Carver Middle School Ramsay Library
B. Staiger-Matatall, L. Bertram with support from Dare Officer Bassett
Moore, Winslow, Blackwell
Dates of Use: 10/5, 10/6, 10/7, 10/12/2005 Teaching Periods:
Teen Read: Get Real! 10/27 Moore, Winslow, Blackwell ABCD
Grade: 8 English Number of Students: All of Grade 8
Topics:
1. Internet Safety 2. Mirror Image 3. Published articles online 4. Media Literacy: Ethical Use of Information 5. File organization and transfer 6. Motivation for reading
Objectives/Students will be able to:
1. Exercise good judgment and make safe choices online. Avoid giving out personal information. 2. Access and select appropriate information. 3. Understand intellectual property. Use citation and ethics. 4. Make personal and social choices more objectively. 6. Use published articles retrieved online for effective research. 7. Send articles/files home via email. 8. Read books of their own choice, understanding the level and type of factual information in nonfiction, historical fiction, and fiction.
Student Activities/ Instructional Strategies:
Day 1-Officer Bassett/Library Media collaboration sharing articles from local newspaper archives.
Day 2-Mirror Image software
Day 3- Search Facts on File for published articles. Cite sources using online writing lab guides.
Day 4- Search InfoTRAC for published articles. Use MLA citation.
10/27 Teen Read 8 Get Real! Nonfiction, historical fiction or the truth in a book of fiction.
Information Skills:
1. Access published articles with online databases. 2. Use information in an ethical way. 3. Understand and use MLA citation. 4. Know that people one meets on the Internet may not be who they say they are. 5. Keep personal information private.
1. Organize and manage network files. 2. Send school information/files via email from school to home and back.
Library Media Resources:
· Local news articles
· Mirror Image
· Access to online databases: InfoTRAC and Facts on File
· Access to online writing labs
· Bertram, Matatall, Bassett
© 2005 Ms. Staiger-Matatall, Mrs. Bertram Carver High School/Middle School Carver, MA 02330