 |
| Why not try it this summer? |
Thursday, May 31, 2012
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.
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! |
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Yearbook Signing and J-Dawgs during lunch
All 8 periods in one day
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.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
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.
End-of-Class Survey
Time to meet with partner
Extra credit:
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
Thursday, May 17, 2012
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
Monday, May 14, 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
(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
Friday, May 11, 2012
Readwalking
"Readwalking through life can be dangerous, but more often it is delightful."
From the International Reading Association
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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
-- 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
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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 |
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/electric-fence-snake.shtml
Monday, May 7, 2012
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:
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.
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.
__________________________________
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
__________________________________
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
Sunday, May 6, 2012
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."
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.
Find the most and least densely populated countries in the world. Come and tell me about them.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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+
_________________________ 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
____________________________________
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)