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What 'doo' people value?

Entrepreneurs keep our world turning to provide innovation and creativity.  Many people make a living this way, and without some of their inventions, we would not have a lot of things we are used to. You probably don't like or want manure--even specially-composted manure like "Dairy Doo."  Brad Morgan probably doesn't like the same music as you do.   What does this say about the things people value?  How does what people value impact what is bought and sold? **Write an interesting 8th-grade quality response.**

Avoiding Plagiarism by PARAPHRASING

1)  List as many tips for paraphrasing as you can remember. 2)  Paraphrase the following paragraph.  The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France.  It was designed by sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.  It traveled to the United States in 214 packing cases and had to be put together.  When the statue was completed, it was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886. --Excerpt from "Encyclopedia Britannica" 3)  Use this  paraphrasing tool  to check you haven't plagiarized.  

Avoiding Plagiarism by using DIRECT QUOTES

1)  What are 4 sentence starters to give credit to an author? 2)  Summarize the article in 2-5 sentences and include a direct quote to give an example of a negative effect of the government shutdown on national parks: Under shutdown, "closed" national parks are basically wide open By  Washington Post, adapted by Newsela staff Text Level  8 01/03/2019 Word Count  919 Large groups continued to pour into Joshua Tree National Park in California on December 30, 2018, despite the federal government's partial shutdown. Park officials kept the gates to the park open over the holiday weekend, allowing visitors to enter without paying the $30-per-vehicle entrance fee. Photo by: Washington Post photo/Nick Kirkpatrick The U.S. government entered a partial shutdown on December 22. The shutdown began because of a dispute about whether Congress should provide money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Now 800,000 government workers either can't work or c

Avoiding Plagiarism by PARAPHRASING

1)  List as many tips for paraphrasing as you can remember. 2)  Paraphrase the following paragraph.  There are about 4,000 different species of frogs.  Frogs have adapted to live in many different climates.  They can live in the cool mountains, in the dry desert, or in tropical rainforests.  Most frogs are harmless, but the poison dart frog of South America is one of the most toxic animals on the planet! By Freddy Froglover; "Frog Life" 3)  Use this paraphrasing tool to check you haven't plagiarized.    

Avoiding Plagiarism by SUMMARIZING

1)  List as many steps to avoid plagiarism by summarizing as you can remember. 2)  Summarize the following paragraph: Your heart is about the size of your fist. It beats about 80 times a minute. Your heart pumps blood to your lungs to get oxygen, then it pumps the oxygen-rich blood to all the other parts of your body through tubes called arteries. Blood returns to the heart through tubes called veins.   by Harry Hartmoore; National Heart Association

Avoiding Plagiarism by SUMMARIZING

1)  List as many steps to avoid plagiarism by summarizing as you can remember. 2)  Summarize the following paragraph: I n the movies, quicksand looks pretty scary, but in real-life it is rarely more than a few feet deep.  If you are ever caught in a pool of quicksand, don’t panic and kick around.  The best thing you can do is to lay back with your arms spread.  Then you will float on top of the sand instead of being sucked down. by Sandy Sanderson; New York Times

Christmas Vacation

Write about something you did over Christmas break.  Make your writing more interesting by creating imagery with descriptive language:  include at least 2 similes , metaphors , OR other figurative language , 2 onomatopoeias , 2 adjectives , 2 adverbs , and sensory details ( 3 of the 5 senses)  Remember :   Sensory Details = DESCRIBE what the senses are experiencing!