Monday, November 20, 2017

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, November 20, 2017: Pick up your folder and a book to read. Get started with quiet reading time.                        November 10     Learn about  Metacognition -- Brochure: Label Panels, Cover 14     Before Reading --  BICUM Brochure  -- SELF Test and  Practice:Preview Articles 16     During Reading  -- Be Active --  (predictions/inferences)  Check for Understanding     Today A3 finished inferences, needs to finish predicting -- needs Skitterings.                 A4  finished predicting, needs to finish inferences --                         What about the guy in green?  and more  20    Internet and the CRAAP Test  (CRAAP Test Test will be on  November 29 -- Also know it for the final. )  27     Reading the Internet to Learn 29    During Reading -- Fix-Ups   (words in context -- context clues)  begin Mind Mapping -- Test on the CRAAP Test  December 1    Reading  the Internet  to Learn After Reading -- Reduce --  (Patterns and Mind Mapping) 5    After Reading -- Retain  --   Mnemonics  -- Use a peg system to learn the Bill of Rights 7    After Reading -- Retain --   Mnemonics  -- Use the loci system to learn the first ten U.S. Presidents. Also  how to use flashcards  to study CRAAP, Bill of Rights, first ten presidents 11     Practice using Metacognition online and  with an article The administration just changed our schedule on November 21, such that we will not have class on December 19.  13      Final Test --  Turn in BICUM Brochure 15      Readathon and Test make-up, if needed               Bring treats, if you wish, to the Readathon. End of Semester  An Important Homework Assignment It was due LAST TIME.  Part A. At home you will find our classroom website/blog at https://cavereading.blogspot.com/ Receive the assignment slip in class.  You will fill it out as homework.  Part B. At home or school,  sign up on our Google Classroom using the code I will give to you.                              The Class Title is                Reading 7, Semester 1, Rotation Here is the assignment to print, should you need to: Class Websites for Reading 7.docx Scholastic Book Orders:  Use our class code when you order online:  GKLJW.

Targets for Today: I can recognize trustworthy and reliable sources.   I can read quietly for an extended time -- hopefully enjoying it!  For Your Grade for This Rotation Be on task in class! Keep up with your reading log. (Record the information about when and what and how long you’ve read every class time.) Keep up with your partner fluency graph. (Record the date, passage number or letters, and your words per minute after each time you read.) Complete make-up homework if you are absent or off-task in class. Create a neat and complete BICUM Brochure. Be able to show you can use the strategies from your brochure when reading. Use the strategies for retaining information to memorize the assigned sets of information.  Facts to Memorize Complete and hand in the Internet assignments.

Today’s  Agenda:  1.  Media Center  Mrs. Jones will present information about the CRAAP Test and Fake News.  Here is the video we watched:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcRWkkSvfj0 How Fake News Becomes News  Choose Reliable sources. If a story seems too good or too wild or too politically convenient to be true, it is probably fake.  Learn how to Search and Scroll Like  a Pro. Mrs. Jones -- Finding Trustworthy Sources An Analysis  of Bias  in the Media At the center would be the least biased source. http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/political-polarization-media-habits/pj_14-10-21_mediapolarization-09/ 2. Select a book to read -- either one you brought or one from our classroom shelves. Do a SELF Check:        Study area,       Emotions,      Level of difficulty (of the material you're reading), and how you're       Feeling physically.        Read your book for about 20 minutes.  Individual Reading Time Expectations Everyone is reading. Everyone is reading their own choice of books or magazines or other materials. (Students are encouraged to read their books for English class projects.) Everyone is quiet. No one is bothering their neighbors. Everyone fills out their chart for today at the end of the reading time.   2. Fill out your reading log.  # Date B N M O Title, Explanation, Pages Minutes Total Hours  1  11/10  x The Maze Runner  8-20  20  1/3  2  11/14 x  Cobblestone  about Washington,D.C.    20  2/3 3 11/16 x Unwind 20 1 hour   If you're absent, or were off-task during reading time, or didn't fill out your log,       pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework. 3.  If time:  4.  One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.       Each pair gets one eraser and one white-board marker.        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 a column on your graph for each time you read. Read your new passage  today.  The passage number is in the upper right hand corner.  Date 11-14-17 11-14-17 11-[   ]-17 Passage Number 111 111 (     )  Words Per Minute 143 153 140

If You Were Absent: See above.   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 tab. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc Here is your class websites assignment:  Class Websites for Reading 7.docx

Vocabulary: CRAAP Test Currency      How up-to-date is it?    Relevance       Is it what I need or want?  Does it help me? Authority        Who wrote or published this?         What makes them an expert? Accuracy         Is the information correct?          Can  you verify it in more than one place? Purpose         Why did they create this?  to inform or teach?  to persuade?                                 to sell?  to entertain?          How biased is it?    FAKE News Bias  --  prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair. Note: We are all biased, and that's okay.  The goal is to make sure our biases are not blinding us to the truth.  Signal Boosters -- people who have a lot of followers on the Internet Confirmation Bias -- When you tend to believe stories or opinions that back up what you already believe.  Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles -- We are surrounded by news stories that feed our confirmation bias. Metacognition:  thinking about your own thinking Fluency :  the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression.