March 7 Assignments

1. Everyone, warm up with 10FastFingers.
2. Who still needs to do the yearbook survey? Check out these excerpts from the past at blurb.com. 
3. Nicole: What's for dinner in space? You may help Asiana get ready for the yearbook.
4. Natasha: What went into Frozen? What's the role of the music?
5. Sophia: Animal astronauts: the unsung heroes of space exploration. Here's more from NASA.
6. Oliver: What are these World War II posters trying to tell us? What can we learn from primary sources? Any interest in the Battle of Gettysburg, and what does the Civil World mean to us today?
7. Finn: Fountains of chains? In what way? Check out these angry birds?
8. Kasama: Walking in space — how might it feel? Or check out these angry birds?
9. Natasha J.: What do we know about elephant empathy? And what is empathy and why might we need it? 
10. Claire: What about these wonder dogs?
11. Samuel: Who is John Glenn and why might he matter to us today? Fountains of chains? In what way? How do we get aggressive flies?
12. Asiana: Let Ms. Moorhead set you up on reviewing the story ideas for the Hillwood Herald yearbook 
13. Mia: What went into Frozen? What's the role of the music??
14. Consider a story to write about from Newsela or check out your other options below.
15. ChronoZoom is an educational tool for students who want to put historical events in perspective. Use ChronoZoom to get a perspective of the extensive scale of time and historical events relative to what happened around the world. Pick a topic and explore.