How to be a Successful Home Learning Middle School Student 1. Set your schedule and stick to it. ● We suggest starting your school day by checking Canvas and making a daily To-Do List between 9:00 to 9:30 AM. ● Teachers will be uploading lessons for each week on Monday mornings. 2. Organize your work space. ● Set up a dedicated and uncluttered space at a desk or kitchen table. ● Eliminate distractions ● Clean up and pack up when you are done for the day. 3. Check your K12 email ● Reply to your Monday email from your tutorial teacher or other assigned teacher reaching out each week to check on your well-being, learning progress, and needs. ● Reply to any Canvas email messages or feedback from your teachers. ● We want to hear from you! 4. Ask for help when needed ● Re-read the lesson directions and use the tools at your disposal. ● Teachers will have their available hours for help posted on their Canvas pages. Reach out to your teachers for help and connection as needed. 5. Stay motivated and positive. ● Give yourself small rewards for staying focused and completing/submitting assignments. ● View the challenge of home learning as an opportunity to build your skills and become a more independent learner. Scroll for two schedule options - fill them in as your planner 1 Example Schedule #1 - Weekly Schedule Sample Kellogg Middle School Student Schedule Out of bed and dressed for the day BEFORE 9 AM. Check Your weekly assignments Monday morning on teachers’ Canvas pages. Make your “To Do” List While You Eat Breakfast. ​ Time Frame Subject Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 9:30 - 9:50 AM English/Reading 9:50 - 10:10 Math AM 10:10 - 10:15 STAND UP AM REST YOUR EYES STRETCH OUT 10:15 - 10:35 World Language or Elective AM #1 10:35 - 10:55 Science AM 10:55 - 11:00 STAND UP AM REST YOUR EYES 5 min STRETCH OUT 11:00 - 11:20 Social Studies AM 2 Example Schedule #2 - Weekly Self-Guided Checklist ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Activities M T W Th F Online Learning Physical Activity Reading Math practice Writing practice Brain Breaks (Be sure to take a few during the day!) Science Social Studies/History Electives and/or Self-Directed Learning Virtual Human/Community Connections (online from your house!) Lunch (11:30-12:30) 3 AVID Lesson 5/11-5/22 Engage Fill out your schedule for all your classes: Continue using last week’s schedule but if it did not work well for you then you can select a different schedule to try. Explore Daily To Do’s ❏ Set up your study area with your packet, pencil/pen, and a glass of water ❏ Check each of your teacher’s Canvas page & messages ❏ Check your school email Explain Your task is to write a letter of advice to a 7th grade AVID student. I would like you to use a template and then add your own information. Apply ● Write your letter to 7th grade AVID student. ● Fill in the sentence starters on the worksheet. ● Optional: you can add additional helpful information, make sure to keep it positive and focused ● Click spell check and have someone proofread your letter. Share Email Mrs. Young a picture of your letter at [email protected] so she can give it to a new ​ AVID student. Reflect What are you most looking forward to next year (9th grade)? What are you looking forward to in AVID? How will you introduce yourself to your AVID 9 teacher? What 4 © HyperDocs might you say? What do you want to share with them? (learning style, goals, interests, favorite classes, things you want to work on?) Extend How can you connect to others when you get to Shorecrest? Brainstorm a list of clubs, sports, activities, etc.. that you would like to explore at Shorecrest. 5 © HyperDocs Kellogg AVID Family Letter Hi, my name is _______________________________ and welcome to the Kellogg AVID Family! Last year I was just like you, coming into middle school and joining the AVID family for the first time. I learned a lot in my first year of middle school and from being in AVID. I want to give you some helpful hints to start the year off right! Here are three things you should know about transitioning to 8th grade: 1) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 2) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 3) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Here are three things you should do to be successful in the AVID class: 1) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 2) ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 3) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Finally, we could all use a little help when we’re coming into a new place where we don’t know many people, especially the adults. So here are three adults you should look to for help in the coming year. 1) _____________________________________________________________________ 