Friday, November 2, 2012

1.  Individual Reading and fill out your reading log
2.   Partner Fluency Practice 

3. Review on how to turn in your work.

• Save your work in a place that's easy to find again.
• Sign into Edmodo.
• Upload your assignment with the Attach: File icon.  
• Add a comment if desired, and click on Turn In Assignment.

• If you have already turned it in, turn in a new version --
• Save your work in a place that's easy to find again.
• Sign into Edmodo.
• Go to your own Grades.
• Click on the assignment you want to resubmit.
• If it hasn't been graded yet, you can use the "Resubmit" button.
• Find the assignment you've just done (You can click on the assignment link at the left of the page to narrow your choices.)   
• Upload your assignment with the Attach: File icon.  
• Add a comment if desired, and click on Add Comment button.
• If it has been turned in, use the next comment box below that and use the Attach:File icon and Add Comment.

Turning in PowerPoints:  

• You must save them on your thumbdrive or in your student drive. 
•  Remember to "Save As," 
• and to  add your name to the name of the PowerPoint.  
• Turn them in using the PowerPoint assignment. 

Sample PowerPoint (DO NOT use this one as a template.)  Margaret Thatcher 3.ppt 



4. Hooray!  We did get some more time in the Computer Lab!
Computer Lab 201 
To access Pioneer from home:
pioneer
online 

In case you need one of the documents again, here they are:

 Who’s Your Hero Suggestions.docx

Hero Search and Select R2.doc

ABCCombined R2Website Evaluations.doc


Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

1.  Individual Reading and fill out your reading log
2.   Partner Fluency Practice 

3. Getting Back into your URLs:
      a.  Go to the school homepage, Resources, and open Pioneer Library.   (If at home, log-in with pioneer and online.)
      b1.  Open the databases, etc. you used:  World Book, SIRS, EBSCO (Searchasaurus,  Kids Search, or Student Research Center)
      b2.   Open Biography Reference Center by going to the school homepage, Resources, clicking on Biography Reference Center, logging in with afjh and caveman.
         c.    If your URL doesn't open in the database or encyclopedia, once you have the above open,  make a new tab and paste the URL there.


4.  Computer Lab 201
On Edmodo, check for notes to you from the teacher.
  
For helps and what you need to have done, refer to your HeroProjectChecklistR2.doc  

Today in the lab:
Finish up your Evaluating and Taking Notes.
Any of the work you do not finish in class becomes homework, so stay on task and ask questions as you need to. 

• Make sure you have 24 great facts to use in your PowerPoint.
• Make sure you have the bibliography (citation) for each of your sources.    

Once you have those, begin your PowerPoint using this template:  Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt

Any of the work you do not finish in class becomes homework, so stay on task and ask questions as you need to.

In case you need one of the documents again, here they are:

 Who’s Your Hero Suggestions.docx

Hero Search and Select R2.doc

ABCCombined R2Website Evaluations.doc



Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt

October 29, 2012

1.  Individual Reading and Fill out your reading log.

2.  Computer Lab 211
Refer to your HeroProjectChecklistR2.doc  

1. You should have already completed and handed in your Search and Select document.
2. You should have requested and been approved for your selected hero. 
3. You should have filled out questions 1-6 on the Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes Sheet (also called the ABC Website Evaluation). 

If you didn't get any of those done, complete them today.
  

By the end of the period today you should --
                             

• Have questions 7-13 for all three sources filled out, if you haven't already.   [20 points due October 29] 
•  Fill out the notes page and create your bibliographies for all three sources by the end of class on October 29.   Take notes in your own words.

[20 points due October 29]                                                               

Anything above that you have not completed should be done as homework -- at home or during cavetime or after school -- and should be all done by this Friday!   

 

These are samples:   

Sample Search and Select SampleNixAdamsLowry.docx

ABCSampleCombined R2LowryWebsite Evaluations.doc

ABCSampleCombined R2AdamsWebsite Evaluations.doc


Other Helps:

Choosing My Hero to Research

Turning in Work on Edmodo

 

 

October 25, 2012

Roll/Hand out cavetime slips.

