Friday, May 4, 2012

1. Individual Reading Time and Log
2. Partner Fluency Practice
3. Reminder of Celebrity Project Requirements
4. Reading Strategy:  Noticing Your Inner Voices as You Read

5. Inner Voice: Conversational or Waste-of-Time

Students read an article about internet safety and completed a graphic organizer for noticing the Inner Voice.
   

Important Reminders:

• Hand in Search Engine and Database Exercise.
• Hand in three or five website checklists with notes.
• Finish your website checklists and hand them in as soon as possible.
• Make sure you have at least twenty facts gathered on your website checklists notes to use for your PowerPoint.  
•  Be ready to have your PowerPoint done by the end of class on May 16.
• May 16 is the next time we  be going to the computer lab, so you'll need to finish your web checklists on your own.  Contact me if you need yours printed.

Phishing: http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-symptoms.aspx

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

1. Individual Reading Time and Log
2. Partner Fluency Practice
3. Reminder of Celebrity Project Requirements
4. Reading Strategy:  Noticing Your Inner Voices as You Read  Fix-Ups.odt

5. Inner Voice: Conversational or Waste-of-Time
   

   Inner Voice Handout:    Inner voices 1.odt
   

         Demonstration:  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128412201&sc=fb&cc=fp
 Example of notes on Inner Voice:   Voice Blind Inner Voice.odt

Students read an article either about either sharks or whales and responded to it on the inner voices graphic organizer.   
   

Important Reminders:

• Hand in Search Engine and Database Exercise.
• Hand in three or five website checklists with notes.
• Finish your website checklists and hand them in as soon as possible.
• Make sure you have at least twenty facts gathered on your website checklists notes to use for your PowerPoint.  
•  Be ready to have your PowerPoint done by the end of class on May 16.
• May 16 is the next time we  be going to the computer lab, so you'll need to finish your web checklists on your own.  Contact me if you need yours printed.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Anything that you do not finish today on the search engine and database assignment or on the website checklists  will need to be done as homework.  Also be aware that you will have only one period to finish up your PowerPoint -- on May 16 before you present the PowerPoints on May 24.


Computer Lab 201 -- Research and fill out Web Evaluations, collecting information for your PowerPoint.    The Website Checklists.

 Evaluating Websites

• If you finish finding sites, you could begin your website evaluations by downloading your first document at   The Website Checklists.
• You can either download three or five at once and save each under another name, or download a new one when you have already finished and saved one.  
• If you are working alone, you will need to fill out a Website Checklist for three sites.  
• If you are working with a partner, you will need to fill out a Website Checklist for five sites.
• Don't forget to save each checklist with a different name so you don't save over the last one you filled out. 
• Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography
  
  This is a filled-out example of the checklist you will use: 
  Example Checklist for Evaluating Websites.doc
   
  

 __________________________   
If you didn't yet:  Finish, print, and hand in your 
 Using Search Engines and Databases to Research on the Internet.doc
You should already have it on your thumb drive and/or student drive.

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Schedule and Due Dates:
1.  April 26 and April 30:  Fill out Web Evaluations, Collecting Information and bibliographic information.
     You need twenty (20) or more different important and/or       interesting pieces of information (facts) about your celebrity.
         
2.   Work outside of class as needed to be ready to have your PowerPoint graded by the end  of  class on May 16. 

3.  May 16 Your PowerPoint will be due by the end of the period. Lab 180  -- You will be able to finish it up on this day.  Use the template to make it easier.

4.  May 24  All students will present their PowerPoints to the class.  Lab 211

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Looking to the Future (by the end of class on May 16)  

Putting Together the Presentation

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Computer Lab 201 -- Research and fill out Web Evaluations, collecting information for your PowerPoint.    The Website Checklists.

