LOCAL AND GLOBAL ISSUE CAMPAIGN CREATION

Today we are creating charitable organizations to combat the issues that are close to our hearts and minds.  As I type students are honing their mission statements and working on t-shirt designs.  A variety of issues are on the table...suicide prevention, combating world hunger, providing art supplies and instruments to the impoverished, saving the whales...and many more.  Stand by for pictures of the t-shirt designs.

www.arapahoecharter.org

HERE IS A LINK TO THE LATIN AND GREEK ROOTS AND AFFIXES YOU WILL SEE THIS YEAR.

http://www.learnthat.org/pages/view/roots.html

Tomorrow we are in the lab continuing our independent internet research for our projects/presentations.  The tentative schedule is to begin presenting on Thursday and Friday (19th and 20th) of next week.

WARNING WARNING!!!   LATIN QUIZ ON THURSDAY the 12th of September.  That is two days away. You had better not claim you suffer from ___________________ and you forgot all about it.  Use your notecards and study guide and study with a friend or two.

Ladies and gentlemen and children of all ages...Welcome to the 8th grade.  I hope everyone enjoyed their summer the best they could.  Now, it's time to get back at it.  This year we will be exploring the art of communication through movie making, marketing campaigns, theatre, visual art, music and much much more.

I look forward to meeting those of you I do not know and saying hello to those of you whom I already have the pleasure of knowing.

See you in class.

Mr. Weddle

2nd Set of New Latin Roots

From the 2012-2013 year...    but they are sure to be seen again this year.

hema, hemo        blood              hemorrhage- clotting of the blood

             hemoglobin- protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen

luc                        light              elucidate – to explain, to throw light on

translucent – allowing light through

omni                     all                 omnipotent – with all the power

omniscient – knowing all things

omnivorous-- eating all foods.

Life Questions: Composition Notebook Writing Prompts

What do you wish you didn't know?

In what way are you your own worst enemy?

What has been draining your happiness?

What's the #1 thing you intend to accomplish before you die?

What have you given up on?

New Latin Roots

The first of our new roots and vocabulary words...

necr/o     dead, death   

necrosis – the death of tissue due to disease or injury

necrology – a list of persons who have recently died.

port          carry            export – to carry goods out of a place to another

portable – able to be carried

porter – a person who carries luggage

tract       pull, drag         attract – to pull objects nearer

distract – to drag attention away from something

tractor – a motor vehicle that pulls things

Welcome to the 8th grade...

Hello,

My name is Mr. Weddle and this is my first year teaching at Arapahoe Charter and my first year teaching 8th grade. I have experience teaching high school in the United States and in South America.  I am also an artist and whenever possible I integrate the interpretation and creation of visual arts into the reading and writing curriculum.  I also love to write and we begin most days with writing a composition journal entry.
My focus this year is to introduce and discuss global perspectives and how they relate to our interpretation of our own environment and society.

We also spend time working with Latin roots and affixes in order to understand how the English language is constructed.  A basic knowledge of roots and affixes allows us to decode words we don't know when encountering them in verbal and written communication.

As we wrap up this 9-week period we have been examining marketing and advertising tactics and creating our own products which we have "pitched" to each other using personally created magazine print ads, slogans, and radio jingles.

Stay tuned for more updates.


Mr. Weddle