Summer Reading III

Why not try it this summer?

Summer Reading II

Check out activities and resources at the American Fork Library: http://afcity.org/Departments/Library/YoungAdult/tabid/344/Default.aspx

You can download audio books at Pioneer Library if you have a library card! 
http://americanforkcityut.oneclickdigital.com/Advanced%20Search.aspx?q=#headertop

Check with the A.F. Library, too, about joining the Teen Book Club on your email account.  It's a great way to sample books.

Did ya know? 

Summer Reading I

Read this summer -- maybe you'll find your favorite book!

Thanks to Scholastic Teachers!

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Yearbook Signing and J-Dawgs during lunch
All 8 periods in one day

Yearbook Signing

Modified Schedule for May 30th

8:15-9:00                          A1                    (45 Minutes) Pass out Yearbooks

9:05-9:40                          A2                    (35 Minutes)

9:45-10:20                        A3                    (35 Minutes)

10:25-11:00                      A4                    (35 Minutes)

11:00-11:45                      1st lunch           (45 Minutes)

11:50-12:45                      B5                    (55 Minutes)

11:05-12:00                      B5                    (55 Minutes)

12:00-1:25                       2nd Lunch         (45 Minutes)

12:50-1:25                       B6                     (35 Minutes)

1:30-2:05                        B7                      (35 Minutes)

2:10-2:45                        B8                      (35 Minutes)

Please post this list for lunches for Yearbook day.  Lunch is based on B1 class.

Lunch Schedule

1st Lunch                                                            2nd Lunch

Adams                                                            Anstead

Aiman                                                             Bates

Barson                                                            Behm

Bryson                                                            Biddulph

Carter                                                             Cotterell

Clayton                                                            Dean

Crawford                                                         Dibb

Dallon                                                             Dorsey

Earl                                                                Earling

Grow                                                              Eddington                                   

Hadlock                                                            Fugal

Hansen                                                            C Gadd

Lemon                                                            Heng

Major                                                              Karjala

McCleskey                                                     Lyde

Newton                                                            Macfarlane

Ormond                                                            Maucotel

Paulsen                                                            McNeil

Roth                                                                 Memmott

Schow                                                            Moon

Scott                                                                Morrey

Seminary                                                        Olson

W Smith                                                          Packer

Somers                                                            D. Smith

Steed                                                              Starker

Steffes                                                            Underwood

Thornton                                                          Ward

Way                                                                  Wicks

Welch                                                               Wright

Everybody needs to be in Class.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Present PowerPoints in class.
You must have your PowerPoint ready to show at the beginning of class.  Bring it on a flash drive.
This is when you will receive the points for your PowerPoints and when you will also earn points when you evaluate your classmates PowerPoints.



Students also retook the SRI.

Lexile Levels -- SRI Test

 

Finding Websites -- Using Search Engines and Databases

The Website Checklists

Putting Together the Presentation

 

Originally published on 2012-05-06 

External Text Features

This is one of the external text features we were talking about! Tee-hee!

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading Time
San Diego testing

Partner Fluency with a Twist of the Tongue 

Finish review of Reading Strategies:   See tabs above for Getting Acquainted with Reading Strategies and Fix-Up Strategies.

• Internal Text Structures 
• Fix-up strategies
• Determining Importance and Summarizing

End-of-Class Survey

Time to meet with partner




Extra credit:

Extra Credit -- Population

Extra Credit: Memorize a Summer Poem

Extra Credit: Summer Reading

 

Your last day to hand in late or revised  work  is Friday, May 25.  

 

Finding Websites -- Using Search Engines and Databases

The Website Checklists

Putting Together the Presentation

 

 

Friday, May 18, 2012

Reminder:  Don't forget that you need to bring your PowerPoints -- finished, ready to show -- on May 24.  Also, if you haven't handed in all of your website checklists -- or revised them if needed, get that done as soon as possible.

Self-Starter:   Individual Reading and Fill out Reading Log
(Retesting for San Diego Quick Test)

2. Partner Fluency


3. Time to meet with your celebrity project partner?

4.  Using Reading Strategies as you read the Internet.
See the tab above for Getting Acquainted with Reading Strategies 
More on Titanoboa!

External Text Features:
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/sn/show.do?show=140671


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/How-Titanoboa-the-40-Foot-Long-Snake-Was-Found.html#



 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/videos/Titanoboa-at-the-Zoo.html


Today we discussed internal text structures and external text features.  We looked at how external text features look in books compared to how they show up on websites.  We also considered how they help us.

Recognizing Text Patterns (Internal Text Structures) Text Patterns are the ways the authors organize their writing.  They might organize the information as SEQUENCE, CHRONOLOGICAL, LIST, COMPARE AND CONTRAST, CAUSE AND EFFECT (Storyworks: Cause and Effect), QUESTION/ANSWER, PROBLEM/SOLUTION,  or DESCRIPTION, or a combination of patterns.
	Using  External Text Features   External Text Features are helps that aren’t just the main body of writing.  They include headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, tables of contents, sidebars, annotations, italics, etc.

originally published on May 6, 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Today we have a computer lab!   

You will need your thumb drive. You will not be able to access your student drive from the lab we will be in -- Lab 180 in the math trailers.
 
Celebrity PowerPoint due by the end of class.

