Wednesday, January 5, 2021

Today's Assignment  Unit 3 Week 1

Students did Istation reading and math today. This reading assignment is scheduled for tomorrow.

• • DOL: Grammar Packet
  • Text Structure Packet
  • Reading homework
• Mini Lesson 1
• Focus: The U.S. Constitution, Then and Now
• View video
• Black Lives Matter Links to an external site.
• State Capitol Riot Links to an external site.
• Essential Question: How do laws continue to evolve? (Students' answers)
• Blue Print, p. iv-v
• Connect to caption at the beginning of text.
• James Madison Links to an external site.
• What Was The Revolutionary War? Links to an external site.
• Introduce vocabulary

Mini Lesson 2

Focus: Distinguish between important and unimportant information to learn about the constitution

• Highlight vocab on p.4
• Text features
• Teacher read title and para 1
• Read Aloud p. T.22 Ed
• Students read para 2-3 (underline important info, creating the constitution
• Students read para 4-5 and underline important info-why is this important?)

• Writing Paragraph 1

  Learn To Write An Introduction Links to an external site.

  Links to an external site.

  Students will elaborate on the topic sentence given by teacher

  • Write three reasons
  • use at least 4 transitional words/sentence starters
  • Use a connection
  • Elaborate-explain your thinking

  Reminders for writing a hook

  • • Ask a question state a fact
    • Use a scenario
    • A. Picture this

    B. Imagine this

    • Use statistics
    • Onomatopoeia
    • Exclamation sentence
    • Flashback
  • Homework Assignment
  • "The Great Barrier Reef" (Q1/2)