Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Nutrition_Breakfast and Snacks

Almonds a handful a day
Reading Articles from Stack Magazine about healthy snacks.

  • We made egg salad on whole wheat bread, humus on a flour tortilla with cheese and tomatoes, and blueberry/greek yogurt smoothie,  Other healthy snacks included almonds, apple slices, and baked chips with guacamole.

Informational Text
  • Preview the Title, sub headings, maps, charts, bold print, and diagrams. 
  • During Reading, when you don't understand, stop and reread.
  •  After, Think about what you read. What was most important?


How he learned to eat right and hydrate properly  Luke Kuechly Nutrition



High Protein Breakfasts
Referred from March 14, 2013 | Kait Fortunato High Protein Breakfast Research shows that skipping breakfast or not getting enough protein in your breakfast can lead people to overeat later in the day or make poor food choices. Carbohydrates give you some initial energy, but protein helps slows down the digestion of carbohydrates, making the energy last longer and keeping your blood sugars more stable.  
Fresh Ideas for High Protein Breakfasts

  • Omelet with veggies and turkey bacon or sausage
  • Protein smoothie with yogurt, 100% protein powder and fruit
  • Protein bar such as Think Thin, Zone Bars, Pure Protein, Detour Bars 

  • High protein "No Oat Oatmeal" made with egg whites and nuts
  • Whole grain toast with peanut butter
  • Greek yogurt with almonds and sunflower seeds
  • Bagel with laughing cow cheese and smoked salmon
  • Cottage cheese with fruit and granola

    5 Healthy Snacks That Will Fill You Up

    Apples, Super Nutrients: With fiber, vitamin C, B complex vitamins, potassium, and calcium. Gives a brief synopsis of each vegt. n fruit.

Why Dogs are More Like Humans Than Wolves

Read the Article Why Dogs are More Like Humans Than Wolves?
The Genius of Dogs

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Sunken Survivor Nearly Missed Rescue

Paired Reading of Survival: True Sea Stories
YouTube
National News Harrison Okene rescued after spending three days in a capsized tugboat off the Nigerian coast. He made a pact with God never to go in the sea again.

Students wrote a summary of the important ideas in the Newspaper article.

Here is an example: It started off when he was using the bathroom and he asked if the boat was sinking. Then he was under water till a diver found him. He survived by drinking a coke and he had a air pocked so he used it. When the diver found Harrison Odjegba Okene, they got up to the boat and they put him on an oxygen tank They warmed him up.
Mr. Okene was the only survivor from the Jascon 4 tugboat that capsized and sunk.   



Monday, December 16, 2013

The Running Dream_Wendelin Van Draanen


Wendelin Van Draanen   Author Van Draanen

Van Draanen starts with a anguishing beginning. From First Chapter
MY LIFE IS OVER.
Behind the morphine dreams is the nightmare of reality.
A reality I can’t face.
I cry myself to sleep, wishing, pleading, praying that I’ll wake up from this, but the same nightmare always awaits me. What are your thoughts, feelings, or interpretation?
Vocabulary
Write the following in your Reading Notebook. Press  Sift to visualize
maddenly
prosthetist
residual
mobility
monstrosity
rehabitation
managing
unspoken
recovery
circulatory

How has Jessica’s life changed as a result of the accident? 
  • Your paragraph should have part of the question for your answer.
  • 4-5 sentences in your paragraph .
Then watch the The Running Dream Trailer
The book was recommended by a teacher in Oklahoma (daughter Melissa) "Kids can't put it down."  2014 Intermediate Sequoyah Masterlist Oklahoma
Storysnoops.com 
Book Trailer YouTube


































Teen Reads Review
















Sunday, December 15, 2013

The Rowing Boat, Britannia II, and her Crew

Details-First Webbing:  The organizer provides a helpful framework to organize the details into categories.  Think about what the main idea or central theme. Web Tools Use Read Write Think Link  Hint: Save as a pdf file



The story of their 8,000-mile journey can be found in the Newspaper Article in the Sydney Morning Herald - May 15, 1972

The Gallery Slaves reading from
True Sea Stories








Sunday, December 8, 2013

An Ultra-Secret Sinking_Wordsift

The USS Indianapolis should have finished the Second World War in triumph. Instead, she was torpedoed and 900 men from her crew were left abandoned in the open ocean. From True Sea Stories.True Sea Stories
USS Indianapolis














Copy and Paste your text into the box. Press  Sift to visualize
Make a new tab, link to http://www.wordsift.com/
aerial
submarine
torpedo
mission
detachment
apocalyptic
sonar
misinformed
intelligence
stimulus
prohibiting
procedural
predator
frantic
survivors

Now, click on the word. The word will automatically appear in Visual Thesaurus.
If the word doesn't show up, use Thesaurus.com

