Articles

6 Possible Topics

1. Natural Disasters

• Earthquakes
• Tsunamis
• Tornados

2. Racing Cars

• Lamborghini Reventon
• Lamborghini Gallardo

3. Computer Technology

• updating computer

4. Music

• My favorite musics
• My favorite artists

5. Movies

• My favorite movies
• Favorite movie genres

6. Global Warming

• The reasons why it's getting worse

Visual Thesarus

Happy:

Pleased

Glad

Joyful

Cheerful

Blissful

Tired:

Unrefreshed

Ragged

Bushed

Drained

Worn out

Excited

Thrilled

Eager

Keyed up

Agitated

Energized

Bored

Fed up

Uninterested

Jaded

Bored to death

Bored stiff

Angry

Mad

Annoyed

Irritated

Heated

Fuming

Sad

Gloomy

Depressing

Cheerless

Miserable

Distressing

Question 1: What does CIA stand for?

CIA

Right there question: What does the initial CIA stand for?
Answer: Central Intelligance Agency

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency

Reading Strategy QAR

Reading Strategy: QAR (Question, Answer Relationships)

Purpose for reading: To create and answer different types of questions QAR has four types of questions:

Right there: The answer can be found directly in the text

Think and Search: The answer is in the text , but you need to put together different

'information to come up with the answer (synthesize)

Author and you: The answer is not in the text, but you can use the information in the article to come up with an answer. You need to think about what information the author gave you as you read the text.

On my own: The information is not in the article, but you will be able to speculate (guess) about an answer now that you have read the text.

On my own questions:

Teens Driven to Distraction:

Why do adults think teenagers are bad?

Reading Strategy QAR

Videos

Response to Videos

Semester 2 Entry 1

What is research? List everything you know about research. Make sure you give examples of research you have done.

• Some information are hard to search
• Interent research is easier than using books
• Not fun doing research
• Needs better sites to research besides Google

Some research I've done is about basketball (for informational text), video games and new places to go. I've researched about Egypt(Social Studies Project), and about Greek(Compare and Contrast Essay for Social Studies).

What are the pros and cons of research? Why in the world do you hear the word research so often in school?

The good thing about research is learning new things and learning new sites. Some bad things of research is not finding what I'm looking for. We hear the word research so much in school because we always do research for our assigments for projects or for essays.

What are questions that you have about research? What would you like to know more about? What would you like to learn?

I would like to learn more how to do more better research. Also how to get the most important information from the text.  And some questions for research is: How do we know if it's the right information while researching? What other elements we can do to be better researches?