 See   Putting Together the Presentation

Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   

 

First published 2012-05-06

Monday, May 14, 2012

Self-Starter:   Individual Reading and Fill out Reading Log
(Begin Retesting for San Diego Quick Test)

2. Partner Fluency

3.  Using Reading Strategies as you read the Internet.
See the tab above for Getting Acquainted with Reading Strategies 


External Text Features:
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/sn/show.do?show=140671


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/How-Titanoboa-the-40-Foot-Long-Snake-Was-Found.html#




 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/videos/Titanoboa-at-the-Zoo.html

Originally Published:  2012-05-06

Readwalking

"Readwalking through life can be dangerous, but more often it is delightful."

From the International Reading Association

Thursday, May 10, 2012

 Self-Starter:  Individual Reading Time
 -- Don't forget to fill out your reading log entirely for each day we read in class.


Partner Fluency Practice -- Pick up a new passage.


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

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


Samples
Example Checklist for Evaluating Websites.doc
PowerPoint and Template

Originally published 05-06-12

Farewell to Maurice Sendak

Farewell to Maurice Sendak Who Died Today

Giant Snake Eats Man!?

On Facebook the other day, a friend posted a link to a story about the Giant Snake that had eaten a Security Guard.  See YouTube for the video about "Giant Snake Eats Security Guard."  This was the picture that went with the story as posted on Facebook.

Picture found on Google search for Giant Snake Eats Man

See this for more information about the picture.  
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/electric-fence-snake.shtml

Electric Fence Snake

Snake eats security Guard – Found Picture on Hoax Slayer

Detailed Analysis
These photographs of a large snake that has died after being caught in an electric fence have been circulating since 2005. The photographs are genuine. However, in most versions of the message, the description that accompanies the images is inaccurate.

The version discussed here claims that the snake was caught on an Australian sheep farm after the owner put up an electric fence to kerb the mysterious disappearance of some of his sheep. A number of other versions have similar cover stories set in different areas of the world.

In fact, the photographs were taken on the Silent Valley Game Ranch in Limpopo Province, South Africa. A web page on the game ranch website explains:

The snake in this picture had eaten a full grown Impala ewe and, sadly, caught itself in an electric fence.

Over four metres in length, this was a large specimen. When the python was skinned we found a full grown Impala ewe had just been swallowed.

The African Rock Python is identified as the third largest species of snake in the world.
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And an update  on big snakes from NPR -- August 15, 2012 --
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/14/158755875/floridas-biggest-python-so-far-measured-17-feet-7-inches-had-87-eggs?utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20120814

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading and fill out reading log.
2. Partner fluency.

3.  The need for speed?  Effective readers vary their speed depending on the reading task. 
     Students did an exercise for scanning.
4.  We viewed a sample PowerPoint for the celebrity project.
5.  Students did another Inner Voices assignment with an Internet article titled "Back to the Future."  

Extra Credit -- Population Density

Can you use the internet to find information?
Find the most and least densely populated countries in the world.  Come and tell me about them.

Forever Free

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” - Frederick Douglass

Extra Credit

Extra credit: 

Extra Credit -- Population

Extra Credit: Memorize a Summer Poem

Extra Credit: Summer Reading

or do a marvelous job on your PowerPoint!

Lexile Scores for Popular Books

Twilight  720L

New Moon  690L

Eclipse 

Fablehaven

Goose Girl 870L

Lexile levels  books

BFG  720

Sabriel 960?

Liriel 

The Winter Room 1100+

Gregor And The Code Of Claw            Collins, Suzanne            730L

              0439656230            Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloo            Collins, Suzanne            710L

              0439791456            Gregor and the Marks of Secret            Collins, Suzanne            730L

              0439650755            Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane            Collins, Suzanne            680L

              0439435366            Gregor the Overlander            Collins, Suzanne            630L

Gregor the Overlander  -- Suzanne Collins  Underland Chronicles 630L

Kite Runner 840L

Screwtape Letters 1250L

_________________________ 1098+

Lexile Level  1098   -- Books 1098-1248L

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley  1030L                                                               Fantasy

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt  1100L                                                                   Historical Fiction

The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green 1110                  Classic/Adventure

Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza 1140L                                                                            Multicultural

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit 1170L                                                               Fantasy

Born Free by Joy Adamson 1180L                                                                             Animal

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman  1170L                                        Historical Fiction

Dragondrums            McCaffrey, Anne            1120L                                                            Fantasy

Hero and the Crown, The            McKinley, Robin            1120L                                       Fantasy

            This is a favorite among many other writers of fantasy.

Midwife's Apprentice, The            Cushman, Karen            1240L                                        Historical Fiction

Pride and Prejudice            Austen, Jane            1100L                                                            Romance/Classic

Princess and Curdie, The            MacDonald, George            1120L                                         Fairy Tale/Fantasy

Rascal            North, Sterling            1140L                                                                                    Animal

Seventeenth Summer            Daly, Maureen            1130L                                                     Realistic Fiction/Romance

Sword in the Stone, The            White, T.H.            1120L                                                     Fantasy/King Arthur

Sword of Shannara, The            Brooks, Terry            1220L                                                Fantasy

Treasure Island            Stevenson, Robert Louis            1100L                                                     Classic/Adventure

Trumpeter of Krakow, The            Kelly, Eric P.            1200L                                                Historical Fiction           

Up a Road Slowly            Hunt, Irene            1130L                                                            Realistic Fiction

When Will This Cruel War Be Over?            Denenberg, Barry            1140L               Historical Fiction

Winter Room, The            Paulsen, Gary            1170L                                                            Realistic Fiction

Wizard of Earthsea, A            Le Guin, Ursula K.            1150L                                     Fantasy

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