 Evaluating Websites

• If you finish finding sites, you could begin your website evaluations by downloading your first document at   The Website Checklists.
• You can either download three or five at once and save each under another name, or download a new one when you have already finished and saved one.  
• If you are working alone, you will need to fill out a Website Checklist for three sites.  
• If you are working with a partner, you will need to fill out a Website Checklist for five sites.
• Don't forget to save each checklist with a different name so you don't save over the last one you filled out. 
• Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography
  
  This is a filled-out example of the checklist you will use: 
  Example Checklist for Evaluating Websites.doc
   
  

 __________________________   
If you didn't yet:  Finish, print, and hand in your 
 Using Search Engines and Databases to Research on the Internet.doc
You should already have it on your thumb drive and/or student drive.

___________________________
Schedule and Due Dates:
1.  April 26 and April 30:  Fill out Web Evaluations, Collecting Information and bibliographic information.
     You need twenty (20) or more different important and/or       interesting pieces of information (facts) about your celebrity.
         
2.   Work outside of class as needed to be ready to have your PowerPoint graded by the end  of  class on May 16. 

3.  May 16 Your PowerPoint will be due by the end of the period. Lab 180  -- You will be able to finish it up on this day.  Use the template to make it easier.

4.  May 24  All students will present their PowerPoints to the class.  Lab 211

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Looking to the Future (by the end of class on May 16)  

Putting Together the Presentation

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading Time and Fill out reading log.


Fluency Practice: 


Learning more about the Internet -- Crossword

Filling Out Web Evaluations  
Using BibMe
Collecting Information -- In Your Own Words

 Evaluating Websites

• If you finish finding sites, you could begin your website evaluations by downloading your first document at   The Website Checklists.
• You can either download three or five at once and save each under another name, or download a new one when you have already finished and saved one.  
• If you are working alone, you will need to fill out a Website Checklist for three sites.  
• If you are working with a partner, you will need to fill out a Website Checklist for five sites.
• Don't forget to save each checklist with a different name so you don't save over the last one you filled out. 

Reading Strategies


Before, During, and After  
Purpose
Questions

Schedule and Due Dates:
1.  April 26 and April 30:  Fill out Web Evaluations, Collecting Information and bibliographic information.
     You need twenty (20) or more different important and/or       interesting pieces of information (facts) about your celebrity.
            
2.   Work outside of class as needed to be ready to have your PowerPoint graded by the end  of  class on May 16.     

3.  May 16 Your PowerPoint will be due by the end of the period. Lab 180  -- You will be able to finish it up on this day.  Use the template to make it easier.

4.  May 24  All students will present their PowerPoints to the class.  Lab 211

If you haven't finished and handed in this document, please do it right away. 

Download this document (click on the download tab after you open it): 
Using Search Engines and Databases to Research on the Internet.doc
Save it on your student drive and on your thumb drive/flash drive.  

 

Friday, April 20, 2012

You will have a substitute teacher while Ms. Dorsey is at her daughter's graduation from the MPA program at BYU.



Activity 1. Computer Lab
 Learning about plagiarism

Computer lab for Plagiarism exercise
Part I: 
1. Learning about Plagiarism
2.  Download this document.  To download, after you've used this link   Plagiarism Computer Exercise.doc, click on the download tab.
 
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.

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.  Save it, but leave it open for the next part.  

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

bibme.org

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.  Usually the sponsor or publisher is next to the copyright date. 
•   
• Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces.
•  
• Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that if there is one.  If not, click on "No Author"
•  
• Scroll down and click on Add to My Bibliography. 
•  
• Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it, adding it to your  worksheet for plagiarism  or to another word document saved on your thumb drive or in your own student file.
•  
• Print your plagiarism worksheet and hand it in to the top wire basket in the classroom.

  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/

5. If you have extra time, work on finding sources if you didn't finish it last time.  When you have your ten or more links to sites saved on the document, print it, and hand it in to the top wire basket for B2 in our classroom.    Save it on your student drive and on your thumb drive/flash drive.

  a.  Search Engines and Databases (Collecting Possible Sources)
If you still need to begin this assignment from last time, download this document (click on the download tab after you open it): 
Using Search Engines and Databases to Research on the Internet.doc
Save it on your student drive and on your thumb drive/flash drive.

