Vocabulary Fashion Show

Hello friends! This Friday we will  be hosting our annual vocabulary fashion show!
Here's what you'll need to do:

1. Pick any vocab word from units 5 - 10.

2. Brainstorm ways to creatively represent your word (visually) using things you can wear. This can be a costume, props, specific clothes, etc.

3. On Friday after our unit test, everyone will have time to change. We will then present our fashion show on the red carpet. I will, of course, be interviewing all of our Vocabulary Models, and asking each of you about the unit from which your word came.

4. As a class, given the unit, we will guess your word. You will be graded for creativity and for effort in representing the meaning of your word.

Have fun - can't wait to see you on the red carpet Friday!
(img from youtube.com)

Bible Verses for Comparison Essay

Hello everyone! We are going to be working on writing a comparison essay to wrap up our reading of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Because this story can be read as an allegory, we will be comparing the life of Christ to Aslan's character/the story of Narnia. More detailed directions are to come, but here's the gist:

- We will be completing this essay in-class, over the course of about a week.

- This essay will contain 5 paragraphs:

1. Introduction/thesis
2. Body paragraph 1: Verse 1
3. Body paragraph 2: Verse 2
4. Body paragraph 3: Verse 3
5. Closing paragraph

- You will be choosing from the Bible verses listed below in order to compare Aslan's character/experience to Jesus' life. We will be discussing these verses in class today. You will pick your three verses today and begin to fill out a graphic organizer to help gather your thoughts. Keep your book with you this week so that you can refer back to evidence from the text. Remember that your textual evidence will include specific events in the plot which support your ideas.

Verses:

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 27: 50-51

⁵⁰ And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.

⁵¹ At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook [and] the rocks split.

Matthew 27: 52-53

⁵² and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. ⁵³ They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and^[e] went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

Isaiah 53:9

He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
    and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.

Isaiah 53:4-5

Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.

Hebrews 9:22

The law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Narnian Tea!

Here are some photos from our amazing tea party. Thank you SO much to our parents who contribute food/dishes, came to help decorate and serve, and to the parents who organized this whole thing. Please remember to thank your family for their help!

Some of these are hilarious. My personal favorites are Potato's face as I was lurking with the camera, Gabby's candids, and Andy's look of confusion. :)

Citing Websites in APA Format

Hi everyone!

This week we're talking about how to create a bibliography. We will be using APA format. Today and tomorrow we will look at citations for websites. Next week we will discuss how to format citations for books and other publications.

Here is the standard APA format for a web citation for one of the most common sources we use - "information on a general page." This includes information found on websites such as History.com. The requirements for a citation from a more specific source, such as an online journal, are more complex, and we will revisit them later on this year. For now, let's focus on how to cite information from a general webpage.

Format:

Author, A. (date). Title of document [Format description]. Retrieved from http://URL

Notice that the citation includes 4 pieces of information:
Author, date, title, and web address.

Additionally, each line after the first line must be indented five spaces.

(The format description is only necessary when the format is something like a blog post, or some such publication that is different from a website run by an organization. When you get to high school, you may need to included something called a "retrieval date," but I will not require you to cite this during 6th grade.)

If the web article/information does not include an author, simply begin the citation with the title of the website.

If there is no date of publication, substitute (n.d.) in place of the date for "no date."

Here are some examples. Please note the citation I am going to include at the bottom of this post. It will reference the site from which the following information came:

Examples of Online References

Here’s an example (a blog post) in which we have all four necessary pieces of information (also see Manual example #76):

Freakonomics. (2010, October 29). E-ZPass is a life-saver (literally) [Blog post]. Retrieved from      http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/e-zpass-is-a-life-saver-literally/

Sometimes, however, one or more of these four pieces is missing, such as when there is no identifiable author or no date. 

Here’s an example where no author is identified in this online news article:

All 33 Chile miners freed in flawless rescue. (2010, October 13). Retrieved from              
     http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39625809/ns/world_news-americas/

And here’s an example for a webpage where no date is identified:

The College of William and Mary. (n.d.). College mission statement. Retrieved from   
     http://www.wm.edu/about/administration/provost/mission/index.php

Last note: Remember that only the first word and any proper nouns should be capitalized in the title. 

Citation:

Lee, C. (2010, November 18). How to cite something you found on a website in APA [Blog post].
     Retrieved from http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/11/how-to-cite-something-you-found-on-a-
     website-in-apa-style.html?_ga=1.158038906.1719588118.1483623716