CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES!

5/29/2019

Crystalline structures

Today, the students started with a lesson on highjump in PE. We launched a photography project, where students will use the composition strategies that they have been learning in the unit to try to create a collage that spells their name. Everyone got a chance to practice their Cartesian coordinates and ordered pairs through some drawing games (connecting dots) and strategy games (Battleship). At the end of the day, the grade 7s unlocked some secrets to their Crystaline structures, while the 6s presented and provided feedback on the star stories that they have been studying for the past couple weeks. These presentations went great! At the end of the day, the social studies groups got together to focus on and plan their religion projects.

1.) MATH:

Complete your coordinate drawings for practice

2.) SOCIALS:

Continue working on your religion inquiry assignments. The due date is coming up early next week, so make sure to have your end-goal in mind!

3.) SCIENCE 6:

Continue to work on your Glogster final projects.
Find as much fair use, creative commons, and public domain media as you can that helps you make your point to have visitors come to your extreme environment in space.
Due at the beginning of next week

SCIENCE 7: To be updated

Complete and upload all handouts for experiment #2 (day 1 observations, day 2 observations, hypothesis statements, conclusions, and images of crystal structure.

4.) FRENCH:

Have your French pizza recipes complete for Friday!
Remember, we will be using these recipes to make our own pizzas, but we only have a limited selection of toppings. Be mindful of what kind of pizza you want to make.

5.) POST A RESPONSE:

In a paragraph, answer these questions:
What are some reading strategies that you have been using to better understand your novel?
What did these strategies help you uncover or better understand in the book?
Provide feedback and your own connections to your peers

VIDEO LINKS:
The Steps of the Scientific Method for Kids

Miranda

5/29/2019 03:27:02 pm

First

LOGAN IS HERE

5/29/2019 03:31:05 pm

2nd!!!!!!

olivia

5/29/2019 03:39:45 pm

3rd

Anita/ olivia

5/29/2019 03:41:30 pm

hola！！

Kaden

5/29/2019 03:49:58 pm

5th

Emily

5/29/2019 04:40:51 pm

Sixth

Emily

5/30/2019 08:29:49 am

“What are thoooooose?!?” -Me when reading The Giver. One reading strategy that I constantly used is monitoring my comprehension. I checked a dictionary, asked other people, or just stopped and thought about what the words might mean.

I also made some connections to the book. In The Giver, The Ceremony of Twelve decided your future. In university, you choose a major to pursue and that will decide which path your future takes. So they are somewhat the same. Also, the main character in the book soon identifies as a Twelve, which I’m inferring is like their age (it says in the book) I can connect to that because I turned twelve to!

(Spoilers) From using these strategies I learned what message the author was trying to send. Basically with the definition I can actually understand what the author is trying to say. With connections I can see the story with a deeper understanding. I know that Jonas cared for Gabriel even though he signed a form claiming that he was not allowed to. Jonas had emotions that no one else has ever had. (End of spoilers)

Zarif

5/29/2019 04:54:24 pm

7th

5/29/2019 06:14:46 pm

I haven't even started my glogster poster, i'm doomed.

Uniad

5/29/2019 07:20:29 pm

It's the 29th of May and our Novel responses are charging head first with a tight due date. I like some others have finished my PR, and are taking the rest of our limited time to secure any loose ends that may be hanging from my writing. One large part of the criteria is that there must be a sign that you used the reading strategies we have practiced over the years. I spent a large amount of my time thinking about all the times I had inferred and connected with the story, but as I went deeper I began do discuss he book with others, and I tried to picture images in my head. I began to have more variety in how I perceive the writing and story of the whole novel, and many phrases were shown in a brand new light because of this.

I, and many other grade sevens had previously read this book in a grade six class. We spent time reading as a class, rather than having a schedule, with a set amount of requirements each meeting. As we read the book together, we often discussed certain areas of the book. I used some of the previous knowledge I had last year, and made quite a lot of inferences about the deep meaning behind some phrases and mysteries of the book. When I found an interesting page or phrase, I would spend some time thinking about it, using my previous discussions, to come to educated and provable theories. By inferring, many obscure angles were now clear, making the novel an even greater experience.

On my purposes sticky, I made it clear that I want to make connections to be able to understand the world and characters, and sympathize and connect with any emotions they might be feeling. Jonas and Asher were the two characters that were most developed, as Asher was Jonas' best friend. When Jonas became pained about the life he currently had, I was able to connect with past feelings I had once had against the planet, I hated my life, and I wanted it to change. I had felt mistreated, and Isolated. I was able to understand how Jonas felt, and it brought more power to things that he said with a passion. I could sympathize with Jonas, and I was able to comprehend what he was feeling throughout the story.

