Books For The Classroom

Lately in my 9th grade reading class, we have been reading about how the media and news can influence the way people think. When talking more with the students about what we are reading, we got into a discussion how most turn to twitter as their media. Then I had this idea! When teaching reading at a high school level, it is difficult to get students to read for fun. But then if you look at what influences students, it's their role models and who they look up to. So, here is what we are going to try to do. Students will tweet this link to who they look up to, also using the #msrabunslibrary. This is what we are asking from the role model or influence:
* Please donate your favorite book to our classroom and share why it is your favorite book.
*Books can be donated to:
Ms. Madison Rabun
10600 Riverside Drive
Coral Springs, FL, 33071


These books will be put on a special bookshelf with their letters explaining why students should read them. So please help us out with our social experiment and building our classroom library.


Thank you for taking the time to read this and have a great day!

Harvest Drive

Our annual Harvest Drive is in full effect! Please help out by donating. Collection will be done on Monday November 14. Here is what we are collecting:

ASSIGNED ITEMS BY HALLWAY

200’S-Dish Soap or Aluminum Foil

300’s-Canned Sweet Potatoes or Stuffing

400’s, Portables, and 900’s-Canned Tuna or Meat

500’s (Main Building)-Shampoo or Soap/Body Wash

600’s-Canned Gravy or Canned Cranberries

700’s-Cereal/Oatmeal or Canned Fruit

1^st Floor 800’s-Canned Soup or Napkins

2^nd Floor 800’s-Canned Vegetables

Neff Hall-Juice or Cookies

1^st Floor Grand Building-Spaghetti Sauce or Pasta/Rice

2^nd Floor Grand Building-Peanut Butter or Jelly

3^rd Floor Grand Building-Pancake Mix or Pancake Syrup

Thank you for helping!

Lexile Levels

This has been a very short week! We did start the pretest for Achieve3000 this week, this way the students can learn their lexile levels. Students also looked at their GPAs and at what colleges are looking for from them.


Also this Friday is our first home football game. Our home games are at Coral Springs High School. Students can get into this game for $3. Game starts at 7 and we are playing South Plantation. If students go and say hello to me at the game, they will get extra credit. I hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Wednesday and Friday

For these days we will be looking at a PowerPoint on Citing Evidence. The students will take Cornell notes on this, to help them understand citing evidence. Notes will be turned in at the end of class. If a student misses a PowerPoint, I will had hard copies in the classroom they can look at.

Monday And Tuesday

Today and tomorrow in class we will be going over Cornell Notes and learning & organizational skills to help throughout the year. Notes from the PowerPoints will be due at the end of class. We will also start our reading logs today in class. Reading logs will be due Friday for A days and Monday for B days. This Thursday is a Professional Study Day and students will be out at 11:50am.

First Week Of School

I hope everyone has had a great first week back! So far in our class we have gone over what will be expected of the students and what the classroom rules and procedures are. We also have had ice breakers getting to know each other and being comfortable in the classroom. We also talked about what is expected for their homework. If there is any questions please feel free to email me anytime at madison.rabun@browardschools.com

I hope have everyone has a great year!!!!!

Remind links

Here are links to the remind accounts I have set-up:
Period 1: https://www.remind.com/join/msrabun1
Period 2:https://www.remind.com/join/msrabun2
Period 4: https://www.remind.com/join/msrabun4
Period 5: https://www.remind.com/join/msrabun5
Period 6: https://www.remind.com/join/msrabun6
Period 7: https://www.remind.com/join/msrabun7
Period 8: https://www.remind.com/join/msrabun8

Class of 2019: https://www.remind.com/join/msrabun19

Parent Reminds: https://www.remind.com/join/msrabun