Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, April 30, 2019:                           Next Monday, May 6, we will begin the new Monday schedule. April 30 --   Using Utah's Online Library/ Databases   May 2 --  Take a test on finding reliable and useful sources.                             Apply what you've learned.                             Know what each part of the acronym CRAAP means --                                      This is your chance to RETAKE!   May 6 --   During Reading - More Strategies   May 8 --   During Reading -- Using Fix-Up Strategies  May 10 --  After Reading -- Reduce May 14 --  After Reading -- Retain   (Retake the RI test.) May 16 --  Prepare for the Test  --  May 20 --  Final Test May 22 --  Look back at the test  May 24 --  Read-a-thon and Celebrate!

Targets for Today: I know how to find reliable and useful sources using databases and other sources provided within Utah's Online Library.

Today’s  Agenda for Tuesday, April 30, 2019: We will be going again to the Media Center. Today Mrs. Jones will teach you about using databases and other sources available on Utah's Online Library. How many of you have used Overdrive/Libby for reading or listening to books? "Fieldtrip" to the media center to learn about Utah's Online Library. Students learned about the differences between using a general web search and using databases.  General Web Search -- Google  Databases  free comes up with EVERYTHING -- tons of hits -- not sorted by what you need   Sources are not checked for helpfulness, reliability,  or accuracy.  costs (Schools, libraries, and states sometimes will pay so that they are free to you.) targeted to a specific audience (For instance, most of the databases on Utah's Online Library are targeted to students -- sometimes even sorted into elementary, middle, and high school.)  Often provide additional helps for students not available generally on the web.) Usually sources are checked for helpfulness, reliability,  and accuracy. Human beings have search through lots of material to find the most helpful, reliable, and accurate information for various grades and reading levels.  Students previewed databases available on Utah's Online Library. Students practiced using databases on Utah's Online Library. Students received bookmarks with the username and password needed to access Utah's Online Library from home. https://onlinelibrary.uen.org/login If time: Receive back CRAAP Test Partner Fluency  Individual Reading

If You Were Absent: Complete the Reading Make-up for today and look through what's available on Utah's Online Library.  See the link, username, and password on CANVAS.  Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc

Vocabulary: A search engine is not a site, nor is it usually considered a source for the information you need for school and other purposes. It is a road to get to your sources.

Help and Enrichment  For the blog assignment, go to  About Mrs. Dorsey Also look at a post like today's.

Friday, April 26, 2019

Announcements and Reminders for  Friday, April 26, 2019:                           April 26 --   About Wikipedia and CRAAP Test Practice April 30 --   Using Utah's Online Library/ Databases   May 2 --  Take a test on finding reliable and useful sources.                             Apply what you've learned.                             Know what each part of the acronym CRAAP means --                                      This is your chance to RETAKE!   May 6 --   During Reading - More Strategies   May 8 --   During Reading -- Using Fix-Up Strategies  May 10 --  After Reading -- Reduce May 14 --  After Reading -- Retain   (Retake the RI test.) May 16 --  Prepare for the Test  --  May 20 --  Final Test May 22 --  Look back at the test  May 24 --  Read-a-thon and Celebrate!

Targets for Today: I know how to check sources for reliability and usefulness. I can read aloud fluently.

Today’s  Agenda for Friday, April 26, 2019: 1.  Spend a couple of minutes studying the CRAAP Test:             Work with your one o'clock partner.   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?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ8ajc5FrT8 Take a quiz on the CRAAP Test.  2.  Partner Fluency Practice Date 4-26-19 4-26-19 Passage # 618 618 Words Per Minute 143 153 3.  Wikipedia and another chance to use the CRAAP Test.       a.   Go to https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/                 and use the video to complete the cloze worksheet.                    Hand it in.   Find the document on Skyward or on Canvas or here:                                       Wikipedia Cloze Exercise Quicker.docx     b.  Go to https://www.allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/                      and answer the questions on the worksheet.                    You will be looking at a page about Lewis and Clark who went on             their famous expedition from May 1804 through September of 1806.                                 Find the document on Skyward or on Canvas or here:   Explorers Internet Assignment.docx   4.  If time, individual reading

