Article of the Week: Kobe's Announcement

Read Kobe's Announcement together the Fox News
Then read one of the following pieces:
USAtoday.com
ABCnews.
Kobe 

Then check to see what his teammates and other players are saying.
Respond by completing Kobe's Announcement (Google Docs)

Name:                        Date:

He wrote In what he called "Dear Basketball," Bryant wrote:

"This season is all I have left to give.

My heart can take the pounding

My mind can handle the grind

But my body knows it’s time to say goodbye."

1. Describe his feelings about basketball in 25 words.

"I had to just accept the fact that I don't want to do this anymore, and I'm OK with that," the dry-eyed, smiling Bryant said after the game.

1. Did his announcement surprise you? Why or why not? in 10 words.

Fractured Fairy Tales

Begin with Cinderella  Fractured Fairy Tales -- Cinderella 4:37

Fractured Resources

Fractured Fairy Tales by Kids

Fractured ThoughtsWorkshop (List)




Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables John Scieszka




Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story
Amazon: The-Rough-Face-Girl
Read Aloud with photos

Point of View
Amazon: True-Story-Three-Little-Pigs

Voicing an Original Fairy Tale Narrator Lesson

Taken from WritingFix.Com We believe the wolf is really telling the story because of the VOICE Scieszka has captured with words.  Wouldn’t it be fun to write a story where you could choose your own characters and from whose point-of-view the story would sound best? 

Printable Wolf Mask

Touch Typing

Currently looking for a typing program for beginner typists. https://www.typing.com/student/login

Are Aliens Really Out There?

The answer might surprise you! 

Listen to the vocabulary Vocabulary Link

extraterrestrial

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from outer space

My sister thought she saw an extraterrestrial creature, but it turned out to be a raccoon.

These dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks called recurring slope lineae flowing downhill on Mars are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water. Nasa confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-mars

A study suggests the universe could have triple the number of stars scientists previously calculated. For those of you counting at home, the new estimate is 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's 300 sextillion!
Sextillion-stars 

Milky Way, Photo by John Lemieux, on Flickr
Stunning Photos 


The Day it Happened! 

Are you surprised?
The Martians Discover a Telephone  


Updated War of the Worlds FL Movie 

Aliens Discover a Phone 
BrainPop Movie 

How to draw an alien. Draw a Cartoon Alien

alaskalib

ET Extra-Terrestrial

Achieve Article: What does it take to be healthy?

Achieve 3000 provides informational text, vocabulary, and comprehension questions (1-8) Reading Strategies
Day 1: 
Begin with Pre-Reading Strategies
Explain in 10 words or more what it takes to be healthy.
Begin reading "Is Happiness Healthy" Article

Part of the article

Then list 10 things that you do for happiness.
Day 2:
Now re-read Is Happiness Healthy? and . . .
Answer questions 1-8 hard copy read  together
1. Before Poll
2. Read the Article
3. Article 1-8 questions send results
4. Thought Questions requires 5-7 sentences: Topic sentence, details from the
article, and concluding sentence. (Located in Google Classroom)
5. Stretch Activity, if your score was less than 75%

How would you compare the article with the video below?
Compared with

Healthyfood.co.nz/
SuperSizeStudy
Videos: SupersizeMe

Compare Create a Template

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.9
Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another

Fairy Tales_ Seven Ravens_The Grimm Brothers

What makes a good fairy tale?

Amazon.com 

Notebookseries, select common raven

Using Kindle: Grimm's Fairy 

Essential Question
What does happily ever after mean to you? Can we live happily ever after in our own lives?
Be careful what you wish for . . .

Audio: The Seven Ravens  

PDF  Grimms Fairy Tales  Family Resources

Additional Grimm Stories
Grimms Home Page 

Summary: Other Grimm Stories

National Geographic Choices 

 

How-to-draw-a-raven

by Barbara Bernát

Koko's Kitten_Francine Patterson

Koko Sign Language
Watch
Koko Learns Sign Language



Handspeak.com
Signingsavvy.com

Koko

21 Sign Language for kids to know

Bear Attack

Bear Attack: The Story of Seven Boys and One Grizzly. Bear Attack Story

Seven high school students were near the end of their month-long survival course in the Alaskan wilderness, but the real schooling began when they came face to snout with the wildest thing of all.

 

Kindle Books to Read

Range Map: Grizzly Grizzly Bear Facts

We were reading Roosevelt's encounter with a Grizzly. "Looking down into a valley, from a rocky ridge, he saw a dark object, which he discovered was a large grizzly bear.  He fired, and the bear giving a loud grunt, as the bullet struck, rushed forward at a gallop into a laurel thicket.  Roosevelt paused at the edge of the thicket and peered within, trying to see the bear, but knowing too much about them to go into the brush where he was."Continue reading in Bookrags
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Theodore Roosevelt 

Nationalgeographic.com

Ursus arctos horribilis

Wildlife Library 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Alaska Notebook Series

Article of the Week_Alaska News 4 Plane Crash Survivors

4 plane crash survivors swam to shore through 5-foot seas 

 Hypothermia

Plane article 

CSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.2
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

Use following criteria:

Taken from Response Rubric

 

Pairing the article with the Fisherman's Article

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/teen-fisherman-stranded-alaskan-sea-inside-plastic-container-17216416 

The Elephant's Child_Rudyard Kipling

 

Author: Ed Young

Bob Golic reads "Seven Blind Mice" and other lessons 

Seven Blind Mice Text "It's a pillar," says one. "It's a fan," says another. One by one, the seven blind mice investigate the strange Something by the pond.

Pair with the National Geographic

Just So Stories

Have an adult Read the Story

OR Listen to the Elephant's Child 

Select one of the following: Place, Sequence, Person, or Means. Then answer the questions in that section.

Questions - What, Why, Where, When, Who & How
Place:	Where is it done? Why is it done there? Where else might it be done? Where should it be done?
Sequence:	When is it done? Why is it done then? When might it be done? When should it be done?
Person:	Who does it? Why does that person do it? Who else might do it? Who should do it?
Means:	How is it done? Why is it done that way? How else might it be done? How should it be done?