Thursday, October 4, 2012

Read-a-Thon
Bring books to read, treats (if you'd like), and perhaps a pillow to sit on!

1. Individual Reading time and fill out reading log.
2. Partner Fluency Practice
3. Finish Internet Crossword. 
4.  Prizes!

Hand in Web Checklists and PowerPoints if not previously done. 

Make up fluency work, if needed. 
Prepare  your folders for your next rotation.

•     You will leave the fluency passages and plastic page covers.  
•      You will leave the S.E. Hinton articles.
•       Next time you will go to Mrs. Fugal's classroom to begin your next rotation of reading class.

Joining Edmodo

If you do NOT already have an Edmodo account.

To join Edmodo, go to http://www.edmodo.com

You'll see a screen that looks like this, and you will select I'M A STUDENT.

You'll enter your class code in the provided box.

Your user name should be your lastnamefirstname without capital letters or spaces.
Your password is your student number.  
Do NOT enter an email address.

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If you already have an Edmodo account, sign in, and follow these steps.

• Look to the left side for "Groups."  
• Click on "Join."
• Type in the group code for this reading class.
• Click on "Join." 

September 28, 2012

September 28 is Picture Make-Up Day
Ms. Dorsey will be available after school on Thursday, September 27 for students to use Lab 211 to finish up their PowerPoints.  If you have handed in your PowerPoint, check back once in awhile (under Grades) to see if Ms. Dorsey has left you notes and/or an annotated version of your own PowerPoint, to help you make corrections and get full points.  Most of them will still just say "Turned In," but I may have already added notes.

September 28:

Show PowerPoints

All ABC Evaluations should be complete and turned in. 

September 26, 2012

1. Individual Reading and fill out your reading log.


2. Finish PowerPoints.  We will present the PowerPoints in class on Friday, so you must be done.

Open this link, then click on the "Download" tab to open the template.  
Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt

Mock Trial Team meets today during Cave Time.  If you're interested, come to room 206.

September 24, 2012 Monday

You do not need to get out your folders today.  We will be going to the computer lab as soon as we can get ready. 

We will be in the computer lab again today,  Monday the 24th,  and Wednesday the 26th.
Notice that your PowerPoint is due by the end of class on the 26th, and we will be sharing them on the 28th.

If you need to see any of the documents or templates, see the tab above for  "Famous Person Project: Instructions and Downloads." 

Today's agenda: 
1. Prepare to go into the computer lab to work on your PowerPoint (or web evaluations if you haven't finished them).   Check your Edmodo account for any notes from Ms. Dorsey.  
We are in Lab 201 today.

September 20, 2012 Thursday

Parent-Teacher Conference tonight.

1.  Individual quiet reading
2.  Fluency Partners.

3. Using Reading Strategies

• questioning
• determining importance
• skim and scan
• visualizing

4. Taking notes -- whole class practice


Notes:
We will be in the computer lab again on Monday the 24th and Wednesday the 26th.
Notice that your PowerPoint is due by the end of class on the 26th, and we will be sharing them on the 28th.

Grading for Famous Person Project

  If you need to see any of the documents or templates, see the tab above for  "Famous Person Project: Instructions and Downloads."

September 18, 2012

September 18, 2012

Today's Schedule: 
1. Individual Reading and Fill Out Reading Log
2. Review of requirements
4. Computer Lab --  Lab 201 for B5 and B6. 

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What's due?  
1.  Search and Select:  
     Find sources using specific databases, a site, and a specific search engine.
     Indicate which admirable famous people you'd like to learn more about. 
           Get your person approved.
2. ABC Website Evaluation #1 completed -- questions about one site, and notes page filled out.
           Make sure you have the citation for this site.  
3.  ABC Website Evaluation #2 completed -- questions about one site (a second site about the same person), and notes page filled out.
           Make sure you have the citation for this site.  
4.  ABC Website Evaluation #3 completed -- questions about one site (a third site about the same person), and notes page filled out.
           Make sure you have the citation for this site.  
5.  Your PowerPoint (use the template) made using the notes you took on  ABC Website Evaluations 1, 2, and 3.  

•             All but one slide will have illustrations. 
•             All but two (cover and bibliography) will have 4 or a couple more bullets of  interesting information about this person. 

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See a sample PowerPoint. Do not use this one as a template.  Just view it: Margaret Thatcher 3.ppt

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

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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 other sources that don't already provide a citation, use Bibme.org.  Here are some directions:  Creating a Bibliography
 

 For example, I researched Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court judge.     

