Friday, December 16, 2011

B1:  Charity Basketball games: Bring your dollar for entry.
B2: Computer lab to work on web evaluations and PowerPoints.

Links of interest:
Web Evaluation Sheet  ABC Website Evaluation 2.doc 

Here is the first paper we did on the Internet, using search engines and databases to find possibly useful websites:  Research on the Internet Revised.doc.  

Below is a template you could use for your celebrity powerpoint:
Celebrity PowerPoint Template.ppt   
It makes your job a lot easier!

Directions for making your Bibliography: Creating Your Bibliography


Here is a sample PowerPoint:  emma watson example.ppt  


Reminder of what should be on the PowerPoint:

1. cover slide with photo of the famous person, that person's name, your name(s)
2. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Life Before Fame
3. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: How He/She Became Famous
4. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Major Accomplishments
5. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Personal Life
6. information slide with a heading, a photo or other illustration, 4 bullets of information: Other Interesting Information
7. bibliography slide with a heading and 3 or 5 citations created using bibme  

You may add up to three extra slides.

Important Reminder:  

Students will finish their PowerPoints on January 4 and present them on January 6.

If you don't think you will be ready, work on yours at home. 

If you have extra time, you may play games at 

http://www.fun-with-words.com

Do not go to other sites or programs without asking Ms. Dorsey.

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?

 ____________________________

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.