2) _____________________________________________________________________ 3) _____________________________________________________________________ Being part of the AVID family is special so you should be proud of the work you did to get here. Although 8th grade may be different from 7th grade, you are already prepped with everything you will need to succeed. I hope your time here at Kellogg is full of fun and success! Don’t forget to show VALOR all year long! Good Luck! Sincerely, 6 NAME PERIOD # MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY TOTAL WEEK MINUTES ê 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 PARENT INITIAL 1_________ 2_________ 3___________ 4____________ 5___________ 6____________ 7_________ 8________ 7 8 9 10 11 Name (first & last): _________________________ Band: _____ Practice Goal Sheet – Home Learning Pick one practice session from this week DUE: Weekly – if you can, take a pic and email to Mr. Wilmart and give me a snapshot of it below. You should be practicing 6 times a week for a total of 60 – 120 minutes per week. Warm-up (3 - 5 minutes): Warm- Describe what exercise(s) you used for your warm-up and how ups should build fundamental skills they help you: (scales, arpeggios, lip slurs, #1. articulations, percussion rudiments, etc.) and/or relate to what you will work on in your practice session today (such working on exercises in the same key as a piece from band, a chromatic scale because a piece in band has a chromatic run, etc.) Main Practice (15 – 20 minutes) Process (What steps did you take to reach your goal? How did Pick one of your practice goals and you break it down? Describe your process.): write it below, then on the right #3. briefly describe your process and reflection. You may have multiple goals in one practice session, but just tell me about one. Today’s main goal is to: #2. Reflection (Did you reach your goal? How can you tell it improved? Do you need to continue working on it or is it complete? Be specific - tell me what you heard.): #4. Next Steps (3 - 5 min): Think ahead: #5. what do you plan to focus on at your next practice session? Is it a continuation of today, or something different? What’s your next starting point? If you haven’t already, this is a great time to do a run through of what you worked on today to see what can still be improved, and/or to just play something for funsies. 12 COLOR ME BEETHOVEN So, Ludvig thinks my jokes are bad and my wig is old-fashioned. Well, then, help me out! Color me & make me look hip, then turn me in to Mr. Adamo for a fabulous prize! 13 14 15 16 17 18 Ever noticed how frequently Brad Pitt’s characters eat in movies? Here’s why — and why we like to watch Sep. 30, 2019 at 6:00 am Updated Sep. 30, 2019 at 6:28 pm ​ Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Pacino do a lot of eating and drinking in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” (Andrew Cooper / Sony Pictures Entertainment / Columbia... More By EMILY HEIL ​ The Washington Post Nachos, popcorn, sandwiches, dumplings, peanut butter, a possibly poisoned pot roast and rat blood. These are things that Brad Pitt has ingested on screen over the course of his three-plus-decade career. They are things among many things because it seems that while Brad Pitt might not chew the scenery in his films — he’s often praised for restraint — it seems that he’s always eating. On YouTube, you can find videos showing clips of Pitt, in various roles, shoveling, tossing and otherwise cramming various foods into his mouth. There are lengthy versions, like one simply titled “15 Minutes of Brad Pitt Eating,” as well as a snappier three-minute compilation (together, these two videos have been viewed almost 1 million times). There are supercuts chronicling the food the actor eats in individual movies, including “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Moneyball.” Some viewers even saw a scene in the recent Quentin Tarantino 19 movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” in which Pitt’s character whips up and then devours a box of neon-hued mac and cheese, as a sly meta-style wink to Pitt’s reputation for cinematic noshing. (Tarantino’s ode to the end of Tinseltown’s golden era is littered with so many self-referential touches that such a read seems plausible.) Maybe Brad Pitt doesn’t eat any more than any other actor out there. That’s possible, says Fabio Parasecoli, a professor of food studies for New York University at Steinhardt who has studied food on film (and even wrote a dissertation on men eating in blockbuster movies). With the exception of food-focused films, such as “Chef” or “Big Night,” he notes, most eating that goes on in movies is overlooked.