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Tessellation

10/28/2015

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  1. What is the definition of a tessellation in your own words?
  2. What was the hardest part of creating a tessellation or learning about tessellations?
  3. Explain why your pattern block tessellation is TRULY a tessellation.
  1. It is a pattern that can repeat up down left and right.
  2. Finding all of they ways to create all of the tessellation and making them because mine was huge, and it wouldn't fit in the camera on the computer screen.
  3. My tessellation is a tessellation because it goes up down left and right with no gags or over laps ant the pattern repeats with out any of those problems.
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Schoool wide Non-fiction reading lesson 2

10/27/2015

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Photographs and Illustrations

The reason why Photographs and Illustrations are important is that they explanes the theme and what happens in the book.
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Captions and Labels

The reason why Captions and Labels important is that they explane the pictures and whats happening
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Maps

Maps are important because they show were what ever is happening

Introduction

A introduction is impotent because it gives you a small trailer of whats about to happen in the book

Headings

A heading gives you a little hint whats about to happen.

Sub Heading

A sub heading is a heading that is in a smaller font but it gives you more details of what is happening.

Types of Print

Types of prints are important because they show if you should say the word or words etc. Also it says if it is important word

Time line

A time line is important because it shows what happened in what order.

Bibliography

A Bibliography is important because it gives you were the person who wrote the book or website etc, writes were they got all of there information.

Bullets, Asterisks, and Stars

Bullets, Asterisks, and Stars are important because the tell you that there are facts right next to you and those facts could be free answers.

Inserts and Sidebars

A sidebar is important because they probably have facts in them witch are like free answers 

Table of Contents

The table of contents is important because it shows you where to go when you are looking for something specific. 

Index

A Index shows what page number the thing you are looking for in thee book you are reading.

Diagrams 

A diagram is important because it tells you what is what and it also is all labeled.

Charts and Graphs 

A chart is important because it gives you a idea of what is happening on the time line of the book.

Glossary

A Glossary is important because it is like a mini dictionary in the back of the book, but it just shows you the words that are to say and understand.
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October 26th, 2015

10/26/2015

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Which Type of Nonfiction is this an example of?
  • Reference Nonfiction
  • Literary Nonfiction
  • Biography
What we noticed about this type of Nonfiction
What we noticed about this type of Nonfiction

The lizard can lose there tail to scare the preterits also they had to scare off other lizards  to get out of there territory.
     
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Which Type of Nonfiction is this an example of?
  • Reference Nonfiction
  • Literary Nonfiction
  • Biography
  • What we noticed about this type of Nonfiction
Was a explorer and her mom tells them to bring bugs.she also lived with canibles for a while.
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Which Type of Nonfiction is this an example of?
  • Reference Nonfiction
  • Literary Nonfiction
  • Biography
  • What we noticed about this type of Nonfiction
The bird got hit with a Arow. He   is in pane and tries to servevie the book says that it is a book that also exposes some feelings.
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Polygon Properties By: TJ and Hannah

10/19/2015

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This is TJ's Creatly.com Diagram
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This is Hannah's Creatly.com Diagrams.
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School wide Reading lesson 8

10/16/2015

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Stop and Jots
  1. Via is compassionate because she is telling Justin that he can do it, not every girlfriend cares as much as she is about him.
  2. I think Via is wishing that Justin can do the play with out messing up his lines and also think she did that because  he has messed up the lines.
  3. I think one of those boys is Julian.
  4. I think  that he is going to be tough guy all over Julian and his friends because he feels like he can relate to Jack Will.
  5. I think that Miranda still misses Aggie because she feels like she is built into their family because they use to be friends.
  6. Aggie asked his dad to stop calling him Aggie dogie.
  7. dun dun Miranda picked up Aggie and I think that she was faking being sick because she is afraid or something
  8. I think Miranda is making these things up because she wanted to be like Via.
  9. aha moment when Miranda was at camp was when she got all mixed up.


Questions
1.Stop and jots are not notes
2.Stop and jots are thoughts that you have well reading
3.They are thoughts that you don't need to share
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Historical Reenactment of Illinois in the 1770's

10/8/2015

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  1. I am looking forward to meeting _______________ because...  Tell me more...
  2. I also want to meet ________________ because... Tell me more...
  3. Drag in a picture of both people and put them side by side under your answers to these questions.
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  1. Trapper because he traps the animals to eat. also he was in the army for the Americans to fight against the king of England, that's why I want to see him so much. Also he has these skins and cool things he probably has like traps that  are used in the Hunger Games.




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2. I will also like to meet the general because he is in charge of the soldiers, and the solders have all the weapons. I wonder how much control he has over his army of solders in the war. How could they reload so fast without being shot especially with the big barricade they made when they fought their wars?

Summary's on Reenactors

Mistress McQueen had an indentured servant at an inn that was also a school, church and court room.  She also had to be the eyes and ears of the town because she owned the inn.

Peter Smith was a frontiers men who lived 10 hours from any settlement so that meant he had a lot of room for hunting.  He also hunted about every day.

