Expected Assignments: October 21 - October 25

Expected Assignments: October 21 - October 25

- "Goin Someplace Special" Plot Questions (3)
- Assessment with Compare/Contrast Texts
- Ongoing (Reader Notebook: Plot ML, Annotations with IRA)

Week 3 (2nd 9 Weeks) October 28 - November 1

Week 3 ( 2nd 9 Weeks) October 28 - November 1

Reading Workshop:

This week we continue to dig deeper into ideas we've been studying such as Point of View, Non-Fiction Texts vs. Fiction Texts, and Text Evidence. 

Students will continue to build their stamina in reading and respond about their texts through literary responses.

We will also look at how well are we tracking our reading and our learning through our Reader Notebooks.

Writing Workshop: 

This week we will begin using our writing abilities to respond to images. This will cause us to have to think about the images we see, our own personal connections, and how we can use our thinking to be creative and tell/write a story.

 Handwriting: 
Students will work on connecting letters: fhkleb
We will begin to work toward letters: ijprsutw

Homework: October 28 - November 1

Homework Week: October 28 - November 1

New Homework Booklets went home Thursday, October 24. 
Homework Lesson 1 is due Thursday, October 31.

9 Week Student Standards

2nd 9 Weeks Student Standards

October 12 - December (2020)

At the end of the first 9 weeks, students are expected to do the following with texts: 

-Know the Plot Elements of a story (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution)

-Write the Plot of a story in a written response

-Poetry Devices

-Nonfiction Text Features / Text Structures 

1st 9 Weeks Student Standards

August 14 - October 9 (2020)

At the end of the first 9 weeks, students are expected to do the following with texts: 

- Understand the Reading Workshop 

- Discuss and Write an Author's Purpose ( the true message the author was trying to convey) with text evidence.

- Make Connections between texts, to themselves, and the world with text evidence.

- Book Talk: Speak about a book through a Book Talk

HOMEWORK: October 21 - October 25

HOMEWORK Week of October 21 - October 25

There is currently no homework scheduled. 

Homework booklets are expected to be passed out for the new 9 Weeks on Thursday, October 24.

Assessment Dates - 2nd 9 Weeks

4th 9 Weeks:
* Subject to change at any time*

No scheduled 60% assessments at this time. 

3rd 9 Weeks: Testing Dates

Summary Assessment ~ Thursday, January 23, 2020 (60%)

Personal Narrative Assessment ~ January 21 - January 31. 
Composition 60%
Conventions/Sentence Structure 60%

Unit Assessment ~ Wednesday, February 12 
(Inferencing and other Essential Standards) 60%

Expected Assignments: October 14 - October 18

Expected Assignments from October 14 - October 18

- Handwriting cursive letters 
- Fluency Check with Chapter Book
-Revising and Editing of Personal Narrative

-Ongoing: Reader's Notebook (Mini Lessons, Annotations, Record of Reading)

Week 2: 2nd 9 Weeks - October 21 - October 25

Week 2: 2nd 9 Weeks ~ October 21 - October 25

Reading Workshop: 

This week our lesson will be over Point of View, and what are some ways can we determine who is telling a story. For example a narrator might use words such as, "he", "she", "they", this is considered 3rd Person Point of View. 

A character speaking in the story might use the words, "I", "me", "we", this is considered 1st Person Point of View. 

Interactive Read Aloud:

"Goin Someplace Special" 

Note: We will have library Monday. This is an opportunity for students to check out new books for the week, or renew anything they are currently still reading. 

ASSESSMENT

1st Reading Test: Thursday, October 24

Content: Comparing and Contrasting Texts

Video Response

Grade: 60% 

Writing Workshop: 

This week students will publish their final drafts of their Personal Narratives. They will have now gone through all of the Writing Process (Pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing). 

ASSESSMENT: 

1st Writing Test: DUE Thursday, October 24

Content: Personal Narrative about a moment in their life

Grade: 60%

Guided Reading

This week students will work with new texts during Guided Reading where they will have opportunities to compare / contrast the two texts. These are books they should take home and spend time reading with as well throughout the week. 

Expected Assignments: Week October 7 - 11, 2019.

Expected Assignments for the 

Week of October 7th - October 11

-Plot line for an Interactive Read Aloud
-Compare/Contrast Video with Interactive Read Aloud
-Homework turned in for the 9 Weeks
-Always in Progress : Reader's Notebook
-Drafting completing with Revision Strategies

HOMEWORK: Week October 14 - October 18

The 1st 9 Weeks Homework has been turned in. 

Currently there is no homework scheduled other than nightly reading. 

Homework booklets are scheduled to resume October 24, 2019. 

2nd 9 Weeks: Week 1 ~ October 14 - October 18, 2019

2nd 9 Weeks: Week 1 ~ October 14 - October 18, 2019

Reading Workshop: 

This week we will compare and contrast Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts. We will also use our Guided Reading books to analyze the features in a NF Text. 

Writing Workshop:

This week we are working on Editing our drafts as we prepare to publish our Personal Narratives! 

HOMEWORK DUE: Thursday, October 10

The last of the 9 Weeks Homework DUE: Thursday, October 10

Expected Assignments: September 30 - October 4

Expected Assignments: September 30 - October 4

- Completing a Plot Diagram for any Interactive Read Aloud

- Drafting the Personal Narrative and begin Revising using strategies

- Maintain Journal : Always in Progress 
                               ( Mini Lessons, Think About It, Annotations,                                      Record of Reading)