Then select the best sites and fill out a website evaluation for each.

6.  Evaluating Websites

• If you finish finding sites, you could begin your website evaluations by downloading your first document at   The Website Checklists.
• You can either download three or five at once and save each under another name, or download a new one when you have already finished and saved one.  
• If you are working alone, you will need to fill out a Website Checklist for three sites.  
• If you are working with a partner, you will need to fill out a Website Checklist for five sites.
• Don't forget to save each checklist with a different name so you don't save over the last one you filled out. 

 Activity 2.  Fluency Practice  (Pairs, Passages)


Activity 3.    Individual Reading and Reading Log

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Don't forget to bring your flash drive/thumb drive!

 1. Individual Reading and New Reading Logs.
2.  Strategy Lesson: Asking questions

3. Using  Search Engines and Databases for Research: Diving Deeper
 4.  Computer Lab to research your celebrity.

       a.  Search Engines and Databases (Collecting Possible Sources)

Download this document (click on the download tab after you open it): 
Using Search Engines and Databases to Research on the Internet.doc
Save it on your student drive and on your thumb drive/flash drive.  


       b.  Evaluating Websites
                If you finish finding sites, you could begin your website evaluations by downloading your first document at   The Website Checklists.

Don't forget to save each checklist with a different name so you don't save over the last one you filled out. 

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If you weren't here last time, go to

Selecting a Subject for your Research and Presentation

Use the sites linked from the above site to find celebrities.
On the back of the green sheet, list ten celebrities/famous people you would be interested in learning more about for a project.
Then narrow it to four to put in the table on the front of the green sheet.  Number one would be the one you want most to use.

Strategy Lesson: Asking questions

Today, April 18, 2012, as you look for sources/sites to use in your research, ask yourself,

• "Can I use more than Google to get to the information I need?"
• "How do I use search engines other than Google?"
• "How is each one different from Google?"
• "What is helpful about using databases and encyclopedias?"  
•  
• "What am I looking for?"   
• "Where can I find  information about my celebrity's life?" 

• "Is this site about my celebrity?"
• "Is it different from the sites I already have?"
• "Will it probably be helpful?"

Using Various Search Engines and Databases for Research: Diving Deeper

Diving Deeper

Download this document (click on the download tab after you open it): 
Using Search Engines and Databases to Research on the Internet.doc
Save it on your student drive and on your thumb drive/flash drive.  

New Rotation Beginning April 16, 2012

Welcome to my new students!

For this rotation, you need a thumb drive (flash drive) to bring to class each time.

Today we are going to go here and to the first link from it:

Introduction to Celebrity Webquest and Project

Today you will sign up for the celebrity/famous person for whom you will do research and create a PowerPoint presentation. 

If you are absent today, April 16:  Complete this form  Celebrity Sign-up R3 2012.docx, writing at least ten possibilities on the back, then selecting your top four to write on the front, with your favorite as number one.  Use the above link for "Introduction to Celebrity Webquest and Project: to access lists of celebrities and more information about the project.

Target for this Rotation: Read the Internet more wisely, effectively, and safely, and practice helpful reading strategies while doing it.

Rotations:  Students will move from Ms. Dorsey's class to Mrs. Fugal's, and from Ms. Gadd's class to Ms. Dorsey's.

Applying Reading Strategies to Computer Literacy, Research, and Presentation

You will be graded on

Research on the Internet (Finding Sites)   30 points

Website Evaluations                  60 points

Creating Bibliography Entries     15 points

Celebrity PowerPoint Presentation 

78 points 

View and Evaluate Other Presentations

20 points

Reading Log (reading during individual reading time, then filling out the log)

Points available vary depending on how many times we have individual reading time.

In case you are absent, pick up the pink make-up form.

