The grade heading to the beach
Ms. Jacobs assisting with measurements
The path from the beach to the cottonwoods
The entire dunes (plus Carl!)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Dunes Day!
On Monday, October 5th, the entire seventh grade headed to the Indiana dunes to conduct scientific experiments and learn about the concept of succession. The class arrived to find a beautiful early autumn day, with crisp blue skies and warm sun above. The students focused on specific areas of the dunes such as the beach, the cottonwoods, the pine forest, and the hardwoods forest, taking various measurements that they will bring back to their science classes to interpret. In between experiments they found time to chase lizards, toss footballs, and in general have a wonderful afternoon. Here are some pictures from the day (there's also a new picture of my advisory on my homepage):
The grade heading to the beach
Ms. Jacobs assisting with measurements
The path from the beach to the cottonwoods
The entire dunes (plus Carl!)
The grade heading to the beach
Ms. Jacobs assisting with measurements
The path from the beach to the cottonwoods
The entire dunes (plus Carl!)
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I think Sylvia’s Story and Crickets have connections. They are both about kids who are not like their parents when they were their age. Their parents don’t like that and try to change them. They teach them what they are suppose to do but the kids are not interested, the want to be different. In Sylvia’s Story she doesn’t want to have babies when she’s very young and not go to school like everyone else in her family. Her mom and her aunt think it’s bad that she doesn’t want to be like them, but she doesn’t want to like them. In Crickets Ted raised his son, Bill, American and now he wants Bill to be less American and more Vietnamese like his family. He tries teaching Bill about cricket fights but Bill doesn’t care as much as Ted does, Bill is proud to be American. I think Sylvia will get out of her box and I think Bill is already out his Vietnamese box because Ted won’t try to teach him anything Vietnamese any more.
Joanna Nekrosius period 3-4
Sylvias Story and High Yellow White Trash have connections because in Sylvia's Story, Sylvia wants to be different but her mom doesn't accept her the way she is. That also happens when she is with all of her family she has to act different with them because they don't accept her and she feels like she has to put on a disguise. In High Yellow White Trash Lisa want to be her self with her mom and dad but she has to put on a disguise when she is with only one of them, she feels like she has to be totally white or totally black. Lisa wants to be a mixture of both people. So the connection is that both Sylvia and Lisa have to put on disguises.
Mingus Nekrosius 34
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