Projects: We continue to work on The Great Depression. This week, students will be learning about art and culture of the era. Students continue to meet with me individually to work go over their progress on their project websites using our project rubric as a resource.
8th Writing: Students will continue to work on the argumentative writing task on cloud seeding. This week, we will read the informational text about cloud seeding and highlight information for or against could seeding. Students will also be working collaboratively to write their introductions, counterclaims, and rebuttals.
6th Writing: Students will continue to work on the folktale narrative task that focuses on theme and narrative techniques. This week we will read the accompanying mentor text and identify the theme and narrative techniques used in the mentor text. In addition, students will be brainstorming collaboratively to plan the characters, setting, plot/conflict, resolution, and theme and sharing our ideas together as a class.
Reading: This week we move forward with plot and study how this affects character development. Students will identify how a specific character changes throughout a text in response to the events. Students will also identify themes in a text and provide text evidence to support the themes identified.
Language Arts: Students will move on from identifying and correcting mistakes in punctuation of dialogue. This week, they will work on denotation and connotation of words.
REMINDERS:
* Please remember to sign your child's reading log Monday-Wednesday. Students complete the THursday portion in class after our silent reading time.
* I will be sending out an e-mail this week about parent-teacher conferences.
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