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What we're reading this quarter:Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, Homer's Odyssey; excerpts from Zachary Mason's The Lost Book of The Odyssey and Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces; Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Essential questions: our ancestral originsHow important is your past and your home life?
What do you embrace about your past? What do you deny/avoid about it? How does it feel to return home now that you are grown up? How arduous is the journey home? |
Greek and Latin RootsChron Mot/mob/mov Mem/ment ject port circum equi loc/locat The Depression and The Dust Bowl
(click here) Preview the documentary on The Dust Bowl (click here) Interactive Dust Bowl (click here) The life of the migrant workers escaping the Dust Bowl. The Harvest Gypsies (click here) Newspaper Project - OMAMLink for the project paper (click here)
Sample Obit article (click here) Sample News article (click here) (crime idea) Sample News article (click here) (theme idea) Sample Interview article (click here) Data Collection Form for sources used in project (click here) Pathfinder Link (click here)Newspaper TemplatesWhat Did I Learn?- Group Projects and the 1930's... |