Carry a Book

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”

-Stephen King

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

B5 will  be at the Basketball games.  Those who do not go will  be able to use the computers.

B6: 
1. Individual Reading and fill out your reading log.
B6 will be able  to use computer lab 211.

Monday, December 17

Individual Reading and Fill out your Reading Log

Lab 211 -- Finish Scholastic Reading Inventory (on the computers) and then work on your ABC document and PowerPoint.


Use this template to make your PowerPoint:  
Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt 

Thursday, December 13, 2012

No Computer Lab today

• Individual Reading and fill out your reading log.
• San Diego Quick Test 
• Partner Fluency Practice  -- Pick up the new passage.
• Plagiarism Exercise (Cloze)
• Internet Crossword -- How well do you know terms from the Internet? 
• San Diego Quick Test 

We will go to the computer lab next time.

Bookmarks and Heaven. . .

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

1. Individual Reading

2. Brief review of ABC's  and PowerPoint

and about Charity Basketball days 

3. Take the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI).  Lab 201

SRI log-in:  Look for the poster in the computer lab.

If you have time after taking the SRI, finish up your ABC Evaluation and Taking Notes,  and/or  begin working on your PowerPoint.   

There will be no lab next time.

When you are ready to create your PowerPoint, use this template: 
Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt 

Stay on task.  We have only two more computer days before your PowerPoint is due. 


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Friday, December 7, 2012

Today is Pearl Harbor Day -- a good day to remember how others have preserved our freedom -- and to be grateful!
 

1. Individual Reading and fill out your Reading Log

2. Practice ABC Evaluation and Note-Taking

Example ABC and Practice Note-Taking
These are samples only. Do NOT use them for your project. 

Dean R. Koontz Article.doc  or 

Dean R. Koontz Article.docx 

ABCCombined Eval and Notes Koontz.doc

3. Computer Lab:
Finish your ABC Evaluating and Taking Notes  -- Computer Lab 211.   Open and turn in on Edmodo. 

Sample PowerPoint:
Margaret Thatcher.ppt


Find the downloads you need at the tab above labeled "Famous Person Project: Instructions and Downloads."

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

You will use  your Search and Select documents  to fill out the ABC Evaluating and Taking Notes Document. 

      The purpose of evaluating your websites is to practice noticing what makes a reliable and useful website.  As you fill it out, pay careful attention to the directions.  

      The purpose of taking notes is to collect the information you will use when you put together your powerpoint. 

Today
1.     Individual silent reading

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2.     Citations  for B6

• How to create a bibliography entry using bibme or easybib         

http://www.bibme.org/     or     http://easybib.com/ 

            Directions:  Using Bibme.org to Create Citations

Sample:  http://www.irenasendler.com/facts.asp

http://www.pbs.org/programs/irena-sendler/ 

http://web.ebscohost.com/sas/detail?vid=3&hid=122&sid=7c73520c-5523-401e-9ba8-edfd26a2cd25%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPSZzaXRlPXNhcy1saXZl#db=nfh&AN=6XN200805181905

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DO NOT USE EXPLORER!!!!!
Use Firefox as your browser.
Hover over Icons.
Today you are working ONLY on the hero you have selected and had approved.

3. Filling out your ABC document.
Practice Note Taking   

4.  Computer Lab 

Free Short Story for the Holidays

If you haven't, you really ought to read Tuesdays at the Castle (and the Dragon Slippers series, and anything by Jessica Day George!
Jessica Day George's very magical, very exclusive HOLIDAYS AT THE CASTLE: A TUESDAYS AT THE CASTLE SHORT STORY, is available FREE. Just click, and the story will download ... a bit like magic, no? http://bit.ly/V6NBV8

To Go Along with Our Just-Completed L.I.V.E. Week

Meet Authors at the Orem Library

Saturday, December 8 

Join your favorite authors for this special holiday book sale and signing.   Meet the authors and listen to them answer questions from the audience from 11:00 to noon.  After the panel, authors Ally Condie, Chris Crowe, Jessica Day George, Nathan Hale, Brandon Mull, Rick Walton, and Robison Wells will be available from noon until 2:00 pm to sign books.  Give the gift of books this holiday!

Monday, December 3

Your Search and Select document is due. 

If you have not finished it, it is time to finish ONLY sources for your chosen hero.  

   Reminder:  No Wikipedia or blogs or ask.com or. . . .

You will use those to fill out the ABC Evaluating and Taking Notes Document. 

      The purpose of evaluating your websites is to practice noticing what makes a reliable and useful website.  As you fill it out, pay careful attention to the directions.  

