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This week students will write a short biography about a person of their choice. We will kick off the week with a lesson over plagiarism and credible sources in the learning commons with Ms. Travis. The rest of the week we will spend in the computer lab, researching and writing biographies.
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Students completed the MAP practice test today. It has been a long two days but we survived. We did some warm-up dancing before we started this morning to help get our blood flowing and our brains working! Luckily, at least to my knowledge, no one has a picture of me dancing. Hahaha
Monday and Tuesday students will be taking a practice MAP test. Please make sure your student comes to school and is well rested, having eaten a healthy breakfast. This is meant to help us make sure we have all the kinks out of the testing process, let the students familiarize themselves with the online test, and let us know if there are any changes we need to make before taking the actual test in May.
This week in ELA we will wrap up our unit on biographies, autobiographies, and summarizing. We will review early this week and plan on taking the unit test toward the end of the week. Review notes are available through Nearpod and linked in our Google Classroom - please make sure to study! The past few weeks we have been working on summarizing, which happens to be our MAP word this week! We read "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe and worked on writing summaries that include all of the important details but none of the unnecessary information - some of us had to really work to figure out which details weren't important to the overall story. After writing a summary, students created their own "black cat" to display with their summaries.
This week students will continue working on their summarizing skills as they summarize "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe. They will also be reading the historical drama, "Lucy Stone: Champion of Women's Rights." Through this drama, students will explore the key idea of change.
Key Question: How can we change what's wrong? * It's not easy to change what is wrong or unfair. Those people who fought to end slavery, those who helped women get the right to vote, and those who protected children from harmful working conditions were considered troublemakers by many in their day. Yet their victories made the world a better place. In this play, students will learn about one such person. Objectives: * Identify form and characteristics of a historical drama * Understand stage directions * Visualize * Build vocabulary for reading and writing * Punctuate titles correctly * Use writing to analyze literature This week students will compare and contrast Jackie Robinson's autobiography to the documentary "My Story". They will be looking for things they learned about Jackie in the documentary that were not included in his autobiography, things that were included in both, and come up with questions they still have that were not answered in either source.
Wednesday students will take the test over Jackie Robinson's autobiography and summarizing. Thursday is a half day with parent-teacher conferences after school. No school Friday or Monday! Have a great weekend! |
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