| 1000 Books Go to DATA READING page Go to SUNSHINE STATE STANDARDS for Reading and Language Arts Go to RECOMMENDATIONS DataRecommend This is the 1000 Books Page Data1000 Go to Protect Your Ears Dataears |
| A list of useful LINKS datausefullinks COMING SOON: Financial Information These links are here to allow students and parents to review some of the topics that students have covered in the school. Many of the subjects are briefly coverd in school, so this web page gives students a chance to review information that they might have missed.... This will be the list of 1000 books (and growing) that DATA students will read before March 1. |
| Welcome to Mr. Mac's web page. This is a TEACHER'S web page, it is not the official DATA web site. >>> www.oocities.org/teachers2teachers/data.html <<< To visit the Official DATA Website, go to www.downtownacademy.org This page is www.geocities.om/teachers2teachers/data.html SEE BELOW for our 1000 books LIST CLICK HERE for STUDENT WEB PAGES datastudents Click here for another list of web pages by Students geocities.com/teachers2teachers/dataintro2 We’re on the way to reading 1000 books before March 1! Peter T Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. John KT Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jane Eyre’s tempest, Jim Brown. FR Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. KT Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. SET Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. JT Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. SW Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. KL Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. AW Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. DE Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Huck Finn, 10000 Leagues, Paul Revere, Jim Brown. Mr. Mac Lion Witch and Wardrobe, Aviation History, First In Flight. 6a 6B 6C 7A 7B 8 Some students have started creating web pages. VISIT HERE, too... dataintro2 See piratesfan1000. Sample Book Report by Jessica Stone Achingly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Author Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written a series of Alice books about teenage girls and their everyday life adventures. When I read Ms Naylor’s books I feel like I can see inside Alice and understand her feelings. Ms Naylor makes Alice seem real because you can understand her thoughts and feelings. Alice Kathleen McKinley, Al for short, is trying to figure out her life and priorities. Her first priority is to get her widowed father to marry Miss Summers, a teacher at her school. Alice also wants to decide on a career that she will really love, get to know some other boys – even though she has a boyfriend named Patrick, work on her body, and be a better sister and friend. Alice misses not having a mother since her mother died when she was five years old. She would like Miss Sylvia Summers to be her new mother because she is caring, lovable, and understanding of Alice’s problems. She is also a great teacher and very beautiful. Miss Summers is dating Alice’s father and the vice-principal at Alice’s school. When Alice learned that Miss Summers was going to spend Christmas at her house Alice was very happy and she thought that her dad was going to give Miss Summers an engagement ring. Later in the story, Alice tried to make Miss Summers distrust the vice principal by telling her a lie about him. Alice learned that telling a lie hurt people, made people not trust her, and it made her feel bad about herself. Alice also learned that Miss Summers was a forgiving person when she forgave Alice for lying. Patrick has been Alice’s boyfriend since sixth grade. They talk about their parents, what they are feeling, and things that close friends share. Patrick has red hair, long legs and is slim. He plays the drums and is a good kisser. When Patrick found out that Alice wanted to meet other boys he got jealous. Patrick learned to get over his jealousy because he knew it was wrong to keep her away from other boys because of insecurity. Elizabeth has been best friends with Alice since sixth grade. Elizabeth, Liz for short, is a teenage girl who gets embarrassed easily and was petrified when she had to go to the doctor to get a pelvic exam. She never reads or says anything sexual, and is very protective of herself. She felt left out because other people were talking about other things like boyfriends. When Elizabeth got asked to the semi formal, then she felt like she had something to talk about. Liz learned to loosen up a little bit. What I learned from this book is not to tell lies because lies might hurt other people’s feelings. Deceit causes a loss of self respect, and self love. I was reminded that for every action there is a reaction. I also kept in mind that not every reaction is a positive one, but varies in what I do. EXAMPLE Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling Author J. K. Rowling has written five books in the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book. I found the book very fascinating because it shows how evil could take over people. However, Harry was protected from the evil and survived the curse of Lord Voldemort by the love of his parents and by him staying each year with his aunt. I enjoyed the book because it is so well written that you can actually picture yourself being there. You can learn about magic and how people can deal with their anger. I also learned that if you control your anger, and you are a good friend to other people, they will want to be around you more. The book is bold – it is filled with adventure, excitement, and magical characters. Harry Potter is the main character in the series. He is a skinny boy who has black hair and green eyes. He is famous and has a lot of friends. He goes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. When Harry is angry he holds his anger in until he finally can’t hold it in much longer. Then he yells at the person that angers him. Harry writes to his godfather Sirius asking for advice on how to control his anger. Two of Harry’s friends that attend school with him are Hermione and Ron. Harry and Ron saved Hermione from a mountain troll the first year they met. They are all best friends because of that. When her life was saved Hermione learned to be a better friend to everybody. Ron and Harry have been best friends since the first day of school. Ron is tall and skinny with red hair and long legs. Ron made the Quidditch team this year and was teammates with Harry. Luna Lovegood is a new character in this book. She is a daydreamer who is weird and reads the Quibbler upside down. Luna helps Harry when they thought his godfather was lost in the Ministry of Magic. Hermione and Ron both became Prefects, a title which is held for life. A Prefect is responsible for making sure