Cave Reading: Friday, February 17, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:

We will not have school next Monday.

The 22nd will be our last day in this rotation and will be our Readathon!

February 22

Read-a-thon! Bring treats, pillow to sit on, blanket, if you wish.

Make a note for yourself to bring treats!

Next time we will have the Readathon,
and the test on BICUM
and on the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Use your strategies to remember them.

You will hand in your BICUM Brochures by the end of class today.

Targets for Today:

I read for enjoyment, and add to a record of my reading.
I can read aloud fluently.
I can read for an extended period of time.
I can use reading strategies after reading to help myself reduce the amount I have to learn, and remember the material I need to learn.

Today’s Agenda:

1. Individual Reading --
Fill out your log.

2. Partner Fluency Practice with the passages that were new last time -- Fill out your graph.

3. More Strategy practice --
Retaining (Remembering

A3: Study in Groups, Make Flashcards

Memorize the topics for the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution (The Bill of Rights).

Also memorize the steps on your BICUM Brochure.

A4: Continue to Study in Groups, Make Flashcards, "Illustrate" the Bill of Rights.

Memorize the topics for the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution (The Bill of Rights).

Also memorize the steps on your BICUM Brochure.

Hand in your BICUM Brochure,
and make sure you have the list of items you need to know from it.

Making the Flash Cards

Draw a line to divide your paper in half lengthwise -- at 4 and a quarter inches.

Place ticks at three places, then draw the line.

Your perpendicular lines will be every two inches.

Sample of Part of One Side

Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 1	Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 2
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 3	Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 4
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 5	Amendments to the U.S. Constitution 6

Continue on to do all ten.

Sample of part of the other side:

Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.	Right to keep and bear arms in order to maintain a well regulated militia.
No quartering of soldiers.	Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy.	Rights of accused persons, e.g., right to a speedy and public trial.

Continue on to do all ten.

Bill of Rights - The Really Brief Version

The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are summarized below.

Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

1	Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
2	Right to keep and bear arms in order to maintain a well regulated militia.
3	No quartering of soldiers.
4	Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
5	Right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy.
6	Rights of accused persons, e.g., right to a speedy and public trial.
7	Right of trial by jury in civil cases.
8	Freedom from excessive bail, cruel and unusual punishments.
9	Other rights of the people.
10	Powers reserved to the states.

A4 -- By the end of class next time, know these.

Your Brochure: Outside

After Reading -- #2

RETAIN

(Remember)

Teach Someone
Study in Groups
Recreate in Writing (and drawing)
Make Flash Cards

Use mnemonics

1. Rhymes and Songs

2. Acronyms

3. Acrostics

4. Mini-Stories

5. Picture Links

Rehearse

Continued from

DURING READING

BICUM

Be in Control:

Use Metacognition

[Your Name]

[Your Class Period]

Remember for BICUM: (Students each received a copy of this.)

Before

1. Self-Check

STUDY AREA, EMOTIONS, LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY,

FEELING PHYSICALLY

2. Preview

3. Select or create questions.

4. Set study length – time and amount.

During Reading

1. Be Active

2. Stop every once in awhile to check your understanding.

If you do understand, go on reading.

If you don’t understand, use fix-up strategies

1. Inner voice

2. Read again

3. Read out loud

4. Read ahead

5. Define words

6. Ask

7. Add to Background

After Reading

1. Reduce

What did I learn?

Structure?

Central idea?

2. Organize for Recall

Outline

Notes

Summaries

Maps

3. Retain (Remember)

Teach

Groups

Recreate (write it)

Flash Cards

Mnemonics
Rehearse

Practice reducing and retaining by illustrating the items you need to know.
Hand in these drawings.
Also hand in your BICUM Brochure.

Peg System:

1. Bun – Picture a bun wrapping about 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."

2. Shoe – Picture a Bear wearing shoes – The right to bear arms.

3. Tree – It’s a quarter tree – You don’t have to quarter soldiers.

4. Door – You don’t have to let them in unless they have a valid search warrant. Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.

5. Hive -- Bees are buzzing in your ears saying, “Tell us what you did! Admit you’re guilty!”

Freedom from self-incrimination (due process of law)

6. Sticks – Chasing the judge with sticks demanding the right to a speedy trial.

7. Heaven – Picture a jury box full of jurors up on a cloud (in heaven). This is the right to a trial by jury.

8. Gate – It would be cruel and unusual for someone to slam a person’s hand in a gate.

This amendment protects us from cruel and unusual punishment.

9. Line – Stand in the RIGHT line to get your Individual RIGHTS. Many individuals would be standing there.

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10. Hen – Picture the Governor standing on the Capitol steps holding a hen, demanding STATES RIGHTS.

Bill of Rights chart from --
https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/Public/Bill_of_Rights.html

If You Were Absent:

DO NOT forget to complete your make-up reading for the day or days you missed.
Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc

Hand in your Brochure when you return.

Learn the topics of the First Ten Amendments to the United States Constitution, and

review your BICUM Brochures to be able to answer questions about what you can do before, during, and after reading. See the helps below: