August 30, 2012, Thursday

August 30, 2012, Thursday

I.  Individual Reading time and fill out log.

II. Computer Lab 211

A. Sign on to Edmodo:  http://www.edmodo.com

1. Select "I'm a Student."
2. Type in the group code you are given.
3. Your username is your last name first name day of the month of your birthday.  (no spaces)
4.  For example, if my name is Sue Jones and I was born on September 3, mine would be jonessue3.
5. Your password is your student number. 
6. Do not enter an email.
7. Because this is a safe site and you will be handing in assignments here,  please use your real name for first name and last name.  

B.   Look for a celebrity.
     1.  Look for the assignment on Edmodo:  Search and Select a Famous Person

     2.  Open the attached file.   Preview, then download.
     3.  Follow the directions and type your answers on that document.
     4.  Make sure you fill out the form at the end of the document about which famous person(s) you've chosen, and whether you'd like to work with a partner. (Partner's work on the same person, but have to use 6 resources.)
     5. Turn your assignment in by uploading it to Edmodo.  See the Turn In button by the date due.  (Also save it on your flash drive.)

Important note:  If you don't finish today, finish it at home as soon as you can.  Students who finish their Search Assignments first get to select their celebrities first.

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Computer Lab Dates:
B5-B6
August 30 -- 211         Search and Select         Assignment on Edmodo.  Turn in on Edmodo.
September 10 -- 211   Research
September 12 --210    Research
September  18 -- 201  Finish research and work on PowerPoints
September 24 - 201    Work on PowerPoints, extra research if needed
September 26 -- 201   Finish up PowerPoint Presentations
September 28 -- 201   Your project is due and will be presented on this day. 
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A few ideas for  famous people:
Check the list you received in class -- recommendations from other teachers.
Here are some more suggestions: 
Hugh Jackman
Julie Krone
Louis Braille
Helen Keller
Mary Wirt (if you like horses)
Patch Adams (funny doctor)
Paul Winchell
Caroll Spinney
P.T. Barnum (circus!)
Mattie Stepanek


Consider researching one of these "Six Cool Dudes. . . . "
http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000183686 

Find other ideas here:
Sources about Famous People:
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/index.php   library of congress
Meet Amazing Americans

People of the Old West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/

illustrations
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/index.html

women writers -- with information about the person who put this site together!
http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/index.html

Here is a site for Presidents of the United States:
http://millercenter.org/president

Don't Forget to Bring a Book to Read.

 "Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

-Lemony Snicket
Thank you to Goodreads!

Old documents from Fall 2012 R1

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Old Versions -- No longer used
Fall 2012 Internet Reading Project

Checklist:  Famous Person Project Checklist.docx
See also recent posts on this blog for instructions and examples. 

Find the basic template for your Search and Select Document here:
Famous Person Search and Select 2012.doc

 Find the basic template for your ABC Website Evaluation and Notes here:
ABC Website Evaluation Version 4.doc

Please remember that Wikipedia is not allowed as a source, and that 2 or 3 of the sources you use here should be from the sources you found on the Search and Select assignment.  

Find the PowerPoint template here: 
Your Admirable Famous Person (a Hero) PowerPoint

How to create the last slide of your PowerPoint -- Your works cited list or bibliography:
If you are using World Book or SIRS, look at the bottom of the article for the Citation, copy it, and save it.  
If you are using a website or article that doesn't include a citation, you can make it as directed here:
Creating a Bibliography

Grading -- Here is how your project is graded: 

Grading for Famous Person Project

How to Use and Improve Your Background Knowledge

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How to use your background knowledge:

o   Before you read something new, check your background knowledge to see what you already know about that.  Keep checking as you read and run into new topics and ideas.

o   Make connections between related subjects, between what you already know and what you don’t yet understand.   This is like this, or this applies to that. 

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How to Improve Your Background Knowledge   

1.     Read.

2.     Read, read.

3.     Read, read, read.

4.     If you don’t understand a subject, look for books for kids about it, or look for something like a  ____________ for Dummies book or a book that explains a complicated subject with cartoons or illustrations. 

5.     Watch educational TV shows and documentaries, listen to educational radio programs.

6.     Go to all sorts of museums and zoos and living history programs.

7.     Pay attention in class.  Teachers want to help you understand.

8.     Pay attention in general.  Observe!

9.     Talk to many different kinds of people.  Ask questions!

10. Live! 

Why?  
 Because the more you know, the more you can learn.
And . . . It's so fun to be the intended audience!
   See clip from Emperor's New Groove.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRW44uCUTN4
  Ms. Dorsey and her daughter were the intended audience!
       Maybe you were, too!

 

Examples for Background Knowledge

Video Clips:  T.S. Parody -- Zombies  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5bL5mZk8hk
                      Preschool Musical   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMB7Rn8KGE

Link to source

Link to Source

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/01/154126307/double-take-toons-bye-bye-big-gulp

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/10/158588508/double-take-toons-going-postal

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/10/158490708/double-take-toons-cant-beat-this-heat

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/08/26/103019  By Steve Kelley - August 26, 2012

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/08/22/102910  By Robert Ariail - August 22, 2012

http://www.npr.org/2012/07/25/157291106/double-take-toons-still-riding-high

Link to Source

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/08/27/103070 By Bob Gorrell - August 27, 2012

August 28, 2012, Tuesday

Period B5
Individual Reading Time
(San Diego Quick Testing -- the one in the hall)
Fluency Practice

Lesson on Background Knowledge 
1. Laffy Taffy Assignment  -- Answer the questions on the handout.
      Yes, you may eat the candy, but we won't force you.

