Tuesday, November 17, 2015
You need a pencil your journal.
Good morning! Was your family awakened by tornado sirens last night?! Mine was!
In your Writing section, write about Texas and our crazy weather.
Reflect, narrate an experience with weather, write an imaginative story, compose a letter about it to someone not from Texas, etc.
Conversely, you may free write about anything else you like.

Questions to Think About
1. Searching for information: Would you rather use an iPad or laptop? Do you have access at home?
2. Getting set up to find information. Do we need walk some more through information gathering? Who is ready to go, and who could use more guidance?
3. Google Docs or index cards? How will you collect your information? Remember, you may need a device to use
Google Docs.
4. What will your end product be? You may create a: poster slideshow video essay book fictional story presentation (S’More, Tackk, Prezi, other)
Kahoot other (see me for approval)
5. Have you chosen your creature?

Internet presentations
S’more https://www.smore.com/0hnf-engagingpresentation-tools
Google Slides: Sign in with Google Docs account
1 st 3 letters of first name, 1 st letter of middle name,
1 st 3 letters of last name, last 2 digits of student id, last 2 digits of graduation year (2022 for 6 th graders)
@g.birdvilleschools.net
Password: date of birth: mmddyyyy (06252003)
Kahoot: https://getkahoot.com/
Sonic Pics: App is downloaded on school iPads
Is there another presentation tool you want to use?

Websites www.monstrous.com
www.brittanica.com
www.livescience.com
www.animalplanet.com
www.greekmythology.com
www.gods-and-monsters.com
www.encyclopedia.com
www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com
www.factmonster.com
www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com
www.newworldencyclopedia.org

Friday, November 13, 2015
Plagiarism is when you take another person’s idea or writing and try to pass it off as your own.
Think about these scenarios and decide if they are plagiarism or not:
1. You submit a paper your friend wrote, for your class, but with his permission.
2. You quote an author’s words and call them your own.
3. You take a passage from a book and use a thesaurus to change some of the words.
4. You submit the same paper, which you wrote, for two different classes.
5. You copy and paste from a website.
Answers on the next slide.

Friday, November 13, 2015
Plagiarism is when you take another person’s idea or writing and try to pass it off as your own.
Think about these scenarios and decide if they are plagiarism or not:
1. You submit a paper your friend wrote, for your class, but
with his permission. YES, this is plagiarism.
2. You quote an author’s words and call them your own.
YES, this is plagiarism.
3. You take a passage from a book and use a thesaurus to change some of the words. YES, this is plagiarism (stealing another person’s ideas).
4. You submit the same paper, which you wrote, for two different classes. YES, because each class requires you to demonstrate the learning of NEW skills.
5. You copy and paste from a website. NO, this may not plagiarism IF you cite your sources!

Citing information
You must give credit to the source of any information you are using. Put internet articles in quotation marks, and underline all book titles.
According to Shannon Turlington, author of The Everything Kids’ Monsters
Book, legends about giants originate from across the globe.
When quoting word-for-word from a book or website, use quotation marks.
“Stories about giants were often used to explain natural events that ancient people didn’t understand” (Turlington, page 72).
Many of the capitalization rules are the same as for dialogue. For example, capitalize the first word of every sentence.
“Giants are important characters in the mythology, folklore, or fairy tales of many countries” (Turlington, page 72).
Most people agree that “there aren’t any real giants – except for maybe some basketball players” (Turlington, page 72).
Information from a website will most likely not have a page number. If there is not an author for the article, just use the name of the website.
The creature sightings “whipped Tarrant County into a monster-hunting frenzy” (Scudder).

Basilisks
Bigfoot
Centaur
Chimera
Chupacabra
Cyclops
Dover Demon
Dragons
Mythical Creatures
Fairies
Giants/Ogres
Mermaids
Mothman
Goblins
Griffin
Kraken
Leprechauns
Loch Ness
Medusa
Pegasus
Unicorns
Vampires
Werewolves
Yeti
Zombies
Once you have chosen, begin thinking of possible research questions you could ask to learn more about your creature.