Private Rolland Soul was a British soldier, and a he was a General.  He got to throw hand grenades.

Ira Quinn was a toy seller that sold toys for a little money to pay for food.  All of her toys were made from wood that her husband Zeb carved.

Zeb was a carpenter who had tools that carved wood such as an ax, a hatchet and other types of tools that helped carve wood. 

Charles Walker was a part of the American army and he had six weapons on him at one time in a battle, such as a pistol, hatchet, saber, dagger, musket and a piece of useless chrome armor that only symbolized your wealthiness.

Joseph O’Fallon was a trapper who trapped beavers that cost a lot money because you sell by packs of nineteen.

Janette Lundahl was a spinner who made clothes for mostly kids and tired to use white cotton for most of her clothes.

Leon and Catherine Dubois sold clothes to younger kids once potty trained.

Captain John Ira Parke was a surveyor who measured land in the Colonies.
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School wide Reading lesson 7

10/8/2015

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Stop And Jots
  1. Jack Will is being rejected by everyone and he sees  Auggie and Summer.
  2. Auggie and Summer are letting Jack Will sit at his  table. 
  3. Tough question Are you two boyfriend and girlfriend?
  4. duh duh Summer has a boyfriend that plays the fettle.
  5. Summer is worried that Justin will not come back  because no one over never really came back so that is   why she is so worried about him so much.
  6. duh duh duh Justin is meeting the parents.  That is bad  because most of the dads say they can't date, but it seems to be going well.
  7. duh duh duh Justin is the main boy character in the play and Miranda is the girl lead.

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Questions
  1. Which Conversation Starter above is Mr. Solarz' favorite?  Why?
  2. Which Conversation Starter above is your favorite?  Why?
  3. Describe one conversation you have already started in your Literature Circle.  What was the question and how did the discussion go?
Answers
  1. Refer to a line or section of the text because thats how he sort of told us how to stat are videos.
  2. Refer to a line or section of the text and it starts like this something sort of like this sign post _____________ happened and ___________ do you agree.





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Rube Goldberg

10/7/2015

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This how it all works.
So the sun melts a block of ice then it goes through the funnel that has water from the ice that triggers the scale to shoot out balls that hi a wall that pushes a switch that turned on a robot helicopter has a special course that it is programed to do to cut a rope to lets a toy car move down a track and at the the end of the track it rames into my head just to wake me up. in the morning. 
Questions:
1. What was the most surprising thing you learned about energy during this entire unit?  Why was it surprising?
2. What was your favorite part of this energy unit?  Why was it your favorite?
3. Where is energy found?
4. How would you define energy?
Answers
  1. That there is something called byproducts and it mean that this form of energy has other forms of energy that is there because it happened with out control.
  2. My favorite part was draw the thing and to thinck why would anyone want to buy all of this stuff with would cost hundreds of dollars when you could buy a 5 dollar alarm clock or use there phone
  3. In almost everything you can see.
  4. A thing that makes things do things easier.
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  1. He  was needy when people were late.
  2. Braking rules a lot.
  3. When she wrote she had to go to California where his college was.
  4. Rube had thousand of comics to go threw to wright her book.
  5. her dad was a big help when she was writing her book.
  6. Rube was popular sort of.
  7. He is in the dictionary.
  8. it was hard for his kids to comopeet with.
I only got this much because I was at band for a while.
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School wide Reading lesson 6

10/7/2015

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Stop and Jots
  • Jack Will and Auggie are friends because he said he didn't mean what he said.
  • Julian is making a lie that Jack Will has problems, that his parents begged for Jack Will to stay in the school, and also that Jack Will broke under pressure. Charlotte is telling him all of this in hiding.



  1. What guideline above was new to you?  Why do you suppose we should follow that guideline.  If nothing was new to you, create one new guideline that we should all follow while discussing our reading. Explain why you think we should follow that guideline.
  2. Name a guideline that you might have neglected to follow in the past.  Did anything bad happen?  What could have happened?
  1. Try to get as detailed as you can in your discussions.
  2. Don't keep doing the same types of conversations over and over again. Mix it up! I kept doing dun dun duns and my group and I got banned from doing dun dun duns and also we said them to loud most of the time.
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School wide Reading Lesson 5

10/6/2015

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  • Stop and Jot
  • Words from the wiser because they are saying that you should stay heathy because it will let you do more things
  • lives in north Carolina
  • On the Bulls
  • Breaks though the gravity 
  • Talks about leaving the team
  • Thinking of joining a job that includes basketball.

Reflection Questions:
  1. If you were about to read a book about about an astronaut who went to Venus, what are three or more things you might think about before reading that would activate your schema?
  2. If the book said, "The astronaut's helmet began to melt..." what would you imagine the cause was?  Why would his or her helmet be melting?  Use your schema to answer this question.
Answers
  1. Would they have enough fuel to get there, when would they do it, and what kind of tech would they use.
  2. I think that it would he from heat energy because it would have to be close to the sun to melt but they would probably have special suit or something to keep them from dieing.
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