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Monday 8th: First Day of the Last Grading Period!

Tuesday 9th: STAAR Testing Day 7th Writing & 8th Reading

Wednesday 10th: STAAR Testing Day 8th Math & 7th PreAP Math

Thursday 11th

Friday 12th

Monday 8th: First Day of the Last Grading Period!

- Part 1) Review  (click to comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view s19 example folder here)
4. Important Note: Do not attempt to install or run VPNs on school computers! These cause problems with our network functions and are a violation of the District's Responsible Use Policy.
5. Review key points from last week & Announcements

• Click here to view your ratings summary graphs from last week

• If you did not complete the weekly reflections form for last week, please click here to do so: 5.6r Reflections Form

6. Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• Today’s warmup is a words/colors game (Color Trap: http://www.proprofs.com/games/colour-trap/). Here’s an example of how to choose the correct answer in the version we will practice with today:

• Use the symbol below linked to the game URL

• Color Trap: http://www.proprofs.com/games/colour-trap/
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• Here’s my example

7. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will…  (click to comment)

1. Today we have these objectives  (all s19 objectives to date)

• Practice training your mind to disconnect colors from text using the Color Trap application

• Familiarize yourself with this week’s events by collecting screenshots from our school website

• Practice combining, editing and recording images and gifs in a testing-stress-reliever activity

2. Please bookmark the following 3 files for this week: 6.1p, 6.1w, 6.1n

3. Page 1: Week 13 Events

• Open your 6.1n Notebook for week 13 in Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• Use the links in the notes section at the bottom of page 1 to find and Snip the information for each box

• Here’s my completed example page 1 (our Good Friday holiday is on Apr 19th)

4. Page 2: STAAR Movie Poster

• Use this search of movies with the word Star in them to give you some ideas for designing a fun STAAR related movie poster
• Your page should have the following on it

1. A title: 6.1n Notebook using Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text
2. Fun images you find or create exchanging the word Star for STAAR (you don’t have to add gifs like the example I made, but it will make your page more fun if you do!)
3. A subtitle: First Week of Testing 2019

• Here’s my example
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- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments!  (click to comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
• Color Trap: http://www.proprofs.com/games/colour-trap/
• Search of movies with the word Star in them

2. s19 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Play Color Trap
• Capture this week’s events by collecting screenshots from our school website

• Practice combining, editing and recording images and gifs in a testing-stress-reliever activity

- Part 4) Through?  (click to comment)

1. Checkout some sites with tips on reducing test anxiety and this video on a healthy perspective towards testing:

• List of sites with tips for coping with test anxiety: https://www.one-tab.com/page/0fndSVy1S_Km3xY983r_WA
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EpQFnBEasZxi_kjXRn8w_3vybCHxpolC/view
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Tuesday 9th: STAAR Testing Day 7th Writing & 8th Reading

Today is a STAAR Testing day for 7th & 8th Grade 

1. Here are some tips for dealing with exam stresses. Good luck 7th & 8th Graders!
2. Please read these notes about today’s schedule

• 7th Graders will be taking STAAR Writing
• 8th Graders will be taking STAAR Reading
• There will be no bells today
• Check the Cafeteria and halls for room assignments for today’s testing sessions
• Here’s your schedule for today

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Wednesday 10th: STAAR Testing Day 8th Math & 7th PreAP Math

Today is a STAAR Testing day for 8th Grade (and some 7th Graders) 

1. Here are some tips for dealing with exam stresses. Good luck 8th Graders!
2. Please read these notes about today’s schedule

• 8th Graders will be taking STAAR Math
• 7th Graders in PreAP Math classes will be taking STAAR PreAP Math
• All other 7th Graders will be on their regular bell schedule
• There will be no bells today
• Check the Cafeteria and halls for room assignments for today’s testing sessions
• 7th grade students will follow their normal schedule, but will not be allowed in the 200 wing or at the end of the 300 hall… students must walk around these testing areas

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Thursday 11th

- Part 1) Review   (click-2-comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view s19 example folder here)
4. Important Note: Do not attempt to install or run VPNs on school computers! These cause problems with our network functions and are a violation of the District's Responsible Use Policy.
5. Daily Warmup Activity: Here are the links and directions for today’s warmup

• Review Monday’s tasks list to see what you should have accomplished & Announcements

• Play Color Trap
• Capture this week’s events by collecting screenshots from our school website
• Practice combining, editing and recording images and gifs in a testing-stress-reliever activity

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• Choose your own warmup activity! If you can’t think of anything to do, choose any practice typing game from this list: Typing Practice Games List
• Add a thumbnail image (snip) from your choice, link it to your choice and a snip of the results to your warmup as you see in my example below
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• Here’s my warmups example file for this week:
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6. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

1. Today we have these learning goals  (all s19 objectives to date)

• Choose your own warmup
• Explore infographics related to summer fun, and capture some examples with links
• Creatively celebrate the fact that STAAR testing for April 2019 is over!

