Lesson Plans Nov 4-7

HOMEWORK - LA Students must read 3 AR books per grading period and take 3 AR tests which count toward your grade. Plan to read 35 minutes every night. The next AR Test will be Nov 12.

• 100 point each = 300 points per grading period - next deadline is Nov 12 
• Your score on the AR test is your grade.

• LA Homework: Read your choice of AR book on your level for at least 30 minutes each night. Finish Warm-ups. Do FLOCABULARY worksheets.  Quiz on Vocabulary when unit is complete.
• SS Homework: Read and watch the news. Read about American History.

 

Language Art Lessons: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening

Warmups

• Monday - freewrite
• Tuesday - poem and literary terms
• Wednesday - vocabulary and skills
• Thursday - review 
• Friday - test 

Poem

Sleeping In The Forest 

Mary Oliver

I thought the earth remembered me, she
took me back so tenderly, arranging
her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds. I slept
as never before, a stone
on the riverbed, nothing
between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated
light as moths among the branches
of the perfect trees. All night
I heard the small kingdoms breathing
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling
with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better

Reflection

1. Does this poem have rhyme and/or rhythm?
2. What is the author's message?
3. Your reaction and thoughts? 

• Poetry Terms: pg 242-243 in Writers Inc. 
• Literary Terms - stanza, verse, internal rhyme

 

Language Arts 

Cores 1, 2 & 3

Vocabulary - Related to the readings

Essential Questions 

• What is the relationship between information, data and research?
• What Reading Strategies do we use with non-fiction vocab? 

 Concepts

• Good sources
• Taking notes
• Plagiarism

Core 1   

Vocabulary - Lesson 3 

Power Plus Text issued to students. Exercises in the book. 

Writing Essential Questions

• How do Award Winning Writers from the Scholastic Awards 2013, convey ideas about writing basic elements in fiction, non-fiction, drama, journalism and microfiction? 
• What are the elements of each genre? 

 
Lesson: Journalism
  

Technology Integration

• Create a blog using Google Blogger
• Use Drive for peer revisions
• Use of tabs for taking notes
• Collaborate to collect data using these tools

RTI - Reading 

• New Schedule - Reading on Wed, Thur and Friday
• Skills to practice
• SSR (Silent Sustained Reading) on Friday

Social Studies 

CNN Student News

Watch this special broadcast and take notes on the organizer. Discuss the news of the day in small groups and whole class.

History Alive! (brown text) 79-85

Chapter 6: The Declaration of Independence

• The War Begins
• The Siege of Boston
• Toward Independence
• Thomas Jefferson Drafts a Declaration
• The Final Break

Essential Questions

• EQ: What evnets led the Colonists to declare independence?
• EQ: What document changed the world?          

Cornell Notes, chapter summary 
CNN Student News for events, and geography
Discussion of world news, reflection and commentary.