Sunday, January 29, 2017

A picture is worth a thousand words

Planner out 
Journal Out (Name / Date / Title / Subject / Period. 

Journal #1 A picture is worth a thousand words 
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Describe a picture that you remember....
Where is it? 
Describe the picture ... When was it taken? Who or what is in it? Colors or black and white? soft or hard? 
Why do you remember it? What emotions or ideas does it evoke or conjure up? 

I can remember seeing a photo in my house  .... 
About 3 years ago, I remember seeing a headline that read ... Next to it was a picture of .... 

The scene of the picture is .. 

The picture contained .... 
The picture had ________ colors, creating a ....

 
"A picture is worth a thousand words" is an English idiom. It refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image or that an image of a subject conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a description does.

Take a look at 2016 a year in photos 

What is most memorable and why? 

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Reading inventory

We're taking a "Reading Inventory" assessment today. This will show you us your Lexile level. (To see what that means, check this site.)

Click on this link to get started!

When you finish, you can look at your score and how it corresponds to grade levels by clicking here.
If you're interested in looking up books that correspond with your Lexile score, go to this site.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Check your Reading

Take an Inventory of your reading skills 

Click on Log in w/ active directory 
enter your school username and password
click on reading inventory