Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Fake News


Journal: List 5 questions you should ask when deciding whether an article is fake or true?

https://bluesyemre.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/how-to-spot-fake-news-1.jpg

http://blogs.ifla.org/lpa/2017/01/27/alternative-facts-and-fake-news-verifiability-in-the-information-society/

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class code 
42BCKY 


Fake News Quiz 

Fake News Quiz  

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Sunday, February 12, 2017

Creating a Photo Essay

Photo Essay Project Guidelines 
 
Mrs. Murphy's Blog  

Citing Photos  

Creating a Photo Essay Video - take Cornell style notes on this video 

Go to Blogger.com to create a blog or sign into drive.google.com and go to blogger under grid options

Upload your photos to the blog  

What is the theme of your blog? What message do your photos say 

Take some notes on the history of your community behind your pictures. 
Save the URL to give credit and write down name of the organization 

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 
Image result for a picture is worth a thousand words 

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.)

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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 

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enter your school username and password
click on reading inventory 
 

Sunday, September 25, 2016

What is your learning style?

Remember your Multiple Intelligence Test?

This is also you learning style  Learning styles graph

I forgot what my intelligence was ... Take the Learning style Test

  • Visual (spatial):You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.
  • Aural (auditory-musical): You prefer using sound and music.
  • Verbal (linguistic): You prefer using words, both in speech and writing.
  • Physical (kinesthetic): You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch.
  • Logical (mathematical): You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.
  • Social (interpersonal): You prefer to learn in groups or with other people.
  • Solitary (intrapersonal): You prefer to work alone and use self-study.

Take some notes about your learning style 

My learning style is  ______________________________

Common phrases I say that show my learning style are  ____________________

Some techniques that may help me are ...______________