Friday, October 30, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                        It's almost Halloween!     This rotation will end on November 11.          Make sure you have everything handed in or revised and                  re-handed in before then. Ms. Dorsey will no longer be doing intervention for Cavetime on Thursdays.  She will instead host the Mock Trial enrichment.  Book Orders are due today. This rotation ends November 11. Make sure you have all of your work turned in, and any make-up work completed and turned in by that day.   We have five more days of class, including the Readathon on November 11.   On that day bring your favorite reading materials, a pillow if you'd like to sit on it, and treats to enjoy and to share.

Targets for Today:      I can read for enjoyment.      I can use predicting to help myself focus on and comprehend texts.      I can make the texts I study memorable.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Individual reading.        Fill out your log! 2. Partner Fluency Practice        Fill out your graph! 3.  Storytime  -- You will receive a sheet of plain paper.  Fold it in half.  On each half you will draw something as you are directed to.  Write your name somewhere on that paper.  Draw a picture of what's under YOUR bed. There's Something Under the Bed Draw a picture that expresses how you feel about spiders.  Skittering Soundtrack from spiders scene in Something Wicked This Way Comes Make the things you have to learn memorable: Find a connection with what you have experiences or what you know. Draw a picture. Find an emotional connection, if you can.  You might want to make up a story to help you remember something, or imagine yourself there.  Video 31:54  Tick-Tock Tale  (about 6 minutes) foreshadowing setting characters -- antagonist/protagonist theme

If You Were Absent: See above. We read some scary stories from the book Half-Minute Horrors. Come to Cave Time to read the stories, or you can read them here: Scary Stories The video and review of literary elements was to help you with your reading in English class.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                         Ms. Dorsey will no longer be doing intervention for Cavetime on Thursdays.  She will instead host the Mock Trial enrichment.  Book Orders are due today. This rotation ends November 11. Make sure you have all of your work turned in, and any make-up work completed and turned in by that day.   We have six more days of class, including the Readathon on November 11.   On that day bring your favorite reading materials, a pillow if you'd like to sit on it, and treats to enjoy and to share.

Targets for Today:      I can spend time reading something enjoyable.       I can work on improving my reading fluency.      I can use strategies for viewing to collect information.

Today’s  Agenda: Pick up your folder from the black crate for your class. 1. Individual Reading.     Fill out your log for today. 2. Partner Fluency Practice     Fill out your graph -- especially the top three cells! 3. Viewing and taking notes to collect information. Applying reading strategies to viewing. Which of your reading strategies can we apply to viewing? Decide ahead that you will focus on the video!         Do a SELF check.         Ask:What do I know about this subject?         Create questions. During Viewing:          Talk with the author.         Predict.         Make connections.         Use fix-up strategies -- add questions to your notes. Taking notes:         Use abbreviations.        Use quick sketches.         View a video about the Lewis and Clark Expedition:   National Geographics Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West

If You Were Absent: See above.  Make up the reading at home using the Make-Up Reading Log. If you miss more than one or two days, you may also make up the fluency practice. Come during cavetime or after school to view the video and take notes.

Monday, October 26, 2015

Announcements and Reminders: Today is the first day of your new term!                                                                    Ms. Dorsey will no longer be doing intervention for Cavetime on Thursdays.  She will instead host the Mock Trial enrichment.  Book Orders are due on Wednesday. This rotation ends November 11. Make sure you have all of your work turned in, and any make-up work completed and turned in by that day.   We have six more days of class, including the Readathon on November 11.   On that day bring your favorite reading materials, a pillow if you'd like to sit on it, and treats to enjoy and to share.

Targets for Today:      I can spend time reading something enjoyable.       I can work on improving my reading fluency.      I can use the strategy of asking questions to help myself understand and remember the things I read.

Today’s  Agenda: Pick up your folder from the black crate for your class. 1. Individual Reading.     Fill out your log for today. 2. Partner Fluency Practice     Fill out your graph -- especially the top three cells! 3. Asking questions --     Before Reading -- When you PREVIEW a text,         BICUM: 5. Select or Create Questions During Reading -- As you read, pay attention when more questions come into your mind.  After Reading --  One helpful way to prepare for a test is to create your own test questions.  Activity: Creating a test.     In your NUMBER groups, create test questions for your section.     Try to come up with as many different questions as you can.     If you absolutely can't come up with enough questions, and one student is asking a multiple choice question, another could ask the same thing as a short answer or true-false question, or visa-versa.

