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Mr. Curry's 7th and 8 Grade
Language Arts/Social Studies Classes
Piedmont
Middle School
955 Piedmont
Road, San Jose, CA
95132
Berryessa Union School District
Technologically Enriched
Cooperative Learning
Standards Based Project Based Learning
Welcome to a new school
year.
View a Power Point Slideshow about our Classroom
Procedures
(If you do not
have power
point on your computer, you can download the free power point player here
) See our web page for Class
Procedures, Rules and Parent Communication
We will also be using Cooperative
Learning
activities throughout the school year and across the
curriculum to enhance student learning and self-esteem.
Share Photos and use for
projects
Sample for use on unit
on child
poverty
Creating A Better World
Project. Starting in November, student groups will be
exploring
problems in the world today such as Child Poverty, modern day slavery,
gun violence, drug addiction and many other possibilities.
Students
will choose a problem, research it and then do a class presentation on
the issue, using the photo resources of www.FlickR.com in making their
Photo Story/Short Movie. The groups will include ways in which we
can all do
things to
help encourage resolution of the problems. While
this project is part of
Social Studies, it will incorporate Language Arts Expository and
Persuasive writing standards as well as standards for Oral Language and
Listening
Project websites for each group will be created by the students which
will feature their group projects. The projects will be
presented in mid-January as we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. and
recommitt ourselves to his dream of a better world.
In May-June,
student teams will create a narrative story about
traveling through the various civilizations we have learned about this
year. They then created either a Power Point or an
i-Movie chronicling their journey through time. Example
This will be our
culminating project for the year.
Besides
the Travel
through Time group
projects, students will choose one other individual or 2 person project
to work on, mostly at home.
Those
projects may
include:
An illustrated timeline
or a Power Point version of a timeline
A model of a significant Greek or
Roman building
A biography of an historically
important person
of
the historical period studied, which can be done as a short video or as
a presentation
7th Grade: A replica art work of
the Renaissance
Creating an Architectural Model Students
can create a model of an architecturally important
building. Web
Link
We hope that once again, Piedmont will
participate in the
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Travel
Through Time Project
