Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                      Time Change - March 12.  Spring Forward and set your clocks forward 1 hour on Saturday night. The last day to hand in late work, revised work, and extra credit -- except your hall passes -- is Friday, March 10.     If you did not finish the Internet packet we worked on in class, finish it on your own by Friday.         Notice that if you forget or lose your assignment pages, you can print them at home from Skyward.

Targets for Today: I can read for enjoyment for sustained periods of time. I can record my reading. I can read fluently including accurately. I can effectively use the Internet for research.

Today’s  Agenda: Find your seat (same as last time). Pick up your folder and a book to read. 1.  Individual Reading         Fill out your reading log. 2.  Partner Fluency Practice.        Fill out your graph. Computer Lab 224  Leave your backpacks.    Take a pen or pencil. Take the worksheet. 3. Learning about Reading on the Internet.        You have two projects to do in the lab.  You may do either first.       Why not Wikipedia?          and        Avoiding Plagiarism Wikipedia?? You can use Wikipedia as a jumping off point -- to build background knowledge before you begin your serious research. Part 1.  Why not use Wikipedia, though? Go to:   http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/ Fill in the cloze document for this tutorial. Wikipedia exercise.docx     On the back of your handout you will record information about authors of an  article.  Look up a subject on Wikipedia. Your choice of subject.    Utah     Timpanogos Cave National Monument Lagoon American Fork, Utah American Fork High School Your favorite sports team or have another on cleared with me Look at the history:  (Click on "View history.") Go to "oldest."                                 ^ Check out five different contributors on that article.  What can you find out about them? example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Owen An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. Avoiding Plagiarism:    http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html For the plagiarism worksheet --  a. Use the link here to go to http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html# b. Listen to and read along with the information about plagiarism. (Yes, you may turn on the sound on your computer! The room will be noisy, but sometimes that's okay.) c. Answer the questions on the worksheet, both front and back. This is the link you will use for the back. http://www.sehinton.com/bio.html

If You Were Absent: See above.

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Friday, February 24, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                Welcome to Reading 7, Semester 2, Rotation 2!  If you were in Mr. Gillis' class, you are in the right place. If you were in Ms. Dorsey's class, find Mrs. Fugal's classroom -- room 204. Find your seat on the seating charts at the front and back of the room.

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Targets for Today:  Students will understand rules and procedures for our classroom.

Today’s  Agenda: Find your seat on the seating chart at the front or back of the room. Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back of the room.     Pick up a Reading Strategies Chard and begin filling it out.  1. Start filling out your reading strategies pre-assessment. If you don't get your reading strategies filled out today, it is due by March 1. 2.  How to hand in papers  (Hand in your disclosure quiz.) How to receive work back How to save and organize your work How to find out what we did on a day you've been absent  Where to find handouts when you've been absent Where to go if we evacuate the school Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7. Your folder is in the black crate for your class  -- at the back of the room.            This will be your folder and computer number.  Example:     25. Smith, Mary  3.   Ms. Dorsey will briefly introduce herself.   Ms. Dorsey -- A Bit About Me 4. Partner Fluency Practice Partner Fluency will help you feel comfortable reading out loud. Your partner can also help you notice what kind of mistakes you make (long pauses, skipping words, saying the wrong word, etc.) so that you can work on those and get better!      One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.        Put the poem into the page protector.        With a classmate you will take turns reading the passage.        You will be timed for one minute.        Your partner will follow along and mark any errors and mark where you ended.         Notice how far you read.  Figure out how many words you read, then subtract any errors.           Write it down.                 ______ wpm MAKE SURE YOU FILL OUT THE DATE, PASSAGE NUMBER OR LETTERS, AND WORDS PER MINUTE EACH TIME YOU HAVE HAD A TURN TO DO A TIMED READING.            Fill out your new graph for each time you read. Date 1-11-17 11-11-17 Passage SCSS SCSS ⇐Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 (example) 153 (example) Let's fill it out together now. Your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in your folder.  4. Individual Reading and Filling out the Reading Log Just for fun!  Julian Smith -- "I'm Readin' a Book!" Don't forget to fill out your reading log every time.   It counts on your grade!    Fill out every part of the line for each day: date, type of material read, title, something about what you read, minutes read. This log should stay in your folder!! # Date B N M O Title -- Use ditto marks (“)  when continuing the same material.  Material read/Explanation/Read from page__ to page __ Minutes Read Total Hours Read Ex 1/11/17 x The Fourth Stall  p. 46-55 15     If you're absent, or don't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework.

If You Were Absent:  Pick up a Reading Strategies Chart from the handouts file -- or download and print it from here: Reading Strategies Pre-Assess Chart.docx When you return, make sure you get one set of hall passes.

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