Wednesday, October 2, 2013

• Find a seat.  Seats may not be assigned today, but will be next time. 
• Activity 1. Individual Reading Time and Begin a New Reading Log

Please bring your thumb drive to class each time.   
Also bring a pencil or pen.

This is a link to the beginning of the year Welcome and Needed Supplies

Today's Agenda:  In the Classroom

• Find a seat.  Seats may not be assigned today, but will be next time. 
• If they are available, pick up your folder from the black A3 or A4  crate at the back of the classroom. 

Activity 1. Individual Reading Time and Begin a New Reading Log

•     On most class days we will have some quiet individual reading time at the beginning of class.  Bring a book to read or borrow something from the teacher's shelves.
• Don't forget to fill out your reading log every time.  It counts on your grade!   
• Your folder number is also 
• your computer number.
•     If you're absent, or don't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework.

 Leave your reading log and fluency graph in your folder. 

Activity 2: Fluency Practice  -- Poems
http://www.online-stopwatch.com/candle-timer/full-screen/

http://www.online-stopwatch.com/dynamite-timer/full-screen/

Activity 3?:  Reading Strategies
Reading Strategy:  Asking Questions  
Is it reliable?
Is it useful?

Explanation: This Rotation
Reading for Research/Computer Literacy
Project:  Select, Research, and Create a PowerPoint about a Famous Person who just might be a hero of yours. 
Most of the points will come from the research you do online.
We will use Edmodo for accessing and handing in your work.
https://www.edmodo.com/

Sample PowerPoint: Larry Bird by Fielding C.ppt


Vocabulary:

What is a URL? 

* Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator
According to The American Heritage Dictionary,  The term URL is a noun and it is 
"an Internet address (for example, http://www.hmco.com/trade/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.hmco.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (trade)."

Find the URL in the address bar on your browser.

Address Bar

Reliability:
Boring Teacher Stuff 
More Teacher Stuff
And More
http://allaboutexplorers.com/       http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/columbus/


 Why not Wikipedia?
We looked at how many people had revised a Wikipedia entry, and at their strange user names!
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Campbell_Bartoletti

Why not Wikipedia?
We looked at how many people had revised a Wikipedia entry, and at their strange user names!
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Campbell_Bartoletti





Heroes/Famous People:

Orson Scott Card