Citing Sources 

SIRS:   http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000327262
It's right there!  Look at the bottom of the article.
 "Ginsburg, Ruth Bader." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 17 Sep 2012. 


World Book:   http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar224835&st=ginsburg
It's right there!  Look at the bottom of the article.
Hutchinson, Dennis J. "Ginsburg, Ruth Bader." World Book Student. World Book, 2012. Web. 17 Sept. 2012.

EBSCO Host: Student Research Center:   
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mih&AN=11032658&site=src-live
I made it with  bibme.org.
  Monroe, Jennifer. "Our States: U.S. Government & Civic Leaders:Ruth Bader Ginsberg." EBSCO Publishing Service Selection Page. Great Neck Publishing, n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2012. .

Academy of Achievement:  http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gin0int-1
I made it with bibme.org.
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg Interview -- Academy of Achievement." Academy of Achievement Main Menu. American Academy of Achievement, 23 Sept. 2010. Web. 17 Sept. 2012. .  

 iSeek Search Engine: 
I made it with bibme.org. 

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/ruth_bader_ginsburg/index.html
"Times Topics: Ruth Bader Ginsburg." The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 29 June 2012. Web. 17 Sept. 2012. . 

Computer Lab Dates:
B5-B6
August 30 -- 211         Search and Select         Assignment on Edmodo.  Turn in on Edmodo.
September 10 -- 211   Research
September 12 --211    Research

  September 14   -- Research
September  18 -- 201  Finish research and work on PowerPoints 

                                    -- Use Bibme to create citations.  
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. 

Your documents and projects will still receive up to full points (depending on how much and how well you do on them) up until the 28th.  You may revise and resubmit work up until the end of the rotation.   

September 14, 2012 Friday

Hooray!  We will be able to use the computer lab for part of the period again today!

Don't forget to bring your Flash Drive/Thumb Drive  today!

Today's Schedule: 
1. Individual Reading and Fill Out Reading Log
2. Fluency Partners Practice
3. Review of how to fill in and upload projects. 
4. Computer Lab --  Lab 201 for B5, Lab 211 for B6

To get back to the SIRS and other Pioneer URL's you've saved. 

                                                      [World Book, EBSCO]

1. Open http://pioneer.uen.org 

     (Log in if you are at home.)

2. Open whichever database or encyclopedia you want to use.

3.  Open a new tab and paste in the URL you saved into the navigation/address bar. 

         That should open the article.

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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 --211    Research
MAYBE:  September 14, too?  
September  18 -- 201  Finish research and work on PowerPoints 
                                    -- Use Bibme to create citations.  
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. 

Your documents and projects will still receive up to full points (depending on how much and how well you do on them) up until the 28th.  You may revise and resubmit work up until the end of the rotation.   

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  Fall 2012 Internet Reading Project Templates 
Find the Famous Person Project Checklist here:
Famous Person Project Checklist.docx

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:  You will each fill out three of these -- one for each source you are using for your famous person. 
ABC Website Evaluation Version 4.doc

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

September 12, 2012

1. Individual Reading and log
2. Computer Lab
Demo: Download and  Upload a document.
Demo: Use your links to get back to the sources.

To get back to the SIRS and other Pioneer URL's you've saved. 

                                                      [World Book, EBSCO]

1. Open http://pioneer.uen.org 

     (Log in if you are at home.)

2. Open whichever database or encyclopedia you want to use.

3.  Open a new tab and paste in the URL you saved into the navigation/address bar. 

         That should open the article.

Famous Person Presentation

Project Checklist

Research

Complete the following and submit the following online through

                                                         Edmodo:

☐ Search & Select  (Due Sept. 10)

☐ ABC #1 for first source  (Due Sept. 10)

☐ ABC #2 for second source  (Due Sept. 12)

☐ ABC #3 for third source     (Due Sept. 18)

After completing and turning in the above, get to work on your PowerPoint.

Create these slides for your PowerPoint Presentation:

☐	Slide 1 6 points	You will make a cover slide with a picture of your famous person, that person’s name, and your name(s).
☐	Slide 2 12 points	Question #1: What can I find out about my famous person’s life before he or she became famous? (include a graphic and four bullet-points)
☐	Slide 3 12 points	Question #2: How did my famous person become famous? (include a graphic and four bullet-points)
☐	Slide 4  12 points	Questions #3:  What obstacles (problems) did my famous person face?  or What makes my famous person admirable? (include a graphic and four bullet-points)
☐	Slide 5 12 points	Question #4: What are his or her major accomplishments? (include a graphic and four bullet-points)
☐	Slide 6 12 points	Question #5:  What can I learn about his or her personal life? (family, hobbies, etc.) (include a graphic and four bullet-points)
☐	Slide 7 12 points	Question #6: What other interesting information have I found out about him or her? (include a graphic and four bullet-points)
☐	Slide 8 12 points	This is your Bibliography (also called Works Cited) slide.

