Lesson Plans Feb 3-7

Homework- READ for 45 minutes every night. Take AR Tests.  Study vocabulary.
Library on Tuesday - STAR and AR tests  

Language Arts 

Core 1,2,3  - Reading: Book Clubs WW2, Book Talk about Holocaust novels

Vocabulary

• Power Plus Lesson 4(Core 1)
• Vocabulary with the Anne Frank unit (Cores 2-3)

Reading EQs

• How do readers understand and appreciate drama?
• How is flashback used?
• What are the elements of plot?
• How do authors resolve conflict?
• What can be used to map stories?

Readings

• Text: Play based on the Diary Act, Scene One 449-453
• Text: Play Act One Scene Two,  453-461 Notes
• Text: Play Act One, Scene Three 461-474 Notes
•  Connect to Literature and questions 475

                
Skills - Literary Analysis: flashback, conflict, main/supporting ideas
Critical Thinking - questions on 475


Core 1 - Writing

Taking notes using text and questions for comprehension.

Poetry

Created by Children at Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-45

 

Terezin 

Terezin Survivor Video 

I Never Saw Another Butterfly Readings

 

AT TEREZIN

When a new child comes
Everything seems strange to him.
What, on the ground I have to lie?
Eat black potatoes? No! Not I!
I've got to stay? It's dirty here!
The floor- why, look, it's dirt, I fear!
And I'm supposed to sleep on it?
I'll get all dirty!

Here the sound of shouting, cries,
And oh, so many flies.
Everyone knows flies carry disease.
Oooh, something bit me! Wasn't that a bedbug?
Here in Terezin, life is hell
and when I'll go home again, I can't yet tell.

--"Teddy" 1943

 ON A SUNNY EVENING

On a purple, sun-shot evening
Under wide-flowering chestnut trees
Upon the threshold full of dust
Yesterday, today, the days are all like these.

Trees flower forth in beauty,
Lovely too their very wood all gnarled and old
That I am half afraid to peer
Into their crowns of green and gold.

The sun has made a veil of gold
So lovely that my body aches.
Above, the heavens shriek with blue
Convinced I've smiled by some mistake.
The world's abloom and seems to smile.
I want to fly but where, how high?
If in barbed wire, things can bloom
Why couldn't I? I will not die!

--Michael Flack, 1944

Reflection

• Underline metaphors/similes in this poem.  
• What is the theme of this poem?
• What emotion are these children expressing through their poems?  

Technology Integration - no computers this week - DCAS testing  

RTI - Mon + Tue = Math and Wed + Thur = Reading 

Friday = Core class with SSR 

Social Studies 

CNN Student News

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


History Alive! (brown text)

Chapter 6: The Declaration of Independence
Text Outline and Notes

• 6.2   The War Begins - 80
• 6.3  The Siege of Boston - 81
• 6.4  Toward Independence  82
• 6.5  Thomas Jefferson  83
• 6.6  The Final Break  84
• Summary 85

Essential Questions

• EQ: How did the colonists move toward independence?  
• EQ: What did it mean for the signers of the Declaration of Independence?          

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