Week 1
Wednesday November 5th
- Friday November 7th
Week 2
Monday November 10th –
Friday November 14th
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Reading
Setting reading Goal
Hot reads/Favorite books
Reading Goal Reflections
Update reading timelines
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Launch book clubs
Book talks, book trailers, book tasting
Continue read aloud – A Monster Calls
Nonfiction articles
Notice and Note
Week 3
Monday November 17th –
Tuesday November 21st
Week 4
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Monday November 24th –
Tuesday November 25th
First book club meeting
Notice and Note
Continue read aloud – A Monster Calls
Vocabulary: Main Idea/Supporting
details
Context clues (ongoing)
o Articles
o IR books
o Read aloud book/novel
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Week 5
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Book club/menu choices/gallery walks
Continue read aloud
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Writing
Finish slice of life
Writing reflections
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Assessments
Final slice of life
Reading:
- Model expectations for
menu products
- Model expectations for
gallery walk
- Complete one menu
product (all the same as a
class) for first menu
product grade
- Show different
interpretations of the
same menu choice
Writing:
Text feature vocabulary
(summative)
Introduction to nonfiction
Reading:
using mentor texts
- Book Club Menu product
Fiction vs. nonfiction
1 (summative)
o Paired passages book
- First gallery walk
comparing/contrasti
- Book Club Menu product
ng two different types
2 (summative)
of texts on the same
- Second gallery walk
topic
- Main Idea/Supporting
Defining activism
details (summative)
o Relating activism to
from articles
them and their lives
Engaging with the topic –
note taking (Malala video and
Jon Stewart video)
Explore links from packet
Topic-Power Learning
Their purpose as a writer?
Reading:
o What is your
Monday December 1st –
Friday December 5th
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Vocabulary work in context
Week 6
Monday December 8th –
Friday December 12th
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Continue read aloud
Book clubs/menu products/gallery
walks
Vocabulary in context
Intro to new signposts
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Week 7
Monday December 15th –
Friday December 19th
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Week 8
Monday January 5th –
Friday January 9h
Week 9
Monday January 12th –
Friday January 16th
purpose?
Who is your
audience?
o What are you trying
to accomplish?
Determining importance –
chunking information into
subsets
Reading for a Wide ViewFinding patterns within
research notes
Research topic
Online note cards for note
taking
Start organizing information
Pre-writing graphic
organizer
Paraphrasing and
summarizing
Main idea and supporting
details
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Book clubs/menu products/gallery
walk
Continue read aloud
Vocabulary in context
New signposts in read aloud and IR
books
Literacy Folders complete by the 19th
(see Jenny for help )
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Book clubs/menu products/gallery
walk
Continue read aloud
Vocabulary in context
Continue work with theme
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Final book clubs/menu product/gallery
walk
Continue read aloud
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Organizing information (prewriting graphic organizers)
Planning and producing
product
Drafting written component
Transition words
Completing drafting
Citing sources (Google video
from Niki)
APA format
Peer revisions
Peer revisions
Final draft and presentations
Reading:
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Week 10
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Catch up week
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Catch up week
Monday January 19th –
Friday January 23rd
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Main Idea/Supporting details
Paraphrasing/summarizing
Common Summative Assessments:
1. Research project:
a. Written component
i. Analyze a variety of texts
ii. Clear audience/purpose
iii. Thesis
iv. Transition words
v. Multiparagraph composition (3-5 paragraphs, clear, cohesive)
b. Product component (choices): article, advertisements, public service announcement, PPT, Prezi,
flipchart, tri-fold posterboard, brochure