Transitive and Intransitive verbs

If you missed the notes from yesterday please get them in the "While You Were Out" folder when you return. Your transitive/intransitive WS (homework from Monday) is due Wednesday (12/1/10). We begin our in-class project this week! More details later...

Want to test your knowledge? Try this link: http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/verbs/quiz231.html
and take the 12 question quiz.

Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt! Extra Credit

EXTRA CREDIT: Use the following website to complete this Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt!
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/dailylp/dailylp/dailylp029.shtml
 
Lesson Plan Resource:
You Are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving
The remarkable resource above was created by the staff of Plimoth Plantation. Students step into the shoes of Dancing Shoes, a modern-day descendent of the Wampanoag Indians, and Sara, a descendent of Remember Allerton, one of the original colonists who landed at Plimoth aboard the Mayflower. We recommend walking students through this Web presentation. To do that, you can project the Web site on a screen for all to see. (If you do not have access to a projector attached to your Internet connection, perhaps you can present this Web site in your school's computer lab.) Together, you and your students can explore these sections of the site:

• Fact or Myth? -- Is what you think about the 1621 harvest celebration really true?
• The Evidence -- This actual letter a colonist wrote about the 1621 celebration stands as primary-source evidence of what happened.
• The Wampanoag People -- Learn how the Wampanoag of 1621 lived and gave thanks through the four seasons.
• The English Colonists -- Visit a colonist's home to learn how the family prepared for the 1621 celebration.
• The Path to 1621 -- Learn about events that led up to the celebration of 1621.
• Share What You Have Discovered -- Students use what they have learned to create their own museum exhibit with captions.

Be sure to refer to the "Becoming a Historian" Teacher's Guide. This teacher's guide suggests ways to use each of the above sections of the Web site to teach important lessons about the harvest celebration of 1621 and the role of historians.

Follow-Up
Once you have explored the site in detail as a class, you might let students explore at their own pace (in the classroom computer center or the school computer lab). Let them us the Web site as a resource as they complete the "Investigating the First Thanksgiving" Quiz. Students might work with a partner to do this activity. The answers to this quiz appear in the Assessment section below.

The Wright Brothers

Look at bottom of website for short video clip on the Wright Brothers.

MLA Modern Language Association (2nd period MUST read)

What Is MLA Style?

All fields of research agree on the need to document scholarly borrowings, but documentation conventions vary because of the different needs of scholarly disciplines. MLA style for documentation is widely used in the humanities, especially in writing on language and literature. Generally simpler and more concise than other styles, MLA style features brief parenthetical citations in the text keyed to an alphabetical list of works cited that appears at the end of the work.

MLA style has been widely adopted by schools, academic departments, and instructors for over half a century. The association's guidelines are also used by over 1,100 scholarly and literary journals, newsletters, and magazines and by many university and commercial presses. The MLA's guidelines are followed throughout North America and in Brazil, China, India, Japan, Taiwan, and other countries around the world. 

The MLA publishes two authoritative explanations of MLA style: the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing.


For more on this click the MLA link to the right of the posts. Be ready for your pre-test on Monday. Vocabulary tested- bibliography, works cited page, expository writing and types of informational texts ("How to" paragraphs, recipes, textbooks, articles, newspaper articles, magazine articles, some non-fiction books, biographies)
Do you know how to: find an appropriate topic for research? How to narrow your topic, brainstorm ideas, create a thesis statement (main topic) with supporting facts (at least 3)? Do you know how to write an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion? Do you know what a reliable source is? Primary source? Secondary source?
Can you summarize main points and give credit to your sources? (If not that is plagiarism- a BIG no no!)
What about finding books in the library...do you know how to use DESTINY? Do you know about call numbers? Do you know the difference between a source and a search engine? This and more- next week people. Oh yes, get ready to write. It is coming...and then we can all have pumpkin pie (or other goodies). Gobble Gobble.

Expository writing: TIME FOR KIDS

Go to http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/ and click grades 5 and 6. Read the COVER STORY entitled "Lunch Lessons." Edition 5–6: Magazine Quiz
What’s Cooking? November 5, 2010

Use this week’s issue of TIME For Kids (Edition 5–6) to answer the questions. For each question, write the answer on your own paper or print out a copy and circle the best answer.

Comprehension  QuizArticle: “Lunch Lessons”

(Identify Main Idea)
1. This story is mostly about
A. school gardens.
B. athletes helping kids get
more exercise.
C. a typical day for a chef.
D. chefs helping to improve
school lunches.
Article: “Lunch Lessons”
(Recall Facts and Details)
2. As part of the Chefs Move to
Schools program, chefs
A. teach cooking classes.
B. help plant school gardens.
C. create healthy recipes for
cafeterias.
D. All of the above
Article: “Lunch Lessons”
(Interpret Vocabulary in Context)
3. You can tell from reading the
first paragraph that basil is a
type of
A. pepperoni.
B. fruit.
C. herb.
D. dough.
Article: “Lunch Lessons”
(Identify Cause and Effect)
4. Schools serve processed and
packaged foods because they
A. are healthy.
B. are often loaded with salt.
C. cost less.
D. taste the best.
Article: “Lunch Lessons”
(Identify Fact and Opinion)
6. Which statement is a fact?
A. Growing vegetables is fun.
B. Nobody should eat pepperoni.
C. Basil is delicious.
D. More than 1,000 chefs have
joined the Chefs Move to
Schools program.