Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Please pick up your folder from the black crate at the back.

Next time is the last time  to hand in late or revised work.   You're okay if you turn it in by the end of school on Friday!  The term ends next Friday, October 25.  

• Make sure you've completed the Practice Turning-In Assignment, and have signed up properly for your hero. 

I've  extended your deadline for your Hero Research Assignments:  

•  Hero Research Assignment #1, #2, and #3 are due by the end of class on Wednesday, October 23. 

1. Individual Reading Time and Fill Out Your Log

2. Fluency Practice  and fill out graph with date, passage, and words per minute.

3. Vocabulary:  citation -- a formal way to tell where you got your information.

C. What is a Citation?   

A citation is a way of telling where you got your information. 
Just trust me for now that we need to use them.  We'll talk later about plagiarism and citing sources.
To find our citation today,  when you are in Biography Reference Center,  all you have to do is copy and paste your MLA citation.
It will look something like this:

Example of a  citation / bibliography entry:

Paradowski, Robert J., and Paradowski Robert J. "Ray Bradbury." Critical Survey Of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition (2010): 1. Biography Reference Center. Web. 20 Nov. 2012.

Look for the Golden 

-->Ticket .  
No, I meanGolden Page Icon at the 

right of your  Biography Reference 

Center page. 

  

4.  Demos with Valentine Wiggin

•        Review: Signing up for your hero
•        Review: Turning in work
•        Getting into Biography Reference Center and Pioneer                Library

5. Computer Lab 223 

Link:
If You Still Need to Sign Up for Your Hero


These instructions might help in computer lab:

Lab 223 Plug your thumb drive into the back of the keyboard or into the back of the monitor -- to your right. An icon for you thumb drive should appear on the desktop -- perhaps to the right. To save to your thumb drive With the document you wish to save open, click on File, Save As. If the thumb drive is already open, check the name of your document, and click on Save. If not, scroll down to DEVICES and click on DISK_IMG You will want to add your name to the beginning of the name of your document.  Don't erase what is already there. Before ejecting your thumb drive, close documents that are saved on it. To eject your thumb drive, drag it to the garbage can which will turn into an eject icon. Goodbye! To log off the computer, find the apple icon at the top left, click on log out student. Don't forget to take your thumb drive!