Monday, November 12, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Monday, November 12, 2018: Pick up your folders.      You will learn to Be In Control of Your Reading by Using Metacognition. November 6 -- Learn about  Metacognition -- Brochure: Label Panels, Cover November 8 -- Before Reading -- CRAAP Test  -- How to judge whether a site will be reliable and useful.    (Prepare for the CRAAP Test Test)  November 12 --  (Quiz on the CRAAP Test)  During and After Reading -- Using mnemonics ( to remember the information you read.  Use a peg system to learn the Bill of Rights in honor of Veterans Day.   November 14 --  Before Reading November 16 --  (Hilton)   Be Active --  (predictions/inferences, and other strategies) Check for Understanding  November 20 --  During Reading -- Fix-Ups   (words in context -- context clues)  November 27 --  After Reading -- Reduce --  (Patterns, Highlighting, and Mind Mapping)   November 29 --  After Reading -- Retain --   Mnemonics  -- Use the loci system to learn the first ten U.S. Presidents.  December 3 -- After Reading -- Retain -- Use  flashcards  to study CRAAP, Bill of Rights, first ten presidents December 5 -- Practice using Metacognition online  -- Why not Wikipedia? December 7 --  Practice using Metacognition  with an article December 11 -- Strategy review December 13 --  Final Test --  Turn in BICUM Brochure December 17 --Readathon and Test make-up, if needed               Bring treats, if you wish, to the Readathon.

Targets for Today: I know the words and meanings for the acronymn C.R.A.A.P. when it applies to finding useful and reliable sources of information. I can use some prereading strategies as I prepare to read an article. I can find and highlight the most useful information in an article. I can use a mnemonic device to help myself remember information.

Today’s  Agenda for Monday, November 12, 2018: Pick up your folder.  Go over the C.R.A.A.P. test.  1. Individual reading.  Fill out your reading log.  Example   11-12-18  x The House with a Clock in Its Walls, pp. 92-110 15  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. STUDY for the CRAAP Test Test. 2. Partner Fluency Practice.        Participate appropriately as both reader and listener.       Fill out your fluency graph for each time you read. Today we are using "Turning Off the Faucet." Example Date 10-29-18 10-29-18 Passage #102 #102 Words Per Minute 125 (your own WPM) 135   (your own WPM) STUDY for the CRAAP Test Test.  3.  CRAAP TEST Test #1          Write down both the words and their meanings.  Using a word to define itself does not earn a point.   For instance, if you were defining "reliable" and you defined it saying   "It is reliable " that would not earn a point.  4. BICUM -- Be in Control -- Use Metacognition. Like Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove, you should -- Check your own inner voice What distracts you?  What keeps you from focusing on the thing you are supposed to be reading?  What do you do when you've been distracted and realize you haven't really been reading -- then what if you're just not getting it?   How can you keep yourself focused in the first place?  Pair-Share  You can learn strategies to help yourself  succeed in your reading tasks. Check your own inner voice.  Your mind is working all the time, whether you are paying attention to it or not.  Noticing your own thinking is called METACOGNITION. When you are reading, you can control your thoughts so that you are having a conversation with the text.  This is called a  CONVERSATIONAL VOICE and is USEFUL.  We all have times when we are "reading,"  but really our thoughts are wandering to other subjects.  This voice within your head, when you really should be reading, is called a WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE. The best solution for the WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE is to gently bring you focus back to the reading material.  Tell yourself that you'll think about that other subject later. %  5.  Read about The Bill of Rights and Memorize the topics using a mnemonic device.            During and After Reading Strategies and the Bill of Rights  What is your purpose for reading the articles?   Highlight --  mnemonics Mnemonics are devices to help us remember ( memory aide). They come in many varieties and flavors, and can aid memorization of many types of information. Mnemosyne (in mythology) was  a titan (a giant who was sort of like a goddess) who was the personification of memory. [nee-mos-uh-nee, -moz-]  Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights  Student Example

If You Were Absent: See above. Complete your make-up reading.  Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc A3 worked through quartering soldiers. A4 did not read the articles.  They looked at the first and second amendment.

Vocabulary: C = Currency --  How up-to-date is it?      R = Relevance -- Is it what I need or want?  Does it help me? A = Authority --    Who wrote or published this?    What makes them an expert? A = Accuracy --  Is the information correct? Can you verify it in more than one place? P = Purpose --   Why did they create this?   to inform or teach?   to persuade?   to sell?   to entertain?          and How biased is it?    If you're dying to watch the music video we watched in the media center, here is the link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ8ajc5FrT8

Help and Enrichment  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. 10.  Hen – Picture the Governor standing on the Capitol steps holding a hen, demanding STATES RIGHTS. Student Example

Teacher notes:

Mnemonics basic lesson

Bill of Rights articles -- original and simplified

Paper for peg system drawings -- label, too. 

highlighting