Thought Transitions

To be used between thoughts, sentences, and paragraphs. A skilled writer will utilized these contents many times. When you are stuck for a word pharse--look over the list and choose an appropriate transition.

1. To show a time or sequence
• Continuosly
• Presently
• Following
• Ultimately
• Previously
• Recently
• Eventually
• Sequentially

2. To Compare (same)
• In comparison
• Equally
• This resembles
• Coincidentally
• Akin to
• In unison
• Similarly

3. To Contrast or to concede a point or A coutering Point
• In opposition
• Unlike
• Nonetheless
• In my view, however
• In Negation
• To counteract
• At odds with

4. To show Cause and Effect.
• As a result
• Because of
• Subsequently
• Due to
• In all likelihood
• This entails
• For this reason

5. To Emphasize Point
• Indeed
• It's vital
• Suprisingly
• Indubitably
• Certainly
• In reality

6. To Simplify
• In other words
• Hence
• In a nutshell
• To be concise
• In belief
• To sum up

7. Use Feelings and Emotions
• Tragically
• Regrettably
• Angirly
• With disgust
• Omniously
• Unsuccessfully
• Cruelly

8. Ending statements
• Finally
• In conclusion
• To sum up
• Sooner or later
• Eventually
• In the long run
• The results is

Choose Your Own Adverture Story

Title: Alea and The Seance
Main Character: Alea Jackmen
Idea: Alea is a psychic that holds seances for families to connected with their deceased loved ones.
Alea holds a seance one day that gets control.

Beginning of Story: One day around midnight, Alea Jackmen, one of the popular psychics in Brooklyn, was having a seance in the dark dining room of the Thompson family's house. They were there to connect with their mother who that died a year ago. As she lit the candles, a mysterious wind blew them out. Alea knew that the spirit did not want to connect with the family, but she tried again anyway. Once she was able to light all of the candles, she turned the lights off and they sat down around the table. As she spoke the ritual, the house began to shake and a spirit possessed Alea's body. Surprisingly, the spirit of the Thompson's mother began to speak. She said she was happy to see them, but she couldn't stay for long.


A half hour passed, but the spirit did not leave. As a result, others spirit began to get furious and the candle lights started to flicker and the house shook cruelly. The Thompson's and Alea looked up and saw plaster coming from the ceiling. Alea and the Thompson family knew that the ceiling was going to fall. In a panic, they jumped up and ran for the door, but it was to late. The ceiling had already fell. That night was a beginning of an ending.


The next morning.......

Choice A: Alea woke up in her bed knowing what happened, but not knowing how she got there.
Choice B: Alea woke up in the hospital with a major headache.

Alisha's Story:

Pt 1 Choice A: She got out of the bed and went into the bathroom. Alea looked in the mirror and noticed that her skin was slightly paler then usual. She didn't pay it to much attention because she always looks like that in the morning. After she took a shower and got dress,she saw a book on the night stand. She had never seen it before, she opened it and started reading, it was a book about rules and how to live with the unmoral. As she walked out the house she noticed that the mailman that usually says "Hello Ms.Jackmen!" didn't even notice her. "Maybe he's in a bad mood,"she said and kept walking. On her way going to the store,there was a house that looked familiar.It almost looked like the Thompson's Family home. She thought about then....

Choice A: It hit her, "The Seance"
Choice B: still didn't know

Pt2 Choice A: Since it was getting late, she started on her way back home. When she got there, she went up the stairs to the backroom, where her office is. As she logged on to the computer, she tried to put all the clues together. The mail man, waking up in her bed and not knowing how she got there. "The only conclusion i have is that I'm..." Boom! A loud noise comes from downstairs. Alea goes downstairs to what it is,but it wasn't from downstairs.It was from the basement. Alea goes down to the basement and as she looks for the noise she saw a bright white light. Because she was curious,she walked toward the light. All of a sudden she ends up in a room with people staring at her. One resembled the mail man, and the others were kind of blurry. "I most be dreaming" Alea said. "Who are you?, and why am I here?" "Aren't you Alea Jackmen?" said Tina. Tina was the psychic that the mail man hired. "Who wants to know?," said Alea.  "The people who you were close to," said the psychic "Were?,"Alea said curiously.  "Yes,were." the psychic responded. "OK. You're saying it like I'm dead." Alea said laughing. The psychic had a serious look on her face. She looked at the mail man, then at Alea and said,"You are dead."