      The purpose of taking notes is to collect the information you will use when you put together your powerpoint. 

Today
1.     Individual silent reading
2.     Partner Fluency Practice 

3.     Citations 

• How to create a bibliography entry using bibme or easybib         

http://www.bibme.org/     or     http://easybib.com/ 

            Directions:  Using Bibme.org to Create Citations

Sample:  http://www.irenasendler.com/facts.asp

http://www.pbs.org/programs/irena-sendler/ 

http://web.ebscohost.com/sas/detail?vid=3&hid=122&sid=7c73520c-5523-401e-9ba8-edfd26a2cd25%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPSZzaXRlPXNhcy1saXZl#db=nfh&AN=6XN200805181905
 
 
4.     Example of Evaluating --
    Remember the Explorers Site? Remember the book review that included a very incorrect statement about an author?  

5.     Practice Taking Notes


6.     Computer Lab 201   -- R7R3 Day 5 Directions.doc

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Ms. Dorsey will be sending in a book order this week.  Hurry if you'd like to buy books.  You can either bring a check or order online using group code GKLJW at
https://clubs2.scholastic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/LogonForm 

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Handouts for today:   
HeroProjectChecklistR3 for Web.doc

Hero Project PowerPointChart.doc

R7R3 Day 4 Directions.doc

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You may need to know:

• How to use iSeek

               http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page
           Use the "Education" option first.  If it doesn't find any links, try the "Web" option.
Important:  On iSeek, click on the GRAY link NOT on the red one. 

Other Search Engines to try:   A Variety of Search Engines

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• How to create a bibliography entry using bibme or easybib         

http://www.bibme.org/     or     http://easybib.com/ 

            Directions:  Using Bibme.org to Create Citations 

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• (Reminder of how to get into Biography Reference Center and Pioneer Library)

Handy Notes: 

To Get Into the Biography Reference Center

1. Go to the school webpage

2. Click on resources (far right tab)

3. Click on Biography Resource Center (third item listed)

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L.I.V.E. Week Life is a Valuable Experience
Wednesday: Laugh “Humor Can Be Good for You!” HA! HA! It Pays to Proofread. .  and Think Before You Write! “Where’s a Hero?” Find Helen Keller Find Mona Lisa Find George Washington No Cavetime today. Assembly during 4th period 1:00 – 1:35 Schedule: 2nd Lunch A1  -- 8:15 – 9:30 A2  -- 9:35-10:55 A3 -- 11:00- 12:15 Lunch 12:15 – 12:45 A4  --12:50- 12:55 1st Assembly 1:00 – 1:35 A4 – 1:40 – 2:45	Thursday:  Care “Empathy and Forgiveness” “Where’s a Hero?” Find Abe Lincoln Find Thomas Edison Regular Schedule with Cavetime for 7th Graders Ways to Show Empathy: listening understanding another's point of view being sincere self-control -- putting another person's needs or wants before your own	Friday:  Achieve “Goal Setting” “Where’s a Hero?” Find  Albert Einstein Regular Schedule with Cavetime Assembly    7th Grade students will report to the Old Auditorium for Presenter Scott Robertson.

 

Here is another suggested hero:  http://www.npr.org/2012/11/25/165413500/the-only-woman-to-receive-the-medal-of-honor     Mary Edwards Walker

Biography Reference Center: 

http://web.ebscohost.com/brc/detail?sid=60280b22-2937-4571-b23b-e47a2213b201%40sessionmgr10&vid=4&hid=19&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnJjLWxpdmU%3d#db=b6h&AN=32426193

and another:
Charlotte Parkhurst / Charley Parkhurst
woman who dressed as a man to become a stage coach driver because women couldn't 
http://web.ebscohost.com/sas/detail?sid=17e38b43-186d-428b-857b-ebc3be1878bb%40sessionmgr15&vid=8&hid=128&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPSZzaXRlPXNhcy1saXZl#db=mih&AN=9704161945

We have in the classroom a YA historical novel called Riding Freedom which is a fictionalized version of Charlotte Parkhurst's story.

Another:
Irena Sendler -- rescued infants and small children from the Warsaw ghetto during WWII.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/sendler.asp

Here is the large list you received at the beginning of this rotation:   Suggestions for Heroes

Using Bibme.org to Create Citations

Directions:

1. As you are researching, save the URL for each site you find useful. 
2. When you get to the site bibme.org, click on the middle orange tab marked "website."
3. Copy the URL (in the address bar) for the site you are taking information from.   
4. Paste it into the area provided on bibme. (You may have to erase the extra "http://" already there.
5. Click on "Load Info." 