If you have not 

• handed in your Search and Select document, have not 
• reserved your "hero," or have not 
• answered the first five questions on the Evaluating and Taking Notes on Sources document 
• and turned them in, you need to finish that up as homework (or during cavetime) by Thursday night.

We will be in computer lab 201, but today instead of working on your hero project, you will complete an exercise about avoiding plagiarism.  

• Today it is important to read and follow the instructions here and on your worksheet. 

• You will open and leave open this post here on our class blog. 
•  You may help each other, but don't just do it for someone else or just give them all the answers. 

Activity 1. Computer Lab
 Learning about plagiarism
(In case you are absent, here is the handout to print if you would like to complete this at home: Plagiarism Computer Exercise Worksheet2012.doc

Computer lab for Plagiarism exercise
Part I: 
1. Learning about Plagiarism
2.  Receive the  document:     Plagiarism Computer Exercise 
a. Use the link here to go to   http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#
b. Listen to and read along with the information about plagiarism.  (Yes, you may turn on the sound on your computer!  The room will be noisy, but sometimes that's okay.)
c. Answer the questions on the worksheet.

Part II.    (You are still using the same worksheet.)

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.  Leave this site open for the next part.  

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

bibme.org

If it isn't working use easybib.com.

Follow the instructions on your worksheet to create a bibliographic citation for the Lois Lowry site. 
http://www.loislowry.com/

We will return to the classroom after most students have finished this exercise. 

If time: 

(Optional)  Activity 2.  Fluency Practice  (Pairs, Passages) -- Pair with your neighbor across the aisle, or as directed by the teacher.

Activity 3.    Individual Reading and Reading Log

October 23, 2012

I.  Individual Quiet Reading and Fill Out Log
II. About Taking Notes

III.  Computer Lab

Hero Project:   These items count on this term! 

1. The Search and Select document should be handed in on Edmodo using one of the Turn-In buttons on either  "Compatible Template for Seach and Select" or "Search and Select a Hero."

2.  Reserve your own hero on Edmodo in a reply to the note:  "IMPORTANT -- SIGN-UP FOR YOUR HERO." Scroll down to find it.  Make sure you have already turned in your completed Search and Select document. 

3.  Finish questions 1-6 for the "Evaluating and Taking Notes on Sources" document for all three of your best sources. 

If you done with all of the above, go ahead and work on the rest of the Evaluating and Taking Notes on Sources document, finishing up the questions and then taking notes on your sources.  

Any of the above that you don't get done become homework. Make sure you have them done and turned in by this Thursday evening.  
Those items go on this term's grade.  

Seriously!

Choosing My Hero to Research

 Choosing Your "Hero"

Reply to Ms. Dorsey's note on Edmodo "IMPORTANT -- SIGN-UP FOR YOUR HERO." Hurry or someone else may get your hero. I am taking them in order on those replies, not on individual notes. Of course, you also need to have turned in your Search and Select document, completed.  Select a person for whom you can find plenty of information through the encyclopedias, databases, and web sites we have provided.

•  On  Edmodo,  in your reading class account, scroll down until you find the note "IMPORTANT -- SIGN-UP FOR YOUR HERO."
•  Read through the responses to check whether your first choice has already been taken.  
• Type the name of your first choice in a reply and submit it.
• Check back to see if it has been approved, or if you need to do more or select another person.  

Work that you do not finish in the computer lab becomes homework.  During cavetime you may come to Lab 223 (if you have your work on a thumbdrive), or to lab 211  to work on your project. 

Article about Tim Burton -- and Other Artists

I'm hoping that this link to Scholastic Art works for you because this is a great magazine with interesting information about Tim Burton this month.

http://art.scholastic.com/issues/11_01_12/book#/1

Friday, October 19, 2012

Important Notice: 
If you have not been keeping up your reading log, or if you have missed a day of class since our rotation began, please use the pink make-up log  already placed in your own folder to replace those points.   You will do reading homework, fill out the log, and obtain a parent or guardian signature.  When you return the make-up log, staple it to your reading log for this rotation.  Thirty points for the reading log will be included for this rotation on your term 1 grade. 


