October 29th through November 2nd
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Plot Elements: Quizlet Practice
- Practice Story #1 : "Thank You, Ma'am" and Diagramming Plot Element
- Choice Book 1/2 of the Way Done by Wednesday!
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Review to Repeat and Repeat to Review: Plot Elements
- Continue Plot Elements with "Thank You, Ma'am."
- Choice Book 1/2 of the Way Done by Wednesday!
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Read the spooky short story The Land Lady by Roald Dahl
- The Land Lady Plot Diagram
- 1/2 of the Way Done with Choice Book by Today!
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Celebrate Being 1/2 of the Way Done with Choice Books! Tell us what book you're reading. Do you like it so far? Would you recommend it?
- Choice Book Questionnaire #2 Expectations (Complete sentences; complete thoughts; effort; etc.)
- Excellent Examples from Questionnaire #1
- Work Time for Book Questionnaire #2
- Questionnaire #2 due next Tuesday
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- Freak the Mighty Trivia: Have you been paying attention?
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- New Vocab from Book
- Introduction to Kahoot! Activity
- Work Time for Vocabulary Kahoot! and Choice Book Questionnaire #1
- Choice Book Questionnaire #2 due Tuesday
- Kahoot! due Next Week Thursday; Mrs. Rachu will Choose 4 Winners to Practice All Week!
October 22nd through October 26th
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Why is it beneficial? Expectations
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- The Big Picture: What are plot elements?
- Introduction to Plot Element Chart
- Practice Story #1
- Choice Book 1/4 of the Way Done by Wednesday!
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Review Expectations and Why We Do It
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Review to Repeat and Repeat to Review: Plot Elements
- Plot Element Chart
- Practice Story #2
- Choice Book 1/4 of the Way Done by Wednesday!
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Celebrate Being 1/4 of the Way Done with Choice Books! Tell us what book you're reading. Do you like it so far? Would you recommend it?
- Choice Book Questionnaire #1 Expectations (Complete sentences; complete thoughts; effort; etc.)
- Work Time for Book Questionnaire #1
- Questionnaire #1 due Friday
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Choice Book Vocab Activity: What words aren't you understanding? Let's add them to our study list!
- Definitions of Unknown Words
- Make a Kahoot! to Help us Study!
- Choice Book Questionnaire #1 due Tomorrow
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- Class Read Aloud: Freak the Mighty
- Freak the Mighty Trivia: Have you been paying attention?
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Work Time for Vocabulary Kahoot! and Choice Book Questionnaire #1
- Choice Book Questionnaire #1 due Today
- Kahoot! due Next Week Tuesday; Mrs. Rachu will Choose 4 Winners to Practice All Week!
October 15th through October 19th
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Begin DuoLingo Project Presentations
- Introduction to Choice Read Project
- First Read Question due Today
- DuoLingo Project due Last Friday; Must Sign Up for Presentation Time by Wednesday
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- DuoLingo Project Presentations
- Work Time for Choice Books
- None
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- DuoLingo Presentations
- Work Time for Choice Books
- None
No School; Parent Teacher Conferences
No School; Inservice Day
October 8th through October 12th
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Finish Using Context Clues to Make Predictions about New Vocabulary from the Story
- Watch StudySync Video Discussion
- Begin Answering Questions
- Other Side of the Sky First Read Comprehension Questions due Thursday
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- New Vocabulary Actual Definitions
- Assigned Vocabulary Quizlet Practice and Work Time for First Read Questions
- The Other Side of the Sky First Read Questions due on Thursday
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Discuss Research: What have we learned?
- Watch Both Study Sync Videos
- Hand Out Graphic Organizer
- Work Time for Textual Evidence Assignment
- First Read Comprehension Questions due Thursday
- Graphic Organizer and Online Textual Evidence Questions due Friday
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Vocabulary Quizlet Live
- Begin Close Reading and Annotating Text
- Graphic Organizer and Online Textual Evidence Questions due Tomorrow
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 15 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Begin Close Read Online Assignment
- DuoLingo Project due with Presentations Next Week
- Online Close Reading Assignment due Next Wednesday
October 1st through October 5th
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Preview The Other Side of the Sky Video
- Read Introduction to Story
- Begin Filling Out Research Handout About the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan or the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
- While students research, others will be meeting with the teacher to discuss the Barrio Boy writing prompt.
- Blast due Today
- Research Handout due Wednesday
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Continue Research Handout About the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan or the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
- While students research, others will be meeting with the teacher to discuss the Barrio Boy writing prompt.
- Research Handout due Wednesday
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Discuss Research: What have we learned?
- Watch Videos about Russian Invasion of Afghanistan and the Rise of the Taliban
- Make Predictions: The main character in this story loses her arm. Why do we think this happened?
- Read The Other Side of the Sky together as a first read.
- Blast due Today
- Research Handout due Today
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 10 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Introduction to New Vocabulary and Predictions what These Words Mean
- Discuss Visualizing
- Visualizing Activity
- Read and Annotate Text Together
- Work Time for Visualizing Activity due Tuesday
Essential Question:
- What drives us to undertake a mission?
- 15 Minutes Silent Reading/Teacher Conferences
- Think Pair Share: Story and Discussion Questions
- Watch Study Sync Video
- Begin Answering Online Questions
- Online Questions due October 12th