October 14-October 20

Tuesday 10/14

Entry: 1) Choose from your Personal Spelling List and Write your 5 spelling words in the first column on your Weekly Spelling Study Sheet. 2) What are persuasive strategies?

Take notes on paper copies of yesterday's links to answer our questions.

Wednesday 10/15

Take notes on paper copies of yesterday's links to answer our questions. Write a gist statement on your global warming notes. Panel discussion at 11:20.

Discuss:

How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
Brainstorm how you think these changes may ultimately affect us.

Write a draft of your ideas so far. Use paragraphs.

• What animal is your research about?
• How does your animal survive the Arctic?
• How is global warming affecting your animal?
• How are we as humans contributing to your animal's problem?
• How is the problem of global warming affecting us?

And:
Will what we do change the polar environments?
How do you think these changes may ultimately affect us?


Thursday 10/16 Spelling Tests
Continue taking notes on global warming.

Partner Conferences: Scientists share research -- what will you learn from your partner? Write a gist statement for both research results.


Friday 10/17

Entry: Partner Conferences-- talk to another scientist: Scientists share research -- what will you learn from your partner? Write a gist statement for both research results.

Share previous gist statements. What do we know? What do we still need to know?

Review Student Expectations:
http://msedwards.pbwiki.com/Student-Contract


Monday 10/20
Entry: Base words -- elect, vote, inform, search, represent

Write a second draft of your ideas so far. Use paragraphs with specific details.

• What animal is your research about?
• How does your animal survive the Arctic?
• How is global warming affecting your animal?
• How are we as humans contributing to your animal's problem?
• How is the problem of global warming affecting us?

And:
Will what we do change the polar environments?
How do you think these changes may ultimately affect us?


If time: Intro to Election Project
https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Election-Project
What do you know about the election process? Video: Presidential Election -- notes/ discussion; Ballot and Letter Home

Week of October 6 - October 14

Note: No School Monday October 13

Monday 10/6
Entry Spelling:On your own, create new words from these base words: quiet, relate, upset, like, love

Finish spelling lists. Revise action stories, if needed.

Discuss:

How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
Brainstorm how you think these changes may ultimately affect us.


Tuesday 10/7 Entry:
1) Choose from your Personal Spelling List and Write your 5 spelling words in the first column on your Weekly Spelling Study Sheet.
2) Read over your notes so far, including your work from yesterday. Highlight the important details. Write a gist statement of what you have learned so far to turn in.

AUP

Discuss:

How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
Brainstorm how you think these changes may ultimately affect us.


Explore these resources for more information about how global warming is changing the Arctic life, and how these changes may subsequently affect the place where we live.
NOAA: Global Warming FAQ
Global Warming: How Hot? How Soon?

Reflection: Will what we do affect the polar environments?
How do you think these changes may eventually affect us? .




Wednesday 10/8 Entry: Have your gist statement ready for me to read. Go to the computers to:
Ms Edwards Home Page
Click What Else Site
Sidebar -----> Polar Problems https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Polar-Problems
Step 2

Explore and take notes from these resources for more information about how global warming is changing the Arctic life, and how these changes may subsequently affect the place where we live.
NOAA: Global Warming FAQ
Global Warming: How Hot? How Soon?

Reflection: Will what we do affect the polar environments?
How do you think these changes may eventually affect us? .



Thursday 10/9 Entry: Spelling tests.

Quiz and discussion from web work yesterday.



Friday 10/10 Entry: Write a paragraph persuading me not to give you homework this weekend.

Share.

Connect to persuasive writing strategies.



Skit to persuade parents. Connect again. What are persuasive strategies?


Tuesday 10/14
Entry: 1) Choose from your Personal Spelling List and Write your 5 spelling words in the first column on your Weekly Spelling Study Sheet. 2) What are persuasive strategies?

Take notes on paper copies of yesterday's links to answer our questions.

Discuss:

How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
Brainstorm how you think these changes may ultimately affect us.

Write a draft of your ideas so far. Use paragraphs.

• What is your research about?
• How does it survive the Arctic?
• How is global warming affecting it?
• How are we contributing to your topic's problem?
• How is the problem affecting us?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
How do you think these changes may ultimately affect us?


Share paragraphs and gist statements. What do we know? What do we still need to know? Continue research answers to above questions at sites.

Discuss and take notes on combined research. Class gist statement.

