Reading Material Accessible from Home

The Winnipeg Public Library is a great resource, with much stuff available online
https://wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/

A huge collection of books, but mainly older books
https://www.gutenberg.org/


School provided list as of April 8, 2020

Prepared by Debbie Smith, Supervisor, Library/Media Services

AUDIOBOOKS: 1. Audible: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

No password or registration required. Includes multiple languages. 2. Storyline Online: https://www.storylineonline.net/

Stories read aloud.

EBOOKS: 1. Tumblebooks: https://destiny.sjsd.net/

Home use access: Username: sjsd Password: books

Includes Tumblebooks Math and TumblebooksCloud (for Teen readers) No password needed. 

2. ABDO: https://abdobooks.com/covid-19-resources

No passwords or registration required; click on the QR code. 

3. JLG (Junior Library Guild): https://www.juniorlibraryguild.com/at-home

No passwords or registration required.

4. Follett Destiny Lightbox and AV2 ebooks: destinydiscover.com (Chrome is recommended)

Location box – leave it as Any Location

In the School Box type in: Follett eLearning, mchenry, IL

Click “Log In” in the top right-hand corner

Username: guest Password: follett 

5. Knowbuddy Resources: http://virtual.knowbuddyresources.com/preview/index

User: info@knowbuddyresources.ca Password: KNOWBUDDY 

6. Lerner Books: https://lernerbooks.com/help-at-home 

7. Read with Me ebooks: http://readwithme.cast.org/

Interactive books for early literacy 

8. Unite for Literacy: https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/

Includes materials in multiple languages

To Build a Fire, by Jack London

Foreshadowing-A warning of what is going to happen

Jack London had outdoor adventures trying, unsuccessfully, to become rich.  From his experiences, he wrote many famous stories about adventures in the North and in the South Pacific. He would become very rich and famous from his writing. 

    When he started writing, he could only afford a typewriter that had to be pounded with a hammer, one letter at time, to write his stories. Imagine how that would affect his writing style. 



Story is also here

Read along

As a movie

An Animation

Parts of a Story

Remembering about story structure, class handout sheet in your binder and also here, view this classic Canadian story

Blog below

1. The Setting

2. The Initial Action

3. At least 2 incidents of Rising Action

4. The Climax

5. The Resolution

6. What is the conflict? Pick a conflict from the handout sheet and explain

The Mighty

We finished the book The Mighty on the last day of anti-bullying week. Kevin and Max are very different people who develop a friendship. Under different circumstance, they might have bullied each other. Describe their friendship, what each contributes to their partnership, and how it enriched their lives. 

Take time and put some thought into your answer. Examples from the book in you answer would be helpful.  Blog your answer below. 

Friday Afternoon, Nov 29, we watch the movie Freak the Mighty, based on the book The Mighty. 

 Rubric

4. Skilled-Fully developed description of their friendship, including what they each contributes and examples from the book

3. Competent-A good description of their friendship and something that each contributes, and you referred to the book

2. Developing-Described some parts of their friendship, no reference to the book

1 Struggling-Mentioned something about their friendship, no reference to what each contributes or to the book.

Writing

Oral history is often not given the respect it deserves in our culture that values things being written down. Here is an example. Still, being able to communicate by writing can be a big advantage, especially if you can't meet in person.  Writing first happened in the Fertile Crescent, about 3400 BCE, soon after farming became a lifestyle. A big push to start writing was that it was a good way to keep track of taxes. Egypt had writing soon afterwards, about 3100 BCE.  It was awhile before an actual alphabet was used. People drew pictures or symbols to convey their message. We still do today, such as with emoticons.


In your groups, and without using any alphabetical figures, communicate the following message on your sheet of paper.


Zuri is selling high quality grain, good for bread, for 10 chickens. 
Liam is selling lower quality grain, good for animal feed, for 5 chickens. 

Your Library account

Click here and log onto your library account using the log in link that you will find on the upper right. Check for your over dues and browse the books that are available. 

The Lottery

As we come back from the Thanksgiving weekend, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, is our reading today. Handed out are paper copies, below is the text being read. Thanksgiving is a tradition celebrated on this Continent. We have many traditions, as do other countries. Read about a particular tradition in this story, The Lottery.

Re-read the story.



1-Foreshadowing are hints that the author leaves to what the ending will be. This is important, otherwise the ending would be random. What hints does the author leave about what the ending will be. Include one character name in the hints.

2=The ending is also a bit of a surprise. What evidence is there that this is a normal, happy community gathering? Give multiple pieces of evidence, and again, include a character's name.

3-What point of view is given by Old Man Warner.

4-What conflicting point of view to Warner is given by the Adams? Anything to their name Adam?