Third Curriculum Meeting

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Third Curriculum Meeting

• February 7, 2007

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Prayer

• http//www.inspiringthots.net/movie/you-are.php

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You are in relation to time

• If you lose 5 minutes a day per class period. In
  a year, you lose 15 days
• How do you measure a year? 525,600
  minutes http//www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/rent/seas
  onsoflove.htm

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Math

• http//www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/
  sims/archi/data.html

• Handling Data
• Bath time with Archimedes
• Key Stages 2 and 3 Age range 10 - 14
• Bath time with Archimedes addresses the following
  objective from the National Numeracy Strategy

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Math

• http//www.singaporemath.com/Grade_6_s/100.htm
• The "Singapore Math" series is distributed by a
  small company outside Portland. Company President
  Jeffery Thomas said students in Singapore seem to
  move successfully into algebra and geometry in
  middle school, the age when many American
  students flounder.
• http//www.sde.com/onlinetraining/LP/ASCD-Singapor
  e-Math.asp?c1enewssourceASCD-2007-01-04kweSEM
  -SMath Singapore Math Online Group Training!

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Mikes math

• http//abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id2690724page1
  
• http//www.mikesmath.com/ourplan.htm
• http//www.mikesmath.com/video.htm

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Lattice Multiplication

• http//mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52468.htm
  l

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Science

• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath_classica
  l.html
• Great site to discuss the issue of ethics in
  medicine
• Go to EBSCO and look at Todays Science (type in
  stem cell research)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vyi3erdgVVTw
  issue of dihydrogen oxide on U-Tube

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Social Studies

• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvalpha.html
• Go to Annie Oakley movie

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Language Arts

• Vocabulary
• octothorpe look up meaning and hear pronunciation
  in www.m-w.com
• Listen to podcast word of the day
• Listen to podcast of Michael Crichton on book
  NEXT from AmazonWire PodcastListen to Podcast
  and see video (http//abcnews.go.com/Video/playerI
  ndex?id2683999)
• http//www.crichton-official.com/next/press.html

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Getting started writing

• What got you to start writing? My dad was a
  journalist, so I saw him typing when I was
  growing up, so it seem like a normal occupation,
  to sit down and type something as your job. I
  myself began writing pretty young. In the third
  grade we all had to do puppet shows and most of
  the kids just did a little skit. I wrote a 9 page
  play that my father had to type up for me, using
  carbon paper, so all the kids would know their
  parts. And I wrote a lot in fifth and sixth
  grade, too, and I became known for it I was the
  weird kid who wrote extra assignments the teacher
  didn't ask for. I just did it because I liked
  writing so much. I was tall and gangly and
  awkward and I needed to escape, I guess. When I
  was fourteen, my family took a car trip to the
  West, and we visited Sunset Crater National
  Monument in Arizona. I thought it was very
  interesting and people should know about it. My
  parents suggested that I write an article about
  it for the New York Times travel section, which
  accepted articles by regular people who had had
  an interesting travel experience. So I wrote my
  article and sent it in, and the New York Times
  printed it, which really encouraged me. (They
  paid 60. I still have the check stub.) I also
  wrote for the town newspaper, covering high
  school sports, and for the school paper. Later, I
  wrote for the college newspaper, the Harvard
  Crimson.
• http//www.crichton-official.com/foryoungerreaders
  /index.html

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Writing continued

• How long does it take to write a book? It's
  difficult for me to say. Usually, an idea "cooks"
  in my head for a very long time before I begin to
  write it. During that preparation time I will
  make notes and do research. The actual writing
  can be relatively quick---four to fifteen
  months---but I could the preparation as part of
  the work. So in that way, The Great Train Robbery
  was 3 years. Jurassic Park was 8 years.
  Disclosure was 5 years. Sphere is an odd example
  I started it and wrote part of it, but didn't
  have a good ending, so I stopped. Twenty years
  later, I picked it up again and finished it in
  about two months. So did it take 20 years, or
  two months? Who most influenced your career?
  Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, and Alfred
  Hitchcock.
• http//www.crichton-official.com/foryoungerreaders
  /index.html

