Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Crank Dat Parts of Speech

This is the video that the previous posting refers to. Enjoy!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Assignment: Crank dat, Parts of Speech

Crank Dat- Parts of Speech
YouTube Video Assignment
name: Donna Lepore

YouTube website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLSFQDqapFE

Parts of Speech:
A noun- Person, Place or Thing. Two nouns are: Texas, apple.
Adjective- describing words. Two adjectives are: ugly, purple.
Action Verbs- Verbs that are an action. Two verbs are: walking, talking.
Adverb- modifer, adds details to a verb. Two adverbs are:
Preposition- linking words, show location. Two prepositions are: under, and in front.
Interjection- tells feelings of subjects. Two interjections are: Ouch, geez.
Conjunction- used to connect other words. Two conjunctions: And and Of
Pronouns- Replace the nouns instead of repeating the same noun over and over again. Two Pronouns are: he and she.

Subject- Noun, sentence's main object.

Predicate- verb, the action.

My two sentences:

Allison ate the ice cream and it looked gross.

Ouch, I burned my thumb!

Diagram: My thumb is the subject.
I burned is the predicate. Ouch is an interjection.

I think my sentences are good because they use the parts of speech correctly and they are creative.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

What I know about Copyright

This is a web I've made using Readwritethink.org
I created the screenshot using Gimp.



Tuesday, March 4, 2008

my notes on: Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age, by Dr. David Rose

QuickNote Organizer
Name: Rachel
Date: March 3, 2008
Hour: 8:57pm
Your Mood: Thirsty

Chapter 2 - “What Brain Research Tells us About Learner Differences”

1. Strategic networks is the second largest part of the brain.


Chapter 3 - “Why We Need Flexible Instructional Media”

1. Traditional media are fixed media where instruction is the same for everyone, and most of our history as a culture requires everyone to hear the same story the same way. With digital media, we can be flexible and meet every learner's needs.


Chaper 4 - “What is Universal Design for Learning” -

1. Provide multiple ways for students to show what they know.

Chapter 5 approaches goals - using UDL to set clear goals

1. Goals are almost always composites of things students need to know and understand, things that students need to be able to do, involving skills and strategies and motivation.


Chapter 6 - materials and methods for reaching goals

1. One of the main reasons students don't understand is because they don't have enough background knowledge.

Chapter 7 - focuses on assessment

1. There are ways to overcome barriers in assesment.


Chapter 8 - “Making Universal Design for Learning a Reality.”

1. Teacher training can help make Universal Design a reality.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Vocabulary

1. debenture
n.
  1. A certificate or voucher acknowledging a debt.
  2. An unsecured bond issued by a civil or governmental corporation or agency and backed only by the credit standing of the issuer.
  3. A customhouse certificate providing for the payment of a drawback.

2. mameluke
n.

A member of a former military caste, originally composed of slaves from Turkey, that held the Egyptian throne from about 1250 until 1517 and remained powerful until 1811.



Shakespeare

I've been doing alot of work with Shakespeare lately. Here is a video from Youtube of "Ten Things I Hate About You", a movie based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. In this clip, Julia Styles (Katharina) reads her poem, about the ten things she hates about Heath Ledger (Patrick ie Petruchio).