2.  Do you know enough to laugh?
        Political cartoons
        Parodies 

3.  Are you the "intended audience"? 


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Period B6 

Individual Reading 

2nd period:  10 am  We will go to an assembly with the author of Michael Vey.

We had time to read and participate in fluency practice.

 
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See   Welcome and Needed Supplies if you've just added the class.

August 24, 2012

Individual Reading Time:
Bring your own book, or select other reading material from our classroom.  You may read the same book that you are reading for your English class.   (20)

(San Diego Quick Testing)

Reading Stamina
Checking out books 
What you can read . . . . .   But . . . . 


"I'm Readin' a Book!" 

Hear from an Expert on Reading Brian Regan on Reading   (7)
        Is he an expert on reading?   

Fluency Practice   (8)
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Teacher Notes -- Under Construction

Noticing your own Thinking and Using Reading Strategies 

Do you read the Internet?   How are your Internet Reading Skills and Strategies? 


What do I already know about the Internet?  

What is the best way to use the Internet for Research?

• Google  George Washington   How many hits? 
• Personal?  Other? 
• Are they all about the first President of the United States? 
• Narrow?  "George Washington"  biography
• What about Wikipedia?  
• Who writes this stuff? 

Vocabulary:  What is a URL?

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About our Project:  

People Worth Knowing:  A Hero Project

Whom could you choose?

Write your ideas in your planner.

Finding Reliable and Useful Resources 
Pioneer:  
 http://pioneer.uen.org/k12/
User Name and Password

http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/frontpage

Notable People  ---- Topics/Subtopics
World Book -- Lists at World Book Kids
World Book Student --
Powell, Colin Luther
Back to Sirs Discoverer

How do you know if a site is reliable? http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/  

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


Computer Lab Dates:
B5-B6
August 30 -- 211         Effective Research and Internet Safety            Selecting a "hero" to research 
September 10 -- 211   Research
September 12 --211    Research
September  18 -- 201  Finish research and work on PowerPoints
September 24 - 201    Work on PowerPoints, extra research if needed
September 26 -- 201   Finish up PowerPoint Presentations
September 28 -- 201   Your project is due and will be presented on this day. 

Teacher Recommendations for Famous People You Could Research

 

See   Welcome and Needed Supplies if you've just added the class.

August 22, 2012

This is what you'll do today:
1. Find your seat.  See the seating chart on the desk nearest the door.
2. Select a book from the clear plastic boxes in front of the wire baskets, take it with you to your seat, and begin reading it.
3. Book Pass.  
The teacher will tell you which way to pass the books.

• Look at the cover.
• Read the blurb on the back of the book.
• Begin reading at the beginning of the book, and keep reading until you're told to stop.
• Book frenzy -- Politely negotiate with classmates to get back the book you would most like to read during the next 15 minutes.

4. Individual Reading Time and receive Reading Log. 
5.  Record your reading for today.  
6.  Receive and fill out the Reading 7 Interest Inventory.
7.  Fluency Practice -- Listen for Instructions.
8.  Disclosure Document and Quiz (Period B5 did not have time to take the quiz, so they took it for homework.)

Reading 7 Teachers

Mrs. Fugal

Ms. Dorsey

                                                                           Mr. Gillis

7 Ways to Inspire Your Kids to Love Reading

I don't always read the Daily Herald Deals (usually considered junk mail at my house), but I spotted this article, read it, and wanted to share it with you. I found it again on MomClick, and it turns out it is by a Charlotte Meryman and was originally (I think) published  in Family Fun Magazine.

http://www.heraldextra.com/momclick/parenting/ways-to-inspire-your-kids-to-love-reading/article_d525e725-39a8-5ac5-8eca-da01fee0828f.html

The Book to Read

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird

Your Admirable Famous Person (a Hero) PowerPoint

What should be on the PowerPoint:


Your PowerPoint will have 8 slides (or up to 11).

Here is the template you may use to make creating your PowerPoint quicker and easier.
Open this link, then click on the "Download" tab to open the template.  
Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt


The slides will include these, in this order:

1. cover slide with picture 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 or more  bullets of information: Life Before Fame (birth, childhood, youth)
   
3. Information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 or more bullets of information: How He/She Became Famous
4. Information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 or more bullets of information:  Obstacles He or She Overcame (or) Why He/She is Admirable
5. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Major Accomplishments
6. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Personal Life (family, hobbies, like or dislikes, quotes)
   
7. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Other Interesting Information
8. bibliography slide with a heading and 3 or 6 citations created using bibme and/or citations provided by the database or encyclopedia
   

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 famous person 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?

Creating a Bibliography

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

  http://www.bibme.org/


Try it.  When you first get to it, you need to click on the orange tab in the center for  "Website."

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 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 proved on bibme. 
5. Click on "Load Info." 
6. If needed, fill in the title of the article. 
7. 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.   On EBSCO it may  be given at either the top or the bottom of the article.
8. If there is not a current date last updated or a particular date published, you could use the copyright year -- again at the bottom of the page. Often the sponsor or publisher is next to the copyright date.  
9. Fill in the information you find in the appropriate spaces. (For most entries there is NOT a version number.)
10. Look for an author (writer) of the information.  Add that if there is one.  If not, click on "No Author."
11. Scroll down and click on Add to My Bibliography. 
12. Look in the right hand column for the bibliography entry created for you. Copy that and save it in the cell for the citation for that source.

Use bibme as an easy way to create bibliography entries -- unless you are using an online encyclopedia or other source (such as SIRS Discoverer) that gives  a bibliography entry at the bottom of the web page!   In that case, copy the citation given for that article or entry and paste it onto your document.  Biography Reference Center also gives you an already made citation.  Just click on the golden/yellow page icon at the top right, and use the one labeled " MLA."

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/

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