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

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