Please silently read for 10 minutes. If you check out or brought a physical book you may relocate within the room.

*We’ll be stopping after five minutes to read a few pages of “Nadya Skylung and the Masked Kidnapper.”

9/4/2019

-Silent Reading

-Presentations

-Portfolios

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Get with your partner and prepare for presentations. We’ll begin in five minutes

Interviews and Presentations

1. Turn in your Word Snapshot slideshow in Classroom. The first slide should be your Word Snapshot and the second your writing piece.
2. You will be put into pairs. Once you’ve found your partner use the sheet in the “Interview” assignment in Classroom to interview them.
3. After the interviews each pair will come up and introduce the other presenting their answers from the interview. While the presentation is going on the Word Snapshot of the student being introduced should be projected on the screen.

Interviews and Presentations

• You and your partner will come up to the front together. You can open your Word Snapshot slideshow in Classroom on the computer in front.
• Feel free to bring your chromebook up to the podium to reference your interview doc while your present.
• When you’re not presenting you’re expected to be an active and respectful listener.

Today you will...

create a Google Site with work you’ve produced in all your classes...

because...

it is important to look back and reflect and be proud of what you created...

and

You will use this in a presentation to 6th and 7th graders at the end of this school year.

Here’s an example to reference as you create your own site and here is a checklist to reference while you create your site.

Directions

Please follow these closely

Before we start building the site I want you to have all the files we’ll be adding to your portfolio in a folder with the share settings set at “Anyone on the internet can view.” So…

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1. Create a folder titled “Portfolio”
2. Right click on the folder and click on “share.”
3. Click on “Get Shareable Link.”
4. In the drop down menu choose “more” and then “Public on the web.”

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Directions

Please follow these closely

4. While you’re creating your portfolio over this semester move any work you’re putting into your portfolio into this folder. It will automatically change the share settings which will allow family and friends to see your work.

*To move a file click “file”, “move to…”, find your Portfolio folder and click “move here.”

Directions

Please follow these closely

1. Go to your Google Drive, open your Portfolio folder.
2. Then go to the blue “NEW” button and choose “Google Sites.”
3. Click on “Site document name” and name it “First Name Last Name Portfolio.”
4. Click on “Change image” and choose an image for your homepage.
5. Include the guided question: “How have I demonstrated the skills I need to be successful in High School?”.

Directions

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9. Click on“Pages” and then the “Add page” button.

• Title the page “Biography”

10. Repeat this process and create the pages:

-Classes

-Portfolio

11. Go to your “Classes” page, click on the three dots and add the subpages:

-Language Arts

-Science

-Humanities

-Math

-Electives

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Directions

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12. Go to your “Portfolio” page, click on the three dots and add the subpages:

-Introduction

-Resume

-Conclusion

Homework

• Read 2.5 hours per week
• Update your quotes slides
• Find a novel to read if you are not already reading one. Bring it to class everyday.
• The Word Snapshots are due and Presentations are Tuesday, September 4th.