Wednesday, December 15, 2010

December 16, 2010

We will have regular class today.  There will be no Cave Time.  

1. Bell-Ringer:  Individual reading
2. Fluency Practice: reading plays
3. If extra time: Read-aloud -- J.R.R. Tolkien's Father Christmas Letters


Have a great Christmas/New Year's Holiday!

All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth, and. . .  

This posting is from the English 7 site, so when it mentions the genres we will be reading, that refers to Ms. Dorsey's English classes.  

Check, though, suggestions for books and other materials. 


Tuesday, December 14, 2010

December 14 Computer Lab

Your website evaluations are due today, December 14.  You may hand them in late, but make sure you leave yourself enough time to create your PowerPoint.

As you create your PowerPoint, check here for requirements and suggestions: 

http://afcelebritywebquest.blogspot.com
or http://afcelebritywebquest.blogspot.com/p/presentation.html


Jeremy McGrath 
http://nacnac.hookit.com/members/therealmc/biography/

http://www.moto-rider.net/jeremy.html

Extra Credit

1.   Over the Christmas Holiday, if you keep a reading log of what you read each day (the days you read -- which should be everyday), you can earn some extra credit points.

2.  Memorize one or more stanzas of a famous poem and recite it for Ms. Dorsey.  Yes, Shel Silverstein's poems count.

3. See other extra credit opportunities on this blog. Search for "extra credit." 

December 14, 2010

Don't forget your thumb drive!

Bell-Ringer: Individual Reading and fill out reading log.

2. If you haven't yet, or if you didn't finish, retake the SRI -- Scholastic Reading Inventory -- Reading test in the computer lab.

3. Work in computer lab on website evaluations/taking notes for the powerpoint/creating the bibliography

Your website evaluations are all due by December 14 -- Today!
Your PowerPoint is due January 7. We will have time in the lab to finish them on January 5.  


We will have regular class on Thursday, December 16.

Friday, December 10, 2010

December 10, 2010

Don't forget your thumb drive!

Bell-Ringer: Individual Reading and fill out reading log.

2. Retake the SRI -- Scholastic Reading Inventory -- Reading test in the computer lab.

3. Work in computer lab on website evaluations/taking notes for the powerpoint/creating the bibliography

Your website evaluations are all due by December 14.
Your PowerPoint is due January 7.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

December 8, 2010

December 8, 2010

Bell-Ringer:  Individual Reading and fill out reading log
Computer Lab 223 for research for webquest.

Monday, December 6, 2010

December 6, 2010

Remember to bring your thumb drive next time.We will be doing more research and filling out website evaluations and notes for your celebrity webquest.

Bell-Ringer:  Scan phone book pages for your first name (or parents' or siblings' first names).
2. Inner Voices/Dad's Bionic Hand -- If you were absent, ask for the handouts.
3. Individual reading time
4. More BibMe practice -- citing sources -- If you were absent, ask for the handout.

These are the examples we used:
Creating bibiographic entries for a website -- Wikipedia entry:
David Archuleta  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Archuleta

Creating bibiographic entries for an article found on the Sirs Discoverer Database:
Emma Roberts  http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000261707

Emma Watson
http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000205601