Stories from Gilbertson Books Site

The Realebook Great Walnut Stump

The Great Walnut Stump

In Class October 28

Fact vs Opinion

Answer questions

F =Fact O = Opinion

http://www.theonion.com/section/sports/

Read stories

Summarize

circle fact words-------------circle opinion words

electricity

Harder - Electricity is a basic feature of all matter, of everything in the universe. Electrical force holds atoms and molecules together. Electricity determines the structure of every object that exists. Together with magnetism, it causes a force called electromagnetism, a fundamental force of the universe.
a fundamental force of the universe.

american history

Benjamin Franklin - Childhood and Education:
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts. He was one of twenty children. Franklin’s father Josiah had ten children by his first marriage and ten by his second. Benjamin was the fifteenth child. He also happened to be the youngest boy. Franklin was only able to attend two years of schooling but continued his own education by reading. At the age of 12, he became apprenticed to his brother James who was a printer. When his brother did not allow him to write for his newspaper, Franklin fled to Philadelphia
was one of 20 children.

Air conditioning

Air conditioning is the cooling of indoor air for thermal comfort. In a broader sense, the term can refer to any form of cooling, heating, ventilation, or disinfection that modifies the condition of air.[1] An air conditioner (often referred to as AC or air con.) is an appliance, system, or machine designed to stabilise the air temperature and humidity within an area (used for cooling as well as heating depending on the air properties at a given time), typically using a refrigeration cycle but sometimes using evaporation, commonly for comfort cooling in buildings and motor vehicles.

Reading Blogs

Sign up for a Google account
www.google.com
go to gmail first.
After you get signed up go to top of page and find tab marked more>click
find even more> click
Find orange icon blogger> click
sign in with user name and password
for blog address type in your user name no space.
In blog post reading and we will highlight 1. Topic 2. Point 3. Topic sentence.

1. Topics: Your Major


2. Anthropology


3. Sociology


4. Psychology


5. Health


6. Government


7. American History


8. Air Conditioning


9. Electricity


10. Your Major

Sept 9 2010

Aplia
Vocabulary reading
Curiosity reading

Cultivating Curiousty

Journal # 6

List five ideas, places, events, people, activities, things or anything else that has fascinated you or kept your interest. How do you go about investigating them. What did you do to learn more?
As you list them find a web site that tells something about your topic.
Paste the web site in your journal.
Type in the headline and give a brief summary of the article, video or photos.
Example: Hiking in the Smoky Mountains
http://www.hikinginthesmokys.com/

1. There are over 70 trails in the Smoky Mts.


2. There is a difficulty rating guide. Most difficult is Mt. Laconte

CEI

Curiosity and Exploration Inventory

Questions Journl # 7

Previewing the Reading

1. Titles
2. Bold face
3. Main ideas
4. Summary last paragraph
5. Graphics

Class 3 Three Little Words

Three Little Words

1. College is Easy
2. College is Hard
3. I am tired
4. Be on Time
5. Got there early
6. lots of homework
7. wheres my class
8. get good grades
9. im so confused
10. lots of learning
11. ask lots of ???
12. can we go
    

Class 2 Vocabulary Test/ Aplia sign in

Tonight you will take the Nelson Denny vocabulary test. It is a test to measure how much you improve vocabulary during this semester. In November you will take the same test but a different form. The results will be compared. You will be given participation points after completing the tests.