Cornerstone and English: Registration

Students and parents: please register as soon as possible on Tuesday, February 7th.  Students will be held in their second period classes to discuss the new registration process and will receive registration materials.

Students should sign up for elective choices as soon as possible, particularly students who plan to enter high demand majors.  Students were given a presentation by Edde about the registration process and the class following registration in Cornerstone will be dedicated to answering questions, selecting a major, and creating a plan for Junior and Senior year.

Students will be able to make changes to their schedule choices throughout the week.  With this in mind, students have been encouraged to sign up for courses they are interested in.  After we discuss the process in class, students can make changes to reflect chosen majors.

• Here is the link to the registration page. 
• (Be sure to enter the password, the student's birthday, using dashes, e.g. 02-23-1987)
• Here is the link to MVHS's Enrollment Page with all necessary forms and Quick Tips for Online Enrollment and the Course Description Book.
• If you would like to refer to the three academies and the majors therein they are listed here as well as on the Cornerstone Landing Page on PowerSchool.  
• A major consists of 10 elective credit areas in that particular area of focus.

Please contact me if you have any further questions.

Registration materials (enrollment form and other necessary forms) are due to students' 2B teacher on Wednesday, February 15th.

Cornerstone: Reflective Conferences

Over the break, please send me an e-mail with the following information.  Yes, this is a grade.  If you do not submit it over the break, I will make an appointment with you at MAV Time before the semester ends to conference.

Use your Learning Style Analysis and your Locker Sheet to help you complete this conference.

1. Send an e-mail to cook.summer@meridianschools.org, with the subject: First and Last Name, followed by your class period. 
• Example:  Summer Cook 1A
2. Copy and paste this sentence, fill in the parenthesis:
• As a (color code) (learning style) learner my easisest class is _____________ because I am good at _______________ and ________________.
• Example:  As a blue kinesthetic learner my easiest class is Conerstone because I am good at projects and group work.
3. Then copy and paste this sentence, fill in the parenthesis:
• I struggle with __________________ because I am not very good at ____________ and ________________.
• Example:  I struggle with English because I am not very good at discussion and Mr. Short has an auditory teaching style.
4. Finally, write a SMART goal for the class that you are currenlty struggling in to be accomplished by the end of second semester.
• Specific:  I will raise my grade from a C to a B in English.
• Measurable:  I will monitor my progress by checking my grades on PowerSchool every other week.
• Attainable:  I can achieve this by turning in all assignments.
• Relevant:  This goal will improve my GPA and make me feel better about my abilities.
• Time Bound: I will have a B at the end of the year in English.
5. Then press send.

Bueno?  Bueno.

Cornerstone: Citation

Hello!  You are here to work on citation, so you don't go to jail or end up with detention.  Think of me as your intellectual property advocate!

The easiest thing to do, while researching, is to keep a list of all the sources you refer to and rely on throughout your research.  Didn't do that?  Do it now.

Once you have the list, make a works cited page or a bibliography.  Use the new version of word to do this or a website like: EasyBib or Citation Machine.  If all else fails you can always rely on this site to see the nitty gritty of how it's done.

When your works cited/bibliography is done you can begin giving credit where credit is due by internal citing whenever you paraphrased a source, took knowledge from a source or directly quoted them.

So, with your time in the lab:

1. Make a list of all sources refered to.
2. Turn those sources into a bibliography (all sources refered to) or a works cited (all sources quoted, paraphrased or borrowed from within your document).
3. Then give credit where credit is due through internal citation.
4. Questions?  Raise your hand and wait patiently for The Cook.
5. You can also finish your test :)

Cornerstone: DaBulls Collaborative Science Project

Happy almost Halloween lil amigos!

If you have Gnowjeski, begin your assignment by opening this link in a new window.

1. Read the assignment directions.
2. Open and save the poster template in a new window.
3. Then follow the directions for Wooten's class.

