Week of Dec. 2

Monday
Students will work on this week’s Mountain Language lesson.

Students will listen to and discuss Number the Stars chapters 6-8.
Students will write a 1/2 page diary entry as the main character Annemarie based on the recent events from the novel.

Tuesday
Students will check out and recheck their library books.
We will watch the School House Rocks pronoun video.
Students will do a pronoun review Mimio lesson.

Students will work on their Google maps

Wednesday
As a class read and discuss Number the Stars chapters 9-11.
Review pronouns

Thursday
Students will recognize generalizations from a passage. Students will work with partners completing a Study Island lesson.

Friday
The class will read the biography “Voice from the Holocaust” pages 618-621 and the non-fiction piece called “The Secret Schools” pages 624-626.

Students will summarize the biography.

TEKS: 6.1, 6.2, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.14, 6.15, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, 6.26, 6.28

Week of November 25

 Monday
Students will begin a Google Lit Trip by plotting points on Google Maps to research various prominent cities and countries for Number the Stars.
Students will read chapters 3 & 4.

Tuesday
Students will check out and recheck their library books.

Students will read chapter 5 of Number the Starsl.

Wednesday – Friday

Holiday

TEKS: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8, 6.9, 6.13, 6.26

Week of November 18

Monday
Students will be able to discuss proper adjectives and regular adjectives.

Tuesday
Students will check out and recheck their library books.
Adjective test.

Wednesday

Students will take a pre-test for Study Island
Students will work on main idea through Study Island.

Thursday
Students will research background information about WWII, Hitler, and the Holocaust in preparation for the class novel Number the Stars.

Friday
Students will be able to discuss concepts of Mountain Language.

Together we will read about and discuss the author Lois Lowry and the historical fiction genre.
We will read and discuss chapters 1 & 2 of the novel Number the Stars.

TEKS: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8, 6.9, 6.13, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, 6.26, 6.28

Week of November 11

Monday
Students will newspaper articles and select the 1 headline that best describes the main idea of the article.

Tuesday
Students will check out and recheck their library books.
Students will make a parts of speech fold-able focusing on nouns today. We will add the other parts of speech in subsequent days to come. Students will write its definition, write a sentence using a noun/nouns from their own writing, and then they will copy a sentence from their book using nouns.

Wednesday
Early release

Students will finish working on their parts of speech foldable.

Thursday
Students will respond to their ePals pen pals.  Students will be able to detect adjectives in a passage.

Friday
Students will read a couple of nonfiction article at Tween Tribune and answer a critical thinking question.

TEKS: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.14, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, 6.26, 6.28

 

Week of November 4

 

Monday
Students will complete the storyboard of the plot diagram for Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Tuesday
Students will complete their book report.

Wednesday and Thursday
Students will go to the library to check in books and out out books. Students will also share their personal narratives.

Friday
We will discuss noncount nouns from our Write Source language book on pages 517 and 192. Next, we will do a Mimio lesson covering this material.
TEKS: 6.1, 6.2, 6.7, 6.8, 6.13, 6.14, 6.15, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21, 6.26, 6.27