Wednesday January 9, 2019

Wonderful Wednesday!!!!

Manisha is our acton star!!! She used her knowledge about how to create a powtoon and created her own powtoon to wish everyone a happy new year!! Way to go Manisha! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4odlaS8Mo&rel=0

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable holiday!  

Welcome Back!!!

We began the day talking about all the fun and exciting activities that we did over the holidays.

Next, we reviewed multiplication and division using decimals and we worked on our math review for our test on Monday on fractions and decimals. 

Then we had French.

After first recess and lunch we began talking about the speech competition. A letter and a package went home discussing all the specifics with regards to the expectations for the oral competition. We first watched a speech by Oprah Winfrey and we are very moved by this speech and so we discussed how she was able to move us with her words. We read an article to better understand the devices that she used during her speech. First, she employs the use of literary devises to emphasize the point she is trying to make. 

Tricolon: 

three phrases of the same basic length. 

“it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them and also with the incredible men and women who have inspired me, who challenged me, who sustained me and made my journey to this stage possible.”

• "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."(attributed to Benjamin Franklin, among others)

antimetabole has two inverted phrases (A B; B A). That’s the formula. 

JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” 

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

epistrophe:repetition at the end of phrases.

“They’re the women whose names we’ll never know. They are domestic workers and farm workers.” 

She contrasts that immediately with some anaphora, repetition at the beginning of phrases.  “They are working in factories and they work in restaurants…”

She shifts into some enumueratio (listing topics) and polysyndeton(adding extra conjunctions to a phrase).  “They are working in factories and they work in restaurants and they’re in academia, engineering, medicine, and science. They’re part of the world of tech and politics and business,” says Winfrey. 

Most importantly, we learned that her speech was so powerful because it was well timed; her topic about empowering women and girls is relevant today and many people can relate to her speech.  

We then looked at another example of a speech and then possible topics we could choose. Next, we started brainstorming possible topics for our own speech.

During UOI, we were asked, who discovered America? And many of the answers were Christopher Columbus. Today we learned and we will continue to learn that there is evidence that shows that there were earlier people who came to America before Columbus. Today we focused on the Polynesian explorers. 

We will discover how this group of people could have possibly made their way to America 400 years before Columbus. We will also look into Irish and Asian explorers. 

After second recess and lunch we had physical education. 

Homework:

1.     Read Daily

2.     Math Review due Friday

3.     Speech: Pick topic, complete brainstorm for Friday

4.     Year Ahead day tomorrow

5.     Devices Friday

6.     Ski form and waiver form

7.     Crawford lake form

8.     Sign Speech letter

9.     French homework (sentences about your holidays)