Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, January 30, 2018:       Hand in your Wikipedia Exercise and  Class Blog/Google Classroom Assignment. Class Blog and Google Classroom Assignment .docx Link to the blog assignment answers: 2018 Rotation 1 Student Blog Assignment                      If you have a pink make-up sheet, and/or other homework,  please take it with you to complete.

Targets for Today:   I can quietly read my own choice of materials for an extended time -- hopefully enjoying it!  I can improve my fluency by better understanding my own reading habits, and by practicing!   I can learn about improving my reading by using metacognition.  I can retain/remember the information I need to learn.      Today we are working on learning the CRAAP (an acronym) test and the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution (using a peg system).

Today’s  Agenda for Tuesday, January 30, 2018: 1. Pick up your folders and a book or other materials to read.  2. Quick review of the CRAAP Test:  You will be tested on this.  Receive a study page.  The CRAAP Test for Finding Trustworthy Sources 3.  Quiet Individual Reading Time      Fill out your reading log for today.                      (San Diego Quick Individual Reading Tests)  4.  Partner fluency practice          Each time you read, record it on your fluency graph.  5.  Take a quiz on the CRAAP test.   -- A4 took the test.  A3 did not.  CRAAP Test Flashcards.docx 6. More on remembering/retaining:    You will need to know the topics for the First Ten Amendments -- in order.  Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights  A Great Memory Aid:  Write and Draw  Use a sheet of plain paper to sketch out the peg system.   Fold it in half (hot dog).   Divide each column into 5 - about 2 inches each.  We had gotten through #3, drawing, in A3. In A4 we had just looked at the system through #3.   Some in A4 still need to receive their papers.  All need to set up the page and begin drawing.  1 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 5 10

If You Were Absent: See above. Complete the make-up reading assignment.   Study the material linked above for the peg system.   You need to know the topics of the first ten amendments.  Take the CRAAP Test Test when you return.  CRAAP Test Flashcards.docx

Vocabulary: Reliability Currency Relevancy Accuracy Authority Purpose

Just for fun:  

New Harry Potter Story -- Not Really

Friday, January 26, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Friday, January 26, 2018 :                            Hand in your Wikipedia Exercise and  Class Blog/Google Classroom Assignment. Class Blog and Google Classroom Assignment .docx Link to the blog assignment answers: 2018 Rotation 1 Student Blog Assignment

Targets for Today:   I can quietly read my own choice of materials for an extended time -- hopefully enjoying it!  I can improve my fluency by better understanding my own reading habits, and by practicing!   I can learn about improving my reading by using metacognition.

Today’s  Agenda for Friday, January 26, 2018 : 1. Pick up your folders and a book or other materials to read.  2. Prepare for and go to the media center.   We will go to the Media Center for a presentation on a way to check for useful and reliable sources.  Take a pencil or pen.  Leave your backpack since we will return to class. You will be tested later on what the letters in the CRAAP test stand for, so pay close attention.   If you have the opportunity to take notes, do it!   We watched this video:  https://www.commoncraft.com/video/website-evaluation 3. Partner fluency practice  -- Pick up a new passage.       Record each time you read on your fluency graph.  4. Individual quiet reading.     Fill out your reading log for today.       (San Diego Quick Individual Reading Tests)

Helpful Gatekeepers -- 
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If You Were Absent: See above. Study this and be able to remember what each of the letters in the CRAAP Test stands for: The CRAAP Test for Finding Trustworthy Sources

Vocabulary: Reliability Currency Relevancy Accuracy Authority Purpose

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Wednesday, January 24, 2018:           Hand in your Wikipedia Exercise and  Class Blog/Google Classroom Assignment. Class Blog and Google Classroom Assignment .docx Link to the blog assignment answers: 2018 Rotation 1 Student Blog Assignment

Targets for Today:   I can quietly read my own choice of materials for an extended time -- hopefully enjoying it!  I can improve my fluency by better understanding my own reading habits, and by practicing!   I can learn about improving my reading by using metacognition.

Today’s  Agenda for  Wednesday, January 24, 2018: 1. Individual quiet reading.     Fill out your reading log for today.       (San Diego Quick Individual Reading Tests)  2. Partner fluency practice  -- Pick up a new passage.       Record each time you read on your fluency graph.  3.  Metacognition:   Add a panel to your BICUM Brochure.  Notice that we're skipping one for now.  We'll get back to it. Your Brochure:  Outside -- left panel .   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 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. This panel has more text not shown here.  BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Retain Mnemonics 2017 A Great Memory Aid:  Write and Draw  Use a sheet of plain paper to sketch out the peg system.   Fold it in half (hot dog).   Divide each column into 5 - about 2 inches each.  Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights  A3 did their drawings through #3.  A4 did not create their papers yet.  We talked through #3.

If You Were Absent:  See above.  Complete the make-up reading assignment.   Study the material linked above for mnemonics and the first three parts of the peg system.

Vocabulary: mnemonic -- a memory aide -- something to help you remember acronym:  an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g., ASCII, NASA ). acrostic:  An acrostic is a poem or sentence (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. peg system -- a mnemonic using numbers and words that rhyme with them.