1. Prepare to go to Computer Lab 211.
Receive  HeroProjectChecklistR2.doc 

In the computer lab -- 
CLASS BLOG DEMONSTRATION
a.  If you haven't yet --- Finish your Search and Select.
Save it and turn it in on Edmodo. 
Sign up for your famous person on Edmodo -- in a reply to the note titled "IMPORTANT -- SIGN-UP FOR YOUR HERO." 

b. If you already did, 

• Open your own finished Search and Select document. 
• Open tabs on Firefox for Pioneer Library, World Book, SIRS Discoverer, and EBSCO (whichever database you used there)
• Open the  document on  "Evaluating and Taking Notes on Sources."  
• Open your three best sources.  
• Watch for INSTRUCTIONS ON FILLING OUT QUESTIONS 1-6
• Follow the steps for filling out questions 1-6.
  

 

By the end of today you should have filled out and turned in your Search and Select Document on Edmodo, and have answered questions 1-6 on  your "Evaluating and Taking Notes on Sources" document.

 We can now use the Biography Resource Center!

1. Go to the school webpage

2. Click on resources (far right tab)

3. Click on Biography Resource Center (third item listed)

4. Username: afjh   Password: caveman

Work that you do not finish in the computer lab becomes homework.  During cavetime you may come to Lab 223 (if you have your work on a thumbdrive), or to lab 211  to work on your project.  

2. Individual Reading Time and 
FILL OUT YOUR READING LOG FOR TODAY!  

Check for reading log homework!  

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

1. Individual Reading Time and Fill Out Reading Log
2. Computer Lab
     a.  Finish up Search and Select
              If you got started and saved it last time, open it from your                 thumb drive or your student drive. 
                    If not,  find it on http://www.edmodo.com 
                    or you can open it up from here: 
                          Hero Search and Select R2.doc This is the document for students. 


We can now use the Biography Resource Center!  Here are the instructions:

1. Go to the school webpage

2. Click on resources (far right tab)

3. Click on Biography Resource Center (third item listed)

4. Username:  Password: 

                B1 -- instructions on filling out and saving the document
     b.  Begin Website Evaluations and Notes 
                Here is a template, or download it from Edmodo.
                           ABCCombined R2Website Evaluations.doc

Work that you do not finish in the computer lab becomes homework.  During cavetime you may come to Lab 223 (if you have your work on a thumbdrive), or to lab 211  to work on your project. 

 

ABC's of Reliability and Usefulness

Turning in Work on Edmodo

How to Save My Work

Rotation 2 -- Proposed Schedule

Choosing My Hero to Research

Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt

 Using Pioneer Libary: 

http://pioneer.uen.org/k12/

Username:

Password: 

 

These are samples:   

Sample Search and Select SampleNixAdamsLowry.docx

ABCSampleCombined R2LowryWebsite Evaluations.doc

ABCSampleCombined R2AdamsWebsite Evaluations.doc

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Reminder:  You have until the end of today to get any late work to Mrs. Hancock or Ms. Dorsey.

A. Individual Reading time and fill out reading log

B.  Prepare to go to the computer lab.   Reading Strategies and Things You Need to Know About the Internet

C.  Computer lab 211 -- Get as much done as you can on the Search and Select project.  It is due before the end of class next time, and you will have a new step to begin that day. 

Today's Reading Strategies:   (Take notes!) 

  1,  Activate Background Knowledge about your possible heroes (Write what you know.)

  2.  Focus (Noticing Your Own Thinking) as you read. 

   3.  Ask Questions:
      Whom would I like to learn more about?
       How can I find information about that person?
       Which sources seem to be the most helpful?
       Do I think the sources  might be reliable?
       What's wrong with Wikipedia?

