February+13,+2017

Hello everyone! Today and tomorrow, I will be at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference, which is often known as PETE&C. It's pretty cool - thousands of teachers get together to learn and share about ways they are using new innovations, STEM, technology, etc. in their classrooms. I'm sure I'll be coming back with LOTS of ideas!

Oh, and happy 100th day of school! Yup! Today's the day. . . you are 100 days smarter, stronger, braver, bolder, and older than you were at the beginning of 7th grade!

Here's what you'll need to be successful today: When you have gathered all of these things, you can start with Step 1 below:
 * Chrome book
 * Mouse if you'd like one (a fair amount of clicking today)
 * Headphones (you may go get yours or borrow a set from me - please, please, please, PLEASE put them back neatly!!!)
 * DGP sentence
 * quia login and password
 * commercial handout (from the pink basket on the back table)
 * assignment book
 * pencil

Step 1: Please get out your assignment book and a pencil and watch this video so you know what you have for homework tonight.

Step 2: Take out your DGP (the "colder" sentence) and watch this video to review the answers to Monday's work. Make sure you have a pencil to make corrections as you watch. If you need a copy, there are extras in the blue basket on the back table.

Step 3: Ok! It's time for the fun stuff! Today, you're going to start learning about persuasion in advertising - also known as, commercials! Yup, you're going to get to learn about how the people who create commercials try to trick you into buying their stuff, and get to watch a bunch of commercials that use that technique. Click here to pop over to the page with all that excitement and do steps 1-5 there.