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Made corrections on and cleaned up RSVCP outlines. Most issues came in one of these three areas. Check out the info below to help:

OBJECTIVE SUMMARY
Answer these questions when writing objective summaries
1.Who is the author?
2.What is the article's topic?
3.What is that articles main point about the topic?
4.What are some ways the article describes that main point?

EXAMPLE: 
This blog by The Room 241 from Concordia lists the top 5 benefits of phones in school. These students analyzed the benefits through research. The benefits are that phones are smart, fast, and reliable tools that can help students with their studying and learning. Also, phones give students the ability to help each other and with a social learning environment. The blog also stated, that phones can be distracting but outlawing them overall shouldn’t have to be the case. Furthermore, implementing them into learning environments can benefit students to learning more.
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CITATIONS:
FULL CITATION
Wingfield, Nick. "Amazon to Share New Building with Homeless Shelter in Seattle." Nytimes.com,The New York Times, 10 May 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/technology/amazon-  homeless-shelter-seattle.html, Accessed 11 May 2017.

IN TEXT CITATION:
We're just doing these. Start at the top and if you can't find the information to cite, use the next one down the list. (e.g. if you can't find the name of the author, use the article title)

1. (Author last name)
2. (“Article Title”)

EXAMPLE: Stanford University professor Clifford Nass said, “Music with lyrics is very likely to have a problematic effect when you’re writing or reading” (Castello).


SUPPORTING IDEAS:
Begin with this structure (you can add to it of course) for each of your body paragraphs in an outline.

• Main idea
  • ​Topic Sentence
    • ​Quote supporting topic sentence. Be sure to introduce quote and add your in-text citation so you know where it came from.
    • Explanation and analysis of that quote

Example:

• Cellphones = Fast access to info
  • Digital devices, if used correctly, can provide faster learning and allow for independent learning lead by the student. 
    • A Concordia College educational blog states, “In some situations, a student may not ask for clarification to a question he or she has in an open classroom—because they can use their smartphone to get the answer they’re looking for” (“5 Benefits of Using Cellphones”).
    • Despite their obvious distractions, cell phones and other digital deceives can assist students find answers to problems and get assistance in real time instead of relying on a teacher or other traditional methods.

Registered for classes. If you were gone, check with your counselors. 

Kind of a catch up day. Worked on finishing the following assignments (All posted on Google Classroom):

1. What is your opinion?
2. Learning Reflection
3. RSVCP - Notation, Summary, and Outlining

SSR

Assignment
"What's your opinion" - instructions on Google Classroom

Went to the library to grab books. We begin SSR tomorrow, so make sure you have a book of your own to read.

Finished outline of our RSVCP also looked into our Learning Reflection project (see Google Classroom)

Reflected on bridge building and using structure as support. Finished reading articles and began outlining ideas for our RSVCP assignment.

Had a talk with the counselors about preparing for senior year class registration. If you were gone, check with me.

Worked on reading and filling out the Note Chart for the second article for our RSVCP assignment posted on Google Classroom.

Made some bridges with marshmallows. You missed some fun.

Reviewed what annotation was (see yesterday's) and read one article for our next project: RSVCP - Notation, Summary, and Outlining

Objective Summary:

1. Who is the author?
2. What is the article's topic?
   
3. What is that articles main point about the topic?
4. What are some ways the article describes that main point?

Objective (adj) - not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

Subjective (adj) - based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.

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Read an article in class and practiced annotation (taking notes on a document using the following learning tools)
OBJECTIVE

• Summarize paragraphs
• Define unknown words

SUBJECTIVE

• Build connections
• Underline, highlight important ideas
• + and – for parts you like or don’t
• Ask questions

See Mr. Restad for the article and the reflection sheet. 

ASSIGNMENT
Using this website, we covered the Policy Scavenger Hunt Google form. If you missed today, please complete the form using the information at Mrrestad.com. 

If you have questions, let me know.

First day of semester 1. No homework, but we just worked on some of the ideas of metacognition, or thinking about thinking. If you were gone, check out this short vid.

Finals. Good luck.

Chapter 9! Last one!
If we have time, I want to discuss the novel. So, in one paragraph write your final thoughts on one of the two prompts:

Explain if the title of the book is fitting or not? (Is Gatsby Great?)
OR
What is the most important thing one could take away from this novel? (What's the moral?)

Also, there are some great videos about Gatsby below that I found while making some lesson plans. Check 'em out if you're interested.

Read chapter 8 of Gatsby aloud in class. 
ASSIGNMENT
For each main characters (Nick, Daisy, Tom, Jay), reflect in full sentences on what you personally think of them? Back up your analyses.