All should have been turned in (and revised, if needed) by : Friday, September 28

 

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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 --211    Research
MAYBE:  September 14, too?  
September  18 -- 201  Finish research and work on PowerPoints 
                                    -- Use Bibme to create citations.  
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.

A Bookstore is. . . .

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

  -- Jerry Seinfeld

Do You Recognize the Author of This Quote?

Books! Books!

Books!

September 10, 2012

September 10, 2012:  
Computer Lab Day    Research on Your Famous Person

Today: Pick up your manila folder.

•  Individual Reading Time in the classroom.
•  Look at examples of assignments.
•  Computer Lab 211 -- Take  your thumb drive.
• Have you finished your Search and Select Paper?  If not, finish it up and turn it in.
• Begin filling out your first ABC Website Evaluations for your first source -- of the sources you found on your Search and Select assignment.  Due today by the end of class or finish as homework as soon as possible.
•  Find the ABC1 document (on Edmodo) to fill out and turn in on http://www.edmodo.com

Note:  Today is a shorter day-- Early Out Monday.  Class ends at 9:25 for B5   and 10:45 for B6.
Due by the end of class today:
1. Search and Select -- 
     Turned in on Edmodo. 
     Make sure you save your work before you upload it. 
2.  The first ABC Website Evaluation.  
     Find it on Edmodo.  
     Complete it, including notes, 
         save it, 
         and turn it in on Edmodo.
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To get back to the SIRS and other Pioneer URL's you've saved. 
                                                      [World Book, EBSCO]
1. Open http://pioneer.uen.org 
     (Log in if you are at home.)
2. Open whichever database or encyclopedia you want to use.
3.  Open a new tab and paste in the URL you saved into the navigation/address bar. 
         That should open the article.

Great Technology

September 6, 2012 Thursday

September 6, 2012   Thursday

• Please pick up your manila folder from the black crates at the front of the room.
• Hand in your disclosure document if you have not yet done that.
• At home -- finish up your Edmoto assignment -- "Search and Select" -- as soon as possible.  Turn it in on Edmodo. 

Today's Agenda: 
1. Individual Reading Time and fill out log (20 minutes)
2. Fluency Practice with partners

Research Project:   Calendar and List Below
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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 --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. 
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Project Steps:
Search and Select -- This is the new, improved, easier-to-use version:     hero_sign_up_r1_fall_2012Bills.doc
Web Evaluations  ABC's   ABC Website Evaluation Version 4.doc

 You will do one of these ABC Evaluations for each site you use for research (at least 3 for an individual or 6 for a partnership).  
Remember to save each one with a different name. 
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September 4, 2012 Tuesday

September 4, 2012   Tuesday

• Please pick up your folder from the black crates at the front of the room.
• Hand in your disclosure document if you have not yet done that.
• Finish up your Edmoto assignment -- Search and Select -- as soon as possible.  Turn it in on Edmodo. 

Today's Agenda: 
1. Individual Reading Time and fill out log (20 minutes)
2. Fluency Practice

3.  Reading Strategy:  Asking Questions   

Ask questions while researching information about 
your famous person (hero): 

• What was this person's life like before he or she became famous?  
• Where and when was he/she born?
• What was his/her childhood like?
• What was his/her youth like?  education?  adventures?  

• How did this person become famous?
• What obstacles did he or she overcome?
• Why is he or she admirable?
• What were his or her accomplishments?  
• What was his or her personal life like?     Answer any of the following questions: 
• Was this person married and did he or she have children?
• Did he or she have hobbies or other jobs?
• Did he or she have certain likes and/or dislikes?
• Are there famous quotes from this person?   
• What other interesting information would I like to include? 

Your Admirable Famous Person (a Hero) PowerPoint

   

4.  Evaluating Websites:  Determining Whether a Site is Useful and Reliable

ABC Website Evaluation Version 4.doc

Fill out 3 or 6 of these with information about the famous person you selected.

Creating a Bibliography

Fun with Reading