6a.  For EBSCO sites, you will probably need to manually fill in most of the information, looking back at the webpage for the information. 

• Page title:  Erase "EBSCO Publishing. . . . " and replace with the title of the article.
• Web Site Title:  Erase "EBSCO Publishing. . . . " and replace with the title of the "Source:"  followed by "on EBSCO" and the title of the database.
• Sponsor/Publisher  :  Often you can click on the title of the source, which is a link and find the publisher.   If not, look at the bottom of the article for the publisher or owner. 
• Version Number: not usually needed
• Date Created:  Look right after the name of the  "Source" for a publication date.
• Date Accessed:  This will probably fill in automatically.  It is the date you are creating this citation. 
• Author:  Look back at the article to see whether an author is given.  Sometimes the author name is at the bottom of the article.
• Annotation:  Do not add one for this assignment.

Click on "Add to My Bibliography."
Find your citation at the top right of the page.  
When you copy the citation to paste it in your Search and Select, you do not need to include the URL. 


6b.  For some other websites, when you paste in the "Website URL" most of the spaces fill in automatically.  And for others, you may need to fill in a couple of pieces of information.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

1. Individual Silent Reading
2. Partner Fluency Practice

3. Computer literacy
What you should have so far -- Biography Reference Center with Citations  for three famous people
(Log into Biography Reference Center using the username and password on your handout for today.)
This is a sample:
r3_search_and_select_frodo_baggins step 1.doc

Today:   
A.    Using your thumb drives/flash drives --  When you are done, make sure you properly eject them.

   
B.  Here's a sample of what you are working on today: 

r3_search_and_select_frodo_baggins step 2.doc

Using Pioneer Library 
Find it at our school home page, RESOURCES, Pioneer Online Library

If at home --
username:  
password:  

4.  Computer Lab 201

Follow the directions on your Computer Lab Challenge for today.
R7R3 Day3 Directions.doc

In Step 6 on your Computer Lab Challenge, it refers you to this:  Here are the instructions for Creating a Bibliography

Biography or Bibliography: The word root "bio" means life. The word root "graph" means writing. The word root "biblio" means book. The word root "graph" means writing.

Databases and Search Engines -- What's the Difference?

How to Pick a Book -- Advice from Harper Lee

Harper Lee is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Important Announcement from Mrs. Hancock:

     Several student were absent the last day of Mrs Hancock's class (last Wednesday) (some of you were gone for a field trip).  You missed the Mulan assignment, which is worth 30 points and is negatively impacting your grade. You have until cavetime today to come and fix this or it will stay a zero for the rest of the term.

     Please come!

     If students are interested in who is missing the assignments, they are as follows:

B5	B6
Taran A Derek A Brian D Abby P Hafen R Dillon S Keith T	Breanna B Alexis B Caralea H Nathan H Decin P Emily P Tre R (There was 1 no name assignment in b6)

 
For Ms. Dorsey's Rotation:

Please bring your thumb drive to class each time.   

Also bring a pencil or pen.

Today's Agenda: 

•  Notice on the seating chart (same as last time) where you sit.   
• Pick up your folder from the black crates at the front of the room. 

1. Individual Reading Time and Fill out Your Reading Log 

•     Don't forget to fill out your reading log every time.  It counts on your grade!   
•     If you're absent, or don't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework.

2. Partner  Fluency Practice

•     Make sure you fill out your graph every time! It counts on your grade!

3.  Computer Literacy: The Focus of this Rotation
Review of the Importance of Reliability:

A.  1) Customer Review from Amazon.co

2) http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/ 

3) http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/meriwether-lewis-is-shot-in-the-leg

B. What is a URL?  
  URL 
                 The URL is the address of a site on the Internet.
                 You'll find the URL in the address bar on your browser.

  Example of a URL:
http://web.ebscohost.com/brc/detail?sid=7290207e-89c6-4abf-82f3-8c2971c1bafe%40sessionmgr15&vid=11&hid=14&bdata=JnNpdGU9YnJjLWxpdmU%3d#db=b6h&AN=103331CSLF10750140000044 

You won't want to copy the long ones, so use COPY and PASTE!

