Monday, February 26, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Monday, February 26, 2018 :          Tomorrow is your job shadowing day.             Our next A-Day will be on Thursday, March 1.   Your blog assignment is due today: Blog Assignment .docx    Hand in any late or make-up work!

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 complete an exercise that will help me understand why I should not use Wikipedia as a cited source for my research and writing.

Today’s  Agenda for Monday, February 26, 2018: 1. Individual, quiet reading time. Remember to fill out the reading log for today. 2.  Partner Fluency Practice -- Fill out the graph for each time you read. 3.  Computer lab to sign up for our Google Classroom 1.  Log into your own school Gmail account. Find the icon for Google Classroom.    To join our class, use the code you are given.  2.  View/listen to a video about Wikipedia and/or read the transcript to fill out a cloze exercise about Wikipedia Here is the link to your Wikipedia Assignment: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/ And here is your worksheet:  Wikipedia Cloze Exercise 2018.docx Here is the first part of the transcript for the video: Wikipedia has quickly become the world's largest encyclopedia and one of the most visited websites. But how does information get into Wikipedia in the first place? There's a lot to discover when you scratch beneath the surface. Wikipedia is a wiki, a special kind of website that allows many people to contribute to the content. The word wiki means . . . .

If You Were Absent: See above.  You may complete this at home: Wikipedia Cloze Exercise 2018.docx Complete the reading make-up work.  Use the pink make-up log, or print one from Skyward or this blog.   Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc Don't forget that your blog assignment is due today:  Blog Assignment .docx

Vocabulary: 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?

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