Partner Fluency Practice Log

Points available vary depending on how many times we have fluency practice.

Various other daily assignments

Completing end-of-semester assessments and surveys 
Participation     (if needed)                        100 points

Term Project Due Dates:

Your web evaluations will all be due by     .

Your Celebrity PowerPoint is due by the end of class on   and will be presented on . 

Important Note: Do not get too far ahead of the class for now.  We will take this step by step.  After selecting your celebrity, you will find sites with information about him or her, then you will evaluate possible sites to use and collect information from those that are reliable and useful.  

Steps for Completing Your Celebrity WebQuest and Presentation

New Rotation for My "Old" Students

Those of you who have been in Ms. Dorsey's class will go today to Mrs. Fugal's classroom on Monday, April 16.

Room 230









Don't forget to return any make-up reading sheets you may need to complete.  Also, turn in any end-of-rotation reflections/surveys or other assignments still ungraded. Turn them by Friday, April 20, or SOONER!

Keep on Reading!
http://www.schooltube.com/video/e9bd79d29b4d0e6a2345/Gotta%20Keep%20Reading%20-%20Ocoee%20Middle%20School

Quote about Books

 

      "It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them—with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them."

-Eudora Welty

Introduction to Celebrity Webquest and Project

April 16, 2012:  Go to the first link below, and search for ideas for the celebrity you will research.  List at least ten names on the back of your celebrity sign-up paper.  Once you have ten, if you have decided tentatively on a celebrity, you may fill out and hand in your sign-up.  Check out all the links from this link: 

Selecting a Subject for your Research and Presentation

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We will look at these links on other days in class, but as you have free time, you are welcome to go to them. 

_________________________________________________

Important Note: Do not get too far ahead of the class for now.  We will take this step by step.  After selecting your celebrity, you will find sites with information about him or her, then you will evaluate possible sites to use and collect information from those that are reliable and useful.  

Steps for Completing Your Celebrity WebQuest and Presentation

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Finding Websites -- Using Search Engines and Databases

The Website Checklists

Putting Together the Presentation

Putting Together the Presentation

The template is an outline for putting your PowerPoint together.  Open it and create your own PowerPoint on it. 
Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   

Reminder of what should be on the PowerPoint:

1. cover slide with photo of the famous person, that person's name, your name(s), and period
2. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Life Before Fame
3. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: How He/She Became Famous
4. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Major Accomplishments
5. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Personal Life
6. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Other Interesting Information
7. bibliography slide with a heading and 3 or 5 citations created using bibme.org                         Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography

You may add up to three extra slides.

Important!!!

Make It Your Own
The information for the bullets on your slides should be in your own words.  Read about your celebrity from several sources, then synthesize what you have read by putting the information into your own words.  


Edit Your Work
Don't forget to edit for capitalization, spelling, punctuation, and other conventions.  Did you know that the titles of books and movies are capitalized (all the important words) and italicized?
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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

The Website Checklists

This is the checklist you will use:

Checklist for Evaluating Websites.doc

Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography

This is a filled-out example of the checklist you will use: 

Example Checklist for Evaluating Websites.doc


The basis for these website evaluations is from http://www.lib.umd.edu/guides/webcheck.html

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Optional, but not useable in all computer labs:


Checklist for Evaluating Websites.docx


Example Checklist for Evaluating Websites.docx

Finding Websites -- Using Search Engines and Databases

A search engine is not a site.  It is a road to that site. 
Google is good, but it's not the only search engine out there.

Document to download: 
 Using Search Engines and Databases to Research on the Internet.doc

Search Engines and Databases

Search Engines:

1. Search for your celebrity using  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 any useful sites, record the URL’s here:  (Click on the URL, not the site title on iSeek.)

2. Search for your celebrity using  http://www.sweetsearch.com/biographies

3.  Now try to put together search terms with this: http://www.boolify.org/

If you find any useful sites, record the URL’s.

