Friday, August 30, 2013

1. Reading time and pick up your blue reading log.
         Quiet individual reading time. 
         You may select a book from the shelves or use your own.
         Don't forget to fill out your blue reading log 
               after reading time is done. 
2.  Hand in your disclosure signature sheet if you brought it.

3.  Fluency practice.  
4.  Read and article, noticing your INNER VOICES!
5.  Crossword puzzles, if time! 

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

1. Hand in disclosure signature sheet and reading strategies pre-assessment if not yet handed in.   

•       All disclosures are due by today.
•  (You may bring them late, but may receive less points.)
•       Also pick up your reading log.

2.  Individual Quiet Reading and San Diego Quick Testing
3.  Instructions for Computer Lab and Hero Project

4. Computer Lab 201

For a train enthusiast:  http://clarkplanetarium.org/shows/rocky-mountain-express/?utm_source=SLTrib&utm_medium=Banner&utm_campaign=RME

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_associated_with_rail_transport

Monday, August 26, 2013

1. Reading time and pick up your blue reading log.
2.  Hand in your disclosure signature sheet if you brought it.
3.  Instruction for Hero Project
        Signing up for Edmodo
        Signing up for a hero?  (or if not ready, do it next time)
            You must find your hero on Biography Reference Center.

4.  Lab to sign up for Edmodo 
        and, if ready, to sign up for your hero.  
Take your pink list of suggested heros 
and your white instruction sheet.  



http://www.edmodo.com

http://afjh.alpineschools.org/
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid&profile=brc

Calendar (See also our class calendar at the bottom of this blog.)
2013  Semester 1, Rotation 1

Due Dates:  

By August 28    Sign-up for Hero on Edmodo -- in a REPLY on Edmodo

September 16   ABC Evaluating and Taking Notes Due

September 24   PowerPoint Due

September 26   Present PowerPoints

September 30   Rotation 1 Ends

October 2         Rotation 2 Begins 

The Rotation Project

About What We Do and Why We're Doing It

Most students already use Google to do research.  This class will add to your Internet skills by helping you learn to use other, often more effective, ways to find information.  You will also practice taking notes on what you read, organizing information, and preparing a presentation for your classmates that will be interesting and easy to read.

Here are some guidelines for your project:

-- You will need three or more online sources for your research project.  We will find them during class.
--  This will provide you with more information, allow you to check whether each piece of information is true, and will help you avoid plagiarizing.

-- To select the subject of your research, you will start out with three or more possible subjects – people who could qualify as heroes for one reason or another.   As you check for available information, you will narrow your search to the one person you are most interested in and for whom you can find the most reliable information.

Edmodo

This post is under construction.

https://support.edmodo.com/home#forums/20898940-send-and-reply-to-posts

http://cavereading.blogspot.com/2012/11/signing-up-for-edmodo.html


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.  

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Here is a link to a list of possible heroes for your research project:  
Suggestions for Heroes
You may select someone not on the list, but that person will need to be approved by Ms. Dorsey.


This is what you'll do today:
1. Find your seat. See the seating chart on a desk nearest the door and on another desk near the front of the room. 

2. Receive back your book pass papers.  (If you don't get yours back, check the no-name basket.  If yours was in the no-name basket, after you use it today, make sure you put your name on it and hand it in again. 

2. Select a book from the student desks or the rolling book cart, 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. (same as last time)

• 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 -- When directed to, 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 San Diego Quick Testing.

• Receive Reading Log. 
• Record your reading for today. 

6. Receive and fill out the Reading 7 Interest Inventory.
7. Practice Fluency Practice -- Listen for Instructions.

8. Learn about your project for this reading rotation. 
Here is a link to a list of possible heroes for your research project:  
Suggestions for Heroes
You may select someone not on the list, but that person will need to be approved by Ms. Dorsey.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Welcome to a new school year and a new class!






1. Receive your disclosure document for this class. (Pick it up -- and the quiz --at the back of the room.)
Take a quiz on it.
If you have extra time, start filling out the Reading Strategies Preassessment on the back of the signature sheet.

2.   Brian Regan on Reading!

3. Practice lining up for school evacuation. 

Receive folder/computer number.

4.  Garfield Survey

5.  Practice Fluency Practice 

6. Book Pass (Sample Books) 

•        Write down the title of the book, and preview the front and back of the book.
•       Turn to the first page of text and begin reading.
•       When the timer goes off, 
• record the pages you read, 
• mark either "Yes!" or "No way!" for whether you would want to read the whole book,  
• and tell why.

(San Diego Quick?) 

Lunch Schedule

Here's a heads up for the A3 reading class:

We have class first, then go to lunch.  

Seventh Grade Day

American Fork Junior High  7th  Grade Day
August 19, 2013

A1 8:15 – 8:30

Passing Period 8:30 – 8:35

A2 8:35 – 8:45

Passing Period 8:45 – 8:50

A3 8:50 – 9:00

Assembly 9:00 – 9:35

Passing / Locker Time 9:35 – 9:50

A4 9:50 – 10:00

Passing Period 10:00 – 10:05

B5 10:05 – 10:15

Passing Period 10:15 – 10:20

B6 10:20 – 10:30

Passing Period 10:30 – 10:35

B7 10:35 – 10:45

Lunch 10:45 – 11:15

Passing Period 11:15 – 11:20

B8 11:20 – 11:30


Assembly Agenda
9:05 – 9:35
Welcome (with a Reminder of Auditorium Etiquette)
Movie (Beware!  It's pretty scary!)

Subjects to be covered:
Counselors
Attendance
CAVE Time
Custodians
Dress Code
Tardies
Front Office
Wrap Up (with Rules for Success)

Originally published August 16, 2013.

Tips for Typography

These tips for using fonts, column width, spacing, etc. were written for teachers, but contain great advice for students, too.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog-design-101-typography-tips-jason-cranford-teague?utm_source