Wednesday, January 21, 2014

1.  Pick up your composition book.  
       If you have not placed it in the new folder for this semester, it may be in the cardboard box on the west side of the classroom.  Ask me for your new number. 


2. Media Center to find historical fiction books

a. Make sure you receive Book-of-the-Month Assignment today.

b. Receive back the lists of topics you are interested in.

c. Media Center

• how to use Alexandria to find historical fiction book
• Go to our school homepage.  http://afjh.alpineschools.org/
• Go to Resources
• Go to Alexandria. (2nd item down) 
• To the right of the search bar, change from Simple to Advanced.
• Using the drop-down menu, select bibliographies.
•  Type in "historical fiction."
• Use the call number FIC (with first three letters of the author's last name) to find the book on the shelf. On the right side of the book info, you can see whether it is IN or OUT.

Recommended books from Ms. Jones:

World War I -- Aftermath: After the Dancing Days 

Civil War:  Across Five Aprils 

1800's - Medicine: The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker 

Golf -- Caddies for a Great Golfer: The Legend of Bagger Vance 

Revolutionary War:  What if the British Won?  The Year of the Hangman
Civil War: Chains
Vietnam War:  A Million Shades of Gray
Hattie Big Sky

From Ms. Dorsey today:
Revolutionary War:  Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
Pioneers:  Charlotte's Rose

A few more: 
The Boy Who Dared
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.  (Some students may be interested in the fact that this boy belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.)

Sign-up for your historical fiction book as soon as you can. 

 This is due by January 23.

3.  Individual Reading -- in media center 


4. Conventions in Sentences Investigation 

Wednesday January 21/ Thursday, January 22, 2015

Capitalizing and Punctuating Titles with Ms. Oldroyd on Wednesday



5. More argument -- Writing up a report on the case 

Write a paragraph as a police report on what you have observed and what you think is true.

1. Your central idea (claim) will be either
"Mrs. Volupides is not telling the truth."
or
"Mrs. Volupides is  telling the truth."
2.
   The first piece of evidence . . . is. . . .
(Explain the general rule why this piece of evidence shows that your claim/central idea is correct.)
    The second piece of evidence . . . is. . . .
(Explain the general rule why this piece of evidence shows that your claim/central idea is correct.)
    A third piece of evidence . . . is. . . .
(Explain the general rule why this piece of evidence shows that your claim/central idea is correct.)
Provide two more pieces of evidence and explain how each proves your claim.
3. Conclude by restating your claim.

Recognize and counter opposing ideas;  

Even though a person may tumble down the stairs and end up facing upward, there are several other pieces of evidence that clearly show that Arthur did not fall from the top of the stairs.  

Even though some people may think that Arthur could have tumbled down the stairs and fallen face up, there are other aspects of the way he is lying that show that he did not fall from the top of the stairs.

Even though some people may think Arthur could have tumbled down the stairs (show and explain evidence about glass). . . .

Next time for B-Day-- 

Chunking 2

Next time for A-Day--  

Correctly Writing Titles