September 26th through September 30th
Essential Questions:
- Why do people form alliances?
- Powerless Chapter 11
- Introducing the Concept
- Read Forming Alliances
- Graphic Organizer
- Intro to New Vocab
- Vocabulary Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- Why do people form alliances?
- Powerless Chapter 12
- Review New Vocabulary with Questions
- Read Drumbeat of Freedom
- Pre-Read Guided Reading
- Vocabulary Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- Why do people form alliances?
- Powerless Chapter 13
- Writing Prompt: Was Sarah right to help Charles Kent? Include details from the story to support your argument.
- Work Station Rotations
- Writing Prompt
Essential Questions:
- Why do people form alliances?
- Powerless Chapter 14
- Visualizing
- Character, Setting, Plot
- Historical Fiction
- Paragraph Clues
- Paragraph Clues Worksheet
School Forest: No Reading
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- What is your passion?
- None
- None
September 19th through September 23rd
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Silent Reading
- Guidance at 2:00
- None
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 7
- Read Visualizing
- Read Character, Setting, and Plot
- Text Mapping Cow Music
- Fill Out Character, Setting, and Plot Graphic Organizer
- None
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 8
- Writing Prompt: Write an email from Celia to her friend Hanna telling about she feels after her first day at the new house. Use details from the story.
- Work Station Rotations
- None
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 9
- Reading Wonders Test
- Silent Reading
- None
Homecoming: Shortened Classes
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- What is your passion?
- Genius Hour
- None
September 12th through September 16th
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 3
- Introducing the Concept
- Intro to New Vocab
- Work Time for Homework
- Vocab Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 4
- Read Cow Music
- Visualizing for Cow Music and Powerless
- Pre-read Leveled Readers
- Pre-read Leveled Readers
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 4
- Review Vocab: Vocab Mimes
- Characters, Setting, and Plot for Cow Music
- Characters and Setting for Powerless
- Realistic Fiction
- Sentence Clues
- Sentence Clues Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 5
- Write about the Text: Write an email from Celia to her friend, Hana, telling her how she feels after her first day at the new house. Use details from the story.
- Read and Text Map Little Blog on the Prairie
- Write about the Text Prompt
Essential Questions:
- What is your passion?
- Genius Hour
- None
September 5th through September 9th
No School: Labor Day
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 1
- Introducing the Concept: A New Point of View
- 100 Favorite Things
- Bio Poems
- 100 Favorite Things
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 2
- Intro to New Vocabulary
- Work Time for Bio Poems
- Vocab Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- How do new experiences offer new perspectives?
- Powerless Chapter 3
- Read Cow Music
- Visualizing for Cow Music and Powerless
- Pre-Read Leveled Readers
- Work Time for Bio Poems
- Bio Poems Rough Draft Due
Essential Questions:
- What is your passion?
- Intro to Genius Hour and Work Time
- None
August 29th through September 2nd
No School: Open House
No School
No School
Essential Question: What is your passion? What kind of learner are you?
- Review classroom rules and expectations
- Review citations
- Review reward system
- Classroom tour
- Classroom scavenger hunt
- 100 Favorite Things
- Powerless Chapter 1
- Bio Poems
- Work on 100 Favorite Things
Essential Question: What is your passion? What kind of learner are you?
- Hand out and explain Quarter 1 Reading Logs
- Library at 2:00
- 20 minutes silent reading
- Powerless Chapter 2
- Work time for 100 Favorite Things
- Bio Poems
- Quarter 1 Reading Log