Friday, August 29, 2014

1. Individual Reading
     Individual Testing -- San Diego Quick Test
2. Partner Fluency

3. Plagiarism and How to Avoid It

MLA's/Citing Sources

4. Computer Lab 201
Using Pioneer Library :
Here are the instructions for last time and today.  Hero Research Lab Days 1 & 2 Fall 2014 .doc

Here is the document for taking notes on World Book, SIRS Discoverer, and EBSCO:
Notes on Famous Person (Pioneer).docx
Begin a new page for each different article.

This is the notes page for Biography Reference Center:
Notes on Famous Person BRC.docx

DO NOT post random comments.

What an adventure we had today!    

We'll see you next week, all rested and relaxed from the weekend!  

Have a great Labor Day holiday!

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

To do: Hand in your disclosure document if you haven't yet.
Pick up your folder.

Announcement: Friday we will be on a Cave Time Schedule.

1. Individual Reading
    Individual Testing -- San Diego Quick Tests?
    Record your reading on your reading log.

2. Partner Fluency -- New passage
-- Put it in the page protector ON TOP OF the old passage.

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3. Prepare for Computer Lab 211
Your folder number is also your computer number.

What is a URL?

Finding your famous person

Getting to Edmodo
Logging in

Getting to Biography Reference Center
Logging in
Finding your person
Recording your person and the URL on Edmodo



Computer Lab 211
Sign into Edmodo.
Find your famous person on Biography Reference Center.
Report your choice and the URL for the article in a reply and as an assignment on Edmodo.
If you still have time, taking notes from your article on Biography Reference Center.

These are the handouts we used today:

Hero Research Lab Days 1 & 2 Fall 2014 .doc (This one has the documents for this time and next. Use the first two pages today.)

Notes on Famous Person BRC.docx

Monday, August 25, 2014

Hand in your disclosure document if you are ready to return it, pick up your folder, and go to your assigned seat.

1. Individual Reading -- about 15-20  minutes
Record your reading on your reading log.

Book orders:  

Receive book orders.   If you don't want them, leave them on your desk for the next class.
First book order due date:  September 5, 2014.  I'll send in an order as soon as I get $20 or more in orders (combined from all students), and again when I get another $20 or more in orders. 

Class Activation Code: GKLJW

Order online using this code:  GKLJW
or bring a check to scholastic with the order form filled out and labeled with your name.

2. Partner Fluency Practice


3.  Introduction to your famous person project

Finding the Truth -- Checking for Validity

4. About reliability and how to know if you can trust and use a site.

____________________________________

Is a site trustworthy?
Is a site actually useful?

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/ 

Lewis and Clark: Answer Key

Both classes just got this far. _________________________

Read this customer review from the Amazon link.

http://www.amazon.com/Words-Heart-Ouida-Sebestyen/dp/044041346X 

(or, if that doesn't work: Customer Review from Amazon.com

_____________________

Why not?

ABC's of Reliability and Usefulness

Take notes on the back of your Lewis and Clark paper:
You'll need 5 boxes for notes.

Bias:  

Finding the Truth -- Checking for Validity

"Information is the currency of today. And there is far too much counterfeit going around, and everyone is still making purchases with it.

"And if everyone is using counterfeit information without checking the validity, how is anyone supposed to get valid information?"

-- from my friend Matthew R. Carlin

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Hand in your disclosure document if you are ready to return it, pick up your folder, and go to your assigned seat.

1. Individual Reading
         Receive Reading Log
        and San Diego Quick Test -- Individual Testing -- Class members will be tested over several class periods.   For each student the test takes only a few minutes.  Students read lists of words to the teacher.


2.  Partner Fluency Practice

3.  Attitude Survey (guest-starring Garfield)

4.  Interest Inventory

5. What do you do on the computer?
     On the handout write down everything you do on the computer.

      What skills and knowledge would you like to have?

6. Internet Safety:  and optional  assignment (for extra credit)
           Family Internet Contracts

View a video  and take notes on the back of your  paper.
Tips: 
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/internet-safety-tips-for-high-school-kids
Go to commonsense.org for more information.

Extra Credit opportunity:  Students received a blue sheet with contracts for parent and child or guardian and child to discuss concerning internet safety.  Returning the contracts with parent and student signatures will earn 10 points of extra credit. 
Offer expires August 29.  

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Our schedule this week:  Tuesday – Friday without CAVE Time

      1^s Lunch                                          2^nd Lunch

A1/ B5	8:15-9:40		A1/ B5	8:15-9:40	85 minutes
A2/B6	9:45-11:15		A2/ B6	9:45-11:15	90 minutes
Lunch	11:15-11:45		A3/ B7	11:20-12:45	85 minutes
A3/ B7	11:50-1:15		Lunch	12:45-1:15	30 minutes
A4 /B8	1:20-2:45		A4/B8	1:20-2:45	85 minutes

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Important Links:  Welcome and Needed Supplies

Today's Activities

1. Find your own seat on the seating chart.

2.  Book Pass    

1. Read the front.   
2. Read the back. (if there's anything there)
3. Begin reading at page one, and read until you are told to stop. 

Next time bring a book or magazine to read during Individual Reading Time.
   

3.  Read Disclosure Document and complete Quiz (Receive Hall Passes)
           The signature sheet is due back (with the back completed also) by August 29.

4.  Fluency Practice

5.  Set up folders and watch a clip from 

6.  Brian Regan  (minute .23 - to about minute 9:00)
          He talks (jokes) about reading.  

State Core Reading: Literature Standard 10 
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.   925L–1185L

Reading: Informational Text Standard 10 
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.       925L–1185L