Monday, March 3, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:

Today’s Agenda:  1. Individual Reading and Fill out your log 2. Partner fluency practice and fill out your graph (Make sure you fill out date, passage, and WPM.) 3. More metacognition with an article about doing research. 4. Reliability?  Finding reliable information online. Is it RELIABLE? How do I know?  Image found at http://www.xconomy.com/?attachment_id=9119 Boring Teacher Stuff  More Teacher Stuff Snake eats man plane and truck cell phone dangers

If you were absent:

There's Something Under the Bed

by Allan Stratton
from Half-Minute Horrors,  edited by Susan Rich

"There's something under the bed."
     "Don't be silly.   You're a big boy now," his father said,
and turned out the light.
     "But there is!  Please, Daddy, look!"
     So his father got down in the dark beside the bed.




And disappeared.
     "Daddy?. . . Where are you, Daddy?"
     A gentle chuckle.  "I'm under the bed."
     "You sound different."
     "Do I?"





     "Yes.  Very different. . . . Are you really Daddy?"
     "Why don't you come under the bed and find out?"

Skittering

by Tui T. Sutherland

from Half-Minute Horrors,  edited by Susan Rich

I knew I never should have killed that spider.
     I was making my bed when I saw something skitter away under the sheets.  I threw back the blankets and slammed my book onto the mattress, banging and smashing and screaming until the big brown spider was a squashy, flat, oozing mess.
     My skin was crawling.  Had the spider been in the bed with me all night?  I pulled all the sheets off the bed and took them to my mom, and we put them straight into the washing machine.
     But even with new sheets, I couldn't sleep that night.  I kept feeling tiny legs slithering over my skin.  Prickly thin fingers danced across my bare feet, climbed slowly up my pajamas, brushed against my exposed neck. I thought I was imagining things. I tried to ignore it.
     And then. . . I felt something as small as a pencil eraser land softly on my cheek and scuttle toward my ear.
     I sat up, shrieking. I was still screaming for help when my mom can running in and turned on the light.
     The ceiling was swarming with spiders.  Spiders clambered up the bedposts, prickly arms marching toward me.  All around me the blanket was a sea of twitching legs and glittering eyes.
     But they weren't here for me.  As the light went on, they began to pour across the floor and drop down from the ceiling.  They converged on the door in a skittering swarm.

     I had killed their mother. . .






                                           . . . and they were here for mine.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:  Extra credit is available for being VERY good for the substitute teacher you will have today while Ms. Dorsey is with our Mock Trial Team for a competition.

Today’s Agenda Individual Reading and Fill Out Your Reading Log (If you are absent, pick up a pink make-up log.) Partner Fluency Practice Finish the Inner Voice Assignment, filling out the Inner Voice Graphic Organizer for the article about the Brain.  (Turn in the graphic organizer to the top wire basket for your class and hand back the article to the teacher.) Fill out a Reading Interest Inventory -- on both sides. (Turn in to the top wire basket for your class.) If there is still time, work with one or two partners on an Internet/Computer Literacy Crossword. Keep this in your folder.

If you were absent:

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Welcome to Reading 7, Rotation 2

Announcements and Reminders:  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. For every class, bring a book to read during Independent Reading. This will be something YOU want to read! You'll receive more information about how to select books. This rotation has normally focused on reading the Internet for Learning.  We will still do some with that, but due to lack of availability of computer labs, this time we will work with a variety of reading strategies and skills.

Today’s Agenda: Find your seat on the seating chart at the front or back of the room. Individual Reading and Fill out your Reading Log Partner Fluency Practice  Plan, Notice, Adapt Just for fun!  Julian Smith -- "I'm Readin' a Book!" Metacognition! Reading Strategy #1    Metacognition: Noticing your own thinking.   IAMNOWHERE! What distracts you?  What keeps you from focusing on the thing you are supposed to be reading?  Do you pay attention? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo You can choose to focus on one thing, and let others not distract you. What do you do when you've been distracted and realize you haven't really been reading -- then what if you're just not getting it?   Click on this link to progress through the series of posts -- one linked from the other, then came back here by clicking on the Home tab above. 1. Check your own inner voice.  We started Practice Noticing Inner Voices  -- If you are absent, print these and follow the directions on the Inner Voice Template, using the Facts About the Brain as the reading material. We will finish these in class next class time. Facts About the Brain.docx Inner Voice Template.doc

If you were absent:  See the above activities.

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Friday, February 21, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:  Cave Time Intervention today will be in Computer Lab 201 to  finish up any missing work or work that needs to be revised.  Next time you will go directly to Ms. Fugal's classroom --         Room 200.

Today’s Agenda:   1. Individual Reading and Log 2. Partner Fluency Practice (one more San Diego) 3. Read-a-Thon and PowerPoint Prizes    Bring treats!  Bring books!  Bring pillows to sit on if you'd like.

