Monday, December 14, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   Your computer lab packets were due a long time ago.  Hand them in if you haven't. If you have make-up homework, make sure to take that with you and complete it. If your BICUM brochure is totally done, you may hand it in (to the top wire basket) today.

Targets for Today:   I will read for enjoyment, and add to a record of my reading. I can read aloud fluently. I know strategies I can use to comprehend (understand) what I read, and to remember it. I am computer/internet savvy!

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Pick up your folder, please. 2. Individual Reading.  Fill out your reading log.  Take home any make-up work in your folder (pink). 3. Inference Practice! (A3 do #2 .  A4 do #3.) 4. Partner Fluency Practice http://www.online-stopwatch.com/christmas/elf-race/ A3 needs to do stereograms: Try it Memorize this string of numbers: 912161923263033 Now break it into these chunks and look for a pattern. 9   12   16   19   23   26   30   33 If you can find the pattern, it will make memorizing much easier. Try it.  See below #6  for A4.  6.  Creating a Mind Map for Lewis and Clark! You have or will have two articles.  When doing research, always use more than one source -- to avoid plagiarism, and to give yourself a more complete view of the subject. About drawing for a mind map.   (Or, you don't have to be a Mr. Bryson to do this!) Use the map showing cities to copy the cities onto your map. Label the rivers. Start putting the people on the map. Illustrations for Lewis and Clark Flash Cards for Lewis and Clark A4 still needs to do:  7. Other things to do AFTER READING:  Review Central Ideas  Review  What is a central idea?  1. the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about It must be a complete sentence that includes the topic and a statement about it.   We look for the central idea in nonfiction, and for the theme in fiction. synonyms key point main idea the point what it's all about How do I identify it? The overall gist  What is most of it about, and what is the author saying about that?  Repeated words Repeated synonyms and pronouns Is there one sentence that just seems to wrap up everything else? If not, are there parts of more than one sentence that I could put into one sentence, and it would wrap up everything else?  Where could I find it in the passage?  At the beginning At the end In the middle Not stated directly -- just implied mnemonics Mnemosyne (in mythology) was  a titan (a giant who was sort of like a goddess) who was the personification of memory. [nee-mos-uh-nee, -moz-]  Rhymes: "In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." "I before E, except after C, or when sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh." Five Freedoms in the First Amendment "Speakin' of freedoms, oh what could they be Freedom of Religion and Assembly, Freedom of Petition and Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech, now don't distress." Acronyms: BICUM  =  Acronyms: NASA  =  National Aeronautics Space Administration Acronyms: SCUBA  =  Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus Acronyms: HOMES =  The Five Great Lakes = Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior Acronyms: FACE =  The space notes in the treble clef = F, A, C, E Acronyms: ROY G. BIV =  The colors of the rainbow =  Acronyms: SKILL =  Organs in the excretory system = skin, kidneys, intestines, liver, lungs  Acrostics:  The categories in the classification of life are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family,Genus, Species, Variety = Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet. Every Good Boy Does Fine =  lines of the treble clef Acrostics:  Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally =  order of operations My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas =  = the Planets in Our Solar System  Creating Mind-Maps can help you to understand and remember. Examples:   Here are some examples of Mind Maps for other subjects: Other Types of Mnemonics Mini-Stories: Songs:  Did you use a song to learn the counties of Utah? Picture Links: You could use this for vocabulary Peg System:   Peg System for Memorization Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights for extra credit Loci System: Select a place you know well

Video -- Talk about reliability.

A3 to minute 3:00.

A4 to minute 3:00 + 

If You Were Absent: See above for what we did today. Complete make-up work for individual reading time.