C. What is a Citation?  
 A citation is a formal way of telling where you got your information.  
Just trust me for now that we need to use them.  We'll talk later about plagiarism and citing sources.
To find our citation today,  when you are in Biography Reference Center,  all you have to do is copy and paste your MLA citation. 
It will look something like this:  

Example of a  citation / bibliography entry:

Paradowski, Robert J., and Paradowski Robert J. "Ray Bradbury." Critical Survey Of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition (2010): 1. Biography Reference Center. Web. 20 Nov. 2012.

Look for the Golden 

-->Ticket .  No, I mean Golden Page Icon at the right of your  Biography Reference Center page.

 

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4.  Computer Lab 211 

Follow the directions on your handout.
Day2 Computer Lab Directions.doc

 

     Finding your famous people on Biography Reference Center.

If you were not here last time, you need to sign up on Edmodo -- or add our group.   Ask for the code.   See the white instruction sheet in your folder.  http://www.edmodo.com/

You also need to complete the practice assignment.  
See  Turning in an Assignment on Edmodo.

Today

Log into the computer.   Open Firefox. Open our class blog at cavereading.blogspot.com.   and  Sign into Edmodo.  http://www.edmodo.com/ Look for any notes from Ms. Dorsey.

Instructions for Opening  Biography Reference Center Go to our school homepage  at  http://afjh.alpineschools.org/  (You could use the link just above this line.) Click on RESOURCES at the left. Click on Biography Reference CenteR. Continue to follow the directions on your handout.  Day2 Computer Lab Directions.doc

 

The Problem with Books

Reading!

Citing Databases

Citing databases: from http://www.virtualsalt.com/mla.htm

Citing from Web Site Databases

When the article comes from an online database such as SIRS Researcher or InfoTrac, the publication information of the print article is also included.

Note:  If the database service has several sub-databases, list the exact database as well as the service (For example, EBSCO Host MasterFILE Premier, EBSCO Host Academic Search Elite, EBSCO Host Busines Source Premier.) The database name is italicized. 

General:

Lastname, Firstname. "Article Title." Periodical Name 

     Periodical Date: Page numbers. Database Name. Web. Date of access.

Database with author:

Rossman, Parker. "The Theology of Imagination: Science, Science 

     Fiction, and Religion." Witness Oct. 1989: 12+. SIRS 

     Researcher. Web. 9 Nov. 2008.

Database with no author:

"Monkeying with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome." Science News 14 

     Sept. 1996: 170. InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP. Web. 4 Nov. 2008.

The following is from  

http://www.easybib.com/reference/guide/mla/database

Format:
Author. "Name of Article." Name of Original Publication Date Published: page number. Name of the Database. Name of the service. Name of the Library or Library System, Location. Date Accessed .

Examples:

• Ruparelia, Vishal. "Going to Medical School." Business Week 5 Mar. 2003: 21-34. Proquest. Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL. 10 May 2005 .
• Kaul, Angela. "Car Trends in Houston." Houston Chronicle May 2003. Academic Search Elite. EBSCO. Hinsdale Central Library, Hinsdale, IL. 13 Dec. 2002 .

Databases and Search Engines -- What's the Difference?

from http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ugl/howdoi/compare1.html

Databases Purchased by the library. Content is reviewed and recommended by librarians. Information is organized. Information is stable.

Search Engines Free to anyone with computer access. No review standards with regard to content. Information is not organized. Information is not stable; locations and content continually change.

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A Variety of Search Engines

Try iSeek.com   If you can't access it otherwise, you can get to it through myaccess.com, using your student login from our school.  If you find a source on iSeek, use the gray link, NOT the red one. 

A search engine for students:  http://www.sweetsearch.com/  

Put together search terms with this: http://www.boolify.org/

 This has a different format.  You see several results in the form of pages and can move among them using arrows. http://www.redz.com/

This one is even more unusual: http://search-cube.com/

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Today is the last day of our rotation.  Next time you will go to Mrs. Fugal's class.

1. Fill out the Reading Strategies and the Internet Research Project paper.
2. Fluency Practice 
3. READ!!!

Today we will hold a Read-A-Thon.  You may bring treats, a pillow to sit on if you wish, and something you'd really like to read.

If you did not turn in, or did not get a great grade on your PowerPoint, complete, correct, and resubmit it.  
You may do the same with your Evaluating and Taking Notes.

You must let me know that you have done that so I can regrade it. 
No late or revised work will be accepted after Friday. 

Monday, November 12, 2012

• Fill in name, period, date on your viewing form.
• Set up your PowerPoint 
• You will have about ten minutes to get set up and to put the finishing touches on it.  Turn it in or re-turn it in!
• Present your PowerPoint!
• Don't forget to turn in (to the top wire basket for your class) a viewing form for the PowerPoints you see. 

