Today’s Agenda:
1. Get ready for class.
- Pick up your folder from the back of the room.
- If you were not here last time, pick up your hall pass requests from the lower wire basket for our class.
- Find your assigned seat.
- Make sure you have a pen or pencil ready.
2. Quiet Individual Reading
- Fill out your Reading Log.
- Fill out every part of the line for each day: date, type of material read, title, something about what you read, minutes read.
3. Partner Fluency Practice : Read "Turning Off the Faucet." Label it "TOTF."
- Fill out your Fluency Graph.
- Required for each time you read: date, passage number, words per minute
4. Computer Lab 224
Work on your packet for becoming COMPUTER SAVVY!
Savvy means having practical knowledge.
You, too, can be computer savvy!
1. Avoid Plagiarism.
2. Check for Reliability.
"The trouble with quotes on the Internet
is that you can never know if they are genuine."
- Abraham Lincoln
How reliable is Wikipedia?
3. Test Your Ability to do Research.
A. Researching Famous Explorers
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/
Definition of database:
A set of data grouped together in one location in (or accessible by) a computer. A computerized database has been likened to an electronic filing cabinet of information arranged for easy access or for a specific purpose.
If you were absent, complete the make-up reading homework.
If you were absent, you can get started on the packet. Here are the links to the documents:
Click on the link, then click on the Download tab, open the document, and then you can print it or fill it out on your computer.
Most of the students finished the Plagiarism pages, and were working on the Wikipedia Exercise.  |
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