4th Grade Reading/Writing Planning
Jan. 28, 2020 - Plan for 2/3-7, 2020 and 2/10-14, 2020
Writing DCA Schedule
Testing 8:30-12:30
Lunch- 12:30-1:00 Carbajal/Scott/Hajek
12:35-1:05 Sutar/ Bouchelkia/ Stevens
Block: 1:10-1:55
1st/2nd CPC 2:00-3:40
Reading Planning
Feb. 3-7
Module 7 Week 1 Lessons 1-5,
Theme: Tricksters and Tall Tales
Essential Question: What lessons can you learn from characters in trickster tales?
Essential Skills:
- Central Idea
- Retell
- Figurative Language
- Characters
- Adages and Proverbs
Decoding: -full, -less, -ness, -ment
Spelling: -full, -less, -ness, -ment
Week 7 (2/10-14) Lessons 6-10
Theme: Tricksters and Tall Tales
Essential Question: What lessons can you learn from characters in trickster tales?
Essential Skills:
- Make and Confirm Predictions
- Theme
- Figurative Language
- Characters
- Decoding:VCCV syllable division patterns
- Spelling:VCCV pattern and closed syllable
Writing Planning - Module 7 Weeks 1-2
2/3-7
- Writing Workshop-Text- The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster
- Genre: Imaginative story
- Focal statement: Imaginative stories can make us laugh and teach us a lesson.
- Writing TEKS:
- 1. Intro the focal text
- 2. Vocabulary
- 3. Prepare to write / Types of imaginative literature
- 4. Plotting events
- 5. Begin the draft
2/10-14
- Writing Workshop-Text- The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster
- Genre: Imaginative story
- Focal statement: Imaginative stories can make us laugh and teach us a lesson.
- Writing TEKS:
- 1. Integrate narrative elements
- 2. Complete the draft
- 3. Complete the draft
- 4. Organize the events
- 5. Revise: Conferencing
Writing
Prewrite-
- Brainstorm with circle map
- Bubble map for describing, using vivid language, characteristics, qualities
- Tree map if they need to sort, categorize, give details
- Flow map-sequence ideas and add details for each paragraph (BME)
- Add introduction and conclusion to flow map.
- Take information from the tree or flow to create paragraphs for the story.
Revise and Edit according to the textbook
Circle map-Brainstorm/Plan
Flow map-Sequence/organize/add details
Tree-organize/add details
Social Studies
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Unit 4: (6 weeks)
Concepts/Main Idea*
Several events led to the annexation of Texas to the United States.
The Constitution of 1845 established new laws and rules for the
state of Texas.
Immigrants came to Texas during the 1800s from many different
countries.
Disagreements between the United States and Mexico led to war in
the mid‐1800s.
Political and economic differences can lead to conflict.
When people feel forced to change, making changes becomes more
difficult.
People will fight to protect their beliefs and way of life.
Winning a war may not resolve a conflict once and for all.
Essential Questions
1.Which events led to the annexation of Texas to the United States?
2. What is the importance of the Texas Constitution?
3. What were the effects of immigration on the growth of Texas?
4. What were the causes of the What were the causes of the war between Mexico and the United States?
5. What were the effects of the Mexican War on Texas and the U.S.?
6. Why did Texas secede from the Union?
7. What impact did Reconstruction have on Texas?
8. Why did Texans and American Indians fight?
TEKS for Unit 4:
1(C) Describe the regions in which American Indians lived and identify American Indian groups remaining in Texas such as the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, Alabama-Coushatta, and Kickapoo.
3(C) Identify leaders important to the founding of Texas, as a republic and state, including José Antonio Navarro, Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Anson Jones
3(D) Describe the successes, problems and organizations of the Republic of Texas such as the establishment of a constitution, economic struggles, relations with American Indians, and the Texas Rangers.
3(E) Explain the events that led to the annexation of Texas to the United States, including the impact of the U.S.-Mexican War.
4(A) Describe the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Texas.
4(D) Examine the effects upon American Indian life resulting from changes in Texas, including the Red River War, building of U.S. forts and railroads, and loss of buffalo.
6(B) Translate geographic data, population distribution, and natural resources into a variety of formats.
7(A) Describe a variety of regions in Texas and the United States such as political, population, and economic regions that result from patterns of human activity.
8(A) Identify and explain clusters and patterns of settlement in Texas of different time periods such as prior to the Texas Revolution, after the building of the railroads, and following World War II.
8(B) Describe and explain the location and distribution of various towns and cities in Texas, past and present.
8(C) Explain the geographic factors such as landforms and climate that influence patterns of settlement and the distribution of population in Texas, past and present.
10(A) Explain the economic activities various early American Indian groups in Texas and North American used to meet their needs and wants such as farming, trading, and hunting. 10(B) Explain the economic activities early immigrants to Texas used to meet their needs and wants.
12(A) Explain how people in different regions of Texas earn their living, past and present, through a subsistence economy and providing goods and services.
12(B) Explain how geographic factors such as climate, transportation, and natural resources have influenced the location of economic activities in Texas.
12(C) Analyze the effects of exploration, immigration, migration, and limited resources on the economic development and growth of Texas.
15(A) Identify the purposes and explain the importance of the Texas Declaration of Independence, the Texas Constitution, and other documents such as the Meuseback-Comanche Treaty.
16(A) Explain the meaning of various patriotic symbols and landmarks of Texas, including the six flags that flew over Texas, the San Jacinto Monument, the Alamo, and various missions. 16(D) Describe the origins and significance of state celebrations such as Texas Independence Day and Juneteenth.
17(D) Identify the importance of historical figures and important individuals who modeled active participation in the democratic process such as Sam Houston, Barbara Jordan, Lorenzo de Zavala, Ann Richards, Sam Rayburn, Henry B. González, James A. Baker III,, Wallace Jefferson, and other local individuals.
19(A) Identify the similarities and differences among various racial, ethnic, and religious groups in Texas.
19(B) Identify customs, celebrations, and traditions of various cultural, regional, and local groups in Texas such as Cinco de Mayo, Oktoberfest, the Strawberry Festival, and Fiesta San Antonio.
19(C) Summarize the contributions of people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups in the development of Texas such as Lydia Mendoza, Chelo Silva, and Julius Lorenzo Cobb Bledsoe