Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading Time
San Diego testing

Partner Fluency with a Twist of the Tongue 

Finish review of Reading Strategies:   See tabs above for Getting Acquainted with Reading Strategies and Fix-Up Strategies.

• Internal Text Structures 
• Fix-up strategies
• Determining Importance and Summarizing

End-of-Class Survey

Time to meet with partner




Extra credit:

Extra Credit -- Population

Extra Credit: Memorize a Summer Poem

Extra Credit: Summer Reading

 

Your last day to hand in late or revised  work  is Friday, May 25.  

 

Finding Websites -- Using Search Engines and Databases

The Website Checklists

Putting Together the Presentation

 

 

More on Extra Credit

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Extra Credit

All extra credit opportunities from this year, except handing in work early, are still available through Friday, January 7.  When you hand it in, please include the date of the post you found the extra credit on.  

Memorize a quote:  5 points each if you can say a quote fluently to me.

“It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.”   -- Jane Hamilton  

“Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it; a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.”  -- ?

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” -- Ray Bradbury   (American science-fiction short stories and novels writer,1920) --

http://en.thinkexist.com/search/searchquotation.asp?search=reading+books

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"We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find."
— Harold Bloom 

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/94693

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.  -- Sir Richard Steele  

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.  -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) 

-- http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?homesearch=reading&page=8

Extra Credit

1.   Over the Christmas Holiday, if you keep a reading log of what you read each day (the days you read -- which should be everyday), you can earn some extra credit points.

2.  Memorize one or more stanzas of a famous poem and recite it for Ms. Dorsey.  Yes, Shel Silverstein's poems count.

3. See other extra credit opportunities on this blog. Search for "extra credit." 

November 15, 2010

If you have not shown your PowerPoint, or if you would like to add points to what you have earned on your PowerPoint -- have it ready on the 15th -- the last day of class for our rotation.   Make sure you have included citations -- not just URL's  on your bibliography slide.  (Use bibme.org to create your citations using the URL of each site.  Remember to copy the URL from the page where you found the information, then click on the tab for websites before you enter the URL.)

Finish poem fluency presentations.

Write about the experience of completing your celebrity webquest.

From Pieces of Flair

     What reading strategies did you use?

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Extra Credit:  Be the first to come tell me the meaning of the word Penultimate. See the information below.

Brian P. Cleary The word PENULTIMATE means “the next to last.” If someone refers to the penultimate scene in the play, it’s the one before the final. The word “vacation,” for instance, has its accent on the penultimate syllable.

Lemony Snicket wrote a book called The Penultimate Peril, so it is about the next to the last peril. 

October 18, 2010

Bell-Ringer: 
We will also pass back the papers you handed in with ideas for celebrities. 
We will go to the computer lab right after I present a demonstration of easybib.  

You may sit with your partner in computer lab as long as you are productive.
Take your  handouts, a pencil or pen, and your planner.

Computer Lab 223:
1.  Select the celebrity you most want to learn more about. 
2. Write in your top three choices, with the one you'd like the most in the #1 spot.
3.  Hand in your papers
4.  While you wait to find out. . .
5.  Start looking for sites that would be reliable and provide you with the information you'll need.
6.  Create citations for the sites you find that you think might be helpful.  Create the word document and save it on your thumb drive  or e-mail it to yourself or (if you can't do the others) print it and hand it in with your other worksheets.

Read7 Comp Lab Directions Oct 18(2).doc 

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Extra Stuff --

What makes a site reliable?  How can you tell if it's not reliable?
Do you believe everything you read and see?   Is it Reliable?  

Here is a lesson on deciding whether a site is reliable or not.

Time in computer lab to begin doing research.

Extra Credit:  How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?  Find and record 4 answers at http://www.tootsie.com/gal_machine.php  
to earn 5 extra credit points.
Earn an extra ten by creating a citation for the page at easybib.com
Copy the URL from above or from the page navigation bar itself.
Follow the directions here. Using easybib.com
Print it and bring it to me or email it to dorsc405@alpine.k12.ut.us and put Parent of [with your own name] in  the subject line.

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Google Lesson on Reliability

Extra Credit

According to one of the posts on this blog from this month (August),
what do "Readers. . . " do when the text is hard?

Five points of extra credit will be given to  each of the first five people to tell me the answer by email or face-to-face.  This offer expires September 3.