ScheduleMon 1/22: UPDATE: AoW10 due Wednesday. Text Structure Quiz via Google Classroom. Possibly Media Circulation.
Tues 1/23: Finish "Ribbons" by Laurence Yep and review for benchmark. HW: AoW10 due tomorrow Wed 1/24: End of Quarter. Warm-up: (will go into Table of Contents) read "Harlem" by Langston Hughes and answer the following question: What is the speaker's message? Support your answer with text evidence. In class, read "Mother to Son" and "The Courage That My Mother Had" and review for benchmark. Thurs 1/25: Language Arts Benchmark! Plan to come to makeups in CAT on Monday if absent (no CAT Friday due to PAWS Incentive). Fri 1/26: Clean out binders from Quarter 2 except those documents highlighted in the Table of Contents and store in classroom. Introduce new vocabulary routine beginning next week. Receive Vocabulary Choice Board which can be found in Yearlong LA Resources. Receive back Text Structure Quiz and go over answers.
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ScheduleMon 1/15: Happy MLK Day. No school.
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Wed 1/17: School closed Thurs 1/18: School closed Fri 1/19: School closed. UPDATES:
ScheduleWe will finish out the remainder of Unit 2 and this Quarter with texts that also fit our unit theme of "Life is not fair" and are related to the Essential Questions that we introduced at the beginning of the unit. We will start focusing on some skills we have not yet assessed or have shown through past assessment data to be a weak area for the whole team.
NEW: links for downloadable files will appear as green links in the description of the schedule of lessons below rather than separate link/buttons. Mon 1/8: School closed. Check back for updates. Tues 1/9: AoW refresher on vocabulary and context clues. Students will be required to work on the vocabulary option and practice with context clues, due Friday. Wed 1/10: Text structure presentation for notes. The notes handout where students should be writing was given at the beginning of the year and can be reprinted from the file linked under Language Arts > Yearlong LA Resources> Page 8: Text structure notes. HW: Make flash cards for text structure signal words. Review the practice from the notes to help you review. Quiz next week on Friday 1/19. Thurs 1/11: Text structure practice. Students will be given a topic and free write to make it fit certain text structures. Students will use signal words to help write these text structures. HW: AoW vocabulary option due tomorrow. Fri 1/12: AoW check. Finish text structure practice and compare with classmates. If time allows, take notes on character motivation, internal conflict, external conflict, and direct and indirect characterization. HW: Study for text structure quiz Friday 1/19. No school on Monday for holiday! |
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