February 16, 2016

Announcements and Reminders: On February 18/19 the counselors will come into your English classes to teach you how to register for next year.  Your registration papers will be due in our class by February 23.                                                            Your computer lab packets were due a long time ago.  Finish them as soon as possible and place them in the top wire basket. If you did not turn in your brochure last time, turn it in at the end of class today. Make sure you have all of your work done and turned in before you rotate to the next teacher.  Don't forget to clean up after yourself -- for the contest and because you do the right thing. We have    4   more classes in this rotation including today.   Turn in any revised or missing work BEFORE the end of the rotation.

Targets for Today: I read for enjoyment, and add to a record of my reading. I can read aloud fluently. I understand and can use skills and strategies to better comprehend and remember the information I learn by reading.

Today’s  Agenda: Pick up your folder. 1. Individual reading and FILL OUT YOUR READING LOG. (Make sure you name is on your log.) 2. Partner Fluency.  Use the passage you are assigned.  The passage number is in the upper right hand corner. 3. Using BICUM strategies to learn:  Mind-Mapping to Remember      Today we will watch a video about Lewis and Clark and add to our mind maps.    A3 to 22:02 just portaged A4 to 21:27 Just started portaging  Add to Your Brochure: Outside  Today After Reading -- #2 RETAIN (Remember) Teach Someone Study in Groups Recreate in Writing Make Flash Cards Use  Mnemonics 1. Rhymes and Songs 2. Acronyms 3.  Acrostics 4. Mini-Stories 5. Picture Links Rehearse Continued from  DURING READING [Strategies] 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. 7. Add to your background knowledge!  You can do this before reading or during reading. Look it up on a reliable online site. Find a book for children on the topic. Watch a documentary or other educational program.  BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Learning ahead! Working on the Mind Map Illustrations for Lewis and Clark Top right corner The Lewis and Clark Expedition       Corps of Discovery Lower right corner (Your Name --- Your Class Period) Label  Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Monticello Pittsburgh Cincinnati St. Louis  Mississippi River  (goes north and south through St. Louis Missouri River (label just west of St. Louis) Thomas Jefferson  1801 -- Became president Louisiana Purchase -- 1803 Meriwether Lewis -- 28 years old Jefferson's private secretary Dog -- Seaman   William Clark -- 32 years old had been in the army together  York -- Slave keelboat pirogues UP the Missouri River 10 to 15 miles a day tried to camp on river islands as much as they could Sergeant Charles Floyd Died appendix Teton Sioux almost ended the expedition Mandan/Hidatsa Indians about 4000 people Fort Mandan Charbonneau Sacagawea 16 years old pregnant prepared to send keelboat back to Jefferson maps journals specimens February -- Sacagawea's baby Jean Baptiste In case you'd like to get ahead on the learning, here are some resources:  Illustrations for Lewis and Clark Facts for Your Mind Map Lewis and Clark -- Acronymic Mneumonic -- A Rough Poem about Lewis and Clark Flash Cards for Lewis and Clark

If You Were Absent:  See above.   Pick up a make-up reading log to complete at home.