January 25, 2008
Make sure you filed your Earthquake paper under "Reading" and your pink binder check under "Goals."
Turn in your Portfolio Book Approval. This is the last day to get the extra credit on your approval.
Read your portfolio book and have Ms. Dorsey put it on your bingo card.
Writing: Write about a time when it was important for you to win. If you haven't been in a regular competition (spelling bee, sports, science fair, games) that was important to you, you could write about a time it was important to you to do well. Write at least 5 sentences, and put this in your binder under reading.
-- Others sources for the portfolio: Students received a sheet showing the MLA format for citing sources.
We also looked at a great internet source. Go through pioneer-library.org Log in with the user name (see me or our librarians), and the password (see me or our librarians). You can then get into World Book Online and other sources. One of the best is SIRS Discoverer. It is an online database of articles and other information that has been screened for suitability and helpfulness for school use.
We watched some video clips about immigrants to the United States, asking the questions -- What are our basic human rights?
What is the American Dream?
How do we obtain and help others to obtain rights and dignity?
We began reading our class novel -- Words By Heart
A1 read to page 7 paragraph 3 They seemed too large for her small mind. . .
A2 finished chapter 1
A3 read to page page 7 -- top of page
A4 read to the middle of page 6.