nobody gets hurt and for keeping things straight. This was an honor given to them from Dumbledore, the principal of the school. Early in the book Harry discovers the Order of the Phoenix. The Order of the Phoenix is an organization that keeps track of Lord Voldemort, an evil sorcerer, and his followers. There is a struggle between good and evil. Harry gains knowledge of magic to defend himself. One way he defended himself was setting up a club called Dumbledore’s Army who helped protect him from Lord Voldemort. Harry learns to hide his feelings and thoughts from the Dark Lord Voldemort through Occlumency that is a magical defense of the mind against external forces. In the end Harry Potter had the knowledge of the prophecy, and that he was the only person who could kill Lord Voldemort and defeat the evil. Interesting reading from ABC News Does Deep Earth Host Untapped Fuel? Experiment With Diamonds Hints at Untapped Fuel in Deep Earth Jan. 18, 2005 - Thomas Gold was not your typical radical. Far from being a mad scientist, he was a brilliant professor of astronomy at Cornell University, but he succeeded in driving many others mad with theories that flew in the face of conventional wisdom. His most controversial idea was among his last, and geologists and petroleum experts around the world still rage against Gold for suggesting they were dead wrong in their understanding of how oil and gas are formed in the Earth's crust. Now, a couple of decades after Gold first suggested that hydrocarbons are formed deep underground by geological processes and not just below the surface by biological decay, there is increasing evidence that he may have been on to something. If he was wrong, he may have erred only in taking his idea too far. Gold argued that all hydrocarbons are formed in the intense pressure and high heat near the Earth's mantle, around 100 miles under the ground. If he was right, it means the finite limits of the resources that power our cities and our factories and our vehicles have been vastly overstated. The Heat and Squeeze Technique Oil and gas fields are continually replenished by hydrocarbons manufactured far below the Earth, he argued. So there is no fuel crisis. As long as the Earth grinds along on its orbit around the sun, hydrocarbons will continue to be produced, and we can all roll along with no fear of running out of gas. It should be said at this point that virtually no experts believe that to be the case. But several prestigious organizations have found evidence that methane, the main component of natural gas, can indeed be formed under conditions like those found deep in the Earth. Researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Harvard University, Argonne National Laboratory and Indiana University in South Bend have joined forces to see if they can replicate the geological processes that Gold claimed would produce hydrocarbons. And the evidence so far suggests that methane, at least, can be produced independent of biological materials. When such common materials as iron oxide, calcite and water are squeezed under pressures more than 100,000 times those found at sea level and heated up to 2700 degrees Fahrenheit, methane does form. That's very close to conditions found 100 miles under the ground. But it's not likely to convince many that Gold was right. "All we've done is show experimentally that at the pressure at the Earth's mantle and pretty high temperatures you can indeed make methane," says Henry Scott, a physics and geology professor at Indiana University and lead author of a report on the research in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scott is pretty sure of that because he's seen it with his own eyes, thanks to a magnificent machine. A diamond anvil, which squeezes material between two diamonds, was used to simulate the pressures found deep within the Earth. And since a microscope can see through the diamonds, the results could be witnessed in real time. And those results, Scott says, are quite compelling. "Gold said that when you squeeze things down at very high pressures, the basic chemistry can change," he says. "That's exactly what we are doing." Scott says he wasn't very optimistic when he first started working with the diamond anvil while at Carnegie. He says it was a slow day on a Friday afternoon when he decided to take some minerals and subject them to enormous pressures and high temperatures. "I expected nothing to happen," he says. "But sure enough, it formed methane. It was a bit of a shock." Uncertain Resource Lawrence Livermore picked up at that point and found that methane production was most productive at 900 degrees Fahrenheit and 70,000 atmospheres of pressure. That's still hot, and it's still deep, but it suggests that methane may be abundant throughout the planet. Like Gold, Livermore may have carried it a bit too far when it suggested in a news release that "These reserves could be a virtually inexhaustible source of energy for future generations." There's a problem here. No one is going to drill a well 100 miles into the Earth. Even five or six miles is a really deep well. "It's not even foreseeable that we would try to drill down to it," Scott says. But there is a possibility that some of those methane deposits, if they really do exist deep within the Earth, may find their own way to the surface, following weaknesses in the crust, for example. That's what Tommy Gold said would happen. A few years ago, Sweden bought into that, big time. Officials there began drilling a deep well in a formation that Gold said could contain hydrocarbons that would be clearly of a non-biological origin. That would prove him right. The newspaper I was working for in those days packed me off to Sweden to see what they were finding. Unfortunately, they weren't finding much. They never found Gold's postulated gusher. But maybe Scott has. Not deep within the Earth. In a diamond anvil, where methane was produced just the way Gold said it would be. Tommy Gold died last year. He would have loved this. Lee Dye's column appears weekly on ABCNEWS.com. A former science writer for the Los Angeles Times, he now lives in Juneau, Alaska |
| International Points are NOT academic points. They are awarded to students who participate in the community of the school. You can earn an IP when you are seen with a book, reading, when you are not expected to be reading (during lunch, for example). Only one IP can be earned in this way per day. The reading teacher often awards the class one IP for each student for positive behavior. Points are deducted for negative language. Here is a list of current IP points up to October 11 To learn about how IPs turn into prizes, see the "Quiz and Test" handout that was sent home. If you don't have a copy, see Mr. Mac. |
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