Rose's Library Blog

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

2011-08-30T09:40:00.000-05:00

Chapter 4 Discussion questions:

Choose one of the following questions and write a minimum of 3 sentence as a comment to this post:

1. Why was Cassie upset?

2. What did Mama do when she found out that the children had been at Wallaces' store?

3. Why did Mama try to convince Mr. Turner to stop shopping at the Wallaces' store?

Earth Week 2011

2011-04-25T10:20:00.000-05:00

What can we do to protect the environment (land, sky, air) around our school, in this neighborhood?

Response to Cyberbullying ABC news story

2010-11-01T10:22:00.002-05:00

Watch the news story on cyberbullying at http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/cyber-bullying-familys-online-nightmare-11224685

Comment on how it made you feel,
what you would do or how you would react if it happen to you or something similar,
has a similar cyberbullying incident happened to you or someone you know?

Internet Safety & Cyberbullying

2010-05-27T11:11:00.001-05:00

Watch all the Public Service announcements on http://www.ikeepsafe.org/ click on the link "Video ads on Internet Safety".

Class of 2010

2010-02-23T10:45:00.001-06:00

What are you going to do next year? What are your fondest memories at West park Academy?

Racism in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

2009-01-21T09:14:00.002-06:00

Let's discuss the racism in our novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor. Discuss at least 3 instances of racism in the book.

What is Racism?

2009-01-14T09:30:00.001-06:00

Based on the research we have done on racism, what is racism? Create a definition.

Confronting Racism in America

2009-01-14T09:24:00.006-06:00

Comment on the two video clips that we watched, what would you have done in the situations? What are your feelings about what you saw?

http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/

Class of 2008

2008-06-05T12:56:00.001-05:00

This area is for graduating 8th graders to post their positive comments about the teachers at West Park, thank you comments, or future plans.

Cleaning up our Community

2008-04-04T10:18:00.000-05:00

What can we do to clean up our community?

Google Earth

2007-04-27T11:57:00.000-05:00

Google Earth is a satallite imaging software program. Comment on cool places to see and check out!

Below is a link for teachers with tiips on using it in the classroom:

Google Earth uses in Education

Speak OUT: 2nd amendment

2007-04-23T13:56:00.000-05:00

Does the 2nd Amendment (which gurantees the right to bear arms) include the right to have automatic weapons?

Anne Frank Question #2

2007-04-23T13:50:00.000-05:00

Why do you think Anne writes so often about arguments in her diary?

WPA 10th Anniversary

2007-04-16T12:06:00.000-05:00

It has been 10 years since we opened the doors of West Park Academy. This post can be used for comments on the best memories or activities over the past 10 years.

The Future of the Class of 2007

2007-04-16T12:03:00.000-05:00

The graduating class of 2007 can post their future plans here and discuss their future after West Park Academy.

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

2007-04-11T14:26:00.000-05:00

The 7th & 8th grade classes are reading The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. This post is for comments on how you would feel in Anne's place, if you were in her situation of hiding.

Podcasting

2007-04-11T12:36:00.002-05:00

What about podcasting? How would you use this new technology?

According to Wikipedia: A podcast is a digital media file that is shared over the web, for playback on portable media players and personal computers.

Below are links for more information on using podcasting in education:

Radio Willow Web-Podcasting in Elementary School
Podcasting and education

Spring poems by group 14

2007-04-11T12:36:00.001-05:00

Spring poems by group 1

2007-04-11T12:35:00.000-05:00

Spring poems by group 3

2007-04-11T12:34:00.000-05:00

Spring Poems by Group 4

2007-04-10T12:22:00.000-05:00

The following comments are spring poems written by group 4.

Spring poems by group 10

2007-04-09T11:40:00.000-05:00

Posts (comments) in this section will be original poems created by West Park Academy students. All students must identify the type of poem they are writing, this link is a great reference for identifying the types of poetry: Shadow Poetry.com

Happy spring! April is National Poetry Month!

Here are the poems of group 10. Please mention the number of the poem when commenting on it.

Community Clean-up Comments

2007-03-29T14:12:00.000-05:00

Earth Week is April 23rd-27th. This is a great time to start thinking about how we can take care of the nature and community around us.

The West Park campus and the surrounding community has a lot of litter, graffiti, and detroyed public property. Please comment on what you think we can do to improve this community or comment on why you think this is such a problem.

Welcome to Blogging!

2007-03-29T13:55:00.000-05:00

A blog or a web log is an Internet based journal.

We are going to use this blog to comment on a variety of topics connected to our school, West Park Academy. You can comment to this post by clicking on the "comments" link. You can comment about blogging in general for this post.

Here are some helpful links for teachers about using blogs in the classroom:
Blogging techniques for the K12 classroom
Uses of Blogging in Education
Examples of Elementary School Blogging