      ______________________________

• What is an encyclopedia?
• What is a database? 
• What is a search engine?  (B6 needs to watch the rest of the search engine video.)
• 
  

• What is a URL?  A URL is a web address.
• How do I copy and paste a URL? Select it, copy (Control C or Command C), and paste (Control V or Command V). You will do this differently depending on the type of computer you are on.
• How can I get back to the URL's for the sources I want to use?  For the URL's you reached using Pioneer Library, you will need to 

1. open Pioneer Library
2. open the encyclopedia or database where you found it
3. open a new tab
4. paste the URL into that tab

•  Am I signed in for Edmodo?
• How do I find and save my work?   
• Find the assignment you need to do.
• Click on the document (probably a double click) to download it.
• Save it onto your thumbdrive or in your student drive, adding your last name to the title of the document, and saving it as a "97 - 2003 document" under document type.
• How do I turn my work in on  Edmodo?  
• Make sure you have saved your file with the work you have done in a place you can easily find it again.
• Find the assignment from which you got your document.
• Click on "Turn In."
• Click on Attach and File (with the file icon).
• Upload your saved document.  The name of your document will appear.
• Add a brief comment in the comment box.
• Click on the Turn In button below your document name.

Work that you do not finish in the computer lab becomes homework.  During cavetime you may come to Lab 223 (if you have your work on a thumbdrive), or to lab 211  to work on your project. 

Hero Search and Select R2.docx  This is the document for students. 

Next time:  Reliable and useful -- ABC's 
Sample Search and Select B5.docx

Sample Search and Select B6.docx

Monday, October 8, 2012

Choose your own seat for today.

1.  Reading Strategies
      Inventory
      Handout
      
2. Reading the Internet:
Our class blog -- If you don't remember how to get here, go to our school homepage http://afjh.alpineschools.org/, click on Faculty/Staff, English Department, 
Claudia Dorsey, My Website, Reading 7. 

3. Your Internet Research Project
Learn As You Go:
Steps  -- Steps for Hero Project(3).ppt
Sample -- _Hero powerpoint_lauren_s_c_.ppt

Rotation 2 -- Proposed Schedule

4.  Selecting your Hero 

Heroes? 

Handout  Who’s Your Hero Suggestions.docx

5. Individual Reading Time and Reading Log

• Read quietly for twenty minutes from your choice of reading materials. 
  
•  Each day that we have individual reading time, fill out your reading log.  If you are absent, pick up one of the pink make-up logs, take it home, complete the make-up reading at home or during cave time, return it and staple it to your regular reading log.

6. Partner Fluency Practice
           (B5 did not do this today because we ran out of time. Students did receive their passages.)

• Participate in partner fluency practice.
• Fill out your fluency graph with date, passage number, and words-per-minute minus errors.  Graph your progress.  

Important Announcements and Reminders:

Bring your thumb drive to class every time. 

Basic Surfing -- of the Internet Kind

The Hero Project

To access Pioneer:
pioneer
online 

2nd rotation computer lab:
211  October 10     Save your work as a compatible format.
201  October 17 for 5 and 6
(Maybe 211 on October 19)
October 23  211  5, 6,
October 29    211  5, 6
November 2   201
November 6    201
November 8 -- present PowerPoints

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October 8       Introduction   Reading Strategies applied to research/Internet (Reading strategies Survey)  Receive list of suggested heroes.  Receive Edmodo code.
October 10     (Computer Lab) Search and Select a Hero  -- Using search engines, databases, and reliable sites  -- Learn about reliablility   --  Are you signed onto Edmodo?  Do you know how to save your work? 
October 17     LAB -- Search and Select a Hero due  [20 points] -- Using search engines, databases, and reliable sites.  Begin evaluating a source and taking notes on it.  (ABC1)     
October 19     Evaluating sources (Filling out the  Website Evaluation, questions 1-6  due --in class instruction)  (Perhaps we will be able to use Computer Lab 201.) 
October 23     (LAB) Taking notes, filling out the ABC Website Evaluation   (Filling out the  Website Evaluation, questions 7-13 due)
October 25      Plagiarism and more main idea and important details practice (strategy practice)
[October 26     Term 1 Ends) 
October 29      (LAB)   (Filling out the  Website Evaluation,  all notes due  -- Citing Sources!
October 31       Instruction on creating an effective PowerPoint Presentation (including  enough interesting, important facts,  including your bibliography, and making it attractive and reader-friendly)
November 2     (LAB)    -- Creating your PowerPoint
November 6     (LAB)   -- Finish up PowerPoints   [90 points]
November 8     (LAB)   Present PowerPoints and View PowerPoints (15 points)
November 12
November 14   Read-a-thon 

November 16 -- Begin New Rotation with Mrs. Fugal
 _____________________________





Fluency Partner Practice  (about 35 points)
Reading Log  (about 55 points) 
Edmodo sign-up
Set up Edmodo classes
 _______________________________
searching tutorial -- Internet Terms,
plagiarism

Getting Started in Reading 7 Rotation 2

Welcome to Reading 7, Rotation #2

Joining Edmodo

Welcome to Reading 7, Rotation #2

Welcome and Needed Supplies

Welcome to the Seventh Grade Reading class! 

