2011-12+Qtr+2+Reading

QUARTER 2 INDEPENDENT READING BOOK __Independent Reading Task:__
 * ====== First, watch one or more of these tutorials about how to use Wikispaces (important for good grade on project!) ======
 * Lower on this page are sub-pages for each of the 5 book choices. In order to get to "your" group project page, click on the sub page of the book you've chosen. Once at the book's sub-page, you'll find a list of all the class groups - click on your group name to access your group's wiki page.
 * On this main page are also links to the assignment directions, some tips & ideas, and the rubrics for each aspect of the project. Reference these often!

Introduction + Book Choices - click here! Explanation of Group Roles - [|click here]! Grading Rubrics - click here! How to Post Your Project on Your Wikipage - click here! For those posting a Glogster poster, choose "other html" widget, not "poster" and then copy the embed code into the box.

Access online programs here:
 * Glogster
 * Nota
 * Audacity
 * iPadio
 * Podbean
 * Wordle
 * Tagxedo
 * Xtranormal
 * Creaza
 * Stupeflix
 * Masher
 * Animoto

** Want to see an example of each of the 5 separate tasks? Look below! **

__**Example for "The Glogger" (using Glogster, and using Ms. Halkovic's cats as the topic)**__ __**look at the different media included here - text, clipart, video, sounds, pictures, etc.**__

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__**Example for "The Questioner" (using the novel //Hatchet// as the topic)**__ Discussion Questions for //Hatchet//


 * 1) From chapters 1-5, do you think Brian is reasonable or unreasonable? Explain.
 * 2) Why do you suppose Brian does not want to tell his father the Secret?
 * 3) As Brian learns how to survive in the wilderness, he notices that he’s become a different person than who he was at the start of his trip. Explain some of these differences.
 * 4) Why might Brian have some mixed feelings about using the items in the survival pack? Explain.
 * 5) “Later [Brian] looked back on his time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work” (p 82). What do you think Brian meant by this? Do you think there are times when crying does “work”?
 * 6) In chapter 13, Brian is gaining confidence. How does this affect him, and, is there a danger to gaining too much confidence?

__**Example for "The Talker" (using the app iTalk on iPod, and using the novel //Hatchet// as the topic)**__

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__**Example for "The Wordler" (using Wordle and Tagxedo, and using //The Odyssey// as the topic)**__





__** Example for "The Director" **__

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 * ==== **Where She Went by Gayle Forman (sequel to //If I Stay//)** ====

I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper

Whirligig by Paul Fleishman