If you did not turn in, or did not get a great grade on your PowerPoint, complete, correct, and resubmit it.  
You may do the same with your Evaluating and Taking Notes. 

You must let me know that you have done that so I can regrade it. 
No late or revised work will be accepted after Friday. 

Next time will be the last class in this rotation, and we will hold a Read-A-Thon.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

1.  Individual Reading and fill out your reading log
2.   Partner Fluency Practice 

3.  Computer Lab 211 -- Work on Evaluating and Taking Notes and on creating your PowerPoints 
To access Pioneer:
pioneer
online 

Special Notice:  We will not present the PowerPoints until November 12, so you will have this time  to work on them to have them ready to present next time.  

PowerPoints are due by the end of class today.  

We will present them next time.

See how your PowerPoints will be graded.

Grading for Famous Person Project

 

Today:

Finish up getting enough notes for your PowerPoints if you haven't.

Finish up your PowerPoint -- due by the end of class TODAY.  Hand it in!

If you have extra time and haven't finished your Evaluating and Taking Notes, do that!  Hand it in

Our Read-A-Thon  will be on November 14. Bring treats if you wish, and perhaps a pillow to sit on, and something you'd love to read!

Review on how to turn in your work.

• Save your work in a place that's easy to find again.
• Sign into Edmodo.
• Upload your assignment with the Attach: File icon.  
• Add a comment if desired, and click on Turn In Assignment.

• If you have already turned it in, turn in a new version --
• Save your work in a place that's easy to find again.
• Sign into Edmodo.
• Go to your own Grades.
• Click on the assignment you want to resubmit.
• If it hasn't been graded yet, you can use the "Resubmit" button.
• Find the assignment you've just done (You can click on the assignment link at the left of the page to narrow your choices.)   
• Upload your assignment with the Attach: File icon.  
• Add a comment if desired, and click on Add Comment button.
• If it has been turned in, use the next comment box below that and use the Attach:File icon and Add Comment.

Turning in PowerPoints:  

• You must save them on your thumbdrive or in your student drive. 
•  Remember to "Save As," 
• and to  add your name to the name of the PowerPoint.  
• Turn them in using the PowerPoint assignment. 

Sample PowerPoint (DO NOT use this one as a template.)  Margaret Thatcher 3.ppt 






In case you need one of the documents again, here they are:

 Who’s Your Hero Suggestions.docx

Hero Search and Select R2.doc

ABCCombined R2Website Evaluations.doc


Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt

Tuesday, November 5, 2012

1.  Individual Reading and fill out your reading log
2.   Partner Fluency Practice 

3.  Computer Lab 201 -- Work on Evaluating and Taking Notes and on PowerPoints
To access Pioneer:
pioneer
online 

        Look for any notes  on Edmodo 

from Ms. Dorsey!   

See how your PowerPoints will be graded.

Grading for Famous Person Project

Special Notice:  We will not present the PowerPoints until November 12, so you will have this time and next time to work on them to have them ready to present next time.  

PowerPoints are due by the end of class next time.  

We will present them next Monday, November 12.

Our Read-A-Thon  will be on November 14. Bring treats if you wish, and perhaps a pillow to sit on, and something you'd love to read!


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Review on how to turn in your work.

• Save your work in a place that's easy to find again.
• Sign into Edmodo.
• Upload your assignment with the Attach: File icon.  
• Add a comment if desired, and click on Turn In Assignment.

• If you have already turned it in, turn in a new version --
• Save your work in a place that's easy to find again.
• Sign into Edmodo.
• Go to your own Grades.
• Click on the assignment you want to resubmit.
• If it hasn't been graded yet, you can use the "Resubmit" button.
• Find the assignment you've just done (You can click on the assignment link at the left of the page to narrow your choices.)   
• Upload your assignment with the Attach: File icon.  
• Add a comment if desired, and click on Add Comment button.
• If it has been turned in, use the next comment box below that and use the Attach:File icon and Add Comment.

Turning in PowerPoints:  

• You must save them on your thumbdrive or in your student drive. 
•  Remember to "Save As," 
• and to  add your name to the name of the PowerPoint.  
• Turn them in using the PowerPoint assignment. 

Sample PowerPoint (DO NOT use this one as a template.)  Margaret Thatcher 3.ppt 






In case you need one of the documents again, here they are:

 Who’s Your Hero Suggestions.docx

Hero Search and Select R2.doc

ABCCombined R2Website Evaluations.doc


Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt