Sunday, January 29, 2017

Monday/Tuesday, January 30/31, 2017


Announcements and Reminders:
                         
↠ Study your sentence diagramming guide if you haven't yet mastered the sentences on the quizzes we have been taking.        

↠ Use your magical study guide to help you learn the word parts you will be tested on.
↠If you have not finished your magical study guide or had it checked off,  quietly complete the assignment during reading time. 
↠If you haven't finished your preposition manipulative, quietly finish it during individual reading time. 

↠Book of the Month:  Historical Fiction  Multicultural Fiction  (Make sure your book is NOT on the DO NOT Read List.
    Sign-Ups were due January 26/27
        ↠ Your assessment is due by February 9/10.  If you did not receive the handout, pick up one right away.


The last day to hand in late work, revised work, or extra credit   
for Term 3 will be March 10.   

 Watch for a word part challenge on the "spelling" bulletin board.    


For the Health and Safety 
of Everyone Here, 
This Classroom is now a   

Targets for Today:

Students will compare an historical fiction account with a nonfiction account of the same event or period of time.

Students will better understand how sentences work,  so they can better comprehend what they read and more effectively communicate in writing.

Students will learn Greek and Latin word parts commonly used in English, so they can unlock more unknown words and better understand words that may already be familiar.   

Today’s  Agenda:

1.  Respond to a Scenario:  Write your response in your composition book under "Writing Prompts."  Write a complete paragraph with a topic sentence, supported by at least four more sentences.  
Label it with today's date and "Walking for Water." 
You are 11 years old. You live with your family in an area far from towns or cities. Your family does not have any running water or electricity. You are responsible for getting water for your family to drink. To do this, you must walk eight hours every day to a pond and back. You will have to do this every day for years and years.

If this was an experience you had to live through, how do you think
it would affect the person you grew up to be?


2.a.  First Priority:  If needed, finish your preposition manipulative and/or magical study guide.

2.b. Second Priority: Individual Reading:  Read and record the questions you have about actual fact.  If it would help you, or if you would like to work on research in class, start recording some of them on an organizer.

If you have some questions/facts to check, and you have finished your manipulatives, you may show your questions to Ms. Dorsey, then use the Chromebook that corresponds to your folder/composition book number to find a reliable source to verify whether or not they are factual.

3. Begin A Long Walk to Water.
  • Read the Map near the front of the book.   As a table group, make a list of everything you notice and learn from the map. 
    • When?  Where?  What is the land like?  What else?  
Map of Sudan, 1985

  •  Begin Reading A Long Walk to Water.
      •         Use a graphic organizer for repeated readings.  

If You Were Absent:
See above.

  • Finish your preposition manipulative and/or magical study guide, if you haven't. 
  • Work on your book assessment.  See due dates in the reminders box.  
  • Study the map and list everything you notice and learn from the map.  
    • When? Where? What is the land like?
    • What else is there?
  • You can read part of Chapter One of A Long Walk to Water at this Link.  
    •         Use the "Look Inside This Book" feature to read the first few pages. 

Vocabulary:




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