Lesson Plans
3rd Week – September 8-12
Major Objectives:
Organization
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Students will clean their classroom folders and take home graded
papers to show their parents.
Writing &
Writing Mechanics
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Vocabulary
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Students will use commas correctly in sentences. Test over comma
placement Friday, September 12.
Students will identify subjects and predicates in sentences, and will
write complete sentences with subjects and predicates. Test over
subjects and predicates Friday, September 12.
Students will work this 6 weeks on an activity called, “Out with the
Old and In with the New.” They will “toss” the following overused
words and will use new vocabulary to replace them:
Old Word:
New Word:
said
replied
walked
strolled
laughed
guffawed
like
cherish
good
superb
happy
elated
Students will preview and define the vocabulary words for our
upcoming short story. These words are: affect (verb), conflict (noun),
contribute (verb), disrespect (noun), generation (noun), motivation
(noun), privilege (noun), and responsible (adjective).
Quiz over these words Tuesday, September 16
Reading
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Students will use the following reading comprehension strategy:
MAKE AND CONFIRM PREDICTIONS prior to reading “The Good
Samaritan.”
Students will begin reading “The Good Samaritan” and will
understand the elements of plot.
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Students will understand VOICE as a trait of writing, and they will
identify VOICE in a short story.
Learning Activities the Week of September 8, 2014
Monday:
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Students will take a quiz over new vocabulary and nouns, verbs,
adjectives, and adverbs.
Students will learn new words for the “Out with the Old and in with
the New” assignment.
Students will listen to “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” to
begin exploring the concept of VOICE in writing. Students will have
copies of emotion cards to help them determine what they hear as I
read.
Tuesday
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Students will review subjects and predicates.
Students will review comma placement in sentences.
Students will listen to “Today I Feel Silly” and “Diary of a Worm” to
continue exploring the concept of VOICE in writing. Students will
have copies of emotion cards to help them determine what they hear
as I read.
Wednesday &
Thursday
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Students will take notes on how to identify VOICE reading and how to
use VOICE in writing.
Students will preview and define vocabulary they will encounter in
“The Good Samaritan.”
Students will learn where the term “good Samaritan” comes from, and
how it might be used in a story.
Student will look at the pictures in the story and read about the
author, and they will predict what the story might entail.
Students will begin reading “The Good Samaritan” and will use a
graphic organizer to aid them in understanding the parts of a plot.
HOMEWORK TONIGHT
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Students will have a review to complete in order to prepare well for
the test FRIDAY over subjects and predicate and comma placement in
sentences.
Friday
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Students will take a test over subjects and predicates, and comma
placement in sentences.
Students will continue reading “The Good Samaritan.”
Students will play a vocabulary game to prepare for the vocabulary
quiz Tuesday, September 16.