This Week in ELAR (October 20 - October 26)

ELAR WEEK - October 20 - October 26

Reading Workshop:

This week we will continue to visit plot, although we will be moving forward to also talk about characters. While discussing characters we will be comparing and contrasting them as characters, their adventures, as well as their exploits (ex: tricksters). This will prepare us for the next week in which we will be working on a Performance Task (60%). In the upcoming performance task we will be rewriting a story with or without alternate characters while continuing to maintain a strong plot within a story.

New Vocab this week:
Exploits: To use something or someone unfairly for your own advantage.

Mentor Texts this week: 
Snow White
Rumplestiltskin 

Performance Task:  Week October 29 - November 2

You are an editor and you’ve been  asked by a publisher to rewrite a picture book.
 The publisher wants you to take out/add in a character and rewrite part of the story to demonstrate how the plot and character
relationships would change.

Be sure to include:

• Character traits for the character you add or remove and text evidence supporting those traits
• Plot map of the original story
• Plot map of the altered story
• Rewritten scene from the story, keeping the point of view the original author employed
• Setting

Rubric for upcoming Performance Task ( Week Oct. 29 - Nov. 2)

TEK	No or Little Understanding	Partial Understanding	Complete Understanding
(4.6) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to: A) sequence and summarize the plot's main events and explain their influence on future events	Sequence the plot's main events No evidence of understanding plot	Sequence and summarize the plot's main events	Sequence and summarize the plot's main events and explain their influence on future events;
B) describe the interaction of characters including their relationships and the changes they undergo	Describe the interaction of characters	Describe the interaction of characters  and the changes they undergo	Describe the interaction of characters including their relationships and the changes they undergo
(4.16) Writing/Literary Texts. Students write literary texts to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas. Students are expected to: A) write imaginative stories that build the plot to a climax and contain details about the characters and setting	Write imaginative stories that build the plot	Write imaginative stories that build the plot toward a climax	Write imaginative stories that build the plot toward a climax and contain details about the characters and setting

Writing Workshop:

This week we will be publishing! Yay! Students will have a chance to be creative as they prepare in how they wish to showcase their writing. Students may prepare a hard cover if they choose, while also designing it. Students may also choose images if they would like to add pictures, or they may find an illustrator for their writing pieces, just as real authors do. If students choose to creatively showcase their writing, I have shared with them they can type at school as always, but they will assemble at home, and bring back in for our publishing day. They may be as creative as they would like! I cannot wait to see their final work! The set publishing due date is set for Wednesday, October 31, 2018.