Thursday, April 5, 2012

You will have a substitute while Ms. Dorsey is at a Literacy Conference. 

Complete and turn in your End of Rotation Reflection, if still needed.


Read-A-Thon


On April 5
Bring a book!
If you'd like to, bring treats.
Also, if you'd like, bring a pillow to sit on.

 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

You will have a substitute while Ms. Dorsey is at the Teaching American History Cohort Meetings.  

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading Time

Media Savvy -- View video and answer questions 

Fluency Practice

End of Rotation Reflection -- Fill it out and turn it in.

More Inner Voices (if time)   -- Sharks or Whales

Friday, March 30, 2012

Self-Starter:     Inner Voices -- Read the article, stopping as directed to write.

Computer Lab to Present PowerPoints  -- All PowerPoints are due!
You will have about ten minutes to get set up.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Self-Starter: Individual Reading time and fill out reading log


Computer Lab  to finish PowerPoint Presentations



On April 5
Bring a book!
If you'd like to, bring treats.
Also, if you'd like, bring a pillow to sit on.









  



Part III.  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography
This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found. 

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 for our purposes.

Try it.  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.  In this case it will be http://www.loislowry.com
• 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 or add it to your  worksheet for plagiarism  or to another word document saved on your thumb drive or in your own student file.

  http://www.bibme.org/

If Bibme isn't working , try http://easybib.com/ .

You need to use bibme to create bibliography entries -- unless you are using an online encyclopedia or other source that gives them a bibliography entry at the bottom of the web page!

A bibliography entry (which goes on the last slide of the PowerPoint) looks like this:
Scott, Westerfeld. " westerblog." westerblog. Scott Westerfeld, 31 Oct. 2011. Web. 1 Nov. 2011. 

not like this:
http://scottwesterfeld.com/

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This Week During Cavetime

Tuesday:  Talent Show for Seventh Grade in the New Auditorium

Wednesday:  Net Smart for Seventh Grade in the Old Auditorium

Wednesday: No movie during Cavetime
Thursday: No movie during Cavetime

Inner Voice: Conversational or Waste-of-Time

Thursday, March 22, 2012

1. Individual reading and log
2. Partner Fluency
3. Plagiarism lesson 

For today, do only parts I and II.

Computer lab for Plagiarism exercise
Part I: 
1. Learning about Plagiarism
a. Go to   http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#
b. Listen to and read along with the information about plagiarism.
c. Answer the questions on the worksheet.    To download, after you've used this link Plagiarism Computer Exercise.docx,  or
 Plagiarism Computer Exercise.doc click on the download tab.
 or you could hand write your answers.


Part II.   

Is this Plagiarism? 

Use the link here  to go to
http://www.loislowry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=196


Answer the questions on the worksheet.

For today, do only parts I and II. 
If needed, work on Web Site Evaluations.

Part III.  Bibme for Creating a Bibliography
This is the easiest bibliography maker I've found. 

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 for our purposes.

Try it.  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.  In this case it will be http://www.loislowry.com
• 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 or add it to your  worksheet for plagiarism  or to another word document saved on your thumb drive or in your own student file.

  http://www.bibme.org/

If Bibme isn't working , try http://easybib.com/ .

You need to use bibme to create bibliography entries -- unless you are using an online encyclopedia or other source that gives them a bibliography entry at the bottom of the web page!

A bibliography entry (which goes on the last slide of the PowerPoint) looks like this:
Scott, Westerfeld. " westerblog." westerblog. Scott Westerfeld, 31 Oct. 2011. Web. 1 Nov. 2011. 

not like this:
http://scottwesterfeld.com/

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Part IV. 
If you have extra time, review safe cyberspace surfing at http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/internet_safety.html?tracking=K_RelatedArticle 

All website evaluations should have been handed in

 by the end of class today.

If you have extra time, you may play games at 

http://www.fun-with-words.com

Do not go to other sites or programs without asking Ms. Dorsey. 

Play a punctuation game at
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar2.htm

Wonder how to pronounce author names? Go to http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=3090
and begin with a very popular author. Use the search to find others.

Or look at some neat articles: 

You can fly (a camera on a ladder)  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129429199&sc=fb&cc=fp

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Computer Lab to finish website evaluations.
Have you handed in your Research on the Internet paper? 

 Research on the Internet Revised(9).doc

Will you have your Web Site Evaluations all handed in by the end of class today? 
ABC Website Evaluation Version 3.doc


Don't forget the bibliography:

Creating Your Bibliography

If Bibme isn't working, use http://easybib.com/

Save each one on your thumb drive and on your student drive with a different name!