If You Were Absent: See above.  Make up the reading at home using the Make-Up Reading Log. If you miss more than one or two days, you may also make up the fluency practice.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:  Make-up work was due by Wednesday, October 14.  Hand in your unused hall passes  if you haven't yet done that. There will be another reading log  and fluency graph check   on October 22 -- today. If you wish to order books from Scholastic,  the book orders will be due  by  Wednesday, October 28th. https://clubs2.scholastic.com/

Targets for Today: I will spend time reading something enjoyable.       I will work on improving my reading fluency.      I will better understand how to find reliable sources when I do research.

Today’s  Agenda: Today's activities: Pick up your folder from the black crate.  1. Begin class with Quiet Individual Reading.     Fill out your reading log!  2. Fluency Partner Practice  Fill out your graph. 3.  Using Reading Strategies       to Improve your Reading and Remembering. Now,   what do you do when you've found reliable, useful information and need to learn it? Here is how to get to the article we used today: go to  http://afjh.alpineschools.org/ Resources:  Pioneer Online Library Log-in with user name and password if at home. Gale Research in Context Grades 6-8 Search "Lewis and Clark Expedition" Select the article "Meriwether Lewis and William Clark" from UXL Biographies. 2003.  Step One:   Really read when you're reading. Use Metacognition: Thinking About Your Thinking Step 3 for Your Brochure:   We filled this in last time: Added last time -- Before Reading Complete a Self Check  Study Area  Emotions Level of  Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview 1. Read the title. Ask: What do I know about this subject? 2. Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences. 3. Look for bold or italicized print. 4. Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams. 5. Select or Create Questions 6. Set Study Length 7. Place check marks During Reading Be Active "Talk" with the author or text. Visualize Predict      1) predict      2) read      3) check      4) compliment or correct Pace yourself with a pencil. Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World Stop at the 's  and Test your Understanding. Yes, I do understand. Mark and highlight text. Continue to next . Read to end of study block. No, I don't understand Use fix-up strategies: See the back of this brochure! Predicting Pencil Pacing Step 4 for Your Brochure:  And this:  Fix-Up  Strategies  1. Check your  own inner  voice. 2. Focus on it,  and read it  again. 3. Try reading  it out loud. 4. Try reading  ahead a bit. 5.  Look for  any words (or  ideas or facts) that may be  getting in  your way. 6.  Ask  someone who  can help you. - - or mark it  with a ?  for later. Added last time -- BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Using Fix-Up Strategies Jigsaw 1. Finish  your number (1-8 ) groups.   2.  Select 10-15 most important words in your  section. 3.Be prepared to share your summary of this  section with other students. 4. Get together in your letter groups.             4a. Take turns sharing what you learned. 4b. Take notes for all sections on your folded sheet. 5. Make sure your name is on your folded sheet and on your article. 5a. You should have enough notes on your folded  sheet to show you pretty well understand the whole article.  5b. Hand in the folded sheet. Practice with  http://afjh.alpineschools.org/ Resources:  Pioneer Online Library Log-in with user name and password if at home. Gale Research in Context Grades 6-8 Search "Lewis and Clark Expedition" Select the article titled "Meriwether Lewis and William Clark" from UXL Biographies. 2003.

If You Were Absent: See above.  Complete the worksheets as homework. Don't forget to complete the make-up reading and fluency practice.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:  Make-up work was due by Wednesday, October 14.  There will be another reading log and fluency graph check  before the end of the term. See Skyward. You have until October 20 to finish handing in the computer lab exercises:  (See the posts for the days we were in the labs for more details.) Hand them in to the top wire basket for your class. Lewis and Clark -- Reliability and Using a Database -- Due 10-7-15 http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/  explorers site & BRC.docx Plagiarism  -- Due 10-9-15 http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html# Plagiarism Computer Exercise Worksheet2014 (1).doc This is the link you will use for the back. http://www.loislowry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=196 Wikipedia  --  Due 10-20-15  http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/ Wikipedia exercise.docx Now that we have had 3 days in the computer lab, you will complete the assignments as homework. Lab 202 is available during Cavetime, if you get there before it fills up.                                                                   There is  a late bus available after school on Tuesday      through Thursday for students who wish to stay after to work     on their grades.  It leaves at 4 pm and drops off students       at the elementary schools nearest their homes. If you wish to order books from Scholastic,  the book orders will be due  by  Wednesday, October 28th. https://clubs2.scholastic.com/

Targets for Today: I will spend time reading something enjoyable.       I will work on improving my reading fluency.      I will better understand how to find reliable sources when I do research.

Today’s  Agenda: Today's activities: Pick up your folder from the black crate.  1. Begin class with Quiet Individual Reading.    Fill out your reading log!  2. Fluency Partner Practice --Today you will receive a new parter and a new passage.. Fill out your graph. 3.  Using Reading Strategies to Improve your Reading and Remembering. Now,   what do you do when you've found reliable, useful information and need to learn it? Step One:   Really read when you're reading. Use Metacognition: Thinking About Your Thinking Using your folded piece of paper, add to your brochure. Step 3 for Your Brochure:   Inside Middle Section: Add this today! Added last time -- Before Reading Complete a Self Check  Study Area  Emotions Level of  Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview 1. Read the title. Ask: What do I know about this subject? 2. Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences. 3. Look for bold or italicized print. 4. Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams. 5. Select or Create Questions 6. Set Study Length 7. Place check marks During Reading Be Active "Talk" with the author or text. Visualize Predict      1) predict      2) read      3) check      4) compliment or correct Pace yourself with a pencil. Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World Stop at the 's  and Test your Understanding. Yes, I do understand. Mark and highlight text. Continue to next . Read to end of study block. No, I don't understand Use fix-up strategies: See the back of this brochure! Predicting Pencil Pacing Step 4 for Your Brochure:  And add Outside  Center Section. Fix-Up  Strategies  1. Check your  own inner  voice. 2. Focus on it,  and read it  again. 3. Try reading  it out loud. 4. Try reading  ahead a bit. 5.  Look for  any words (or  ideas or facts) that may be  getting in  your way. 6.  Ask  someone who  can help you. - - or mark it  with a ?  for later. Added last time -- BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Use fix-up strategies.  Jigsaw Practice with  http://afjh.alpineschools.org/ Resources:  Pioneer Online Library Log-in with user name and password if at home. Gale Research in Context Grades 6-8 Search "Lewis and Clark Expedition" Meriwether Lewis and William Clark UXL Biographies. 2003.

San Diego Quick – Fluency Partners   -- A3

	H, Aiden	B, Rivaldo
	Z, Meagan	S, Daisha
	V, Brooklyn	M, Mikelle
	U, Pedro	L, Austin
	R, Melinda-Michelle	C, Julianna
	P, Samantha	H, Victoria
	A, Allyssa
	G, Brandon	L, Brodey
	C, Jessica	B, Lindsay
	B, Justin	F, Cole
	A, Alexus	L, Arianna
	M, Shiloh	S, Adam
	M, Sofia	V, Sydnee
	Sumsion, Andrew	V, Caden
	T, Blake ---	L, Ryan --
	J, Serenity --	C, Cristin --
	E, Ryan --	J, Cameron --

San Diego Quick – Fluency Partners    -- A4

	A, Averee	S, Ashley
	H, Tanner	A, Cooper
	H, Sophie	H, Kate
	C, Devon	E, Lucas
	B, Kaden	T, Austyn
	C, Paul	S, Owen
	C, Ryan	C, Jadon
	H, Gabriella	R, Gabriella
	N, Cheyanne	W, Kylee
	S, Megan	H, Brynn
	S, Hayden	B, Treydon
	S, Hannah
	E, Emma	B, Amara
	B, Jake --	W, Carson --
	S, Ryan --

If You Were Absent: See above.  Complete the worksheets as homework. Don't forget to complete the make-up reading and fluency practice.