TriTime Preliminary Research

H/W - You must collect 15+ leads - witness list - (bullet points of places to look for information) for your Driving Question. These are the tips  from Steve Sheinkin from today.

How varied are your leads? 

Tri time Check in -

ALL CLASSES You must read the feedback on the driving question and adapt yours by Tuesday. Grades are given for this! 

Strong examples so far this year

How might 7th grade students at SAS assist Singaporean Senior Citizens living in senior homes with Alzheimer’s.

How can young basketball players analyse the shot mechanics of the greatest basketball players of all time in order to increase their own shooting percentage?

What does authentic service look and sound like to middle school students at Singapore American School?

Driving questions 2016 Database

"If it feels like home work, change your topic." Mrs MCD

TRI Time - Driving Question
Still not sure what to do? Use this chart to brainstorm questions around your 'wonder'

ALL CLASSES - You will receive a summative grade for your driving question Tuesday and another one at the end of the unit. Make sure your work is submitted.

Driving Question Feedback

Important: Driving Questions Link

Everybody has been given formative feedback on your driving question. Everybody needs to go back and try and improve your first draft. Attempt to highlight the complex words and the focused words in your question. This will help you see how you can become more specific and focused. You need to have redrafted your driving question for Tuesday's class. Feel free to get support from your parents or friends.  See example below

You MUST spend quality time developing this Driving Question. It will make your time spent on this unit so much more productive and enjoyable. We will have the Steve Sheinkin in that class and you will NEED to be clear on the question you want to start researching. BE WARNED - your will be given a 'Responsibility' and 'Guiding Question' SUMMATIVE grade on Tuesday.

Lunch with the visiting author: Winners

All winners must see Mr Buxton before next Wednesday. Lunch will be scheduled in the library, mr Riley's room, Friday 19th of February at 1 PM. 

Ryan Nguyen	Mr.Buxton
Michael White	Mr. Buxton
Michelle Zimmermann	Mr. Buxton
Joshua Ford	Ms. Olsen
Claire Yoder	Karen McDowell
Tyler	MCD
Alexandria Mulqueen	RLA--Mrs.McDowell
Aryan Khattar	Karen McDowell
Coby Tan	Russell Buxton
Noah Loi	Mr. Buxton
Maja Christiansen	Russel Buxton
Maya	Mr.Buxton

BOOK WINNER

We received 266 haikus across the middle school for a chance to win Kwame Alexander's new book,Booked.

Congratulations to Elijah Thomas from Ms. Strydhorst-Piers' class for his haiku which was drawn out of a hat.  It reads:

A big fallen tree

laying on a bed of trees

lonely in the woods.

Driving Question

Link for your DQ

Lunch with Authors

Resources to form a DQ

                                     

Tri Time: Day 2

Beginning of unit Questionnaire: Link here

TriTime Journal

H/W - All classes. Come with one or two strong ideas for your guiding question.
Do not forget to finish your parent interview tonight. (optional -but encouraged) Link

Another video below on possible TriTime examples.