Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Reading Strategies—Bringing It All Together As We Finish the Term

1.      "What are some skills, thought processes, or strategies you use when reading print materials, such as your textbook, a magazine article, or a newspaper article?"

2.     "How do you go about making sense of what you read from a book, a magazine, or a newspaper?"

Bookmark Journal #5:  Making Connections

·      Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter, by Robert Bly

o   http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/040.html

·      To a Daughter Leaving Home

o   http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/075.html

• I modeled how to make a text-to-self connection with the above poems.
• I explained the Bookmark Journal.

Computer Work--4th Block
1) Enter your extra credit vocabulary--real or imagined!  :-)

https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aopq4r-bWrm_dGZKUnVzeDdEbS1May0zMzZxYXMtdkE#gid=0

2)  Enter your extra credit strategy data here:

https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aopq4r-bWrm_dGJEYm4zQWpmczZhZk9RYS1oQndLTWc#gid=0

3)  Play Free Rice IF you got a slip from me today.  You need to get to 4,000 grains of rice for your Free Rice grade for this term:

http://freerice.com/content-group/zebra-block-four

4)  Now it's time to Read and Relax!  Do your Making Connections Bookmark Journal (four connections) as 

Notes:

1.      At 3:05, we will end Read and Relax, and we will review for the vocab mid-term, which is tomorrow.

2.     If I gave you a slip of paper, write down the level you ended on for freerice, then give me the slip of paper now, please.

3.     We will finish the Connections BMJ tomorrow and/or Thursday.

At 3:05:

Lay out your vocab cards on your desk, word side up!  J

Vocabulary Mid-Term:  Wednesday (Tomorrow)

1.      Review today in class, and out of class on your own.

Hardest Words to Remember (4th)

·      cerebral         

·      exasperation 

·      inconsequential

How to Study

·      Make ten connections with your piles tonight (two words in each).

·      Quiz yourself with your cards, pics then words.

Computer Work--2nd Block
1) Enter your extra credit vocabulary--real or imagined!  :-)
https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aopq4r-bWrm_dGVLQlBIRGthUENjZmhobVExZ3ZfSmc#gid=0


2)  Enter your extra credit strategy data here:
https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aopq4r-bWrm_dGtNWm14ZTc0eTdsUHM4a2ozcTRJNUE#gid=0


3)  Play Free Rice IF you got a slip from me today.  You need to get to 4,000 grains of rice for your Free Rice grade for this term:
http://freerice.com/content-group/xena-warriors-block-two

4)  Now it's time to Read and Relax!  Do your Making Connections Bookmark Journal (four connections) as you read today.


Computer Work--1st Block

1) Enter your extra credit vocabulary--real or imagined!  :-)
https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aopq4r-bWrm_dG5Jbm1JYm1lRHI3Nkl3d0x3QzM2R0E#gid=0

2)  Enter your extra credit strategy data here:
https://docs.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aopq4r-bWrm_dGQ5NmdadFhGU0gtX2VwNGt6SFZUS0E#gid=0

3)  Play Free Rice IF you got a slip from me today.  You need to get to 4,000 grains of rice for your Free Rice grade for this term:
http://freerice.com/content-group/block-one-reading

4)  Now it's time to Read and Relax!  Do your Making Connections Bookmark Journal (four connections) as you read today.