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Wikis

• Wiki (definition from http//www.techweb.com/encyc
  lopedia/
• A Web site that can be quickly edited by its
  visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed
  by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide
  collaborative discussions, there are several
  "Wiki" tools on the market for creating such
  sites, including www.editme.com,
  www.seedwiki.com, www.socialtext.com and
  www.swiki.net. Cunningham's site is
  http//c2.com/cgi/wiki. "Wiki wiki" means "quick"
  in Hawaiian. See Wikipedia.
• Effective Use for wiki http//chs8g.wikispaces.co
  m/grantwriting

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Books

• Good book, go to site and preview second chapter
  on Thinking What does it take to become an
  effective questioner? The new edition of the
  classic book Asking Better Questions helps
  teachers encourage active learning and democratic
  participation by providing models, techniques,
  and activities that promote better questioning by
  both teachers and students. Click here to browse
  the entire book online!

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Books continued

• http//www.thethirteenthtale.com/audiobook1.mp3
• The Thirteenth Tale website  listen to audio book
  clip
• http//www.lulu.com/
• Lulu is fast, easy and free
• Publish and sell easily within minutes.No set-up
  fees. No minimum order.Keep control of the
  rights.Set your own price.Each product is
  printed as it is ordered.No excess inventory.

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Dinner with a Perfect Stranger

• Take a look at the web site
• http//www.randomhouse.com/features/dinner/

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Dinner with a Perfect Stranger

• An invitation to the Lord's supper REVIEW BY
  MAUDE MCDANIEL
• When Nick Cominsky receives a formal invitation
  to dinner with Jesus Christ, he assumes it's just
  another prank by the fellows at work. After all,
  Nick has demonstrated his indifference to
  religion for years. A married research chemist
  and environmental planner, Nick has enough
  trouble fitting his professional and personal
  lives together without extra complications.
  Nevertheless, curious to learn how the joke turns
  out, he bites. When he sees the "thirty-something
  guy in a blue business suit" waiting at the table
  in the upscale restaurant, he's still not easily
  persuaded that the man is Jesus Christ. Cynical
  and mocking, Nick looks around for hidden mirrors
  and throws out the first challenge sipping the
  wine (a mid-range white) he asks, "Can you turn
  this wine into water?"
• How his dinner partner deals with that and the
  far more important questions that come up is the
  theme of Dinner with a Perfect Stranger, a little
  book that touches on issues rarely dealt with in
  popular fiction. These include the comparison of
  Christianity to other religions (Hinduism,
  Buddhism and Islamthis section is likely the
  novel's most contentious), and such matters as
  the divinity of Christ, eternal life and the
  problem of evil.
• The co-author of two nonfiction books, David
  Gregory works for a nonprofit organization in
  Dallas. In this foray into popular theology, his
  answers skew more mainline than evangelical. They
  are not all deep, but the fact that they are
  touched upon at all is a step forward in modern
  debate. The novel format makes Gregory's
  reasoning accessible, even if it only hits the
  doctrine's high points. (More secular
  observations, that Jesus here is not a
  vegetarian, for instance, and that he dislikes
  ties, seem amusing and inoffensive.)
• Christians may respectfully agree to disagree on
  some points, and some might prefer a more
  substantive approach to explaining the tenets of
  their faith. Still, this light but intriguing
  novel, free of rancor or condescension, is a good
  place to start.
• Maude McDaniel writes from Maryland.
• http//www.bookpage.com/0508bp
  /fiction/dinner_perfect_stranger.html

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http//www.randomhouse.com/features/dinner/MediaRo
om.html Press Release