Using these reading strategies had helped me overcome some obstacles in the book, once I had gotten over them, this book "The Giver" was a joy to re-read, and I hope my Powerful Response may be able to reflect the same emotions I had felt when reading this book. :D

Zarif

5/29/2019 07:47:23 pm

Some of the reading strategies that I use to help me understand my novels better are:
Background knowledge; by me using some connections to this book it helps me understand more of it.
Setting a purpose; If I have a goal to finish /this/ in order to learn /that/, I'd be motivated to get a feel of the book and read it twice or thrice to understand it even more.
These reading strategies help me uncover some understanding about Ellie and how the grandfather got closer by the time they got the T. Melvinus.
In conclusion, using these reading strategies are good when you want to understand more about any book. It's pretty helpful when using them to accomplish a novel-related task.

Anita

5/29/2019 08:08:58 pm

In Div.1 and 2, we all know the reading strategies, it can help has deeper understanding of the text and the phrase I think the reading strategies is very helpful, and everyone should learn it. The reading strategies has many skills that can mkae our reading easier. ? The main four reading strategies is : making purpose, use BK to make connection, visualization, inferring skill and monitoring our comprehension.

waht is reading strategies exactly? it can help us reflect upon the ideas and information in the text. Also,we use strategies to understand what they read before, during, and after reading. For example: useing our background-knowledge can hep us to have a better understanding of the text. Making purpose cna help us knowing what should we do next, we usually make a sticky notes in the front of the book, in case we forget what strategies should we use next and what should we do next. Consequently, these strategies can help us not wasting our time, and have a better understadning of what the author wanted to tell us, or the meaning behind the text.

The reading strategies help me a lot, but the most two commond one I use are: making connection and monitoring my comrehension. Making connection can help me connect myself to the story, or connect my own experiences and my friends experiences to the story. It's useful when I'm confused with what it's saying. Monitoring my comprehension is basically asking question, and look for the dictionary or stuff like that. It can help us understand the text much more faster adn the answer will not be your own opinion, it will be the opinion that two people think of, so it will be better.

After this writing, I concluded that reading strategies is very helpful, and it will help you read the book faster and understand the book deeper. I think eeryone should know the reading strategies, because it can save you a lot of time. I hope I can learn more learning strategies so that I can read longer, deeper, more mature's book. :)

Anita

5/29/2019 08:23:27 pm

In Div.1 and 2, we all know the reading strategies, it can help has a more in-depth understanding of the text and the phrase I think the reading strategies is beneficial, and everyone should learn it. The reading strategies have many skills that can do our reading easier. The main four reading strategies are: making the purpose, use BK to make a connection, visualization, inferring, and monitoring our comprehension.

What are the reading strategies? It can help us reflect upon the ideas and information in the text. Also, we use strategies to understand what they read before, during, and after reading. For example: using our background-knowledge can help us to have a better understanding of the text. Making purpose can help us know what should we do next, we usually make sticky notes in the front of the book, in case we forget what strategies should we use next and what should we do next. Consequently, these strategies can help us not wasting our time, and have a better understanding of what the author wanted to tell us, or the meaning behind the text.

The reading strategies help me a lot, but the most two common one I use is: making a connection and monitoring my comprehension. Making a connection can help me connect myself to the story, or connect my own experiences and my friend's experiences to the story. It's useful when I'm confused with what it's saying. Monitoring my comprehension is asking = questions, and look for the dictionary or stuff like that. It can help us understand the text much faster, and the answer will not be your own opinion, it will be the opinion that two people think of, so it will be better.

After this writing, I concluded that reading strategies are beneficial, and it will help you read the book faster and understand the text deeper. I think everyone should know the reading strategies because it can save you much time. I hope I can learn more learning strategies so that I can read more extended, more in-depth, more mature's book. :)

Wendy

5/29/2019 08:34:26 pm

Some common learning strategies I used to help me deepen my understanding would be really be making the connections, monitoring comprehension, synthesizing and evaluating.

Making connections it’s a good way that leads me to think beyond the text. I’ve realized my memories last longer for the parts where I made connections. I’ll constantly compare this to other events that happened in the story. Monitoring comprehension is definitely an indispensable strategy for me since it helps me understand the whole concept. If I break it down, there would be little pieces of strategies that would help to go monitor my comprehension. For example, reread, stop and think, read out aloud or use a dictionary. Last but not least, synthesizing and evaluating is equally important, it helps me to get to a conclusion. It mentions what’s the most important event that happened in the story, and how to summarize it while writing my powerful response. In addition, I like the idea of having a booklet discussion once in a while. It is the perfect timing for us to share our opinions, and learn from others.

All in all, these are some examples of the strategies I used in common. They were all super helpful, especially to deepen my understanding of the novel. What were the most useful strategies for you?

5/29/2019 09:36:06 pm

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5/29/2019 09:46:06 pm

Some reading strategies I use are connections, inferences, and some more. A way I can connect is like, when William gets into the famine it reminds me of parts in Africa are poor and docent have much food. An inference I made was when William went to the library, he started leaning about electricity. I knew he was going to make something that saves his village, as he is learning.

