Thursday, September 8, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                School pictures will be taken on September 8 - 9.  Today bring earbuds or earphones if you have them. Coming up:  Constitution Day on September 16    Learn more about our Constitution at  http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution-day.

Targets for Today: Students will practice independent recreational reading. Students will learn about reading online. State Core Reading: Literature Standard 10  By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.   925L–1185L Reading: Informational Text Standard 10  By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.       925L–1185L Writing Standard 8  Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Today’s  Agenda: If there is a pink sheet in your folder,  take it home and  complete the homework assignment.  Self-Starter: 1. Pick up your folder from the black crate.  2. Take out or select a book to read.          Reading your choice of materials.    3.  Continue reading until instructed to stop.      Fill out your reading log.  4. Add to your BICUM Brochure:  Your Brochure: This is the Outside Continued from  DURING READING 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] Practice the Fix-Up Strategies if you run into any problems understanding what you are reading in the computer lab today.  4. Computer Lab a. Prepare to go to computer lab 205 -- out the door, to the right, down the hall, next to Mr. Wright's classroom. b.  Complete your packet for work in the computer lab:          Using Metacognition When Using the Internet Thinking about your thinking as your read the Internet Your computer number is your folder number.   c. Get as much done as you can today.       Be on task!       Anything that you do not finish today becomes homework for you to finish on your own.   Internet Metacognition.docx http://afjh.alpineschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/10/Media-Safety.pdf http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/plagiarism.html?ref=search# http://www.sehinton.com/bio.html http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/ http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/ If you are finished early, you can earn some extra credit with the Enrichment Exercise, using Utah's Online Library.   Reading 7 Internet Enrichment.docx 5. When we return to the classroom, put your folders away and clean up after yourself.

If You Were Absent: Pick up or print the computer lab packet.  You could work on this at home or during Cave Time Intervention. Internet Metacognition.docx This packet is six pages long. To make up for the reading time you missed, read at home for 20 minutes, record the title, and get a parent signature confirming that you read. You could download and print this file.  To open it, click on this link, then click on the download tap. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc Remember that metacognition is thinking about your own thinking -- in this case noticing what you are thinking as your read .