COURAGE Day 2

1. Do courageous people and cowards have anything in common?  At your table, discuss the similarities between people who are brave and people who aren't.  Consider things like feelings, motivations, beliefs, fears, backgrounds, wealth, etc.

2. Does courage always require overt acts of bravery?  What are other ways of looking at courageous characters?  On a lined piece of paper, write a 2-3 paragraph monologue for a character who is unrecognized for the courage they show each day.  Really work to develop your character.  What do they do day after day?  Why is their courage going unrecognized?  What is the one thing they want more than anything else?  Are they happy or sad?

COURAGE Day 1

1. What is courage?  With a partner, quickly discuss the qualities of being courageous and being reckless.  How are they the same?  How are they different?

2. How do we memorialize courageous people and actions?  Look at the difference between the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam War Memorial.  What kind of symbolism do you see in each of these monuments?  How did the artist choose to represent each person/event differently, and why do you think they approached the memorials that way?

3. If someone were to make a memorial of an event in your life that required courage, what would you want it to be?  On a lined piece of paper, design your own memorial.  Make sure you say at the bottom what you're being honored for.

Newspaper Jobs

5-6 Hour

Hashtag          Entertainment          Sports          Comics          Weather          Photos
Hailey              Kyler B.                  Logan           Vee                Sariah            Lillie
Dax                  Hannah                   Kyler R.        Erica                                    Chels
                                                                            Shaun                                    Mia T.
                                                                             Cole

Obits              Design          Opinion       Front Page      Editor           Classifieds
Jack               Audrey         Dallas             Alyssa             Ava               Kylee
Silvester        Ben              Giffin               Eva               Talia               Jaren
                                                                   Gage              Mia H.
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Hashtag          Entertainment          Sports          Comics          Weather          Photos
Vee                 Erica                        Jack             Logan             Lilly              Hannah
Kylee             Chels                       Griffin          Mia T                                   Sariah
Jaren              Hailey                      Dallas          Talia
                                                                            Ava

Obits              Design          Opinion       Front Page      Editor           Classifieds
Gage              Mia H           Kyler B        Ben                Dax                Cole
                      Kyler R         Silvester                             Eva                 Shaun
                                                                                       Audrey

Newspaper Jobs

1-2 Hour

Weather          Photos          Sports          Comics          Hashtag          Entertainment
Aaron              Jaxyn            Davis          Lydia             Savanna          Izzy
                        Mabey          Jordan         Ella                Taysen            Kaylee  
                                             Britain         Jacob             Eden               AbbyG
                                                                 Matt               Jeremiah

Obits              Design          Opinion       Front Page      Editor           Classifieds
Brinley           LilyG            Lucy            ThueJr             Gracie          Thomas*
Justice            Adam            Roo              Lexi*               Leah             Luis*

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Weather         Photos         Sports          Comics           Hashtag           Entertainment
Lily G.           Adam         Thomas         Roo                Jordan             Jacob
                       Ella            Aaron            Eden                Davis             Lydia
                                          Matt              Luis               Izzy                 Brinley
                                                               Abby G.         Lexi

Obits             Design         Opinion        Front Page      Editor          Classifieds
Jeremiah       Lilly T.                               Lucy               Kaylee         Taysen
                     Mabey                                Jaxyn              Leah            Justice
                                                                                      Savanna         Britain           

Classroom Newspaper

A lot of work goes into writing a newspaper.  Because newspapers are so extensive, they are divided up into sections.  Some common parts of a newspaper include:
-Front page (breaking news)
          -Answers the question who, what, when, where, and why.
          -Is objective (absent of opinion or personal feeling.)
-Photos
          -A good photo tells a story without needing words.
-Opinion section
          -You should be able to express your opinion without hurting or belittling others.
          -A valuable opinion writer is well-versed in both sides of the argument.
-Weather
          -You better be a really good artist to tackle this one! 
-Comics
          -The comics section requires you to be a great artist AND have a funny joke to tell.
          -Rated "G."
-Sports
          -People want to read about a sports event as if they were there themselves.
          -This should be as accurate as possible.  An athlete is not going to appreciate his/her winning moves to be reported as less or more than what they were. 
-Design
          -A newspaper should be typed up and organized in a way that looks awesome.  It requires formatting skills and typing skills, and a good eye for details. 
-Classifieds
          -This is a super fun section of our newspaper if it is done in the right way.  Kids can advertise for things they want or things they have to offer.  Who knows?  You may end up getting a good deal!
-Obituaries
          -This section tells about people (or in your case, perhaps pets) who have passed away recently.
          -It would need to be handled in an EXTREMELY sensitive and tasteful way.
-Hashtag
          -#thatwasawkward  #worstdayever  #myweirdfriend
-Entertainment
          -Sudoku's, contests, upcoming movies, etc. 
-Editor
          -The editors are students who have EXCELLENT writing skills.  They should be able to catch and correct grammar, spelling, and other errors.
-Editor in Chief
          -That would be me, Mrs. K.  :)

The Rich Man and the Shoemaker

The Rich Man and the Shoemaker
by Jean de La Fontaine

Once upon a time there lived a poor but cheerful shoemaker. He was so happy he sang all day long. The children loved to stand around his window to listen to him. Next door to the shoemaker lived a rich man. He used to sit up all night to count his gold. In the morning he went to bed, but he could not sleep because of the sound of the shoemaker’s singing. One day he thought of a way of stopping the singing. He wrote a letter to the shoemaker asking him to come by. The shoemaker went at once, and to his surprise the rich man gave him a bag of gold. When he got home, the shoemaker opened the bag. He had never seen so much money before! He sat down at his bench and began, carefully, to count it. The children watched through the window. There was so much there that the shoemaker was afraid to let it out of his sight. So he took it to bed with him. But he could not sleep because he was worrying about it. So he got out of bed and went to hide it in the attic, but he was not sure if that was a good place. Very early in the morning he got up and brought his gold down from the attic. He had decided to hide it up the chimney instead. But after breakfast he thought it would be safer in the chicken house. So he hid it there. But he was still uneasy, and in a little while he dug a hole in the garden and buried his bag of gold in it. It was no use trying to work. He was too worried about the safety of his gold.
And as for singing, he was too miserable to sing a note. He could not sleep, or work, or sing—and, worst of all, the children no longer came to see him. At last the shoemaker felt so unhappy that he seized his bag of gold and ran next door to the rich man. “Please take back your gold,” he said. “Worrying about it is making me ill, and I have lost all my friends. I would rather be a poor shoemaker, as I was before.” And so the shoemaker was happy again and sang all day at his work.

Questioning Take-Away Notes

Evaluative vs. Interpretive
Interpretive and evaluative questions are closely related to each other. The easiest way to figure out which type of question it is, is by looking at the type of answer you get.

A question could be either evaluative or interpretive:

•  If the answer is supported by real life experiences, it is an evaluative answer.
•  If there are at least two different possible answers, and both of them can be supported by the story, then it is an interpretive answer.