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Setting
Brainpop-Feudalism and Medieval Age Students created their online names using a random name generator and used Brainpop online to increase their knowledge of out stories setting. -
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Bella at Midnight
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Author
Diane Stanley's site Students visited several sites with information about the author of our book. They left comments about the author's life. -
Vocabulary
Students will work with new vocabulary by playing charades. Reading assigned: Ch 1-4 to complete by February 7 -
Characters
Voki Avatars Today the club members are creating avatars to represent the characters introduced into the book so far. Reading assigned: Chapters 5-7 to complete by Feb 9 -
Cover Art
Big Huge Labs The kids redesigned the cover of Bella at Midnight. They also created a magazine cover to persuade others to buy the book. -
Field Trip to Medieval Times
Medieval Times Dallas Students will travel to Medieval Times in Dallas,Tx to immerse themselves in the setting of our book. -
Valentine's Day
Various legends are related to Valentine’s Day. One is that of the Feast of Lupercalia and another is of the martyrdom of Saint Valentine. The linking Valentine's Day with love in the Middle Ages was strengthened by the notion that birds began to look for mates during this time of festival. Valentine’s Day gained much popularity in the middle ages when people in love began to exchange simple gifts like flowers, chocolates and cards. -
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Airman
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Inventions Timleline
Timetoast.comTo build background knowledge on the topic of inventions students are creatign a timeline using Timetoast. -
Inventions Timeline
Second day for timelien work... awesome researchers need more time! -
Foreshadowing in Airman
Eoin Colfer uses a lot of foreshadowing (clues) in his stories. We will keep track of the clues. -
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Imagery part 1
There are seven types of imagery. Check them out at thinkquest.com -
Imagery part 2
Create imagery poems and speak them through a Voki -
Storytelling
The author tells a good story-how about you? -
Liberty part 1
Learn more about the Statue of Liberty and why it is such an important topic for our book -
Liberty part 2
Use your liberty pictures and knowledge to create a mosaic at big huge labs -
Genre
Discover the genre of your book and respond to the survey questions posted -
Author
Meet the author and create a movie poster usign Big Huge Labs -
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Meet the Author
The club members will visit three sites about the author before they partner up to view a final site with an interview with Dtuart Gibbs. -
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Belly Up
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What is a Domain
The kids learned about domain as a setting and public domain as a source on the internet for free music. They used approved sites to collect PD pictures and musis. -
Flip Out!
The kids had a chance to get their hands on a Flip camera and learned the basics of movie making and editing. -
Film Prep
Take time to prep for filming -
Rehearsal
Take time to rehearse your scripts -
Storyboarding
Use the AFI tutorial to help you create a storyboard -
Spy Training
[Clay Yourself](www.clayyourself.com/)Create your secret spy identity using Clay Yourself. -
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I, Q
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Point of View
Point of View Game Students will review an article and a game, as well as discuss point of view, to help understand the concept. -
Mission 4
Describe a character from the book.
When you have that done you may go to[ www.voki.com](http:// www.voki.com) and create a Voki of your character. Have your character talk in first person.
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Write the author
Write to the author, Roland Smith, today -
Chasing Vermeer Welcome
Chasing Vermeer at ScholasticGet your book, learn about pentominoes and get to know the characters with an audio book reading. -
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Chasing Vermeer
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Vermeer Vocabulary
Create vocabulary cards with power point, and make a crossword puzzle. -
Break the Code
Club members will use codes and anagrams to decipher messages from the book. -
Vermeer Art
How is the art of Vermeer important to the book? What is the style of Vermeer's art? -
Lo and Behold
Learn more about the book Lo! by Charles Fort by visiting real news sites with articles about the same strange rain as reported in Lo! -
Tell It Like It Is
Use the printed article from Wormwood like a reader's theater on Voki. Make and avatar, record your voice, and we will post the Vokies in order to hear the whole artilce. -
Meet the Author
And boy did she-Mrs. Cardon lucked out and met our author this week! Learn more about the authog by following the links provided, -
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Welcome
See a book trailer on our blog for today's post. -
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Among the Hidden
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Population Control
Graphing for KidsStudents will observe charts and graphs about the population of the world. They will also create a graph using data collected from wordatlas.com. -
Say What?
Webster's Dictionary
Students will use an online dictionary to find definitions of vocabulary words. They will create a matching game using Power Point. -
Meet the author
Learn more about our author and the other books she has written -
Glogsters
Show off what you know-pick a topic from the book and make a glogster poster -
Utopia
What is a utopia? -
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The Giver
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Vocabulary
Make a crossword of some of the words you will read in the book -
Birthday Cards
Make a birthday card for Jonas and Lily at GreetingsIsland. Your cards will be chared scrapbook style with Flipsnack. -
Resumes
Resume Maker<a What does is mean to be an adult and how can you use a resume to help you get a job? -
Color and Emotion
Learn more about how color affects our emotions, and use synonyms to convey exact language. -
Color Me Crazy
Use slideshare and blendspace resources to learn more about color. Go to BigHugeLabs to create color palettes. -
Meet the Author
Visit articles about the author, see a video about her writing, and visit her personal website. -
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City of Ember
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You Grow Girl!
Blog Post Discover Greehhosues, hydrponics, and mobile farming. Connect these ideas to the production of food in Ember. -
How to Survive
Welcome back, let's check out Antartica and probabilty to get warmed up. -
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