This year I will be doing home visits with any NEW advisees. This includes all sixth graders and any student (no matter the grade) who is new to Trillium. All returning advisees will be asked to meet with me at Trillium. A few of you who might live nearby me in SE Portland will have the option of meeting me at your home or at Trillium. Thank you for your understanding and please don't forget to check the Middle School Wikispace and the Trillium Website (on my list of links) for general info and downloads.
Whether we meet at school or your home please make sure that all the required forms have been filled out before I arrive.
peace,
Kurt
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Summer Assignment 2010
YEA!!!!! Your First Project for next school year!
You will need to present to your Advisory how you spent your summer. This presentation can be about any one part of your summer or encapsulate the entire thing. You get to choose what you present and how you present it, but present you will! Your presentation should not exceed 5 minutes. You will also need to be prepared to answer questions and comments from your Advisory.
There are many, many possibilities. Here a few examples for you to consider:
• demonstrate or teach a skill or you learned
• write an essay that sums up your whole summer or a just few special moments
• make and show a scrapbook
• design a website or power point presentation
• present writings from a summer journal
• show a video of edited highlights
• write and recite a poem about your summer
• show-n-tell with souvenirs you’ve gathered
• any combination of the above or something you think of on your own!
Here’s a quick example of the sort of thing you might do: Let’s say that over the summer you trained your dog (or cat!) to do a new trick. You could present a video that showed your pet doing tricks it already knows as well as the new trick you taught. Then you could explain to the Advisory what other things you are planning to train your pet to do and why working with your pet this way is so rewarding for you.
Please keep in mind that this is a required assignment that should be a complete, finished work that reflects your best effort (best effort = neat, organized, proper spelling, etc). Not only will you be using your presentation to introduce or re-introduce yourself to your Advisory but it will be assessed as a part of your Advisory evaluation. If you have any questions please email or call your Advisor. This assignment is due on the first day of school, Monday, Sept. 13th.
HAVE FUN!
Your Middle School Advising Team,
Amy, Kirk, Kurt, and Nina
You will need to present to your Advisory how you spent your summer. This presentation can be about any one part of your summer or encapsulate the entire thing. You get to choose what you present and how you present it, but present you will! Your presentation should not exceed 5 minutes. You will also need to be prepared to answer questions and comments from your Advisory.
There are many, many possibilities. Here a few examples for you to consider:
• demonstrate or teach a skill or you learned
• write an essay that sums up your whole summer or a just few special moments
• make and show a scrapbook
• design a website or power point presentation
• present writings from a summer journal
• show a video of edited highlights
• write and recite a poem about your summer
• show-n-tell with souvenirs you’ve gathered
• any combination of the above or something you think of on your own!
Here’s a quick example of the sort of thing you might do: Let’s say that over the summer you trained your dog (or cat!) to do a new trick. You could present a video that showed your pet doing tricks it already knows as well as the new trick you taught. Then you could explain to the Advisory what other things you are planning to train your pet to do and why working with your pet this way is so rewarding for you.
Please keep in mind that this is a required assignment that should be a complete, finished work that reflects your best effort (best effort = neat, organized, proper spelling, etc). Not only will you be using your presentation to introduce or re-introduce yourself to your Advisory but it will be assessed as a part of your Advisory evaluation. If you have any questions please email or call your Advisor. This assignment is due on the first day of school, Monday, Sept. 13th.
HAVE FUN!
Your Middle School Advising Team,
Amy, Kirk, Kurt, and Nina
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