~Keep your minds and bodies active.  Make yourself a schedule and try to stick to it.  Keep organized.  Be deliberate in your actions to have a fulfilling day.  Set goals and objectives for yourself each day.  Limit screen time.  Break up your activities: If you were sitting for 45 mins, get up and walk for 15 (pushups, situps).  See if you can get stronger!  (Avoid excessive video game play, please.  For the sake of the wiring of your brain, use different parts of your brain by doing a variety of things: Listen to music, create, make a craft, write.)

 

~~~NEED TO CATCH UP? These are the first 10 days worth of Lessons from 3/16-3/27:

10 Days of Closure - OLD POSTS (SEE WHAT OLD ASSIGNMENTS HAVE BEEN POSTED TO CATCH UP) - 

New post -

  Day #9 - THURSDAY March 26, 2020 -

Read this interesting and informative story --Written by Tori...CLICK HERE - Keep exploring new things to read and write about each day!

~Tomorrow I'll post another odd and interesting newspaper article from the past.  Stay tuned.

Here's yesterday's assignment again: - Use this as a story starter OR write the BACK story of what led up to this:

 

 

 

 

 

Older posts - 

  Day #7 - Tues March 24, 2020 - 

~Check with your parents to see if you can find my history talk today on Colossal Radio (he says he'll post it, I'm just not sure how.) - But if you missed that talk, I'm currently putting a post together on my regular blog on the history of infectious diseases in this area.  This could count as a History assignment for today (Hope to have it published later today.) - I'll post a link here when I do.

~As always, check your CANVAS email every day.  Read through these old post each day as to what engaging (non-mandatory) assignments I suggest each day.  

~Keep reading, keep writing.  Everyday, create something in writing.  Keep it in a journal or open a Word file on your computer.

~Reminder that I posted a good story yesterday on the CLASS Blog as well as two poems: One from Cassidy and one from Tori.  Kira and Bella, could you resend yours?  I'd like to post MORE POEMS, everyday if you keep writing them, I'll keep posting them.

Keep the Faith - Story of Jack Yamaguchi

 

 

Day #6 - Monday March 23, 2020

Just sent you an a LONG email on CANVAS.  Please check in.

I've seen 5 kids online so far.  4 from Rabe and 1 from Foberg.  Let's have a contest and see how many of you can urge your classmates to log-on.  For every new kid that emails me, tell me which of your classmates called you to remind you to log on.

Check the class blog for articles I recently researched about the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.  They did a lot of things right, they knew to wash their hands, they knew to avoid large crowds, BUT they didnt always do that.  During the height of the spread, they held a parade in Philadelphia with 200,000 people there!...Guess what happened?  Starting 2 days later, a huge spike in the number of people who got infected by it.  And for the following 2 weeks, hospitals and families were overwhelmed by new cases.  So what we are doing right now is the smartest thing we can do for this very serious issue.  KEEP SAFE - KEEP HEALTHY.

 

Let's look at ways we can add more Social Studies to our VOLUNTARY home assignments I've been giving you.

Keep the faith.

 

Mr. Rabenold

Day #4 of Closure

Have not seen many students log into CANVAS (Currently up to 5 of 43)  - So please visit here and CANVAS each day.  Please try to do something academic (read/write) for at least one hour a day for now.  If this goes much longer (at I think it will) we must be more organzied and deliberate in our studies.

For now, besides reading a novel, besides reading at least one poem a day, I would like everyone to try to WRITE a poem a day for 7 days.  Refine and revise them.  I'd like to see 4 topics: #1. Humorous (we all need a laugh right now; think word play, opposites perhaps), #2. Thoughtful/feelings (fun memory, inspirational, deeper meanings, etc), #3. Current/Topical (try to use poetry to explain our new everyday life with COVID-19), and #4. Observe nature (even if you live in town, take 10-20 minutes to just sit and be silent, observe changes occurring with birds, new growth, rain, anything in the natural world.)

9 Ways to Format A Poem - (Haiku, Free Verse, Sonnet, Acrostic, etc)

I would like to collect the best poems and post them on our class blog.

Check back each day for something new.  Once we get more students engaging each day, the lessons will expand to include more, like history and math.

Here is our class blog...Let's get writing!  (I'm hoping to make contact with classrooms around the world to interact with us and share experiences with other kids around the world.)

https://northamericalehighton.blogspot.com/

 

Day #3 of Closure

I've posted a discussion assignment on CANVAS. You should interview the oldest members of your family.  Gather as many stories as you can and document what you hear.  Find out where you family once lived.  Where they worked.  What important stories are left in your family.  What memories do people who are alive in your family remember from their growing up.  Once you ask all these questions.  Ask for ANY story about ANYONE they remember growing up.  Once you have all your historian's notes, then write it into ONE concise (well packed, just the most important parts) paragraph and post it on the discussion group.  If you know someone who doesnt have a computer, please tell them about this assignment and they should write it down.

Rabenold Stories: One family member story:https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2017/11/strauch.html

One Story from Growing Up: https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2017/02/kline.html

Some interesting people from Lehighton: https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2019/10/charles-shutt-5-other-interesting.html

One Man's Life Story I wrote: https://culturedcarboncounty.blogspot.com/2010/06/going-home-after-72-years.html

 

Once we have enough stories from you students, we will post them on our class blog for everyone in the world to find and read!  https://northamericalehighton.blogspot.com/

 

KEEP READING...ANYTHING - Poetry, a novel, informative articles.

Day #2:

I've posted a poetry assigment and I hope it works as a discussion.  It is an ELA "Assignment" - I told it to take the FIRST person to reply to be the "Student Leader" - I've never set it up this way before.  Let me know if there is something I can do to change it to make it work better for you.

 

• Added a new poem today by Maya Angelou "Being Human"

 

 

Stay safe.  Stay clean.  READ.  Love your family.  Be KIND!  (Miss you!)

Rabenold