Using Databases and Online Encyclopedias

Selecting a Subject for your Research and Presentation

Finding Possible Celebrities

•     Types of Celebrities
•     Suggestions from Teachers (These may lead to extra credit from other classes!)
      Celebrity Suggestions from Your Teachers
   
•      Links for Lots of Famous People
•      Deciding Whether or Not  a Celebrity Will Work for this Project
• Appropriateness
• Availability of Information

Do I or Don't I Want to Work with a Partner?

Do I or Don't I Want to Work with a Partner?

Return to Introduction to Celebrity Webquest and Project

Quotes for Readers

The difference between Try and Triumph is a little "Umph".

"Are you in earnest? Seize this very moment! Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it! Only begin, and the work will be done." --Goethe

 "When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."  -John Berger

The world was hers for the reading."
-Betty Smith

 “One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”   —Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices

If you think reading is boring. . .

The Effect of Media

http://www.upworthy.com/what-happens-to-3-out-of-4-girls-after-leafing-through-a-fashion-mag-for-3-minut?rc=p

Steps for Completing Your Celebrity WebQuest and Presentation

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

Links for Lots of Famous People

April 16, 2012:  Find at least ten famous people you might like to learn more about and list their names on the back of your celebrity sign-up sheet.  If you find one you're sure you'd like to do, fill out the celebrity sign-up and turn it in. 

1. Click on Academy of Achievement .  Consider possible celebrities/famous people you see there. 
1. See the categories at the bottom of the page for types of celebrities and lists of names.
2. Check the list at  http://www.people.com/people/celebrities   Look through the alphabetical list.
   
3. And http://www.notablebiographies.com/    Look through the alphabetical list.
   
4. And Incredible People.com   Check out the categories at the left of the web page. 

Do not use:

Bynes, Amanda

Cyrus, Miley

Dunham, Jeff

Eminem

Ice T

Lohan, Lindsey

Spears, Britney

Foxx, Megan

Cook, Dane

While doing research, we want to avoid inappropriate material, so don’t choose someone wildly scandalous or for whom there would be many “embarrassing” pictures or pieces of information.

Return to Introduction to Celebrity Webquest and Project
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Types of Celebrities

For our purposes, the word celebrity refers to a widely known (at least nation-wide) person.   Your celebrity could be a

author

dancer

education leader

entrepreneur (someone who is successful at starting a business)

explorer

famous musician

inventor

mathematician

military leader

movie, TV, or theater star

newscaster or reporter

outdoorsman

politician or other leader

religious leader

scientist

singing star

sports star

or. . . 

Return to Introduction to Celebrity Webquest and Project

Do I or Don't I Want to Work with a Partner?

Deciding Whether or Not to Work with a Partner
Pluses	Minuses
·      Two heads can be better than one. ·      You can put together your knowledge and creativity to make something  better than either of you could make alone. ·      It can be more fun. ·      Sharing the work can make it easier.	·      You have to make sure that the work is divided evenly. ·      Sometimes partners don’t do their part. ·      Sometimes partners take home  materials you need and either are absent or forget to bring them back.   ·      With some partners you’ll waste time instead of staying on task.

Celebrity Suggestions from Your Teachers

Suggestions for famous people to research on the Internet

You DO NOT have to use someone from this list.

Your “celebrity” needs to be widely known.
You may research a person who is no longer living if he or she is listed with these teacher recommendations.  Also, no promises, but you may be able to talk other teachers into some extra credit if you do a great job on your PowerPoint!

Some of the Celebrities other students have chosen:

Hawk, Chase

Allen, Tim

Brees, Drew

Clarkson, Kelly

Depp, Johnny

Dyrdek, Rob

Gates, Bill

Hamm, Morgan

Hamm, Paul

Hanks, Tom

Hasselhof, David

James, LeBron

Jordan, Michael

Lautner, Taylor

Pastrana, Travis

Pattinson

 Peterson, Adrian

Robert

Robinson, Denard

Smith, Will

Spielberg, Steven

Swift, Taylor

Tatum, Channing

Underwood, Carrie

Think of singers, sports stars, actors and actresses, people who are famous in government, scientists, explorers, other sorts of leaders, etc. 

