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Welcome 6th Grade Detectives!

Welcome 6th Grade Detectives!. Please do the following things IMMEDIATELY………….. Take your Mystery Packets out. Have a writing utensil ready! (Pen or sharpened pencil) Take out your calculator and put your name on it with a post it (on the smart cart).

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Welcome 6th Grade Detectives!

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  1. Welcome 6th Grade Detectives! Please do the following things IMMEDIATELY………….. • Take your Mystery Packets out. • Have a writing utensil ready! (Pen or sharpened pencil) • Take out your calculator and put your name on it with a post it (on the smart cart). • Clear your desk of any other items. Put everything else under your desk. • Your agenda will be up as soon as class starts!

  2. AGENDA 10-18-10 MYSTERY PACKET Take out and read “I say, Hearsay” Primary vs. Secondary Source Investigate Scrapbook 2 Minute Mystery (If there is time) Exit Ticket Learning Goal: Use reading strategies to better comprehension, decoding strategies, and gain understanding of narrative text.

  3. Primary Source Primary Source: information coming directly from an eyewitness. EXAMPLE: If there were a student being bullied in the hallways and you saw that happen and told a teacher to go and take care of it, then you are an eyewitness or primary source. You witnessed what happened first hand. Question: Who from the story is an eyewitness?

  4. Secondary Source Secondary Source: information that has been gathered indirectly from primary and other secondary sources. EXAMPLE: If there were a student being bullied in the hallways and you saw that happen, told your friend about it once you got to lunch and that friend went to a teacher to take care of it, then that friend is a secondary source. Your friend didn’t see this happen, but knew it did because s/he heard that it did from you. She gathered information indirectly, making her/him a secondary source. • Question: What information was gathered in the story that would be considered a secondary source?

  5. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE:VOCAB 2. Reputedly: -having a good reputation -Believed by most people to be fact Pay Attention: Which of the definitions is used in the article we read? Citation: “Reputedly.” Merriam Webster’s Intermediate Dictionary. 1984. Print.

  6. FOCUS SKILL: SUMMARIZINGREVIEW • Define it: • To express or cover main points briefly

  7. SCRAPBOOK • Review article and summary • Read second article • Summarize • Look at (preview) packet questions • Show how to divide the sheet & use of a Venn Diagram • answer the questions in the packet (Investigation 10 page 2)

  8. Contrasting the ArticlesWhat are the differences you found between Ancient Egyptian Tomb and Professor Peabody and the Curse of the Mummy? “Ancient Tomb” DIFFERENT “Prof. Peabody” DIFFERENT SAME

  9. EXIT TICKET: What is the difference between primary and secondary sources? Write your answer in complete sentences • Write your answer on your exit ticket. It is your ticket out the door! Don’t forget your name!!!!!!!

  10. SCRAPBOOK: DIARY PAGE • Read Agatha’s Diary page • Answer questions: Investigation 10 page 3 • Discuss • Read and take notes on the remainder of the scrapbook. Create a Scrapbook Evidence page.

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