Friday, November 22, 2013

In the Classroom

Hand in your disclosure signatures.

Pick up your folder! 

You have assigned seating today.  Look for the charts on desks at the front and back of the classroom. 

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

If you are absent, read for 20 minutes at home, record it, obtain a parent signature, and bring it to attach it to your log here. 

Activity 2: Fluency Practice  -- Poems

Fill out your graph.  

DATE	11/22/13
PASSAGE #	TOF
WPM	[Your WPD]

If you did not fill out the top of the graph for previous days, it should look like this:

DATE	[the date]
PASSAGE #	SCSS
WPM	[Your WPD]

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

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

Activity 3: Reliability and ways to check for it!
Complete the explorers activity and filling out the evaluation form for that site.

Fill out the white worksheet, titled "Lewis and Clark – Important Information for Your U.S. History Class Next Year" using this link:

http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/ 

If you'd like more information about these explorers, see
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/meriwether-lewis-is-shot-in-the-leg 

 Leave your folder on your desk, but take the project packet with you to computer lab 223.  Also take your thumb drive. 

Today's Agenda:  In the Computer Lab - Lab 223 

https://www.edmodo.com/    

Most sign in as  

      lastnamefirstname

      student number

1. Complete the Practice Assignment if you have not. (page 2 in the packet)
2. Sign up for your hero if you have not. (page 5 in the packet)  "IMPORTANT: SIGN UP FOR YOUR HERO"   
1. Include the hero's name and the URL from BRC.
3. Complete Hero Research #1 -- evaluating and taking notes on your hero.  
1. Open the document:  If you already started and saved it on Edmodo, open the the file you saved!
2.  Finish filling it in. 
3. Then click on the Turn In button to turn it in on Edmodo under the assignment "Hero Research #1: Evaluating and Taking Notes on An Article from Biography Reference Center"
4. Begin work on Hero Research #2: Using Pioneer Library and an online encyclopedia. Turn it in whether you finish or not.  

Save your work often. 

This is a sample of the PowerPoint you will do after you have completed your research: 

Larry Bird by Fielding C.ppt