• A provocative novella, set almost entirely in a
  modern-day Italian restaurant, Dinner with a
  Perfect
• Stranger presents the opportunity to listen in on
  an intriguing discussion of life between Jesus
  and
• Nick, an ordinary guy.
• Where did you get the idea for writing the book?
• The idea germinated from a graduate class I took
  which logically examined different world views. I
• envisioned weaving the material into a larger
  context. After some time, I found that what I
  truly
• wanted was a book that would present the person
  and work of Jesus Christ in a way that people
• would find engaging and entertainingsomething I
  personally would want to hand to family or
• friends. There wasnt anything on the market that
  did that to my satisfaction.
• Why did you choose the particular setting?
• It was a natural way for the two main characters
  to have a long, uninterrupted conversation. Also,
  it
• was patterned after one of my favorite
  restaurants in Dallas.
• As you were writing, what were the pitfalls of
  putting Jesus in a contemporary setting?
• The contemporary setting wasnt as much of a
  challenge, I think, as simply portraying Jesus in
• writing. I had several aims. First, I wanted to
  show Jesus as a real person, as someone who the
• reader could relate to and actually like being
  with, rather than a religious person. In the
  Gospels,
• Jesus was criticized for partying with the
  riffraff of Jewish society. He was anything but a
  stuffed
• shirt. Second, I wanted Jesuss dialogue to be
  true to the New Testament text without being
  stilted.
• And third, I wanted Jesuss tone and body
  language to reflect a heart of love rather than a
  pious air.

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New Feature

• Play away books

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Digital Storytelling

• http//www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/examples
  .htm
• More on Digital storytelling under Language
  Arts To Kill A Mockingbird

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Database policy

• Logging in to these databases from an elementary,
  middle, or high school may place that institution
  in violation of licensing agreements. Database
  vendors have the option of pursuing legal action
  against any offending institutions. The Louisiana
  Department of Education provides online databases
  for the elementary, middle, and high school
  students of the state. Information about these
  student resources can be obtained from a local
  school librarian or technology coordinator, or by
  accessing the Louisiana Department of Education
  web site at http//www.doe.state.la.us/lde/lcet/32
  8.html. Click on the logo for the individual
  database.

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Shalom in the Home

• http//tlc.discovery.com/beyond/index.html?playerI
  d203711705categoryId208816823lineupId15174945
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• Rabbi Shmuleys video life lesson. His TV show
  in on TLC.

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Kindergarten websites

• http//www.jmeacham.com/
•  
• http//teachers.santee.k12.ca.us/carl/

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Sudoku

• http//www.sudoku.com.au/

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I Cant lesson

• "Some of the world's greatest feats were
  accomplished by people not smart enough to know
  they were impossible." 
• -Doug Larson-

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Ethics Camp

• The good news is we are going focusing on our
  basics our roots our beginnings which is
  Ethics/Integrity. We have been running a mini
  Ethics Camp to get our students, parents,
  teachers, principals, administrators to always
  think what is the ethical thing to do. So some
  of the basics of the camp include
• 1. Do your best not better than othersso when
  people call me and ask for our schools test
  scores I refocus them to what the scores mean. It
  is how well your child did not in comparison to
  others but in looking for growth in themselves.
  So I ask each of you a rhetorical question, in
  your life, your job, your vocation do you try to
  be your best or better than others?
• 2. Be a rule follower-if the rule is as simple
  as no gum chewing then this refers to students,
  parents on campus, teachers, etc. If the rule is
  no cell phones then its for all. So think about
  yourself, what is a rule you have a hard time
  following and do you always follow it-again a
  rhetorical question.
• 3. Be honest-tell the truth. Many of us think
  this is only a child rule but its a life rule
  for all ages. Have any of us lied-told a white
  lie or a major untruth today? Speaking of truth
  we were in a classroom today and a 7th grader
  asked me what is the pillar of truth? I said to
  him I will answer that when you tell me what is
  truth. We went into this diatribe of Socratic
  questioning and soon he was not certain of what
  is truth. I told him when he knew for sure to get
  back to me and then we would talk about the
  pillar of truth.
• 4. Be objective-not subjective. When teachers
  are assessing students performance, parents
  childrens performance or in a work situation, be
  objective. So you must state specifics in
  reference to poor job performance not it doesnt
  feel right

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Closing Prayer

• Choctaw right of passage