Literacy Planning

Unit 1: 4-6 weeks –

Big Question: What is the best way to find the truth?

Week 5 – 9/28 to 10/2

9/28 - YWBAT cite textual evidence to support your analysis and inferences drawn.

YWBAT analyze the interactions between individuals, events and ideas in a text.

YWBAT use common, grade-appropriate Latin roots as clues to the meaning of a word.

  • Warm up: Quick Read – Dictatorship in the Dominican Republic
  • Discuss reading skill: Author’s Purpose
  • Discuss Literary Analysis: Historical Concept
  • Writing about The Big Question (p. 130)
  • Word Study: Latin root - dict
  • Spelling/vocabulary pre-test (5 minute study)

9/29 - YWBAT cite textual evidence to support your analysis and inferences drawn.

YWBAT analyze the interactions between individuals, events and ideas in a text.

  • Warm up: Read about the author of our next selection on page 131
  • Discuss
  • Introduce, “My First Free Summer” by Julia Alvarez
  • Activate BRK
  • Read, “My First Free Summer” as a class
  • Guided comprehension

9/30 - YWBAT cite textual evidence to support your analysis and inferences drawn.

YWBAT analyze the interactions between individuals, events and ideas in a text.

YWBAT determine central ideas and analyze their development over the course of a text.

  • Warm up: re-read “My First Free Summer” and answer critical thinking questions 2-4
  • Discuss
  • Question 5 as a class
  • Author’s Purpose (p. 137)
  • Write objective summary of selection
  • Begin as a class finish in pairs

10/1 - YWBAT analyze the interactions between individuals, events and ideas in a text.

YWBAT use common, grade-appropriate Latin roots as clues to the meaning of a word.

  • Warm up: finish objective summaries
  • Vocabulary practice
  • Literary Analysis (p. 137)
  • Connecting across time: Syrian crisis
  • 2nd grade buddy reading

10/2 - YWBAT develop a topic with relevant facts, details, quotations or other information and examples.

YWBAT Use appropriate transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.

YWBAT use common, grade-appropriate Latin roots as clues to the meaning of a word.

  • Warm up: study for vocabulary and spelling test.
  • Test
  • Letter to Julie (p. 151)
  • Book Club

Week 5 spelling and vocabulary list:There will be a pretest on Monday, we will study the words throughout the week and have a final test on Friday.

For use from 9/28 to 10/2

Word: / Definition:
vowed / v. promised solemnly
repressive / adj. overly strict
extenuating / adj. giving a reason for; excusing
diplomats / n. government employees who work with other nations
summoned / v. called together
contradiction / n. difference between two conflicting things that means they cannot both be true
dictator / n. a ruler with total power over a contrary, usually obtained by force
predict / v. say or estimate that something will happen in the future
verdict / n. a decision on a undecided issue
prospect / n. the possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring
diction / n. the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
dictatorship / n. government by a dictator