When you have finished and turned in all of your website evaluations,

Use this template as the beginning of your PowerPoint:  

Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   

 
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If time, Computer lab for Plagiarism exercise
Part I: 
1. Learning about Plagiarism
a. Go to   http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#
b. Listen to and read along with the information about plagiarism.
c. Answer the questions on the worksheet.    To download, after you've used this link Plagiarism Computer Exercise.docx,  or  

 Plagiarism Computer Exercise.doc click on the download tab.
Do the first page only.  Print it.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Individual Reading Time
Partner Fluency

Plagiarism 

NO COMPUTER LAB TODAY

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY

____________________________________

I saw this on Facebook today, and at first read it as "No Irish Crime and Mystery Fiction for the Spring," and thought, "Huh?"

Noirish Crime and Mystery Fiction for the Spring

www.omnivoracious.com

This spring you can find crime, mystery, and noir fiction that ranges from the traditional to the most definitely non-traditional. Here are just a few of those titles. Let us know what else you’d recommend...

via Amazon SWF

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Friday, March 16, 2012

1.  Individual Reading Time

2.  Finish notes about Wikipedia -- from minute 4:00 -- If you were absent, watch this online and take notes.  See the link and note chart nearer the bottom of this post.

Have you handed in your Research on the Internet paper? 

 Research on the Internet Revised(9).doc

Will you have your Web Site Evaluations all handed in by the 20th?  Sooner is better! 
ABC Website Evaluation Version 3.doc
Save each one on your thumb drive and on your student drive with a different name!


2. Today we will go to the Computer Lab to work on Web Site Evaluations.
They are all due before the end of this term (by the end of class on March 20) and will count on this term.

 When you have finished and turned in all of your website evaluations,

Use this template as the beginning of your PowerPoint:  

Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   

 _______________________________________________________

Finish watching the video and taking notes.

What about Wikipedia? 

Wikipedia  http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/

 Create a chart for note-taking on a plain or lined piece of paper.  Take notes on the video.  Watch from  minute 4:00 to end.  Fill in all three columns of your chart. (If you were absent time before last, watch the whole thing.)

What I Know About Wikipedia	What I’m Learning Today about Wikipedia	What I Think Because of What I’ve Learned (My Conclusions about Wikipedia)

Leave these papers in your folders.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

You will have a substitute teacher today because Ms. Dorsey will be with the  Mock Trial Team at a Competition,  so please be on your best behavior.

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading and Reading Log

Partner Fluency Practice

Internet Crossword:  Important note:  The "dot" in "dot com."  will use a space on the crossword.

Practice Note-taking from web-site information: 

Taking Notes:
Pick out the most important ideas and facts.
Put it into your own words.
Check to make sure you still have the correct ideas and facts.  
Hand in your notes page to the top wire basket.

 

Monday, March 12, 2012

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading and Reading Log

Partner Fluency Practice

Sample PowerPoints  

Creating Your Bibliography

About Sources:

Primary or Secondary Sources

This link has links to games and more information: http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/TTravis/social_studies_class.cfm?subpage=788062

More on Primary or Secondary Sources: Monday, October 24, 2011

 

What about Wikipedia? 

Wikipedia  http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/

 Create a chart for note-taking on a plain or lined piece of paper.  Take notes on the video.  Watched to minute 4:00. 

What I Know About Wikipedia	What I’m Learning Today about Wikipedia	What I Think Because of What I’ve Learned (My Conclusions about Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Today's Schedule:


1. About  Website Evaluations -- Today in computer lab,  open and work on filling out out 3 or 5 of these:  ABC Website Evaluation Version 3.doc
Save each one on your thumb drive and on your student drive with a different name!  See the sample handout today. 

Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography

Sample Bibliography for Dickens

 

2.  Computer lab 211  -- Important: You have today, the 16th, and the 20th to complete your website evaluations and notes.  They will go on your Term 3 grade.

[What is a URL?  A Uniform Resource Locator -- It is the address of a website or a particular page on a website.]
_________________________________________________________________________

Steps for Your Celebrity Web Project and Calendar

Assignments to complete: 

1.  Sign up for a celebrity.

2. Research on the Internet Revised(9).doc  Complete one of these, print and hand it in.  Use the sites you have collected on it for your research below. 

3.  From your Research on the Internet Assignment, select 3 (if you are working alone) or 5 (if you are working with a partner) sites that will give you the best information about your celebrity, and for each of those fill out a Website Evaluation assignment: ABC Website Evaluation Version 3.doc   Don't forget to take notes in the area provided.  You will use these notes to make your PowerPoint.  After filling it out, print each and hand it in.  

4.  As you fill out your website evaluations, collect your bibliography entries.   These will be handed in, either on your website evaluations or collected on a separate sheet, and will go on the last slide of your PowerPoint.

Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography

5.  After you have completed your website evaluations (3 or 5) with bibliographic entries, and have had them checked off by the teacher,  you may create your PowerPoint. 

