Block Day, August 17 & 18 - Seating Charts & Marshmallows

Listen up for your assigned seat. This special seat is yours for all of  Q1.
Before we begin our challenge for the day, let's get the "Dum-Dums" out.

 Warm-up: Introduce yourself to the people sitting next to you in your new seat.

Let's face it, we'd all give a pretty penny to spend just one more summer night around a campfire roasting s'mores and not worrying about school tomorrow morning, but....since summer is over we'll do the next best thing.

• The winning team is the one that has the tallest structure measured from the table top surface to the top of the freestanding marshmallow. That means the structure cannot be suspended from a higher structure, like a hand, chair, ceiling or chandelier. 

EQWhat does a marshmallow challenge have to do with English? 

Homework: Annotations and Two Forum Responses due Monday! Bring your journals too.

This weekend, look over your annotations in The Hobbit. Use these thoughts to create posts on our Moodle classroom. Just go to our class, then to the "Beginning of the Year" unit, and click on "Hobbit Talk." There are also Hobbit Discussion Questions in Moodle to help you get your creative juices flowin'. For full credit, please post at least twice under any topic you like. Due Sunday night by midnight (20 points for two considerate and detailed responses). More detailed directions are in Moodle.: