6F

Sixth graders interviewed three immigrant on the Quest staff.  They are creating newsletters to share the stories with the entire Quest community.

The sixth graders raced to the finish line of knowing literary terms.  

Your students transformed the middle school commons into New York circa 1900.  They “welcomed” the new immigrants from Ellis Island, gave them factory jobs, and forced them to live in crowded tenements.  This simulation is the beginning of our unit on… Continue Reading →

Today we listened to the trial of Tom Robinson during class.  After 40 minutes of listening, the students were begging for more and wanted to stay and finish the rest of the chapter.  We will finish the court chapters on… Continue Reading →

The sixth graders persuaded their class to make the world a better place.  Each year, I am convinced to change something in my life.  Since I started this assignment, I have stopped using products that test on animals.  I have… Continue Reading →

The sixth grade created plans to solve the problems that existed in the United States after the Civil War.  Some of their ideas are similar to those that were actually instituted by the U.S. government.  The failure of most of… Continue Reading →

Both the sixth and eighth graders have just completed projects for LA/SS that required them to use their computer programming skills.  The sixth grade created an interactive timeline of Frederick Douglass’s life, and the eighth grade created games about the… Continue Reading →

Sixth graders made up their own codes and tried to teach them to one another on the sly.  I designed this activity to help them understand how difficult it was for Frederick Douglass to learn to read.  He learned to… Continue Reading →

Our class started reading The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass today.  Please check out Dr. Kirkland’s twitter post to see your students in action with the book:  https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23questknights&src=typd      

One of the primary areas of focus for the sixth grade is problem-solving.  Thus far, we have been working through a formal problem-solving model that takes the students through the initial examination of the problem through the selection of a… Continue Reading →