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Brainpop-Feudalism and Medieval Age Students created their online names using a random name generator and used Brainpop online to increase their knowledge of out stories setting.
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Diane Stanley's site Students visited several sites with information about the author of our book. They left comments about the author's life.
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Students will work with new vocabulary by playing charades. Reading assigned: Ch 1-4 to complete by February 7
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Voki Avatars Today the club members are creating avatars to represent the characters introduced into the book so far. Reading assigned: Chapters 5-7 to complete by Feb 9
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Big Huge Labs The kids redesigned the cover of Bella at Midnight. They also created a magazine cover to persuade others to buy the book.
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Medieval Times Dallas Students will travel to Medieval Times in Dallas,Tx to immerse themselves in the setting of our book.
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Various legends are related to Valentine’s Day. One is that of the Feast of Lupercalia and another is of the martyrdom of Saint Valentine. The linking Valentine's Day with love in the Middle Ages was strengthened by the notion that birds began to look for mates during this time of festival. Valentine’s Day gained much popularity in the middle ages when people in love began to exchange simple gifts like flowers, chocolates and cards.
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Eion ColferWelocme back to TNT!
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Timetoast.comTo build background knowledge on the topic of inventions students are creatign a timeline using Timetoast.
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Second day for timelien work... awesome researchers need more time!
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Eoin Colfer uses a lot of foreshadowing (clues) in his stories. We will keep track of the clues.
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There are seven types of imagery. Check them out at thinkquest.com
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Create imagery poems and speak them through a Voki
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The author tells a good story-how about you?
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Learn more about the Statue of Liberty and why it is such an important topic for our book
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Use your liberty pictures and knowledge to create a mosaic at big huge labs
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Discover the genre of your book and respond to the survey questions posted
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Meet the author and create a movie poster usign Big Huge Labs
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Fake texting Create a conversation between Conor and one of the main characters.
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The club members will visit three sites about the author before they partner up to view a final site with an interview with Dtuart Gibbs.
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Visit a Zoo The kids spent the day getting to know Henry, our main character.
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The kids learned about domain as a setting and public domain as a source on the internet for free music. They used approved sites to collect PD pictures and musis.
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The kids had a chance to get their hands on a Flip camera and learned the basics of movie making and editing.
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Take time to prep for filming
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Take time to rehearse your scripts
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Use the AFI tutorial to help you create a storyboard
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[Clay Yourself](www.clayyourself.com/)Create your secret spy identity using Clay Yourself.
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Point of View Game Students will review an article and a game, as well as discuss point of view, to help understand the concept.
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Describe a character from the book.
When you have that done you may go to[ www.voki.com](http:// www.voki.com) and create a Voki of your character. Have your character talk in first person.
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Write to the author, Roland Smith, today
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Chasing Vermeer at ScholasticGet your book, learn about pentominoes and get to know the characters with an audio book reading.
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Create vocabulary cards with power point, and make a crossword puzzle.
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Club members will use codes and anagrams to decipher messages from the book.
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How is the art of Vermeer important to the book? What is the style of Vermeer's art?
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Learn more about the book Lo! by Charles Fort by visiting real news sites with articles about the same strange rain as reported in Lo!
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Use the printed article from Wormwood like a reader's theater on Voki. Make and avatar, record your voice, and we will post the Vokies in order to hear the whole artilce.
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And boy did she-Mrs. Cardon lucked out and met our author this week! Learn more about the authog by following the links provided,
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Museum BoxNow you can create a museum display all about Chasing Vermeer.
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See a book trailer on our blog for today's post.
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Graphing for KidsStudents will observe charts and graphs about the population of the world. They will also create a graph using data collected from wordatlas.com.
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Webster's Dictionary
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Learn more about our author and the other books she has written
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Show off what you know-pick a topic from the book and make a glogster poster
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What is a utopia?
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Make a crossword of some of the words you will read in the book
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Make a birthday card for Jonas and Lily at GreetingsIsland. Your cards will be chared scrapbook style with Flipsnack.
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Resume Maker<a What does is mean to be an adult and how can you use a resume to help you get a job?
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Learn more about how color affects our emotions, and use synonyms to convey exact language.
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Use slideshare and blendspace resources to learn more about color. Go to BigHugeLabs to create color palettes.
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Visit articles about the author, see a video about her writing, and visit her personal website.
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Blog Post Learn more about the jobs given to the kids in the City of Ember.
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Blog Post Discover Greehhosues, hydrponics, and mobile farming. Connect these ideas to the production of food in Ember.
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Welcome back, let's check out Antartica and probabilty to get warmed up.
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