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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