If you have Wooten, begin your assignment by checking out the rubric you will be graded by in Cornerstone.  (Remember you get a grade in Science for content, a grade in Cornerstone for presentation, and a grade in English for appropriate citation/MLA which we will also cover next class in Cornerstone)

1. Put the finishing touches on your PowerPoint.
2. Begin working on your presentation.  (We will watch two short videos in class to help us with presentation skills, just begin developing an outline, notecards, delegating tasks, etc.)

Everyone, in order to earn participation credit for the lab portion of today's class, leave a comment after this post informing me how your time was spent effectively in the lab.  Follow this example:

1A Suzy Student
I finished my test, checked out the rubric and began research for my project.

Questions?  Raise your hand or come see me!

Cornerstone: Color Code and Multiple Intelligence WebQuest

Hola Cornerstone Compatriots!

Today is your lucky day.  Begin your assignment here.

Begin by going to the following website and completing the quiz.  (You do not need to complete the optional survey or create a profile; if you choose to super, but it is not required)

After you have found out your color code, go to this website and complete the quiz, copy your unique result code (Ctrl + C)

Next take another multiple intelligence test here and see if your results are confirmed or different.  READ the description of your results.

Congratulations, you are almost done with your assignment.  Now, you need to locate the tab at the bottom of this post that says, "# Comments".  Select that option.  When you are prompted for an ID, select Name/URL.  In the box that says name, type your class period and first and last name.  At the top of your comment do the same.  Then press enter twice.  State your result for the Color Code Quiz, followed by your Multiple-Intelligence Quiz result along with your unique result code (Ctrl + V).  Then write down your result for the second Multiple-Intelligence test.

Part of your grade will be formatting your comment correctly, so please do so!  See my example, it is the very first comment.

If you want to ensure your comment was posted, do the following:

1. Re-enter the classroom website address in your web bar, or click on the link: lifeasmrscookintheclassroom.blogspot.com
2. Then under this post, select the "Comment" tab.  
3. Search for your comment.
4. If it's not there, re-post.
5. Please note, if I don't see it, it won't receive a grade.

Questions?  E-mail me by pressing the "E-mail the Cook" button, or simply by e-mailing: cook.summer@meridianschools.org

English: SKUM Assignment part 2

If you have not completed part 1, scroll down and do a surface level reading ONLY of the three commercials.  This means: identify the SUBJECT (the S in SKUM) or the who, what, when, where and why.

For part 2 of the assignment, you are going to be focusing on the key details of each commercial.  Create a list of each commercial's KEY DETAILS (the K in SKUM).  Remember, the details should say something about the subject or begin to hint at meaning, but SHOULD NOT actually portray the meaning.  If you're writing more than one or two words, you've moved beyond detail and into meaning.

E-mail your response to Mrs. Cook by clicking the e-mail me icon, or by typing the following address into your e-mail: cook.summer@meridianschools.org.  You can also leave me a comment below if you do not have e-mail.  Finally, your last resort is to submit this to be in the hand-written form the next time we have class.

English: SKUM Assignment

Today in class we read about illiteracy.  Think critically about your definition of reading as it pertains to illiteracy.  People who are illiterate range from functionally illiterate (they cannot read even the most basic documents to survive in life) to those who are illiterate in the sense that they do not "read" a text actively.

When you read a text at the surface level only, you are in part illiterate.  For the following commercials, watch them and do only a surface level reading (define the SUBJECT- the S in SKUM).  Do this by stating the who, what, when, where and why for each commercial.  We will begin to gain literacy by looking below the surface at the Key details, by Understanding the connections between the key details and the subject and finally by making Meaning out of the text based on our critical reading. 

1.  Watch the commercial.
2.  Complete a surface level reading of the commercial and identify it's SUBJECT (who, what, when, where and why).
3.  E-mail me your response if you have e-mail by clicking the link that says: E-mail me or leave a comment with your response if you do not have e-mail.  *If, all else fails complete your response on paper and bring it to class on Friday.  However, your grade will reflect that this was your last resort.  Learn to use technology to your advantage!*