Literacy Planning
Unit 6: 4-6 weeks –
Concept Question: In what ways does one culture affect another?
Week 1: 4/6 – 4/10
“Ancient Greece” – How have ancient cultures influenced modern ones?
Genre: Expository Non-fiction
Vocabulary strategy: Context Clues
Comprehension skill: Graphic Sources
Comprehension strategy: Graphic Organizers
Writing trait: Sentence Structure in Note Taking
4/6 – YWBAT Listen for and identify causes and effects.
YWBAT listen for and use context clues to determine word meaning.
YWBAT identify and define subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
YWBAT spell related words.
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Warm up – SAGE practice (multiple choice): What is the effect of the passage of time in the
story? Why did you choose your answer?
Discuss SAGE practice and testing strategies
“Naming the City”
o Cause and effect
o Identify unknown words and use context clues
Grammar: conjunctions
o Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions
Spelling pre-test (5 minute study first)
4/7 – YWBAT analyze graphic sources to improve comprehension.
YWBAT create and use graphic organizers to help organize and understand information.
YBWAT identify qualities of good note taking.
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Warm up – SAGE practice (multiple choice): Why does the author have the girl say, “soon I shall
be reigning as Queen over all this land”? Why did you choose your answer?
Discuss SAGE practice and testing strategies
Vocabulary 4-column chart
Teach note taking
o Sentence structure
o Quotes
o Paraphrase
Read: “Ancient Greece” as a class
o Guided note taking
o Guided reading
4/8 – YWBAT analyze graphic sources to improve comprehension.
YWBAT create and use graphic organizers to help organize and understand information.
YBWAT identify qualities of good note taking.
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Warm up – SAGE practice (multiple choice): What is one moral in this story? Why did you
choose your answer?
Discuss SAGE practice and testing strategies
Finish “Ancient Greece” individually
o Note taking
Guided comprehension
Reader Response # 1 and, “Look Back and Write”
4/9 – YWBAT examine features of a newspaper article.
YWBAT compare and contrast across texts.
YWBAT identify and define subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
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Warm up – SAGE practice (multiple choice): The author writes, “The man returned to his home,
loudly lamenting his hard lot.” What does “hard lot” mean? Why did you choose your answer?
Discuss SAGE practice and testing strategies
Read: “Opening Ceremony in Athens: Fire and Water”
o Reading across texts
o Writing across texts: which Olympic Games would you have preferred to attend-ancient
or modern?
Conjunction practice in pairs
4/10 – YWBAT spell related words.
YWBAT apply this week’s comprehension and vocabulary study in order to be successful on the story
test.
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Warm up – Quick Write: How have ancient cultures influenced modern ones?
Spelling test
“Ancient Greece” story test
“Ancient Greece” spelling and vocabulary lists:
For use for the week of 4/6 – 4/10
Vocabulary:
architecture
democracy
empire
ideal
mythology
ethics
frescoes
Spelling:
alternate
alternative
office
official
economy
economics
normal
normality
restore
restoration
indicate
indicative
gene
genetic
excel
excellence
adapt
adaptation
crime
criminal
deprive
deprivation
initiate
initiative
contaminate
contamination