If You Were Absent: See above and complete the make-up reading assignment for today.  Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc Complete the two internet assignments described above.  Find the information and documents to download either above or on Canvas or attached to the assignments on Skyward.  For more information on the CRAAP Test see The CRAAP Test for Finding Trustworthy Sources.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment

About Mrs. Dorsey

Mrs. Dorsey was born in Rupert, Idaho.  Her parents farmed near the town of  Burley.  They later moved to farms near Dietrich, Idaho (close to Shoshone), Jerome, Filer (between Twin Falls and Buhl), Richfield (close to Dietrich), and then to Darlington (near Arco and Mackay).   She grew up doing farm work and enjoying being outdoors.  She has two younger brothers, and they both live in Idaho west of Boise.

       

In junior high and high school she fenced and played basketball and participated in pep club and other clubs, and drama and speech events.  She also really liked school and got good grades. Her junior high was seventh and eighth grade and there were 17-18 students.  She went to three different high schools. The first one had only 33 students in the four grades of high school.  The largest one had about 500 students altogether.

Dietrich, Idaho Junior High -- Seventh and Eighth Grade 

From the Filer, Idaho High School yearbook

She went to Ricks College (now BYU Idaho), then to BYU in Provo.  She had wanted to be a teacher since she was in first grade, but in college she had to decide what she wanted to teach.  All through high school she had thought she'd want to teach English and drama, but in college she loved her science classes so much that she almost became a science teacher.  She did decide, though, to go back to majoring in English Education and minoring in speech and drama.  While living in California, she got to teach environmental education which included a lot of science and a lot of fun field trips!

After she was married, her family lived in Groton, Connecticut (her husband was stationed in the Navy);  Springville and Provo, Utah (while she and her husband attended BYU),  San Jose, California; Meridian, Idaho; and then locally in Highland, near the American Fork Boat Harbor, and in American Fork.


Places she loves include Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons (especially camping on Jenny Lake), Yosemite, the Olympic Rain Forest, and the Redwood forests in California.

This is her youngest daughter as a teenager at Jenny Lake.

Some other fun places she's been include U.S. historical sites, Disneyland (the first time she went was when she was thirty years old), a cruise down the west coast of Mexico, and on a trip to Israel and Jordan, with a stop in Rome on the way home.

On a trip to Boston with a group of
history and English teachers.

Disneyland with one of
her granddaughters. 

Jerusalem
On a trip to Israel
we saw lots of sites, and Ms. Dorsey swam in the Mediterranean,
 the Sea of Galilee, the Red Sea, and the Dead Sea.
One of her most memorable (and embarrassing) experiences of all time
was when she got stuck in the mud in the Dead Sea
and needed to be pulled out by the lifeguards and some friends.
It was also a very windy day, so the waves splashed the salty water in her eyes,
and she could tell you that was painful.
But overall the trip was great!  

She and friends spent a weekend in Rome.  

She loves to hike when she gets the chance. 
This is at Cecret Lake near Alta. 

She loves gardening. 

She is a bird-watcher. 

She loves going to the Utah Shakespeare Festival. 

She has six children and ten grandchildren.

Ms. Dorsey with her youngest daughter and her grandsons
Teddy and Kaladin at this year's fairy tea party at the Provo Library

Six of her grandchildren:
Dallin, Gage, Teddy (again), Avi, Kaladin (again), and Kathryn.

This is my oldest daughter's family.  They live in El Paso, Texas,
but spent their spring break in Hawaii -- their first trip there.
The children are Avi (9th grade), Mason (the baby), Kaitlyn (just turned four),
and Jaxon (seventh grade). 

She loves to read!
She is currently reading The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series and the first book in Land of Stories and Fish in a Tree.

And I enjoy coaching our American Fork Junior High Mock Trial Team!

Wednesday, April 24, 219

Announcements and Reminders for Wednesday, April 24, 219:                           April 23 and 24  - Alpine Days  -- Track and Field at MVHS You may check out books from our classroom by going to CANVAS,  Announcements, Ms. Dorsey's Classroom Library Check-Out/Check-In or directly from here  to https://goo.gl/forms/3zjshLRdUMg3dWut2 (Links to an external site.)

