Sidekick

Sidekick

Creature of 9

Officer Greenday

Materials:

Light Bulb

Branches

Clock

Cd's

Umbrella

Street Light

Green Bag

Recycling Bin

Baton

Vine

Flower

Locker

Wheels

Badge

Button

Study Guides and Strategies

Set up a time schedule to answer each question and to review/edit all questions

• If 6 questions are to be answered in 60 minutes,allow yourself only 7 minutes for each.

• If questions are "weighed", prioritize that into your time allocation for each questions.

• When the time is up for one questions, stop writing, leave space, and begin the next question. The incomplete answers can be answered during review time.

• 6 incomplete answers will usually receive more credit than 3 complete ones.

Read through the questions once and note if you have any choice in answering questions.

• Pay attention to how the question is phrased, or to the "directives", or words such as "compare", "contrast", "criticize", etc.

• Answers will come to mind immediately for some questions.

Before attempting to answer a question, put it in your own words.

• Now compare your version with the original. Do they mean the same? If they don't, you've misread the question. You'll be surprised how often they don't agree.

Think before you write:

-Make a brief outline for each question.

-Number the items in the order you will discuss them.

• Get right to the point. State your main point in the first sentence. Use your first paragraph to provide an overview of your essay. Use the rest of your essay to discuss these points in more detail. Back up your points with specific information, examples, or quotations from your reading and notes.

• Teachers are influenced by completeness and clarity of an organized answer.

• Writing in the hope that the right answer will somehow turn up is time-consuming.

• To know a little and to present the little well is superior to knowing much and presenting it poorly--when judged by the grade received.

Writing and Answering:

-Begin with a strong first sentence that states the main idea of your essay. Continue this first paragraph by presenting key points.

• Develop your argument.

• Begin each paragraph with a key point from the introduction.

• Develop each point in a complete paragraph.

• Use transitions to connect your points.

• Hold to your time allocation and organization.

• Qualify answers when in doubt. It better to say "towards the end of the 19th century" than to say "in 1894" when you can't remember, whether it's 1884 or 1894. In many cases, the approximate, may be incorrect, and will marked accordingly.

Summarize in your last paragraph

• Restate your central idea and indicate why it is important.

Review:

-Complete questions left incomplete.

• Remember to allow time to review All questions.

Review, Edit, Correct...

• Misspellings, Incomplete words and sentences, Miswritten dates and numbers.

Performance Rubric

Use of Language: Grammar, Word Choice, Voice -

• Distinguished 100%-94%

Poised, clear articulation; Proper volume; Steady rate; Enthusiasm; Confidence; speaker is comfortable in front of group.

• Proficient 93%-85%

Clear articulation but not as poised; Slightly uncomfortable; Student pronounces most words correctly.

• Basic 84%-75%

Audience occasionally has trouble hearing presentation; Seems uncomfortable; Student incorrectly pronounces terms.

• Unacceptable 74% and below

Presenter is obviously anxious and cannot be heard or monotone with little or no expression; Students mumbles, incorrectly pronounce terms.

Eye Contact -

• Distinguished 100%-94% 

Maintains eye contact with audience throughout the entire presentation. Presentation is like a planned conversation.

• Proficient 93%-85%

Students maintain eye contact most of the time.

• Basic 84%-75%

Some eye contact, but not maintained at least half the time.

• Unacceptable 74% and below

No eye contact.

Personal Appearance -

• Distinguished 100%-94%

Full uniform; Personal appearance is completely appropriate for the occasion and audience.

• Proficient 93%-85%

For the most part, personal appearance is appropriate for the occasion and the audience.

• Basic 84%-75%

Personal appearance is somewhat inappropriate for the occasion sand audience.

• Unacceptable 74% and below

Personal appearance is inappropriate for the occasion and audience.

Audience Response -

• Distinguished 100%-94%

Involved the audience in the presentation; Held the audience's attention throughout.

• Proficient 94%-85%

Presented facts t=with some interesting "twists"; Held the audience's attention most of the time.

•  Basic 84%-75%

Some related facts but went off topic and lost the audience.

• Unacceptable 74% and below

Incoherent; audience lost interest.

Length of Presentation

• Distinguished 100%-75%

Within  minutes of allotted time.

• Unacceptable 74% or below

Too long or too short or more minutes above or below the allotted time

Gold Chrome Tutorial

Step 1: Type your text. Put a Selection around your text by holding the Apple key and click once on your type layer.

Step 2: Go under the select menu and choose save selection. Click OK.

Step 3: Deselect. Delete your type layer.

Step 4: Go under the channel palette (Window--Channels) and click on Alpha 1. Go under the Filter menu, under Blur, and choose Gaussian Blur. Enter 1 px. Click OK.

Step 5: Return to the layers palette and click once on the background layer. Go under Filter menu, under the Render, and choose lighting effects. When the dialog box appears, change Texture channel to Alpha 1. Then click OK.

Step 6: Go under the image menu, under Adjustments and choose Curves. Change the input to 186 and the output to 64. Click OK.

Step 7: Go under the select menu and choose Load selection. Choose Alpha 1 from the pop up menu. Click OK.

Step 8: Go under the select menu, under Modify and choose expand. Enter 3 Pixels. Click OK.

Step 9: Press Shift+Apple+J.

Step 10: In the layer palette, click once on the background layer. Press Apple+A. Press Delete.

Step 11: Deselect. Click on the text layer in the layers palette. Add a Drop shadow. Click OK.

Step 12:  Add A color overlay. Change the blending mode to overlay. Click the color swatch. R=208, G=165, B=16. Click OK.

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