Google Spreadsheet

Now that you have had time to work with Google Docs, it's time to try a different app offered in Google Drive called Google Spreadsheet. 

The Google Spreadsheet app is useful for organizing information and understanding data. The Microsoft Office program Excel is what many businesses use to keep track of all of their information, and this app is a simple form of Excel.

1. Watch this video introduction to Google Spreadsheet
(If you have trouble playing the video, open youtube from your Google Apps, then copy and paste this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwyM2np54oU )

2. Look up words you don't know below in the first blog post for vocabulary. 

3. Create a new spreadsheet from Google Drive

4. Across the top, leave one cell empty, then write the days of the week in each cell going to the right

5. Write the names of 10 students down the first column

6. In each cell under the days of the week, write how much time each student spends reading on each day

7. Center ALL the data in the spreadsheet

8. Make the titles BOLD

9. Name the spreadsheet Reading Times

10. Compare your sheet with mine, make sure it matches

11. Share the sheet with me

Gratitude

On Thursday we will celebrate Thanksgiving. One of my favorite parts of Thanksgiving is the moment when, before we begin eating, all my family is sitting around the table and each person says what they are thankful for in their life. 

I am so thankful for teaching here, at Furness High School, because it means that I am able to be your teacher. If you think about how much time we spend together every day, we spend more time here at school than at home (if we do not count the sleeping hours.) Listening to your stories, and watching your English get better every week is what I am the most thankful for.

What are you thankful for? Write a new blog post about the three things you are the most grateful for. Three paragraphs, give details for each one.

This blog is due on Wednesday. If you finish early, go to http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/ and watch the video clips about the history of Thanksgiving.

3 Surprises

When I moved to the United States I was 10 years old. I had spent a lot of timing thinking about what life would be like before I came. It was very different in reality than it was in my imagination.

Think about what you thought BEFORE you came to America. What were the three biggest surprises to you when you arrived?

Is Learning History Important?

November 9th was the 25th Anniversary of the day the wall fell that separated East and West Germany. It was a powerful moment in history that lead to many people gaining freedoms from communism in Eastern Europe.

- Please visit this website about the wall. Read the article about the history of the wall.

- Then, watch this video.

- Then, please write a blog post. The post needs to have 3 indented paragraphs with correct punctuation and spelling.

Do you think it's important to learn about these types of moments in history, even if they happened far away and to people you don't know? Why or why not? 

You can begin with, "It is important to learn about history, even if the moments happened far away and to people I don't know," or "It is not important..." Give as many details as possible about why you feel the way you do.