The Paper-Free Class
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Local Letters for Global Change
What better way to talk about local and global issues for #IB than through a podcast! Our second episode of Season 7! You can find the episode here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1853778/episodes/11933672 In this episode we are discussing local and global issues with letters we wrote for a contest for the Pulitzer Center (pulitzercenter.org) featuring our @ponceexplorers! Hopefully, … Continue reading
New Episode Available!
Please check out our podcast here – you can also put the RSS feed into any podcast player to search for our podcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:174561607/sounds.rss – the latest episode from Ponce is episode 203! Hope you enjoy, and learn along with us as we try something new! Now also available on iTunes Podcast app! Just search for … Continue reading
What Do You Cherish?
The first three weeks of school, we are focusing on the idea of what should be cherished. We are reading The Treasure of Lemon Brown, writing dialogues, exploring the role of 3rd person limited narrative, and making inferences. In the story, Greg Ridley finds out the importance of family and what makes something a treasure. … Continue reading
Let’s Get Free!
I’m talking about Paper-Free here! Selected classes will be going paperless for the rest of the year (fingers crossed). We will be using the MIDDLE SCHOOL QUESTION TASK CARDS and Edmodo to complete our work for the next two weeks until FCAT time. We will focus on a different task each day, starting with Main Idea. … Continue reading
Let’s Get Different(iated)!
Students, we are approaching FCAT quickly. This is the BIG CRUNCH! LOOK at your FCAT Reading Tracker Pinpoint your WEAKNESS in the following areas: Compare and Contrast Multiple Texts Character, Plot, Setting Figurative Language Text Structure and Text Features Collect, Evaluate, Summarize Information You may also consider the other benchmarks you did for DI if … Continue reading
The Paper-Free Class 