2nd Reading and Writing Planning
Oct. 15 and Oct. 22, 2018
Reading
10/15 and 10/22 Drama 2.8 Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of drama and provide evidence from text to support understanding
2.8 A identify the elements of dialogue and use them in informal plays.
Looking Ahead:
10/29 and 11/5 Poetry
11/12 and 11/26 Literary Nonfiction and review for DCA
12/3 Review and DCA (math Tuesday, Reading Wednesday)
12/10 and 12/17 ????
Writing
Continue with personal narrative-(1st 4 weeks of new grading period)
Process-2.17 A, B plan and develop draft (Spanish same)
Genre-2.18 A Write brief stories that include a beginning, middle, end (Spanish and English same) Using mentor texts for ideas.
- Conventions: 2.21 (A) (v) prepositions and prepositional phrases
- (vi) pronouns (he, him...)
- Process-2.17 A, B plan and develop draft (Spanish same)
**Make sure that your mentor sentences are coming from books you are reading in class and that the title is posted in your lesson plans.
Social Studies
**There are several videos for this unit in Schoology. Some of them are kind of long but they are good.
Pearson link (T ID#) user name and password
Unit 2 (7 weeks) Oct. 15-Dec. 7 Chapter 2 Lessons 1-6
(7) Geography. The student understands how physical characteristics of places and regions affect people's activities and settlement patterns.
The student is expected to: 7(B) describe how natural resources and natural hazards affect activities and settlement patterns.
(9) Economics. The student understands the value of work. The student is expected to:
9(A) explain how work provides income to purchase goods and services.
9(B) explain the choices people in the U.S. free enterprise system can make about earning, spending, and saving money and where to live and work.
(10) Economics. The student understands the roles of producers and consumers in the production of goods and services.
The student is expected to:
10(A) distinguish between producing and consuming.
10(B) identify ways in which people are both producers and consumers.
10(C) examine the development of a product from a natural resource to a finished product. (11) Government. The student understands the purpose of governments. The student is expected to:
11(B) identify governmental services in the community such as police and fire protection, libraries, schools, and parks and explain their value to the community.
11(C) describe how governments tax citizens to pay for services. 1
Essential Questions
1. How do people get what they need?
2. What is the difference between a need and a want?
3. How do people make choices about spending?
4. How are people both producers and consumers?
5. How do service jobs help others?
6. How does trade help us get the things we need?
7. Why do people save money?