Targets for Today: I can use the CRAAP Test with my own background knowledge and reasoning to tell whether an information source will be useful and reliable.  W.7.1b and W.8.1b. Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.

Today’s  Agenda for Wednesday, April 24, 219 : Hand in your class-blog homework assignment if you haven't yet. You do NOT need to get out your folder.  When looking at a source of information,  you need to decide whether it is useful and reliable.  I.  Is it useful?   2.  Is it reliable?  Media Center  Take a pencil.  Learn about the CRAAP Test.  3. Media Center Presentation on CRAAP!?!?            Leave by about -- A3 - 12:15   and   A4 - 1:35.         Put away your folders, and take your backpacks.       TAKE A PENCIL OR PEN.   Media Center "Fieldtrip"      We learned about using the CRAAP Test to find useful and reliable information. Mrs. Jones Mrs. John Do you know them?   The CRAAP Test for Finding Trustworthy Sources  ⇉ ⇉  You will memorize the parts of the CRAAP Test.   Be able to explain each part of the mnemonic.  Hands for the Bill of Rights If we have time for Partner Fluency, you will use a new passage! Partner Fluency  Date 4-24-19 4-24-19 Passage # 618 618 Words Per Minute 143 153 Before you leave, put away your folders  in the crate for your class  -- inside your assigned hanging folders.

If You Were Absent: See above and complete the make-up reading assignment for today.  Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc

Vocabulary: URL * Uniform Resource Locator or Universal Resource Locator According to The American Heritage Dictionary,  The term URL is a noun and it is  "an Internet address (for example, http://www.hmco.com/trade/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.hmco.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (trade)." Find the URL in the address bar on your browser. Address Bar Address Bar: a text box in a web browser displaying the address of the web page that is currently being viewed. Browser:  A browser is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.

Help and Enrichment  Facts to Memorize Targets for this Rotation You will learn a set of reading strategies that you can apply -- especially to the reading you do to learn.  You will be able to tell about and use strategies for  Before Reading, During Reading, and  After Reading.  You will apply these strategies to reading and learning from various texts,                                    including texts you read on the internet.  By the end of his rotation, you will know and apply the CRAAP Test for Reliability and Usefulness of sources,  a SELF-check for preparing to study-read,  and other strategies. You will apply strategies that we learn to memorize assigned material.  You will improve your reading fluency -- and graph your improvement. You will have spent hours reading for enjoyment -- and created a record of your in-class reading. The best way to improve your reading  is to read, read, read.  Tentative Schedule for our Class April 12 -- Introduction  Individual Reading  Book Pass and first Chapter  Create an appointment clock  Receive hall passes, addendum, reading log, fluency graph,  April 16 -- BICUM  = You will begin to  learn about metacognition and  tools/strategies                                           you can use, adding onto and improving the skills you have developed with Mrs. Fugal and Mrs. Cannon.                              April 18 --   strategies to use before reading  -- self-check, previewing, etc.     (notice myself, my surroundings, my challenge)  April 22 --   During Reading Strategies   -- Questions, Purpose, Study Length, Place checks; during: check your alignment, visualize, talk with the text.  April 24 --   Media Center -- Using the CRAAP Test April 26 --   About Wikipedia and CRAAP Test Practice  April 30 --   Using Utah's Online Library/ Databases   May 2 --  Take a test on finding reliable and useful sources.                             Apply what you've learned.                             Know what each part of the acronym CRAAP means. May 6 --   During Reading - More Strategies   May 8 --   During Reading -- Using Fix-Up Strategies  May 10 --  After Reading -- Reduce May 14 --  After Reading -- Retain   (Retake the RI test.) May 16 --  Prepare for the Test  --  May 20 --  Final Test May 22 --  Look back at the test  May 24 --  Read-a-thon and Celebrate!   Satire:  Tuesday, September 18, 2018 Useful and Reliable, Using the Computer Lab:   Friday, November 18, 2018 https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/tolerance-lessons/editorial-cartoons-povertyenvironmental-justice?utm_source=Teaching+Tolerance&utm_campaign=e196e8184a-Newsletter+4-24-2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a8cea027c3-e196e8184a-83374887