Mr. Beckwith's ELA Class
2/3/2020
Do Now: Daily Edit Carter G Woodson, Ph.D., was a teacher who studyed and wrote about African american history. When he saw that the...
1/31/2020
Do Now: Blog - How do you get yourself motivated? Classwork: Read - The Dog of Pompeii - Complete questions 1-8 on page 325 in your...
1/27/2020
Do Now: Blog - (remember to restate the question in your answer) What is your favorite movie and why? Classwork: RABCER - Restate,...
1/21/2020
Do Now: Study for Vocabulary Unit 5 Test Classwork: Vocabulary Unit 5 Test Newsela: Digging into Fake News & Figures of Speech Homework:...
1/13/2020
Do Now: Blog - What job do you think you would like to have? What would you have to do to earn that job? Classwork: Given a source, I...
1/09/2020
Do Now: Newsela article: "They" is the word of the year. Classwork: Given a list of internet sources, I will use the Civic online...
1/08/2020
Do Now: Open up to my website & complete the two pages of questions: Who's Behind the Information & What's the Evidence? Classwork: Given...
1/07/2020
Do Now: Daily Edit It’s a bird! It’s a plane No, its a flying boat airplane! The first commercial airplane flight was actually a flying...
1/6/2020
Do Now: Blog - Your best friend tells you that you have homework in ELA. Do you believe them? Do you believe them if this person is not...
1/03/2020
Do Now: Daily Edit Every January, New orleans holds a parade call the Krewe de Jeanne d’Arc. The parade celebrates Joan of Arc, a woman...
1/02/2020
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Do Now: Blog - What are your goals for 2020? How do you plan on achieving those goals? Classwork: Periods 1/2 & 5/6 -...
12/13/19
Do Now: Daily Edit Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights is a celebration in the Jewish calender that ocurs ever year in December. Jews in...
12/12/19
Do Now: Daily Edit Held from December 26 to January 1, Kwanzaa is an African-American holiday that were first celebrated in 1966. It's...
12/11/19
Do Now: Daily Edit On December 1, 1955, an african-american named Rosa Parks refused too give up her seat on a bus to a white man. As a...
12/10/19
Do Now: Blog - What is the hardest part of middle school for you? What might you be able to do to make it easier for yourself? Objective:...
12/9/19
Do Now: Daily Edit Earths axis is tilted, so as we orbit the Sun, the angle of the sunlight hitting our planet change’s through out the...
12/2/19
Do Now: My Holiday Wish Letters – They should write a letter, which you collect and place in the pile on my desk. Classwork: Check...
11/25/19
Do Now: My Holiday Wish Letters – They should write a letter, which you collect and place in the pile on my desk. Literature Textbook -...
11/21/19
Do Now: Make a Wish Letter: A Million Reasons to Believe My Holiday Wish Objective: Given Unit 3 vocabulary words, I will answer...
11/20/19
Do Now: Make a Wish Letter: A Million Reasons to Believe My Holiday Wish Objective: Given the short story The Red Guards, students will...