Hunter Scott
Hunter's Site, he spent nearly seven years researching the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the subsequent court-martial of Captain Charles B. McVay III
Paired Reading: Left for Dead
  1. What startled Gwinn when he was in the fighter plane? ~ Bert
  2. By the afternoon, how many spotter planes flew overhead? ~ Bert
  3. Why didn't they tell the captain what was happening? ~ Jacob
  4. How did the black out happen? ~ Jacob
  5. Why didn't the crew take shifts for a watch? ~Andrew
  6. Where was the captain? ~ Andrew




Monday, December 2, 2013

Thieves_Getting Around Non-Fiction




True Survival Stories_Swallowed by a Volcano

Guess and Adjust

Title: Swallowed by a Volcano


New Words
Guessed Meaning
Adjusted Meanings
Forbidding p. 97


Superstitious p. 98


Atmosphere p. 104


Torrentially p. 105


Hallucinate p. 107


  1. Write any other clue words that are important to the text in a oval form.
  2. Guess the meanings of the new words using the text's title and your knowledge of word parts.
  3. Do a Quickwrite that predicts the text content; write the predictions in a triangle.
The template is from "Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12," published by the International Reading Association. 


Guess and Adjust

Monday, November 25, 2013

A Lighthouse Heroine_Grace Darling

The story is found in True Sea Stories, A Lighthouse Heroine. Grace Darling Heroine
On that fateful night, Grace, now 22, was at home at the lighthouse with her parents. 
Watch the cartoon version of the storyWatch how Grace came to the rescue of the sailors of the shipwreck

Women in history. Read about the wreck and the rescue: Grace Darling, a heroine Maritime Women
Darling Rescue
Grace Darling lived in a lighthouse like this one 
Grace Darling Video






True Sea Stories_A Lighthouse Heroine


What obstacles did the characters overcome in the story?

Use the following matrix to help organize your thoughts and reflections.

Characters
 Obstacles
 Author's Description











Monday, November 18, 2013

Including Quotations_Ralph Fletcher

The story changed when they found a letter written by Dmitry Kolesnikov,
Here's what he wrote:
All the crew from the sixth, seventh, and eighth compartments went over to the ninth. There are 23 people here. We made this decision as a result of the accident. None of us can get to the surface . . . I am writing blind. 
'None of us Can Get Out' Kursk Sailor Wrote NYT
"When writing non-fiction you need both facts and some memorable quotes," Ralph Fletcher
Ralphfletcher.com Lesson on page 91

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Tongue Twisters

After reading a grave historical ship-wreck story, The Birkenhead Heroes  Birkenhead Shipwreck
We diffused by reading Tongue Twisters to break out of the somber moment.

English Tongue Twisters
  • Try a couple.  
  • How fast can you go?
  • Warning: It gives you the giggles. 
Shut up the shutters and sit in the shop!

One-one was a race horse.
Two-two was one too.
One-one won one race.
Two-two won one too. 

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Friday, November 15, 2013

Girl's Best Friend

Teaching-Resources
Central Idea is  . . . Mike helps Becca cope with some of the struggles she faces every day.
Introduction, Health Problems, Finding Mike, Spreading the Word.




Wednesday, November 13, 2013

True Survival Stories_Paul Dowswell

Students selected The True Survival Stories after reading the Shark Lady by Ann McGovern

Table of Contents
Dive to Disaster  7
Submarine Squalus
News Reel USS Squalus Disaster 3:44

Hindenburg's Hydrogen Inferno  26
Captain Bligh's Boatload of Trouble  42
Adrift in the Desert  58
Shark's Breakfast  74
Lucky 13  80
Swallowed by a Volcano  97
Terror in the Sky  110
Lost in a Polar Wilderness   117
"The Mighty Hood"  132

Dive to Disaster Vocabulary
  • Write the words listed below in your notebook.
  • Record 2 other words that are similar (synonyms).
  • Use Visuword a visual dictionary and thesaurus as a resource.
  • Or Dictionary.com when necessary
 Words highlighted in blue will be defined using the Frayer Model
  1. submerges
  2. catastrophe
  3. asphyxiation
  4. dispatched
  5. condensation
  6. survivors
  7. chlorine
  8. bulkhead
  9. reluctant
  10. contaminated
Great White Bites Halibut

Topp Predator Tracking

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Bird Girl_by Velma Wallis


Listen to Henry and Agnes TitusRTI students selected this book after reading Two Old Women

Bird Girl is about a girl that loved to hunt instead of her traditional expectations. Girls were taught to cook, raise children, tan skins, sew, and gather edible plants and medicinal herbs.
 Arctic Classroom Sites
Author: Velma Wallis 
True Sea Stories_A Lighthouse Heroine


Your learning about the characters in the story
Sample Response

Review Chapter 3 and continue to read 4
 
Somebody
Wanted
But
So

Bird Girl
She began hunting
The men thought she should be married.


Zhoh  (Bird Girl’s father)




Na’ Zhuu (Bird Girl’s mother)




Daagoo




Gwich’ in (The People)







Use the following matrix to organize your thoughts and reflections.

Character & Description
 Your Thoughts
Author's Description
Bird Girl



Zhoh (Bird Girl's father)



Daagoo



Gwich'in


Bird Girl 3 & 4