Pt 2 Choice B: Alea continued on down the street. She saw Mrs. Applebom, A older lady who has been kind to Alea, watering her garden. Alea walked over to greet her. " Hello Ms. Applebom, how are you today?" There was no response from the elder. Alea thought she must have done something to the people that were ignoring her. Alea was very confused in what was happening. When Alea arrived to the city, she noticed that it was crowded. She was trying to push past all the people when something strange happened. A little girl had walked right through her. Alea turned around in disbelief. Then a man walked right through her. Alea was getting scared. "This is a dream!," Alea yelped. More and more people continued walked through like she was invisible. Alea ran home shivering from her experience. Alea cried herself to sleep. Then, there was a tunnel of light coming from Alea's bathroom. Alea woke up to hear people talking. She noticed the light from the bathroom and walk into it. Alea then approahed a white room with an overcast of people sitting at a table. " What's going on?," Alea questioned. A lady responded, "Hello Alea, I am Tina the psychic and I am here with your family. They were trying to connect with you since your death three days ago." " I'm dead?," Alea shrieked. " Yes you are," Tina responded "and your family wants to talk to you." 

Brea's story:

Pt 1 Choice B: Alea woke up in the hospital with a major headache not knowing what happened the day before. She called the nurse for some Aspirin but didn't get a answer. She yelled louder but still no answer. So Alea got out of bed and walked into the hallway to see where all the nurses were. To her surprise all the nurses and doctors were all gone. " Somethings strange," Alea said to her self. She walked back to her room to get her stuff together and left. When Alea walked outside she saw that everything was normal. What Alea didn't notice was that she still had her hospital gown on. She tried talking to people she talked to before but it almost seemed like they were ignoring her. That's when Alea got a strange feeling. As Alea walked down the street she saw a newspaper stand with an article on the front entitled " The Thompson Tragedy." Alea wondered what the article was talking about. She continued on down the street, hearing people talk about how the Thompson family had died from a house collapsing. Alea then realized that she was with the Thompson family on the same night having a seance.

All of a sudden.......

Choice A: She ran back to the newspaper stand.
Choice B: She ran to the Thompson house.

Pt 2 Choice A: She ran back to the newspaper stand to get the article. She quickly ran home and read the article,as she read it she started to wonder how she got out of that incident alive. She starts to have a flashback of what happened that night. They were sitting in a dark room,she said the ritual,the spirit came but couldn't stay long. Ring! Ring! Her thought was interrupted by a ring the phone. Alea let it go to the answering machine. "Hello, hello its me Clark!" Clark was Alea's co-worker. "I was calling because you didn't come in to work today,and I was wondering if you were OK." Alea called him back because she thought if she was dead, no one would be able to hear her. "Hello",said Clark. "Hey Clark it's Alea." "Oh hey",Clark replied. "Sorry I didn't come to work,I was feeling under the weather," Alea said. "It's OK! hey!,at least you didn't die like that family on the news." "Yea well it felt like it!"

Pt 2 Choice B: She ran back to the Thompson house to see if all that she heard was true. When she arrived she couldn't believe her eyes, the Thompson house was no more. All Alea saw was debris from the house all over. That's when Alea started thinking if she was in the hospital with no nurses, the people she usually talk to were ignoring her and she was with the Thompson family the night they died she must have been dead too. She didn't want to believe that she was dead but that seemed to be the only reason why things were going the way they were. Alea ran home home and turned on the T.V. to see if the news was still talking about the story-- it was. Alea listened as the newscaster reported, " Today is a sad day as the town mourns over the death of the Thompson family. It was just last night when the roof of their house unexpectedly fell down. Witnesses say there was another person in the house, but when police showed up it was only the family." Alea thought," I'm dead and no one knows!" Out of anger, Alea starts to cry. She couldn't believe that she was not being noticed for her death either. Then, the phone rings, Alea picks up and says "hello", " Hi Alea, its me Tracy. I'm calling to see if you are alright." Tracy was Alea's sister. She said she heard about the Family's death and remembered that Alea told her about the seance they had that night. " I have been trying to reach you all day but you never picked up," Tracy said. Alea stopped crying and said curiously," You can hear me?" Tracy replied, " ...of course I can hear you, Why wouldn't I hear you?" " A lot of things happened today and I thought I was dead like the Thompson's," Alea exclaimed. Alea was so happy she wasn't dead. She changed her clothes and ran outside. Everyone she saw, she said hi to. That day was the best day of Alea's life. 