Use this template as the beginning of your PowerPoint:  

Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   

Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt

 -- This is what the grading sheet looks like that Ms. Dorsey and Mrs. Sparks will use when grading your PowerPoint presentations:  Grading for Celebrity Project

_________________________________

If you still need to find a celebrity, here are some sites to help:

1. Click on the Resources Tab above.
2. Click on Academy of Achievement  either here or there.   Consider possible celebrities/famous people you see there.
3. Check the list at  http://www.people.com/people/celebrities/0,,,00.html 
4. And http://www.rd.com/interviews-celebrity-actors-musicians-athletes/ 
5. And http://www.notablebiographies.com/ 
6. And Incredible People.com  

 _____________________________________

 Why this project?  Internet Literacy is  an important part of  our modern world.  We are practicing reading strategies while gathering knowledge and skills for doing research online and off.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

You will have a substitute today because Ms. Dorsey will be attending the Teaching American History Academy at our district office.

You will not go to the computer lab today.

1. Self-Starter:  Individual Reading time and fill out reading log.
2.  Partner Fluency Practice

3. Answer questions for Getting Ready to Read
4. Read a story (and listen) and Answer Questions

"User Friendly"  If you were absent, answer the two questions below, then come at Cave Time or after school to listen to/read the story and to answer two more questions.
Also, if you were absent, don't forget to pick up a pink make-up sheet for individual reading from the tan box near the black class folder crates.

__________________________________________

“User Friendly”

Write legible, clear answers to the following questions.  Continue any of your answers on the back if needed.

Before reading the story:

1. What is your relationship with computers?  Do you have one you usually use?  Do you prefer Macs/Apples or HP/Dell/Etc.?   How do you get along with the computers at school? If computers were people, would they be your friends?  Why or why not? 

2.  If you could invent an ideal computer for yourself, what would it be like?  What features would it have? 

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Fluency Partners for Rotation 2, Semester 2

 Fluency Partners 

	Denton Wright	Pitcher, Erynn
	Larissa Gibson	Callie Gilbert
	Jeffrey Adams	Kayden Ha’O
	Sydney Rice	Alicia Golden
	Nathan Walters	Molly Sherman
	Belnap, Kaylee	Talyn McMurtrey
	Belnap,  RaCail	Cameron Tucker
	Castro,  Citlalli	Emily Wettstein
	Clayton, Jacob	Glines, Kayden
	Hardy, Tyler	Braden, Riehle
	Harley, Mckay	Jacob Morehead
	Hunt, Jefferson	Jacob Smith
	Wray, Brooklon	Badura, Ashlee
		Warden, Karter
	Hutchinson, Bridger	Markle, Tristen
	Fraughton, Andrew	Richan, Cody

Bits and Pieces for Your Project

For whoever it is that is researching Jimmer, here is a photo posted by the Deseret News:

And for

Friday, March 2, 2012

Another "celebrity" you could find out more about: Kyle Maynard    http://www.kyle-maynard.com/

View this PowerPoint: 

Steps for Celebrity Project 97.ppt

 

Or just read through the steps listed here:
Order for Doing the Celebrity Web Assignment:
1. Select a celebrity and optional partner.
2.  Use various search engines to find possible sites to use for research. (five for individual and eight for partners)
3a Select sites to evaluate.  Fill out  website evaluation forms for three if you are working alone, or for five as partners.
3b.  As you complete the website evaluations, also take notes on each site -- finding information you can use when you put together your PowerPoint.
3c. Make sure you prepare a bibliography entry for each source you will use.
(You should have all website evaluations completed, printed, and checked off by Ms. Dorsey by .)
4.  After you have completed your three or five website evaluations, begin working on your PowerPoint.
5.  Complete the PowerPoint by .


Computer Lab Calendar for Celebrity Project

March 2 -- Lab 211 -- Web Research with instruction  
March 8 -- Lab 211 -- Web Research  with instruction  -- Research on the Internet papers are due by the end of the period.  
March 16 -- Lab 201  -- Web Research  with instruction  -- Completing web evaluations.
March 20 -- Lab 201 -- Completing Web Research (All website evaluations are due -- 3 for an individual, 5 for a pair.) and working on PowerPoints  
March 22 -- Lab 201 -- Bibliographic entries (bibme)  are due by the end of class if not already passed off.
March 28 -- Lab 211 --  Completing PowerPoints (PowerPoints should be ready to be graded by the end of the period.)
March 30 -- Lab 211 --  PowerPoint Presentations
April 5 -- Last day of this rotation and READ-A-THON

Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt   

Decide on a Celebrity -- Sign up for a celebrity
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Computer Lab 211
You may look up various celebrities to help in your decision about which celebrity you want to select.
Begin finding sites you could use to learn about your celebrity.

Open this document:  You will type or cut and paste your URLs directly to this document:
Research on the Internet Revised(9).doc
  This will be due by the end of the next class.

 Research  Example: 

Research on the Internet Gary Paulsen.doc