Monday, January 26, 2015

These are the links you will use today.

http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#

http://www.biography.com/people/suzanne-collins-20903551?page=1

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



If you have earphones, take them to the lab today.

Activity 1: Individual Reading and Fill Out Reading Log

Activity 2: Partner Fluency Practice
  -- Pick up a new passage!

Activity 3.     Learning about plagiarism  -- We will be in Lab 211.

Part I: 

1. Learning about Plagiarism

2. Receive the document: Plagiarism Computer Exercise

In the computer lab (211) go to cavereading.blogspot.com/
Use the links to get to the places you need to go.

a. Use the link here to go to 

http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#

b. Listen to and read along with the information about plagiarism. (Yes, you may turn on the sound on your computer and use the earphones.)

c. Answer the questions on the worksheet.

On the worksheet you will take a quiz based on this site:

http://www.biography.com/people/suzanne-collins-20903551?page=1

If you have extra time, 

Activity 4:  Receive the worksheet for Lewis and Clark – Important Information for Your U.S. History Class Next Year  Go to this site, and fill in the worksheet: 

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

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Checking your work:  Part II.   Is this Plagiarism? 

Use the link on our class blog to go to a biography for Suzanne Collins.

http://www.biography.com/people/suzanne-collins-20903551?page=1

Mark each of the following with a P for plagiarism or an S for synthesis:

Skim and scan through the biography to decide whether each of the following is plagiarism or synthesis:

_____________1.  She was the daughter of an Air Force officer and moved a considerable amount during her childhood, so that meant she lived in places like New York City and Brussels.

_____________ 2.  Suzanne’s dad was a professor of history, and thoroughly taught his family about war.  She said "He would take us frequently to places like battlefields and war monuments. It would start back with whatever had precipitated the war and moved up through the battlefield you were standing in and through that and after that. It was a very comprehensive tour guide experience. So throughout our lives we basically heard about war."  This may have influenced her later to realize as she was watching coverage of the Iraq War that perhaps with reality TV and news coverage we are becoming desensitized to the realities of war.  So she started writing The Hunger Games series.

_____________ 3. Collins feels that kids are ready to and should learn about harsh realities such as war earlier than many people would think.  In fact, she says, "If we introduce kids to these ideas earlier, we could get a dialogue about war going earlier and possibly it would lead to more solutions,"

_____________ 4. Collins is extremely private about her life.  She is married to Cap Pryor who is an actor, and they have two children and live in Connecticut.

_____________ 5.  After success with her Gregor the Overlander series, Ms. Collins experienced even bigger success with her Hunger Games books, published in 2008, 2009, and 2010.   The Gregor series have not yet been made into movies, but the first Hunger Games movie was released in 2012 with others following.