You will have three teachers for this class, rotating every nine weeks through the semester.  Those of you who begin with Ms. Dorsey will move on to Mrs. Fugal, then to Mrs. Hancock.    Reading 7 Teachers

• With Ms. Dorsey you will focus on reading for research -- especially on the Internet, learning about identifying and using useful and reliable sources.
• With Mrs. Fugal you will focus on reading textbooks more effectively and efficiently.  (Don't tell, but she teaches you how to read the textbook without reading the textbook!)
• With Mrs. Hancock you will learn how to read several different types of "texts" including photos, paintings, magazines, etc.  
• With all three you will learn strategies and practice skills to improve your reading.

Note: If your family cannot afford school supplies, please speak with a teacher or administrator.

Here are some required and suggested items.

For this reading class you will need these items each day:

• Bring your own pencils and pens every day. I will have some available to loan, but you should return them at the end of class, and should only rarely need to borrow.
• Bring lined paper. 
• A thumb drive  (flash drive) to be used  during the section of the class dealing with reading the Internet.
• For every class, bring a book to read during Supported Independent Reading.  You'll receive more information about how to select books.  

Suggested (optional): (for this and other classes)

• Colored pencils may be needed for history class, and come in handy at times in other classes.
• A three-ring hole-punch that fits in your binder is very helpful if you receive handouts that haven't been punched.
• A small manual pencil sharpener
• A small pack of Kleenex -- We usually have facial tissues/Kleenex available in our classrooms, but they are not soft on a tender nose.
• Hand sanitizer
• If you find a good deal, you might want to have on hand some poster board. Sometimes teachers will assign students to create posters, and it's nice not to have to run out to the store at 10 pm when the student remembers he or she has a poster due the next day.

Computers and Internet
Note to Parents: If you have a computer and printer, you will want to check to see that you have enough printer ink on hand so your student can print off homework when needed for any class. Please encourage your student to finish and hand-in assignments before the deadline, so any computer or printer problems don't make them late.

More about computers and Internet: It is very helpful to have the Internet available at home. Our English classes use a writing program called MYAccess for several assignments during the year. We access it at school, and students can write and revise their work from home or anywhere else they can use the Internet. That also allows parents to read their student's writing and watch their progress.
Students may also need to do research on the Internet for various classes.

During one segment of Seventh Grade Reading (with Ms. Dorsey), we will be learning about reading the Internet,  will be doing research on the Internet, and will be creating a presentation using PowerPoint.  Your student may need to finish some of the work outside of school hours.  Please save work to be graded in a format easy to open on the computers at school.

If you do not have access at home, the student could use computers in our school media center, sometimes (such as during CaveTime) our computer labs are open to students who need extra time, and the Internet is available at the public library.

Parents should have signed a release for the student to use the Internet at school, and the student will need to have his or her Internet card (student ID card) in hand to use the Internet on the media center computers and in the other computer labs.

Teacher Web Sites
Many of our teachers have web sites, blogs, and wikis where you can find much information about classes, requirements, etc. Take advantage of this resource.

If you're absent or looking for more information or maybe some extra credit, check this blog. You will most likely be required to use this blog at times.


For this segment of the Reading Class we will also be using Edmodo (open to posting only by the teacher and classmates) where students will complete some assignments and collaborate with the teacher and other students. 

(revised and reposted in June  for the 2012-2013 school year)

October 2, 2012

1. Individual Reading time and fill out reading log.
2. Partner Fluency Practice
3. Summing up
4. Computer/Internet Crossword

Prizes for best PowerPoints will be handed out next time.

Next time: Read-a-Thon  -- Bring books, treats (if you'd like), perhaps a pillow to sit upon. 

Turn in any late or revised work by Friday. 

Thursday, October 4, 2012

How to Save My Work

• How do I find and save my work?   
• Find the assignment you need to do.
• Click on the document (probably a double click) to download it.
• Save it onto your thumbdrive or in your student drive, adding your last name to the title of the document, and saving it as a "97 - 2003 document" under document type.

ABC's of Reliability and Usefulness

A = Author
B = Bias
C = Coverage
D = Dates
E = Editor


Now, in more depth: 

Author : Who are you?


 











Who wrote it?   
Is he or she an expert on the subject?


Bias (Purpose and Sponsor): Who made this available to me?  Why are you doing this? 

For what purpose has this been published?  Who is the sponsor?  Are they trustworthy?

Are they trying to share true information, or do they have a bias that might cause them to slip into disinformation -- intentionally or unintentionally?

Coverage: Is this something I need or want?
Does this include the material that you need? 

Does it make sense? 
Does what you're learning fit with what you already know to be true, or with what you've found in reliable sources?  Is it the information that you need? 

Dates:  Is it up-to-date, if that's what I need?
Is this time-sensitive material? 
Has the site been updated recently? 

Editor:  Did you care when you made this?
Does this look like somebody cares, or are there a lot of mistakes?
(How well has it been edited? Does it seem that someone cared enough to make it correct and readable?)

What are you seeing in this series of photos?

Turning in Work on Edmodo

• How do I turn my work in on  Edmodo?  
• Make sure you have saved your file with the work you have done in a place you can easily find it again.
• Find the assignment from which you got your document.  DO NOT turn in one assignment under a different assignment.
• Click on "Turn In."
• Click on Attach and File (with the file icon).
• Upload your saved document.  The name of your document will appear.
• Add a brief comment in the comment box.
• Click on the Turn In button below your document name.

 Choosing Your "Hero"

Reply to my note "IMPORTANT -- SIGN-UP FOR YOUR HERO." Hurry or someone else may get your hero. I am taking them in order on those replies, not on individual notes. Of course, you also need to have turned in your Search and Select document, completed.  Select a person for whom you can find plenty of information through the encyclopedias, databases, and web sites we have provided.

•  On  Edmodo,  in your reading class account, scroll down until you find the note "IMPORTANT -- SIGN-UP FOR YOUR HERO."
•  Read through the responses to check whether your first choice has already been taken.  
• Type the name of your first choice in a reply and submit it.
• Check back to see if it has been approved, or if you need to do more or select another person. 

Heroes?

Rotation 2 -- Proposed Schedule

------------------------------------
October 8       Introduction   Reading Strategies applied to research/Internet (Reading strategies Survey)  Receive list of suggested heroes.  Receive Edmodo code.
October 10     (Computer Lab) Search and Select a Hero  -- Using search engines, databases, and reliable sites  -- Learn about reliablility   --  Are you signed onto Edmodo?  Do you know how to save your work? 
October 17     LAB  201-- Search and Select a Hero due  [20 points] -- Using search engines, databases, and reliable sites.  Begin evaluating a source and taking notes on it.  (Finish Search and Select)    Begin Evaluations. 
October 19     Evaluating sources (Filling out the ABC Website Evaluation --in class instruction)  (Computer Lab 211.)   (at least Questions 1-6 on Evaluations)
October 23     (LAB 211) Taking notes, filling out the ABC Website Evaluation   (at least Questions 6-13 on Evaluations)
October 25      Plagiarism and more main idea and important details practice (strategy practice)
[October 26     Term 1 Ends) 
October 29      (LAB)   Notes and bibliography are due on Web Evaluations and Notes.) -- Citing Sources!
October 31       Instruction on creating an effective PowerPoint Presentation (including  enough interesting, important facts,  including your bibliography, and making it attractive and reader-friendly)
November 2     (LAB)  --  Creating your PowerPoint    Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt
November 6     (LAB)   -- Finish up PowerPoints by the end of class.  [90 points]
November 8     (LAB)   --  Present PowerPoints and View PowerPoints (15 points)
November 12
November 14   Read-a-thon 

November 16 -- Begin New Rotation with Mrs. Fugal