Week of September 30- October 6

Tues 9/30

Entry:
1) Write your 5 spelling words in the first column on your Weekly Spelling Study Sheet.
2) Read over your notes so far. Highlight the important details. Write a gist statement of what you have learned so far.

Review:
If you were to create a broster today, share with a neighbor what you would include (title, labeled illustration, vocabulary, gist statement, question)

Persuasive Writing Strategy: Anecdote--Making Your Writing Lively

How did this author make his nonfiction writing lively -- interesting?

Excerpt shared from Bruce Brooks Predator!

How could you use this in your writing? Write as if you are your people or creature. Be the animal. Make your life come alive.

Wed 10/1 Parent Student Teacher Conferences

Thursday 10/2 and Friday 10/3

Entry 10/2: Read over your "lively" writing from Tuesday about your creature. Revise it with strong verbs. Share.

Spelling: Read the directions for partner spelling test. Give your spelling tests.

Continue notes on required content:

• Size
• Habitat
• Diet
• Predators
• Adaptation to the environment (behavioral and biological)
• Environmental Threats to survival
• Connections of environmental issues to your life
• Connections of environmental issues to world communities

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Entry 10/3 Continue notes.

• Habitat
• Diet
• Predators
• Adaptation to the environment (behavioral and biological)
• Environmental Threats to survival
• Connections of environmental issues to your life
• Connections of environmental issues to world communities

Discuss: AUP: Acceptable Use Policy, Minor Section

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Monday 10/6 Entry Spelling:On your own, create new words from these base words: quiet, relate, upset, like, love

Finish spelling lists.

Discuss: How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
Brainstorm how you think these changes may ultimately affect us.

Explore these resources for more information about how global warming is changing the Arctic life, and how these changes may subsequently affect the place where we live.
NOAA: Global Warming FAQ
Global Warming: How Hot? How Soon?

Reflection: Will what we do affect the polar environments?
How do you think these changes may eventually affect us? Discuss.
Write a draft of your ideas so far. Use paragraphs.

Write a draft of your ideas so far. Use paragraphs.

• What is your research about?
• How does it survive the Arctic?
• How is global warming affecting it?
• How are we contributing to your topic's problem?
• How is the problem affecting us?

And:
Will what we do affect the polar environments?
Brainstorm how you think these changes may ultimately affect us.

9/29 Research Experts

Monday 9/29

Entry: Reflection:

1. Research: How did you take notes?
2. Research: How do you remember where your source is?
3. Research: Why are Key Words important?
4. Research: Why is spelling important while note-taking?
5. Research: Why is a gist statement important?


Spelling: It's Addition!

Divide your spelling paper into parts as we have practiced. In each section write one of these base words:

tan, confer, learn, confuse, understand

With a partner, use the base words and your affix list to create as many words as you can from the base words.

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If you were to create a broster today, share with a neighbor what you would include (title, labeled illustration, vocabulary, gist statement, question) Did you write your source on your notes page?

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Conference Preparation

How will you organize your work so you can share the answers to these questions? Will you put your work in a certain order? Will you find more writing evidence and number them?

Your goal today is to get organized so you can check most of these:

Presentation Research
Project: We have been asked to create a presentation as part of International Polar Year. We must prepare a brief (approximately 5 minute) presentation to persuade the countries of the United Nations of the interconnectedness of changes in the polar environments, their respective community, and the global community.

Learning Goals
Use the writing process to gather ideas, draft information, revise for clarity, edit for readability, and publish for persuasion.

Understand how life adapts to live in the Arctic. Understand what affects life in the Arctic. Anaylze the connection of those effects on the Arctic, our community, and in the world.

Gathering Ideas: Research Strategies Review
Prewriting Strategies to create researched presentation: research, paraphrasing, key words, spelling, citing sources, draft, summaries, gist

Look at your notes and label them to show you can:
___ Paraphrase notes using main ideas and facts section by section.
___ Add your connections (opinions, experiences, knowledge, feelings).
___ Use your own words (paraphrase)
___ Identify key words.
___ Check spelling.
___ Write your source.

Identify in your entry tasks where you can:
___ Begin a draft
___ Paraphrase (use your own words)
___ Identify key words (labels, highlighting)
___ Use correct spelling
___ Identify your source
___ Write a summary (briefly explain main ideas in your own words)
___ Write a twenty-word gist statement that includes all the main ideas in your research
___ Identify addition questions and needed facts

How will these research and writing process strategies help you create your persuasive presentation? (Answer on another paper.)

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When completed and shared with teacher, begin your research.

9/24 Spell It, Draw It, Reflect on It -- What R U LRNING?

Wednesday, 9/24

Entry: Turn in spelling homework.

Add to or redo your illustration from Monday. Use your notes. Label with adaptations.

Write a gist statement of all the information you have read so far about your people/animal.

Write your source on your notes; include the title, author, URL.

Example:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
Global Warming: Frequently Asked Questions
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Climatic Data Center
David Easterling and Tom Karl, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, N.C. 28801

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What questions are still needed?

Present research to the class. Discuss questions still needing answers.
Continue research.

9/23 Polar Research: What do you still need to know?

Tues 9/23
Entry: 1)
Spelling: 5 Words; --- choose your five spelling words from your Personal Spelling List and write them in the first column of your Weekly Word Study Sheet. Homework due tomorrow.
Then start 2)

2) Be prepared for discussion about these questions at 11:40 (Panel Experts).
How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments? To be prepared, find your requirements for your research and continue your research. If you research, you may continue the project. Remember your google search techniques:

Use double quotations (“ “)
use to look for words in exactly the order in which you enter them

• "arctic fox"
• "polar bear"

Try minus sign (‐)
use to exclude a word from your results

• vikings ‐minnesota
• "polar bear" -grizzly

Add a site request

site:edu
site:org
site:gov

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Goal Review: Prewriting Strategies to create researched presentation: research, paraphrasing, key words, spelling, citing sources, draft, summaries, gists

Power Writing on research topic; highlight key words; gist statements.

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Presentation Research
Project: We have been asked to create a presentation as part of International Polar Year. We must prepare a brief (approximately 5 minute) presentation to persuade the countries of the United Nations of the interconnectedness of changes in the polar environments, their respective community, and the global community.

Learning Goals
Use the writing process to gather ideas, draft information, revise for clarity, edit for readability, and publish for persuasion.

Understand how life adapts to live in the Arctic. Understand what affects life in the Arctic. Anaylze the connection of those effects on the Arctic, our community, and in the world.

Gathering Ideas: Research Strategies Review
Prewriting Strategies to create researched presentation: research, paraphrasing, key words, spelling, citing sources, draft, summaries, gist

Look at your notes and label them to show you can: (These you should already have done):
___ Paraphrase notes using main ideas and facts section by section.
___ Add your connections (opinions, experiences, knowledge, feelings).
___ Use your own words (paraphrase)
___ Identify key words.
___ Check spelling.
___ Write your source.

Identify in your entry tasks where you can:
___ Begin a draft
___ Paraphrase (use your own words)
___ Identify key words (labels, highlighting)
___ Use correct spelling
___ Identify your source
___ Write a summary (briefly explain main ideas in your own words)
___ Write a twenty-word gist statement that includes all the main ideas in your research
___ Identify addition questions and needed facts

How will these research and writing process strategies help you create your persuasive presentation?

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11:40: Volunteers play experts in a panel discussion to answer questions from the audience.

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Polar Problems, continued

For 9/22

Entry: Draw a picture of your researched people or animal living in the Arctic. Use your notes. Label your picture.

Question: How have the people and animals living in the arctic Beaufort Sea area adapted to their extreme environments?

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Spelling Base Words: catch, tackle, write, work, agree

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Review: Who and what live in the Arctic? What is your research focus?

Terms to review: behavioral adaptation and biological adaptation; interconnectedness

First: How will we remember what we read?
Review Note-taking Strategies
Summarizing and Gist Statements

Tasks and Resources:
https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Polar-Problems

Note-taking Review:

http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html
Download graphic organizers that fit your style

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_note-taking_system
Cornell Note-taking

http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/cornellintro.pdf
A Cornell Note How to from Jim Burke

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=13&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cls.utk.edu%2Fpdf%2Fls%2FWeek2_Lesson14.pdf&ei=Q6nNSIi6EpmWsAPzveCIBw&usg=AFQjCNH7f7Yl42v76z7A7vTNVasFmh372A&sig2=2Uf9paP1E6149TW_HYzPiA
How to search google

https://whatelse.pbwiki.com/Google-Search-Lesson
Our google lesson

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Today's Work:

Begin research of your people or animals using organizing questions provided. Have the people and animals adapted? How? What do you think others need to know?

As you discover interesting facts, let me know. Remember, you're helping me update my resources for next year ?) Great work on google searching!