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Setting the Tone: Journal Writing

Setting the Tone: Journal Writing. You are assigned to find information about a topic. In five to seven sentences, tell what you would do to collect your information. Purpose. What are you learning? How to read a reader’s guide and a card catalog. Why are you learning this?

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Setting the Tone: Journal Writing

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  1. Setting the Tone:Journal Writing You are assigned to find information about a topic. In five to seven sentences, tell what you would do to collect your information.

  2. Purpose • What are you learning? • How to read a reader’s guide and a card catalog. • Why are you learning this? • To locate information from various sources.

  3. Grammar: Verbs Streamline Video Segment 1: Verb Functions and Verb Tenses (07:29)

  4. Crafting the Lesson(Me) Card Catalog: has three different types of cards: title cards, author cards, and subject cards. Title cards: there is a card for every book in the library. If a title begins with A, An, or The skip to the next word. EX: The Pig-Out Blues Author cards: Every book has an author or editor. The name on the author card is listed last name first. EX: Elsholz, Carol Subject cards: filled alphabetically and come before the title cards beginning with the same word. EX: Dinosaur-History comes before the title card Dinosaur Fossils Reader’s Guide: an index that list articles in more than 175 magazines and journals. The articles are listed in alphabetical order by subject and matter.

  5. Crafting the Lesson(We) • Which card catalog would you use to find the following items: • A book by Vernon Pizer • You Don’t Say • Ways people communicate

  6. Crafting the Lesson(We) • Use the Reader’s Guide to find the following items: • Who is the author of The hurricane nobody took seriously. • What did I. Berkow write? • Where can I find the article written on pages 12-13 Mr. 21-27, 1992? • Which magazine published Seth Rolbein’s article?

  7. Composing Meaning(Two) With a partner, find the answer to the questions • Which card catalog- author, title, or subject – you would use to look up each of the following items: • A book by Roald Dahl • Rap music • Baseball in April by someone named M. Jones • A book on sailboats by John Walters • A Decision for Health • Hawaiian volcanoes

  8. Composing Meaning (You) Use the Reader’s Guide on 119a and the card catalog on 118a in Heath Middle Level book level 8 to answer the questions that follow.

  9. Reflection • What information will you find in a Reader’s Guide? • What are the three types of cards in a card catalog? • What is the difference between the three types of cards in a card catalog?

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