2. Page 3: Summer fun infographics

• To get your mind off of testing and on to a much more fun topic, use any of these image sites (from section 14 of the 308 Today sidebar) to create a Summer Fun page background:

• CC Search (Creative Commons Free Use)
• Clipart from MS Office
• Flickr Free Use Group
• Free to use images (Google Search Results)
• Google Advanced Image Search
• Icon Archive
• IconBug
• Image file types and uses
• National Geographic Photography
• Pattern Cooler
• Pattern Library
• Photos for Class
• Pixabay Public Domain Images
• Search Creative Commons

• Search Google for 3 fun and useful infographics and links to add to your page: Google search: Infographics Summer Fun
• Here’s what you need on your page

1. A title: Summer Fun
2. A background image from the list of links above
3. At least 3 infographics with each linked to the source
4. A few extra images, gifs and/or icons to fill in empty spaces on your page

• Here’s my example
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3. Page 4: STAAR Relief!

• Now that this STAAR testing session is over, create your own celebration page. For my example, I just searched Google Images for animations using the words dancing robots to use as a page background, but feel free to come up with your own ideas!
• Add a STAAR Test image and an appropriate title and/or graphic of some kind
• Here are a couple of my example recorded as a gifs (but you only need one page!):
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4. Here’s a grid view of this week’s example notebook:

- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h 
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
• Typing Practice Games List
• Google search: Infographics Summer Fun

2. s19 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!)

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Choose your own warmup
• Explore infographics related to summer fun, and capture some examples with links
• Creatively celebrate the fact that STAAR testing for April 2019 is over!

- Part 4) Through?   (click-2-comment)

1. Checkout this cool National Geographic Photography site where you can learn more about creatures like giant purple squirrels and flying great white sharks!

• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/04/indian-giant-squirrels-colors-camouflage/
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• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/2019/04/shark-ocean-great-white-breach/
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Friday 12th

- Part 1) Review   (click-2-comment)

1. Please check your workstation for damages and report problems to me!
2. Logon here to get to your Gmail: use @student.bisdtx.org
3. Here’s what your assignments should look like: (view s19 example folder here)
4. Important Note: Do not attempt to install or run VPNs on school computers! These cause problems with our network functions and are a violation of the District's Responsible Use Policy.
5. Friday Warmup Activity: 

• Review yesterday’s tasks list to see what you should have accomplished & Announcements

• Choose your own warmup
• Explore infographics related to summer fun, and capture some examples with links
• Creatively celebrate the fact that STAAR testing for April 2019 is over!

• Please complete the Weekly Reflections Form for this week!
• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• It should look like this
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6. Check for new click-to-comments and my responses to them (blue highlights are new responses!): http://goo.gl/TU5uol

- Part 2) Objectives: Today students will… (click-2-comment)

1. Please complete and turn-in the following assignments which are due today:

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
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2. If you’ve completed and turned-in everything, explore any of these!

• 103 Lab Applications and Resources List

- Part 3) Help with today’s assignments! - (click-2-comment)

1. Here are the links you’ll need for today

• Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/h
• Fonts links: Wordart Collection / Gzaas / Flaming text / Graffiti Creator
• 6.1r Reflections Form

• s19 Notebook Bookmarks for this week (jump directly to instructions!). If you’re behind, start with the green highlighted pages, which are the easiest to complete:

3. Tasks Checklist for today

• Complete your 6.1r Reflections Form
• Complete your 6.1w Warmups and 6.1n Notebook assignments and click  TURN IN  for both of them in Google Classroom!

- Part 4) Through?   (click-2-comment)

1. Checkout a list of holidays for today (or any day!)

• Daily holidays: https://www.checkiday.com/
• Today’s holidays
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