Homework: Google Search Questions

Create one question for each Quick Find.

1. Weather: What is the humidity in Barcelona? 53%
2. Time: What time is it in Nigeria? 3:51 P.M.
3. Earthquake: When was Seattle, Wahington's last earthquake? 17 hours ago
4. Spellcheck: What is the correct spelling of Parylitic? Paralytic
5. Local Informaiton: What is the website of a hotel starting with "W" in 30301? Wyndham Garden Hotel - www.wyndham.com
6. Patent: What product's patent number is 6756067? Thick Maple Syrup
7. Area Code: What country does the area code 246 belong to? Barbados

Quick Finds

Essential Question: How can I improve my search experience by locating information more efficiently?


Student will be able to use search features and operators to locate information in the following categories:
• Data
• Reference Information
• Keywords
• Essential Information
• Local Information
• Trip Planning
• Search for Numbers
• Web search Results
• Define Web Terms
• Identify Search Engine Parts

Weather:
What it does: Gives you the weather of the area your looking for.
What to type: Weather 11233
What you'll get: The current weather in fahreinheit, the humidity, the wind and the weather for the next four days.

Time:
What it does: It gives you the time and the day of the week.
What to type: Time; Place;
What you'll get: It gives you the current time and the day of the week

Earthquakes:
What it does: it gives you the most recent information about earthquakes in the location that you chose.
What to type: Earthquake; Place;
What you'll get: The magnitude, the location, and the time it happened

Spellcheck:
What it does: It tells you when you spell sonething wrong
What to type: THE WORD
What you'll get: The correct spelling.

Local Information:
What it does: It gives you local information.
What to type: Place; Zip code;
What you'll get: The name of place, Website and Phone number

Patent:
What it does: It gives you the product for that patent
What to type: Patent; Patent number;
What you'll get: The name of the product, and the person that invente the product.

Area Code
What it does: It searches for the city an state of the area code you put in.
What to type: The area code.

Lesson Reflection: Google Search

• How will you use the tools you've learned about Google Search for your other classes?
• Which tool (Similar words, Number Ranges, Conversions etc.) do you believe you will use the most? Why?
• Which tool do you think you will use the least? Why?

I will use the tools I've learned about Google Search for my other classes by using the Conversions and Math. I will also used them when I am doing an essay. I think these tools can be helpful because then can get exactly what I am looking for. The tools that i might use the most is either the Math Answers, the Conversions, Find Meanings and Site Specific. I might use these tools the most because, when I am doing math or converting one thing from another, I can just use the Math Answer tool or Conversions tool to get my answer. I might use the Find Meanings when i need to look up a word or when i don't feel like looking in a dictionary. The tool that i might use the least is the linked pages because it doesn't seem like it would help me the most. I will try out the LInk tool just in case.

Google Search

Better Searches. Better results:

Here are some mifty modifiers to type in your Google search box to refine your searches and get the best results.


Exact Pharse: " "

What it does : searches for an exact phrase.
What to type : "one small step for man."
What you'll get: results that include the exact phrase "one small step for man."

Excluded Words: -

What it does: excludes search results with a particular word or pharse.
What to type: bass -fishing
What you'll get: results about bass that are not related to fish.

Similar Words: ~

What it does: seaches for a word and all its synonyms.
What to type: ~mobile phone
What you'll get: results with the word "phone", as well as "cell","wireless",etc.

Multiple Words: OR

What it does: searches for web pages that include either word.
What to type: vacation Florida or Georgia.
What you'll get: results with the word "vacation" and either "Florida" or "Georgia."

Numerical Ranges: ...

What it does: searches for a range of numbers
What to type: fashion design 1920...1935
What you'll get: results about fashion design during the time period.

Find Meanings: define:

What it does: defines a word or pharse.
What to type: define:table
What you'll get: linlks to defintion of the words "table"

Site Specific: site

What it does: searches only particular websites.
What to type: global warming site:edu
What you'll get: references to global warming found on .edu websites

Math Answers: 1+1

What it does: basic calculator functions.
What to type: 4+7, 30% of 55, sqrt(4),20^2, etc.
What you'll get: the answers

Conversions: cm in foot

What it does: converts units of measures
What to type: 28C in F, $ in pounds, mph in speed of light.
What you'll get: the converted answer.

LInked Pages: link:

What it does: searches for web pages that link to a particular website.
What to type: link:www.nick.com
What you'll get: websites that link to nickelodeon's website.