Reading Plans
The Night of San Juan
Sept. 4-7
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graded assignments.
Green highlights denote any
TIER documentation.
Standards:
RL.5.3. Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on
specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
RL.5.2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a
story or drama respond to challenges
Tuesday- Vocabulary Day
 Journal
 Vocabulary: forbidden, reluctant, gossiped, irresistible, elegant,
blared, mischievous, hesitation
 Other spelling words:
again, excited, their, they’re, there, school, until, was, could, always,
enough, first
 Create a vocabulary book. Assign volunteers to define and write
definitions on the board. Students write them on their notebook paper
folded four times to make 8 places. As you all are filling the books out
together, as the following questions:
o What are you forbidden to do?
o What is an antonym for reluctant?
o What is an example of a mischievous act by a child? An adult?
o How might a person overcome his/ her hesitation to do
something?
o Name 3 things that blare.
o How would you feel if someone gossiped about you?
o What is a synonym for the word elegant?
 Ask: What would it be like to live in the Caribbean? What makes it
different from the mainland culture?
 Read: Johanna in Jamaica” p. 206-207
HW: O=Wb p. 59 vocabulary or A/B= handout 59
Wednesday- Main Story Day
 Journal
 Review vocabulary ppt
 Play CD “The Night of San Juan” p. 208-221
 Complete question #1 on the comprehension worksheet as you go.
HW: Complete questions 2-10 on the comprehension worksheet
Thursday-Skill Day: Problem and Solution
 Review hw comprehension worksheet
Guided practice: 1. Give the class a problem a new teacher could have. Ex:
too much talking during instruction. Have the students brainstorm 3
solutions to the problem.2. Give the students a problem a student might
have. Ex: a friend told your secret to someone else. Have the students
brainstorm 3 solutions to the problem
Independent practice:
Choose a problem you have had in the past or one you are comfortable
writing down now. Write the problem on a piece of paper and put your # on
the back, so the teacher knows who to give it back to. Turn in the slip to the
teacher’s basket. The teacher will pull one and give out randomly. The
students will write 3 solutions to the problem and turn back in to the teacher.
The teacher will redistribute the problems now with solutions. If students
feel comfortable, they may share the responses they received and discuss.
 Complete Wb. 60 problem and solution
HW: reread “The Night of San Juan” p. 208-221
Friday- Assessment Day
 Review questions for Test.
 Reading selection test- “The Night of San Juan”
 Spelling test- List 3
 TCAP: Unit 2/ week 4