3rd Reading and Writing Planning
Oct. 1-5 and Oct. 8-12, 2018
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Reading
** Choose Achieve articles. (suggestions)
- Hawaii Gifts
- A Plan to Save A Sea
- Books on Wheels
Oct. 1 - Theme and Genre
LITERARY TEXT: Theme and Genre 3.5 Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
3.5 (A) paraphrase the themes and supporting details of □ fables □ legends □ myths □ stories
3.10 (A) identify language that creates a graphic visual experience and appeals to the senses.
Quality Questions:
- What is this fable mostly about?
- The theme of this story is ___?
- What is the overall theme of this legend?
- Which of the following is the best theme of this myth?
Oct. 8 and Oct. 15-Expository
INFORMATIONAL TEXT: Expository 3.13 Students analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.
3.13 (A) identify the details or facts that support the main idea
3.13 (B) draw conclusions from the facts presented in text and support those assertions with textual evidence
3.13 (C ) identify explicit cause and effect relationships among ideas in text
3.13 (D) use the text features (title, table of contents, illustrations, bold print, captions, key words, italics) to locate information and make and verify predictions about the text.
3.12 (A) identify the topic and explain the author’s purpose in writing about the text.
Coming Soon:
10/22 and 10/29 Literary Nonfiction
11/5 and 11/12 Drama
11/26 and 12/3 DCA Review and DCA Dec. 5
12/10 and 12/17 Fiction
Writing 10/1 and 10/8
10/1 and 10/8 Continue Personal Narrative
3.19 A Write about important personal experiences.
Process-3.17 A, B Planning and drafting (Spanish and English same)
Grammar-
- 3.22 (A) use and understand the follow parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking: (iii) adjectives – (descriptive; limiting [this, that] articles [a, an, the]) (ii) adverbs (time [before, next], manner [carefully, beautifully])
- 3.22 (B) use the complete subject and the complete predicate in a sentence
- 3.22 (C) use complete simple and compound sentences with correct subject-verb agreement
Social Studies
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Unit 2-Our Environment: 10/1 and 10/8 (end of grading period)
(2) History. The student understands common characteristics of communities, past and present.
The student is expected to: 2(C) compare ways in which various other communities meet their needs.
(4) Geography. The student understands how humans adapt to variations in the physical environment.
The student is expected to:4(A) describe and explain variations in the physical environment, including climate, landforms, natural resources, and natural hazards.
4(B) identify and compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment in which they live such as deserts, mountains, wetlands, and plains.
4(C) describe the effects of physical processes such as volcanoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes in shaping the landscape.
4(D) describe the effects of human processes, such as building new homes, conservation, and pollution in shaping the landscape.
4(E) identify and compare the human characteristics of various regions.
(5) Geography. The student understands the concepts of location, distance, and direction on maps and globes. The student is expected to:
5(C) identify and use the compass rose, grid system, and symbols to locate places on maps and globes.
5(D) create and interpret maps of places and regions that contain map elements, including a title, compass rose, legend, scale, and grid system.
(12) Citizenship. The student understands the impact of individual and group decisions on communities in a constitutional republic.
The student is expected to: 12(B) identify examples of actions individuals and groups can take to improve the community.
Coming Soon:
Unit 3 10/15-end of grading period