Online News

1. Find an online article and do two WWWWWs for a News Summary in a Word document.
2. Include the headline. Turn one of these into a paragraph. Email me a copy of this as an attachment.
3. Here are some good news sources. Students have posted other news sources in the comments.

An excellent source of Native American news, Indian Country Today

Another good source, the Native Times

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Veterans Day 2010

Middle school worked diligently on fifty bags of Indian tea and fifty place-mats for the tables at the Veteran's Day Breakfast. Students wrote "Indian Tea" and "Thank you" in Quileute, and "Happy Veteran's Day."

Veterans were honored at the Quileute Tribal School and given regalia and bags of Indian Tea.

From the Forks Forum: "Beverly Lauton of LaPush hands City of Forks Attorney/Planner Rod Fleck a Veterans Day gift of Indian tea at the Forks Chamber of Commerce meeting held Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 10. Fleck is an Air Force veteran."

Canning

Our second canning event went over GANGBUSTERS; we cut over one hundred salmon last Friday, upping our total to 250 jars of salmon for Elders Week! The students cut so much that someone needed a Band-Aid for a blister, and happily that was the only Band-Aid necessary. Not one bloody gash or loose limb, and that means a lot to a klutz like me.

Unfortunately, everyone got SO tired after the 80th fish, that we stopped cutting the skins and fins off. I know expert canners might scoff at jars of skins and fins, but we were exhausted! Anyway, it doesn't look AS BAD AS THIS.

Thus, we really have to honor Mr. Roy Black who cleaned and filleted the ONE HUNDRED fish last Friday morning all by himself. Also, thank you to the High Tide Seafood company for their donations.

I'm really thankful to my Superpara Angel, Miss Stephanie, and Miss Shelly for facilitating these fishy extravaganzas. Ms Earley also got her Home Ec groove on to help us when we were tired. And I'm really proud of the students for their efforts to create this gift for their Elders. Good job, y'all.

Unifying Themes of Biology

1. What might a beetle do that you do too? In the comments, post one of these characteristics.

2. Create a powerpoint that features the seven themes of Biology

a. Title the first slide "Unifying Themes of Biology"
b. For each of the Themes of Biology, google a picture that illustrates this theme.
c. In the notes, write how your picture depicts the biological theme.
d. For Theme 1, find EITHER an example of a single-celled or a multicellular organism
e. For Theme 2, find a picture that shows offspring and parents.
f. For the rest of the themes, if you have difficulties, look at the pictures in the textbook and try to find something similar.