Thursday, October 4, 2012

Read-a-Thon
Bring books to read, treats (if you'd like), and perhaps a pillow to sit on!

1. Individual Reading time and fill out reading log.
2. Partner Fluency Practice
3. Finish Internet Crossword. 
4.  Prizes!

Hand in Web Checklists and PowerPoints if not previously done. 

Make up fluency work, if needed. 
Prepare  your folders for your next rotation.

•     You will leave the fluency passages and plastic page covers.  
•      You will leave the S.E. Hinton articles.
•       Next time you will go to Mrs. Fugal's classroom to begin your next rotation of reading class.

Joining Edmodo

If you do NOT already have an Edmodo account.

To join Edmodo, go to http://www.edmodo.com

You'll see a screen that looks like this, and you will select I'M A STUDENT.

You'll enter your class code in the provided box.

Your user name should be your lastnamefirstname without capital letters or spaces.
Your password is your student number.  
Do NOT enter an email address.

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If you already have an Edmodo account, sign in, and follow these steps.

• Look to the left side for "Groups."  
• Click on "Join."
• Type in the group code for this reading class.
• Click on "Join." 

September 28, 2012

September 28 is Picture Make-Up Day
Ms. Dorsey will be available after school on Thursday, September 27 for students to use Lab 211 to finish up their PowerPoints.  If you have handed in your PowerPoint, check back once in awhile (under Grades) to see if Ms. Dorsey has left you notes and/or an annotated version of your own PowerPoint, to help you make corrections and get full points.  Most of them will still just say "Turned In," but I may have already added notes.

September 28:

Show PowerPoints

All ABC Evaluations should be complete and turned in. 

September 26, 2012

1. Individual Reading and fill out your reading log.


2. Finish PowerPoints.  We will present the PowerPoints in class on Friday, so you must be done.

Open this link, then click on the "Download" tab to open the template.  
Famous Person PowerPoint Template.ppt

Mock Trial Team meets today during Cave Time.  If you're interested, come to room 206.

September 24, 2012 Monday

You do not need to get out your folders today.  We will be going to the computer lab as soon as we can get ready. 

We will be in the computer lab again today,  Monday the 24th,  and Wednesday the 26th.
Notice that your PowerPoint is due by the end of class on the 26th, and we will be sharing them on the 28th.

If you need to see any of the documents or templates, see the tab above for  "Famous Person Project: Instructions and Downloads." 

Today's agenda: 
1. Prepare to go into the computer lab to work on your PowerPoint (or web evaluations if you haven't finished them).   Check your Edmodo account for any notes from Ms. Dorsey.  
We are in Lab 201 today.

September 20, 2012 Thursday

Parent-Teacher Conference tonight.

1.  Individual quiet reading
2.  Fluency Partners.

3. Using Reading Strategies

• questioning
• determining importance
• skim and scan
• visualizing

4. Taking notes -- whole class practice


Notes:
We will be in the computer lab again on Monday the 24th and Wednesday the 26th.
Notice that your PowerPoint is due by the end of class on the 26th, and we will be sharing them on the 28th.

Grading for Famous Person Project

  If you need to see any of the documents or templates, see the tab above for  "Famous Person Project: Instructions and Downloads."

September 18, 2012

September 18, 2012

Today's Schedule: 
1. Individual Reading and Fill Out Reading Log
2. Review of requirements
4. Computer Lab --  Lab 201 for B5 and B6. 

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What's due?  
1.  Search and Select:  
     Find sources using specific databases, a site, and a specific search engine.
     Indicate which admirable famous people you'd like to learn more about. 
           Get your person approved.
2. ABC Website Evaluation #1 completed -- questions about one site, and notes page filled out.
           Make sure you have the citation for this site.  
3.  ABC Website Evaluation #2 completed -- questions about one site (a second site about the same person), and notes page filled out.
           Make sure you have the citation for this site.  
4.  ABC Website Evaluation #3 completed -- questions about one site (a third site about the same person), and notes page filled out.
           Make sure you have the citation for this site.  
5.  Your PowerPoint (use the template) made using the notes you took on  ABC Website Evaluations 1, 2, and 3.  

•             All but one slide will have illustrations. 
•             All but two (cover and bibliography) will have 4 or a couple more bullets of  interesting information about this person. 

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See a sample PowerPoint. Do not use this one as a template.  Just view it: Margaret Thatcher 3.ppt

Find the PowerPoint template here:
Your Admirable Famous Person (a Hero) PowerPoint

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How to create the last slide of your PowerPoint -- Your works cited list or bibliography:
If you are using World Book or SIRS, look at the bottom of the article for the Citation, copy it, and save it.
If you are using other sources that don't already provide a citation, use Bibme.org.  Here are some directions:  Creating a Bibliography
 

 For example, I researched Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court judge.     

Citing Sources 

SIRS:   http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000327262
It's right there!  Look at the bottom of the article.
 "Ginsburg, Ruth Bader." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 17 Sep 2012. 


World Book:   http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar224835&st=ginsburg
It's right there!  Look at the bottom of the article.
Hutchinson, Dennis J. "Ginsburg, Ruth Bader." World Book Student. World Book, 2012. Web. 17 Sept. 2012.

EBSCO Host: Student Research Center:   
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mih&AN=11032658&site=src-live
I made it with  bibme.org.
  Monroe, Jennifer. "Our States: U.S. Government & Civic Leaders:Ruth Bader Ginsberg." EBSCO Publishing Service Selection Page. Great Neck Publishing, n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2012. .

Academy of Achievement:  http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gin0int-1
I made it with bibme.org.
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg Interview -- Academy of Achievement." Academy of Achievement Main Menu. American Academy of Achievement, 23 Sept. 2010. Web. 17 Sept. 2012. .  

 iSeek Search Engine: 
I made it with bibme.org. 

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/ruth_bader_ginsburg/index.html
"Times Topics: Ruth Bader Ginsburg." The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 29 June 2012. Web. 17 Sept. 2012. . 

Computer Lab Dates:
B5-B6
August 30 -- 211         Search and Select         Assignment on Edmodo.  Turn in on Edmodo.
September 10 -- 211   Research
September 12 --211    Research

  September 14   -- Research
September  18 -- 201  Finish research and work on PowerPoints 

                                    -- Use Bibme to create citations.  
September 24 - 201    Work on PowerPoints, extra research if needed
September 26 -- 201   Finish up PowerPoint Presentations
September 28 -- 201   Your project is due and will be presented on this day. 

Your documents and projects will still receive up to full points (depending on how much and how well you do on them) up until the 28th.  You may revise and resubmit work up until the end of the rotation.