Lesson Plans
2nd Week – September 2 - 5
Major Objectives:
Organization
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Students will continue to learn procedures, classroom expectations,
and academic goals for the school year.
Students will commit to the annual goal they have set for themselves.
Students will bring in school supplies and will organize their folders.
Writing &
Writing Mechanics
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Vocabulary
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Reading
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Students will identify 4 parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs. Quiz over these parts of speech Friday, September 5.
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: nice, saw (verb),
ran, good, smart, laughed, pretty, funny, said, happy, little, walked, big,
sad, and like. New words used are: kind, glimpsed, hurried, great,
witty, beautiful, farcical, teeny, towering, downcast, Quiz over these
words Friday, September 5.
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). Test over these
words Friday, September 12.
Students will use the following reading comprehension strategy:
MAKE AND CONFIRM PREDICTIONS prior to reading “The Good
Samaritan.”
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Students will being reading “The Good Samaritan” and will
understand the elements of plot.
Students will understand VOICE as a trait of writing, and they will
identify VOICE in a short story.
Learning Activities the Week of August 25, 2014
Tuesday:
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Students will review vocabulary from last week.
Students will commit to their annual personal goal.
Students will set up their classroom folders.
Students will play a game to reinforce their identification of nouns,
verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Wednesday &
Thursday:
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Friday:
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Students will identify and form complete sentences using subjects and
predicates.
Students will work with partners to write rules regarding comma
usage.
Students will take notes on comma usage.
Students will preview and define vocabulary words for “The Good
Samaritan.”
Students will listen to stories from children’s literature to understand
“voice” in writing.
Students will take notes on how to identify “voice” in reading and how
to use “voice” in writing.
Students will begin reading “The Good Samaritan” and will use a
graphic organizer to aid them in understanding the parts of a plot.