond!! _____/10<br />
! ! ! ! Total<br />
! _____/100<br />
Skyridge <strong>8th</strong> <strong>Grade</strong> Pre-AP Teachers<br />
Mr. Robert Mattson<br />
Robert.Mattson@camas.wednet.edu<br />
Mrs. Melanie Weakley<br />
Melanie.weakley@camas.wednet.edu<br />
Quiz? - Be ready to take a quiz over key events and vocabulary on the first day of class!
Skyridge 8 th <strong>Grade</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> Project<br />
Dialectic Note Sheet - Section #1 - Chapters 1-8<br />
What challenges and hardships were faced by the earliest settlers to arrive at<br />
Jamestown? How did these challenges and hardships affect the way that the settlers<br />
interacted with each other, the Algonquin Indians, and the natural environment around<br />
Jamestown?<br />
Column 1 – Direct Detail and page # in Column 2 – Your personal thoughts on this moment in the story.<br />
support of the guiding question (at least five<br />
direct details).<br />
Evaluation: On the back of this paper, use the details in your notes to write a short paragraph<br />
answering the guiding question. This is not a summary - pay attention to analyze how these<br />
challenges and hardships affected interactions between the colonists, the Algonquin Indians, and the<br />
environment around Jamestown.
Skyridge 8 th <strong>Grade</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> Project<br />
Dialectic Note Sheet - Section #2 - Chapters 9-18<br />
What challenges and hardships were faced by the earliest settlers to arrive at<br />
Jamestown? How did these challenges and hardships affect the way that the settlers<br />
interacted with each other, the Algonquin Indians, and the natural environment around<br />
Jamestown?<br />
Column 1 – Direct Detail and page # in Column 2 – Your personal thoughts on this moment in the story.<br />
support of the guiding question (at least five<br />
direct details).<br />
Evaluation: On the back of this paper, use the details in your notes to write a short paragraph<br />
answering the guiding question. This is not a summary - pay attention to analyze how these<br />
challenges and hardships affected interactions between the colonists, the Algonquin Indians, and the<br />
environment around Jamestown.
Skyridge 8 th <strong>Grade</strong> <strong>Summer</strong> Project<br />
Dialectic Note Sheet - Section #3 - Chapters 19-Afterword<br />
What challenges and hardships were faced by the earliest settlers to arrive at<br />
Jamestown? How did these challenges and hardships affect the way that the settlers<br />
interacted with each other, the Algonquin Indians, and the natural environment around<br />
Jamestown?<br />
Column 1 – Direct Detail and page # in Column 2 – Your personal thoughts on this moment in the story.<br />
support of the guiding question (at least five<br />
direct details).<br />
Evaluation: On the back of this paper, use the details in your notes to write a short paragraph<br />
answering the guiding question. This is not a summary - pay attention to analyze how these<br />
challenges and hardships affected interactions between the colonists, the Algonquin Indians, and the<br />
environment around Jamestown.
Dear Parents and Students,<br />
June 12, 2012<br />
In 2011, Mr. Mattson’s Pre-AP class researched and wrote a grant to the <strong>Camas</strong> Education Foundation, leaving<br />
an Apple learning lab as a legacy to Skyridge. This lab contains 20 iPads, which are used on a near daily basin in<br />
my classroom. I call it the SkyPad Lab and it has revolutionized the way I teach.<br />
To make the most of the SkyPad Lab, our class will be using a variety of online resources. The purpose of these<br />
resources is to create a backchannel, or online discussion, that parallels and augments the discussions we have<br />
in class. Before you begin your summer project, you will need to create accounts for two online sites. Each of<br />
these sites can be accessed from Mr. Mattson's classroom webpage: http://mrmattson.weebly.com or by following<br />
the links below.<br />
Join www.edmodo.com<br />
Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools. Edmodo provides<br />
classrooms a safe and easy way to connect and collaborate. We will be using Edmodo to create a real-time<br />
platform to exchange ideas, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. You will turn<br />
in your summer project using Edmodo. The code to join the group is: m4oyue.<br />
Join www.evernote.com<br />
Evernote provides students with a reliable tool for note taking that can be used to collect and organize ideas<br />
into an online notebook. The online notebook can be used to gather text, images, sounds, videos, even clips<br />
of web pages. All of these notes are easily accessible across multiple platforms. You do not have to use<br />
Evernote on your summer project, but I encourage you to explore its feature. We will use Evernote, in<br />
conjunction with classroom iPads, throughout the upcoming school year to create digital notebooks and<br />
portfolios of our work.<br />
As the year progresses we will engage in many inquiry and project based learning experiences. In addition to<br />
research, we will use the SkyPad Lab to create projects to share what we have learned with our peers, family,<br />
and community. At times this may require students to create accounts to online websites. When used in<br />
conjunction with assignments, these sites will be vetted by Mr. Mattson and classroom discussion will be held<br />
concerning online Internet safety. Websites that may be used throughout the school year include, but are not<br />
limited to, www.quizlet.com, www.shelfari.com, www.capzles.com, www.animoto.com, and www.twitter.com.<br />
Web 2.0 Permission Slip<br />
My child __________________________________ may access, create accounts for, and use Internet based<br />
resources, that have been vetted by Mr. Mattson for security, safety, and anonymity, in order to complete<br />
class work during the 2012-2013 school year.<br />
Parent Signature: ____________________________________" Date: ________________________
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