You may research a person who is no longer living if he or she is listed with these teacher recommendations.  Also, no promises, but you may be able to talk other teachers into some extra credit if you do a great job on your PowerPoint!

English Department 

Authors 

Gary Paulsen

J.K. Rowling

Brandon Mull

Suzanne Collins

S.E. Hinton

Scott Westerfeld

Agatha Christie

Stephenie Meyer

Christopher Paolini 

Meg Cabot

Darren Shan

Avi

Lois Lowry

Eoin Colfer

Robin McKinley

Holly Black

R.L. Stine

Cornelia Funk

Will Hobbs

Joan Bauer

Gary Soto

John Ritter

Judy Blume

Richard Peck

Karen Hesse

Ally Condie (local -- Matched)

Garth Nix

Caroline Cooney

Chris Crowe (local)

Walter Dean Myers

Scott O'Dell

Louis Sachar

Ouida Sebestyen 

Wilson Rawls (Where the Red Fern Grows, Summer of the Monkeys)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Explorer: Shackleton, Ernest

Theater / Drama
Ms. Hansen suggests
William Shakespeare
Neil Simon
Arthur Miller
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Thornton Wilder
Agatha Christie
Sophocles
Euripides

Contemporary Theater (suggestions from Ms. Dorsey and Ms. Hansen)  -- I haven't yet checked all of these for availability and appropriateness of information.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Michael Crawford (the Phantom)
Hugh Jackman (Wolverine and Broadway!)
Idina Menzel   (Wicked,  Enchanted)
Kristen Chenoweth  (Wicked, Pushing Daisies, many others)
Audra McDonald (Ragtime, amazing Broadway star who came to Utah last summer to perform at the Hale Center Theater)
Donny Osmond (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat)
Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime, sang with the Mormon Tab. Choir for a Christmas album/program)

From the Math Department:
The links below have modern mathematicians and historically significant mathematicians.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0192505.html

http://fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm

From Mr. Thornton:
Any classical composers (Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, etc.) and also Guido de Arezzo (he was a monk who changed the history of music almost 1000 yrs. ago). Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, The Beetles, Elvis, Frank Sonatra, Ella Fitgerald, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Glen Miller, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, The King Singers and U2 are some 20th century musicians that have had a great effect on music.

From Mrs. Wettstein: 
Fred Astaire
Gene Kelly

Ginger Rogers

From the Media Center, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Bird: 
We have "Biography Today" a series which would be a great resource for your students if you would like to use a print source.  [Students, you could even look through the series to find famous people you'd be interested in.]

From Mrs. Hansen in the front office:
Try the Wild West Era, such as Billy the Kid

History/Social Studies Department
Mr. Wright suggests
Elizabeth the First
Marco Polo
Magellan
John Smith
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Paul Revere
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Francis Marion
Benedict Arnold
George Washington
James Madison
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
Lewis and Clark
Andrew Jackson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Joshua Chamberlain
U.S. Grant
Robert E. Lee


Mr. Aiman (Technology) suggests:

Henry Ford (Moving assembly line)

Andrew Carnegie (Started US Steel, Carnegie Hall)

Jack St. Clair Kilby (Semiconductor)

John Deere (Plow)

James Watt (Steam Engine)

Rudolf Diesel (Diesel Engine)

Eli Whitney (Cotton gin)

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Do not use:

Bynes, Amanda

Cyrus, Miley

Dunham, Jeff

Eminem

Ice T

Lohan, Lindsey

Spears, Britney

Foxx, Megan

Cook, Dane

While doing research, we want to avoid inappropriate material, so don’t choose someone wildly scandalous or for whom there would be many “embarrassing” pictures or pieces of information.

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