Thursday, January 17, 2019

Announcements and Reminders for Thursday, January 17, 2019: If you haven't already recorded your reading for 1/11/19 and 1/15/19, do that now on your blue reading log:   1/11/19   20 minutes 1/15/19   20 minutes A3, please turn in  (to your top wire basket)  your Wikipedia cloze exercise. If you haven't turned in your disclosure document signatures and strategies assessment, please turn them in -- to your top wire basket!        Also turn in the waivers that were attached to the teacher letter.  Get out your folder.           There will be no school on Monday.  See you next Tuesday!

Targets for Today: I can fill out the “Be Active” section of the BICUM brochure. I can use check marks to help me stop and check my understanding of a text. I can make an inference using a set of clues. ELA-RI 7.10

Today’s  Agenda for Thursday, January 17, 2019: Get out your folder. Turn in your disclosure document signatures and strategies assessment and your waiver. 1.  Computer Lab 224 for the Reading Inventory Test Take a book to read in case you finish early.  Walk QUIETLY to the lab.  Your computer number is your folder number.   Log into the computer, then wait.  DO NOT open anything.  DO NOT open a browser.  Take the test seriously.   Using a skip can be a wise move when you have no idea what the answer is.   Last time: Before-Reading strategies—using the CRAAP test, previewing a text, and setting a purpose Today: When you’re reading a book, what do you do to keep yourself focused on what you’re reading? Fill out Brochure for DURING READING: BE ACTIVE Replace Alignment with Check for Text Structure. We practiced with the Shackleton excerpt below. Later:  STRATEGY:  Making Inferences What is it? A silver-scaled Dragon with jaws flaming red Sits at my elbow and toasts my bread. I hand him fat slices, and then, one by one, He hands them back when he sees they are done.

Page 2 of Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong

“The Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition

Ernest Henry Shackleton knew all about the weather in the Antarctic. In 1908, Shackleton had been the first explorer to come within 100 miles of the South Pole. On his triumphal return from that journey, he was rewarded with a knighthood for his efforts. He was a world-famous celebrity, a hero to thousands who read his thrilling book on his ‘Furthest South’ expedition. He was determined to try again for the conquest of the South Pole, but before he could organize a new expedition, two other explorers headed for the frozen continent. In 1911, the Norwegian explorer Rauld Amundsen reached the Pole. Only five weeks later, Captain Robert F. Scott of England reached it, a heart-breaking second-place finish—and then died on the way back to his base. All of England mourned the death of Captain Scott. Now that the South Pole had been reached, it seemed as though the age of heroic exploration was over. And yet was it?

Antarctica had never even been sighted before the nineteenth century. Until then it was a rumor, and undefined, unseen question mark shrouded in fog and surrounded by ice. But it hadn’t always hidden at the bottom of the world behind a veil of frozen mist. One hundred sixty million years ago, Antarctica was part of the supercontinent Gondwana, which also included South America, Africa, and Australia. The Jurassic climate of Gondwana was semi-tropical, and fossils from Antarctica prove that the continent was once inhabited by giant flightless birds, sharks and freshwater fish, snails, beetles, reptiles, and protomarsupials, all thriving under giant ferns and trees.

The supercontinent began to break apart, however, and by 60 million years ago, Antarctica has migrated south to its present location over the Pole. In a mere 20 million years, the continent was covered with ice, and the environment had become too hostile for most living things.

By modern times, only one percent of the continent was free of ice. But not only was is too cold for most life, it was also too dry, with an annual rain and snowfall of only two inches per year—the same as that of the Australian outback. The polar ice cap had made Antarctica a frozen desert.

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If You Were Absent: See above for what we did in class.  Read for 20 minutes on your own, fill out the make-up reading log, get a parent signature, and turn it in when you return to class. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc See canvas for the slideshow about using ACTIVE Reading Strategies.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  Be Active: Make Inferences Prediction is about what is to come.  Inference is about what is.   Inference is reading between the lines.   What is the author saying without directly stating it?  Words you need to know:  Imply =      to suggest Infer =       to conclude Making Inferences is very similar to Making Connections and Making Predictions. In fact, predictions are a type of inference.  When you make inferences, you use clues from the text, memories, facts, experiences, and more to "read between the lines". You're not just looking forward to guess what will happen next, but you're looking at the whole text!  I take clues from the text + what I already know to make an inference.