PKM

5/29/2019 10:10:37 pm

Some reading strategies I use in my novel: connections and questions. In the book, I had connections because this book little relates to my life. I have questions because there were lots of words and sentences that were strange and I didn’t understand. These reading strategies did help me understand and uncover in the book. It help me understand the story in the book by me searching the words and visualization.

In conclusion, I had fun to read and it was interesting.

Miranda

5/29/2019 10:15:57 pm

After all of the preparation with small pieces of writing and picture books, we have finally moved on to finishing our first novel with reading strategies and a powerful response. As we are currently doing our powerful responses, our visible thinking for the novels are almost finished. On those stickies we have reading strategies... and I will explain some of them right now.

First of all, my book is called Follow the Elephant, which I have never heard of before. This was actually good for me because I have an entirely new book to experience and think about. Basically in this book, the main character, Ben, has just lost his father to lung cancer and smoking. His Gran and mom are both worried about him because of how he's retracted into a shell. Then, they take an exciting journey to India in order to find Gran's old pen pal, Shanti. Through this book, there are many places for visible thinking.

Connections were the first thing we learned at the beginning of the year and in this book, there are many of them. For example, at the part where Nabir, who was their driver for a few hours, tells Gran and Ben about his life as a rickshaw driver, I connected to it by text to world. There are many people around the world that need to work away from home to get money for their families.

Then, we had to ask questions about parts in the book in order to try and be more into the book. When Ben saw an elephant tied up to a pole, I wondered why someone would do that in the first place. After all, animals are kind of like us.

We monitored our comprehension so we can understand everything better as well. I didn't know what "winnowed" meant so I asked someone in my group and they helped me understand it.

As for visualizations, there was one part where Gran and Ben were watching a sunrise, and it was detailed enough for me to create a picture in my mind.

Lastly, I made a few inferences through this book, but one was when Ben wore jeans to India. I inferred that he would regret it later, and he did! I knew this mainly because the mom in the novel also said that he would get too hot, but Ben didn't give her any notice.Later on, he had to cut off his jeans into shorts in order not to overheat.

In conclusion, all of these reading strategies are important for us to analyze a novel better and find out the big idea. It helps us read and understand to the maximum point.Therefore, these reading strategies have helped us a lot.

olivia

5/29/2019 10:46:29 pm

Someone please help me, I had no idea what I am reading or writing for my powerful response! Does this happen to you when you have a project on writing about what you read? Well it happen to me a lot, but that is before I meet the reading strategy. After meeting the reading strategy It is becoming more and more easy to do the book report aka powerful response. One of the best and common strategies I used is montor my comprehension. Since I am bad at Engilish it really helps me a lot. This strategy help me uncover some strange but powerful world like unketp, messy or untidy.

shannon

5/30/2019 06:50:13 am

some of the reading strategies I used include monitoring my comprehension, visualizations, and inferences. first off, my book, survival strategies of the almost brave is about two sisters getting abandoned at the gas station. they must learn how to survive and get back home to San Diego. throughout the book, they met many people who helped them get home. these reading strategies helped me get a better understanding of the book. I didn't know some of the phrases that the book used, for example, "a sand-crab ball", so I monitored my comprehension by asking my peers, they also didn't know what it was so I searched it up. throughout the whole book, I visualize it as a movie. personally, I prefer movies over books because they're easier to watch rather than read. while I'm reading I like t put a little movie into my mind. this helps me get a better understanding of what's going on in the story. the last strategies are inferences. this book is quite unpredictable since you don't know where the two siblings are going to end up. I liked to use inferences and guess what's going to happen to them next. this makes the story more engaging and fun to read. in conclusion, all reading strategies are useful and effective but I found these ones better to work with.

Emily

5/31/2019 10:18:04 am

@Shannon, make sure you capitalize the first letter in a sentence. I noticed that almost all of your sentences start with a lowercase.

Breanna

5/30/2019 07:29:53 am

I very much have enjoyed my book I’m reading. Two main strategies I’ve been using were setting a purpose, and MC. They help me understand my novel because I can’t really connect with book since I’ve never really experienced anything similar to this before. This helps me deepen my comprehension of this book so I could really understand the big idea of the book I’m reading. I love using these strategies and I hope to use them again when I read to help me understand the book more.

Dennis

5/30/2019 08:27:14 am

Some reading strategies that I use very often include, Connections, Inferences and monitoring comprehension. They help me see the novel a different way, like when I make connections I can see the novel as if I was in it, and when I use my knowledge that I have just gathered, and infer what may happen following this trail of information. And when i am stuck on something I ask people to help me monitor my comprehension. So now I get a bigger picture, and I am now able to understand and read a lot better.

5/30/2019 08:40:42 am

A lot of times reading strategy help you read think and understand. The reading strategy I use are set a purpose, making connection and so on. Sometimes they do sometimes they don't it depends on what kind of book am I reading

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