Week Twenty-Six!

This Week

Calling this a "week" is being a bit generous. Students came in for a total of two days between President's day and our first ever true snow day here at DRSS! It's been a brutal winter so far. Hopefully everyone stays warm and has a nice snow day today.

Not much to report except that students continued working on their posters with the little amount of time we had this week. On Thursday's Plan E I asked them to start working on their portfolio reflections. Friday we were going to have a guest speaker, but she will (hopefully) be coming back in the next few weeks at some point to talk to students about our next unit - globalization (and diseases). Below are a few images of students at various stages of the poster-making process.

George works on inking his poster

Students working on gauching... a new part of the project this year that I've never done before. Posters should look even better than in the past!

Angie and Jake inking their images

Alyssa working hard on carving her linoleum block... looking forward to see this poster when it's inked!

Upcoming Week

Assuming next week's weather is better, we'll finish up our posters on Monday and then move on to beginning our unit on Globalization, which is our integrated unit this year. We're integrating it with emerging epidemics, so towards the end of this unit we'll explore how increased globalization has played a role in the spread of diseases like Ebola. It should be timely and interesting! Our geography quizzes will finally make a comeback next week two as we begin looking at countries in Asia. If you want to get a head start, you can practice here.

Lastly, if students really want to do something educational on this snow day (which I doubt, but there may be a few of them), check out this link from ODE where you will be able to create an account in order to practice for all OGT tests using previous test questions.

Have a great weekend, and see you next Monday!

~Mr. Grieve