If you were absent:

San Diego Quick – Fluency Partners    A4

	D, Melissa	C, Bailey
	B, Brock	B, Kyle
	G, Chase	H, Esther
	H, Britney	I, Almary
	M, Mikayla	O, Rebecca
	P, Jacen	R, Oakley   T, Ryan
	S, Adeline	P, Savanah
	T, Kamryn	Y, Eve
	A, Logan	B, Seth
	C, Katherine	L, Aurora
	G, Nicholas	F, Nicholas
	L, Emery	N, Laila
	S, Hayden	G, Joshue
	W, Jacob	B, Joseph

San Diego Quick – Fluency Partners   -- A3 

	B., Cameron	C., Isaack
	H., Kate	L., Brinlee
	L., Braxton	M., Jackson
	L., Melanie	P., Tishelle
	M., Osiel	S., Spencer
	Q., Samantha	R., Aislinn
	Vi., Robert	A., Harrison
	B., Anson	C., Jaxon
	D., Hailey	M., Nathan
	E., Makenna	H., Mercedes
	G., Landon	G., Tyler
	H., Landon	N., Tallyn
	K., Nichelle	N., Stephanie
	S., Tyrell	S., Rylan
	W., Gretchen	W., Ashton
	S., Mayson	W., Timothy
	B., Kelsey	K., Chase

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

PowerPoints due!

1. Individual Reading and Log

2. Present PowerPoints in Computer Lab 223.

     You will have about 15 minutes to prepare to present.

--  Hand in your PowerPoint on Edmodo before you leave today.
--  If you have an F in class, plan on coming to  Ms. Dorsey's Cave Time on Friday.

February 21:  Read-a-Thon   -- Bring reading materials and treats!!

February 25:  Begin Second Rotation of the Reading Class

February 28:  Deadline for handing in late work for this rotation, including the Hero Project 

and any make-up reading.  

Friday, February 14, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:  We will share the PowerPoints in class next time, so be ready.

Today’s Agenda: Individual Reading Partner Fluency Practice Interest inventory More reliable or not?  More on  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 Play Spot the Rot.

If you were absent:

A quote from a young adult book for Valentines Day:
“It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in.” 
― Joan Bauer, Thwonk

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:  Your PowerPoints are due by the end of class today.

Today’s Agenda:  Individual Reading and Fill Out Log 2.  Computer lab 223 Finish and turn in PowerPoints. Sample PowerPoint:  Shannon hero_powerpoint.ppt

If you were absent:  See above.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:  February 10:   Lab 223 Finish up any research, and work on PowerPoint February 12:  Lab 223 Work on PowerPoint -- PowerPoint Due  February 13:  Parent-Teacher Conference February 14: Happy Valentines' Day!  February 19:     Lab 223 Present and view PowerPoints February 21:  Read-a-Thon   -- Bring reading materials and treats!! February 25:  Begin Second Rotation of the Reading Class February 28:  Deadline for handing in late work for this rotation, including the Hero Project and any make-up reading.

Today’s Agenda 1. Individual Reading and fill out your reading log 2. Computer lab 223 to finish up research and work on PowerPoint

If you were absent:

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Individual Reading  and Fill Our Your Reading Log
(San Diego Quick for a few students)

About using time wisely and NOT getting behind.

Template and Samples:
hero_powerpoint_template_20133.ppt

Larry Bird by Fielding C.ppt

Bethannee PowerPoint!.ppt 

Computer Lab 223 -- Finish Hero Research Document #5, and start work on PowerPoint, if you can.

Hero Research Documents 1, 2, 3 or 4, and 5 by the end of class today


If you need to make citations go to http://www.bibme.org/ and click on the tab for "Website."

Find your assignments and templates at  https://www.edmodo.com/

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Announcements and Reminders:   You should have completed these documents: Document #1 Document #2 (completely if World Book Online has an article on her hero or just the parts indicated if it does not) Document #3 or #4 -- whichever source has the best information on her hero Document #5 which is due by the end of class on Thursday Then you will create your PowerPoint which is due February 12. What you need among the research document is this: --Three good sources with notes about your hero.   Biography Reference Center will be one of those sources. World Book will be if they have an article about your hero.  If not, you'll just find an article about a famous person who is on World Book, and collect the URL, citation, title, author, and sponsor for that article.   Then do either 3 or 4 -- hopefully one of them will have information about your hero. If not, chose one of them (SIRS Discoverer is easier) to look up a famous person who is there and collect the URL, citation, title, author, and sponsor for that article.   Do #5 if you still need another source.

Today’s Agenda: Individual Reading and Fill Out Your Reading Log Partner Fluency Practice Lesson on Using Search Engines and Why we check for Reliability of Sources Wikipedia Julie Andrews? Punifu Binksternet The Devil's Advocate  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Devil%27s_Advocate Example #1: Reliable or Not?  Example #2: Reliable or Not? http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ http://www.sciencealert.com.au/features/20141305-25506-2.html http://www.dhmo.org/ Oops!  Lewis and Clark were not available today.  In 3rd period we looked instead at tree octopuses, and in 4th we looked at tree octopi and at the dangers of DHMO!  More on  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

If you were absent: