October 4, 2011

Read-A-Thon!
Finish reflections on this rotation and hand them in to the wire basket.
Present Pamela Purse -- "Ladies First!"
Take out page-cover-and fluency papers.
Hand in Folders -- We will send them to Mrs. Fugal.

Next time go to Mrs. Fugal's classroom.

Bring books, treats, pillows/cushions.  If the weather is nice, we may go outdoors, so you could bring a blanket or folding chair.  

Don't forget to return any make-up reading sheets you may need to complete.  Also, turn in any web evaluations or other assignments still ungraded. 

Friday, September 30, 2011

1. Individual Reading time and fill in Reading Log
2.  Mark Bubble Sheets
3. Fluency Partner Practice
4. Reflecting on this Rotation -- Survey

If extra time, practice for "Ladies First!" -- to be presented next time

Next time:  Read-a-Thon

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

PowerPoints due and presented to the class today!

Monday, September 26

• Minimal Day so we will have shorter classes
• Computer Lab to finish up PowerPoints and have Ms. Dorsey check over them

Reminder of what should be on the PowerPoint:

1. cover slide with photo of the famous person, that person's name, your name(s)
2. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
3. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
4. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
5. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
6. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
7. bibliography slide with a heading and 3 or 5 citations created using bibme  

You may add up to three extra slides.
See example PowerPoints by downloading one or both of these PowerPoints:
See examples at (Jack Johnson.ppt ) and emma watson example.ppt 

Use bibme.org to create your bibliography.  If you don't remember how, see
instructions for bibme:  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography

Minimal Day

Time	Period	Minutes
8:15 – 9:15	1st Period	60 minutes
9:20 – 10:20	2nd Period/Announcements	60 minutes
10:20 – 10:45	First Lunch	25 minutes
10:50 – 11:50	3rd Period	60 minutes
10:25 – 11:25	3rd Period	60 minutes
11:25 – 11:50	Second Lunch	25 minutes
11:55 – 12:55	4th Period	60 minutes

Thursday, September 22, 2011

There will be no computer lab time today.

1. Focus on Reading
         Inner Voices and Reading and  Internet Safety

2.  Fluency Practice:
a. partner reading
[We'll finish and present "Ladies First!" at a later date.]

3.  Individual Reading Time and Reading Log

4.   Focus on Reading
        Inner Voices and Reading and Penguins?! 

Did we learn yet about the tree octopi?  Try looking up tree octopus online.  Look for at least one site devoted  entirely to them.

Check out this information about safely surfing the Internet:  http://www.4kids.org/safesurf/

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Check off website evaluations and notes.  Web Page Evaluation Checklist update.doc
You need three sources with notes if you are working alone, and five if you are working as a pair.

1.  Work in computer lab 201 on PowerPoints for presentation September 28.  Correction:  We will have another computer lab day on the 26th to finish up the PowerPoints and have Ms. Dorsey check over them.  Anything you do not have done beyond that will need to be finished as homework.

 2. Reading Time and Reading Log



See the link below to download a sheet that shows the grading of PowerPoints.  You should have filled one of these sheets out a couple of weeks ago with questions and a proposed plan for your PowerPoint.  It was the white paper titled "Celebrity Webquest Assignment for Reading 7."

WebQuest Questions and PowerPoint Plan.doc

Reminder of what should be on the PowerPoint:

1. cover slide with photo of the famous person, that person's name, your name(s)
2. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
3. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
4. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
5. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
6. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information
7. bibliography slide with a heading and 3 or 5 citations created using bibme  

You may add up to three extra slides.
See example PowerPoints by downloading one or both of these PowerPoints:
See examples at (Jack Johnson.ppt ) and emma watson example.ppt 

Use bibme.org to create your bibliography.  If you don't remember how, see
instructions for bibme:  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography 

Do this only if Ms. Dorsey has asked you to do it:  Assignment for Students New to Reading 7

Friday, September 16, 2011

Individual Reading Time and fill out reading log.
Check off website evaluations and notes. (three if you are working alone and five if you are working as a pair)

About PowerPoint and Bibliography
Fluency Practice and begin practicing "Ladies First" poem for fluency.

Reliability, Etc.

http://www.dhmo.org/ 


http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/sightings.html

Boring Teacher Stuff 
More Teacher Stuff
And More  
Google Lesson on Reliability
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/penguin.asp



http://allaboutexplorers.com/home
Read about Lewis and Clark.  Can you believe it?

September 14, 2011

Self-Starter: Individual post and fill out reading log.

2. Instruction:
Finish your three or five website evaluations and notes.
Check them off with Ms. Dorsey.
If you have extra time, create your citations (bibliographic entries) and begin your PowerPoint.

By the end of class you should have 3 or 5 pages of evaluations and notes completed -- and a bibliography started or completed. If you do not have your evaluations and notes finished, do it as homework before the 20th.

 bibme.org

Instructions for bibme:

Bibme for Creating a Bibliography

No Cave Time with Ms. D on Tuesday

No Cave Time will be held in Ms. Dorsey’s room on Tuesday, September 13.

September 12, 2011

Today we will NOT be in the computer lab.  I have arranged one more computer day for our class.  Here is the new schedule, which also shows on the class calendar at the bottom of this blog.

Our computer days and assignments:
Computer Days: Sept 1,6,8,14,20, 28.    Make sure you bring your thumb drive on those days.

September 1:  Using search engines and evaluating websites
September 6:  Doing research and creating a bibliography -- Evaluations and Notes on two sources  (three for pairs) are due.  (You will end up with three sources if working alone and five if working as a pair.)
September 8:  Doing research and creating a bibliography  -- One or two more evaluations are due.
September 14:  Finishing research and creating bibliography. If time, creating the PowerPoint
September 20:  Finish up PowerPoint.  Make sure you have your bibliography slide.
September 28: PowerPoint is due and will be presented to classmates.
October 4:  Last day of rotation 1.  Next time you will move to Mrs. Fugal's class.

________________________________________________________

Today we will. . . .

Self-Starter:  Individual reading time.

Fluency testing
Fluency practice
Lesson on external text features


Teacher notes:
Crossword?
handout for bibme
show sample PowerPoint

September 8, 2011

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading -- Pick up your folder, get out your book, and quietly read.  Don't forget to fill out the log.

2. More sbout filling out a Website Evaluation

3.  Go to Computer Lab 201 to evaluate sites and take notes on your celebrity.

By the end of the period Evaluations and Notes on three sources  (five for pairs) are due.  If you can't get them all done, you may complete them as homework.

1.  Fill out the evaluation on the first page of the Web Page Evaluation Checklist.
2.  Take notes from that site on the second page of the Web Page Evaluation Checklist. 
3.  Do the same for the next site until you have completed 3 (or 5 for pairs) evaluations with notes.
You are using your notes on this to keep track of what you found where. 

Show me each one as you finish it, so I can check it off on your grade.

Pick the sites that look the most promising, and start filling  out a
Web Page Evaluation Checklist for each.

Web Page Evaluation Checklist update.doc

Download this file.  Save it with three (or five) different names to your thumbdrive or to your folder on the computer (titled with your student number). I just add a number to the name of each document as I save it.  If you save them all with the same name,  each one will copy over the other.

You can fill it out on the computer and save it to your thumb drive. You may also use hard copied (handouts in class) for this, but doing it online is easier.

You may use Google today to search -- as well as the other search engines and data bases we used last time.
You may NOT use Wikipedia as a source unless I give you permission. 


If you are working alone, you will need three evaluation pages altogether.
If you are working with a partner, you will need five evaluation pages altogether.

September 6, 2011

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading -- Pick up your folder, get out your book, and quietly read.  Don't forget to fill out the log.

2. About filling out a Website Evaluation

3.  Go to Computer Lab 201 to evaluate sites and take notes on your celebrity.

By the end of the period Evaluations and Notes on two sources  (three for pairs) are due.

Pick the sites that look the most promising, and start filling  out a
Web Page Evaluation Checklist for each. Web Page Evaluation Checklist update.doc
Download this file.  Save it with three (or five) different names to your thumbdrive or to your folder on the computer (titled with your student number). I just add a number to the name of each document as I save it.  If you save them all with the same name,  each one will copy over the other.

You can fill it out on the computer and save it to your thumb drive. You may also use hard copied (handouts in class) for this, but doing it online is easier.

You may use Google today to search -- as well as the other search engines and data bases we used last time.
You may NOT use Wikipedia as a source unless I give you permission. 

Web Page Evaluation Checklist update.doc

1.  Fill out the evaluation on the first page.
2.  Take notes from that site on the second page.
You are using your notes on this to keep track of what you found where. 

If you are working alone, you will need three evaluation pages altogether.
If you are working with a partner, you will need five evaluation pages altogether.

Please note that Google is not a website. It is a search engine to find websites. You can not use Google (or other search engines or databases) as a source for your projects. 

Because Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, make sure you carefully check any facts you find there. You may not use Wikipedia as one of your sources.  

Of course, your other sources may also be inaccurate.  That is one of the reasons we use several sources. 
I do recommend IMDB as a generally trustworthy site.  
Biography.com is usually accurate and helpful.

Find suggested headings for your slides at http://afcelebritywebquest.blogspot.com/p/presentation.html

Primary or Secondary Sources

What is the difference?
http://www.merrimack.k12.nh.us/webpages/ldenehy/handouts.cfm?subpage=459672

For the Celebrity Webquest, information directly from your celebrity, or from those who were there to actually see/interact with him or her is primary.

Information from others is secondary.

Creating Your Bibliography

This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found.  To use these directions, open cavereading.blogspot.com   in two windows.  Leave one on this post and on the other, click on the link below.  Then you can go back and forth between the two to follow the directions.

bibme.org

You can use it for our purposes without registering.
You need to register if you want to use all the features, but that's free.  You don't need to register today.


 When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange tab in the center for  "Website."

Directions:

• As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful.
  
• When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle tab marked "website."
• Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.
• Click on "Load Info."
• Look on the website you want to use for a sponsor or publisher and date created.  You can often find that information at the bottom of the page.  The sponsor/publisher will not be a company that does web design.   It will often be a company, corporation, or individual. If there is not a current date last updated, you could use the copyright date -- again at the bottom of the page.   
• Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces.
• Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that.
• Click on Add to My Bibliography.
• Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it and our Checklist for a Website, and later add it to the last slide of your PowerPoint.
  

Assignment for Students New to Reading 7

Today you are going to do research on Lois Lowry, the author who wrote The Giver, Number the Stars, Anastasia Krupnik, and many other books.  You will probably read The Giver in your seventh grade English class.

In this assignment you will follow directions to go to specific places on the Internet, answer questions on a document you will open from the Internet, and paste a photo from the Internet on that document.  You will save the document when you are done and also print it and hand it in. 

1. Keep this tab open.
2. Open a new window.
3. Move them so you can see at least part of this window and part of the new one.

In the new window
4. Go to the school website at http://afjh.alpineschools.org/   [You can cut and paste internet addresses -- which are called URLs] into the address bar.

5. Click on the tab for RESOURCES.

6. Click on Pioneer Online Library. 

7. Then click on the SIRS Discoverer icon that looks like this:

8. In the search bar, type in Lois Lowry.

9. This link should come up:  Click on it. 

  Lowry, Lois Compton's by Britannica; 2006; Lexile Score: 1230; 2K.

 This is an article about Lois Lowry from an encyclopedia .  

10. Open this document,  
Computer lab assignment for New Students– September 20.doc
and type in the answers you find in that encyclopedia article. 

After you have answered the questions from the encyclopedia, 
11. open another tab in that same window for http://www.loislowry.com/

12.  Now answer the questions on your document for this new site. 

13. Now go to  http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3326

14.  Now answer the questions on your document for this newer site.
15.  Follow the directions to place a photo of Lois Lowry on your document.

16. Save your document to a thumb drive or to your own student folder (with your student number).  Make sure you have your name at the top of the page and print it.