Thursday, May 19, 2016

Career Day 2016!

Friday, May 20th is Career Day at Blackstock!
Webquest:
Choose a career you would like to research @ kids.gov.
Open a Google Slides document and include the career you are researching in the title. 
(share this file with karthur@hsdschools.org)
Note:  one career per student / the first student to share the document will be assigned that career
Provide information on the career you have chosen:


  • How much schooling is required (what type of degree?)
  • What is the salary or hourly wage?
  • What are the typical hours?  How many days per week?
  • Describe the working conditions.
  • What skills are needed?

Go to the kids.gov YouTube channel to check out their Career Spotlight videos.

What type of career 

is aligned with your interests? 

Find out by taking this survey.

+ * + * + * + * 
Research education required, salaries and projections for various careers.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Ten Truths - 3A


In April, we looked at different types of poetry.


When we learned about Spoken Word Poetry, 

we did an exercise called Ten Truths.


Here is a video 

with a sample selection of sentences written by students in the 3A class.


Here is a second video with sentences written by 3A students.

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Caine's Arcade

Here is the link to the Caine's Arcade website where you can access the short documentary:

Caine and his arcade.