Even though the schools are physically closed, we will continue to learn and show evidence of our learning online. Each week, you will have assignments posted on Sunday night. These assignments will need to be completed by Friday a 11:59 p.m. They may include ixl.com, vocabulary.com, newsela.com, ilearn.dearbornschools.org, or other online learning. I may send out videos and ask you to respond on this blog and discuss reading and listening activities with other students. Please check your student email at least three times per week.
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Weekly Activities
Metacognitive Logs Please read in a good fit book for 20 minutes each day. Metacognitive logs will be due at the end of each week on Friday, by 11:59 p.m. at the latest. You may share them to me in advance, if you finish early. Create your own copy of this metacognitive logs form and title it with your first and last name, the date that it is due, and your block. If you are a member of your local Dearborn public library, you can check out e-books online.
Mentor Sentences We will continue to work with sentences from books that we can read/watch together. I will post either a video of me reading a book or a video of the book being read, along with activities to complete weekly. We will still be identifying parts of speech, author’s craft, and revising sentences, just online.
Writing We will continue to work on our writing together, and students will still submit a 5 paragraph essay on school start times. We will use resources sent out weekly to continue working on process writing, to revise each other’s writing, and to publish our writing. We will also be working on bringing a folktale to life in the modern era, so you will have a chance to be really creative!
Extra Credit For those of you interested in bettering your grades, or interested in learning more, I will post an extra credit reading/assignment/activity above and beyond the weekly assignments. This will be posted on Wednesday each week, and may require you to submit a video or proof that you have completed the assignment. Good luck!
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Mr. Melvin
How do I highlight in Newsela?
Drag your mouse over the words you want to highlight. There will be a pop-up menu to the right of the words that lets you select from colors.
Check out this picture to see how: https://i.snipboard.io/XbWutg.jpg
Hi mr.melvin I hope everything’s been good but I watched your video and went to the Metacognitive log page and I can’t seem to write do I print it
You do not need to print. Simply make a copy, type in what the text says and your reactions, and click ‘share’ at the top.
Thank you for your response it did work but when I finished I left for a moment and then it was all gone like deleted and same thing happened to the mentor sentence
Are you sure you opened them in your google docs? I would check there first. See if you have a doc called ‘copy of NAME DATE BLOCK…”
hi mr melvin i dont know how to get on the mentor sentence page i watched the video but it did not show that well.
Please visit this link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1brUC6gu-LSPfXd31BSeOiVHriXOTr_zwr5hp_bG65y4/edit?usp=sharing and click ‘File,’ then ‘make a copy.’
mr melvin i have a question we had to do something about us in mrs fulton and i finished i just have to send it to her but it says email or name and i wrote mrs fulton but it is saying there is no name that starts with mrs so could you plz help me.
Try typing her last name in.
I don’t get part 3 of creat a character because I didn’t get part 1 or part 2 I am confused
Check out my model and see if it makes more sense: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CMRVsQWFoi7mucTQT1sZNTo1mpIJmljnPwAy0M8SLL4/edit?usp=sharing