Good Tuesday Morning!
Today is Oct. 1st!
1. Please find your seat quietly.
2. Complete your Number of
the day and your Problem of
the Day
3. Copy ALL of your Homework
and Test Schedule notes.
4. Take care of any morning
needs. (Pencils, bathroom,
water, check out a book, etc.)
Number of the Day Worksheet!
You MUST KEEP up with this
paper! Put your name on it and
complete #s 4, 5, and 6
Interesting Quote of the Day:
“In the End, we will remember
not the
words of our enemies but the
silence of our friends.” --Martin
Luther
King, Jr., (American Civil Rights
Activist)
“Prehistory” The
discovery a clay
The Invention of Rockets
• The Chinese invented rockets
more than 1,000 years ago.
• During the War of 1812, The
British dropped rockets. This
was the inspiration for “The
Star Spangled Banner”
• In 1919 Robert Goddard
published a paper describing
how rockets could reach the
moon. His first success was in
1926 when his liquid-fueled
rocket climbed 41 feet at
about 60 mph and landed 184
feet from the launch pad!
• During WW II German
scientists developed the V-2
missiles. These scientists
eventually came to the US to
do more research.
Robert Goddard
“The ONE-DREAM man”
His dream was to send a rocket in space. It
began on October 19, 1899, when he was 17
years old. He climbed a ladder to trim branches
from a cherry tree. As he looked up, he had a
vision of traveling into space. He later wrote, “ I
was a different boy when I descended the tree
from when I ascended.
http://www.wingclips.com/movie-clips/octobersky
What will I do in this unit?
• You will hear and discuss personal
narratives.
• You will explore ideas for your own
personal narratives.
• You will visualize sensory details.
• You will draft personal narratives, focusing
on significant experiences from their own
lives.
Autobiography
What is a personal narrative?
• Personal narratives off you, as a writer, the
opportunity to think about and write true stories
about meaningful experiences in your lives.
• Personal narratives describe significant events
and explain how those events led to learning or
a change of some kind.
• Character change in a narrative, whether of a
fictional character or a real person, often results
from learning an important lesson or gaining a
new realization about oneself or the world.
• Personal narratives also include sensory details
to make them come alive for the reader.
Knots in My Yo-yo String
Knots in My Yoyo String is a
collection of
short pieces
that Jerry
Spinelli wrote
about growing
up in
Pennsylvania in
the 1950s.
Today we will
read a piece
called “Never
the Monkey”. In
this story Jerry
Spinelli writes
about
something
special he
owns. While
reading this
short story I
“Never the Monkey”
• What events did Jerry Spinelli tell about in
this story?
• Why do you think he might have chosen to
write this story?
Think, Pair, Share
• Use our think, pair, share strategy that we
learned earlier to first think about this question,
then discuss it with your partner. The partner will
the shortest hair gets to go first.
• Question – Jerry Spinelli writes about an object
that is very special to him, a gold-plated medal.
What special object do you have that you could
write about?
– Think
– Turn and talk
Writing Ideas
• Open your writer’s notebook to the “Ideas”
section of your notebook and label it
“Special Objects” and list special objects
that you have that you could write about.
I have one…
Independent Writing
20 to 30 Minutes
• Today you will write about one of the
objects that is special to you, as Jerry
Spinelli did in “Never the Monkey”.
• Remember to answer these questions
while writing:
– What makes the object special to you?
– How did you come to own the object?
– What does the object look like?
Partner Share
• Turn and talk with your partner about what
you wrote about today.
• The partner with the longest hair gets to
go first this time.
Reading Like a Detective
Let’s Practice Our Reading
Strategies
What type of text did we explore last week?
Expository Nonfiction
Remember
this book?
Let’s review!
Reading Comprehension
Strategy:
*recognizing text features
This weeks “Making Meaning” agenda!
News articles
News articles are short pieces of
expository writing that appear in
newspapers, magazines, and on
websites.
News articles
• What newspapers, magazines, or websites
have you seen or read?
• Why do people read articles and magazines?
Teacher Read Aloud
• Shhhh, you’ll be listening to an article
without seeing the text features.
The title is:
“Follow That Ball! Soccer Catching On in the U.S.”
From the title, what do you think this article might be
about?
Vocabulary to listen for in the article…
• surge - increase
• stamina - the ability to work or play for a long
time without resting
• enthusiasts - people who are really interested
in something or do it as a hobby
After reading article…
• What is this article about?
Think – Pair – Share
• Why is soccer becoming more popular in the
U.S.? What in the article tells you that?
• Why do you think soccer is so popular among
American women?
Reflect
• What did you say to your partner to help
explain your thinking today?
• What can you say to your partner next time if
you don’t understand what he/she said?
IF I call you
to my table,
please
come
quietly. You
will not need
to bring
anything but
your brain.
Making Meaning Vocabulary
Meet at the carpet
Remember the text features on these pages?
Let’s read this
caption
Notice the word “guarantee”
Map, photographs, and captions
This photo
shows rain
forest trees.
Vocabulary
Word
Focus:
“guarantee”
guarantee – a promise
or make certain that
something will happen
or be done
The large amounts of rain and the varying (different) life
cycles of the trees in the rain forest guarantee, or make
certain, that fruits, nuts, flowers, and seeds will be
produced all year long for animals to eat.
People sometimes guarantee, or promise,
something will happen or be done.
A mechanic could
guarantee their
work on a car.
A student could
guarantee completion
of a project.
• When has another person guaranteed
something to you?
Sometimes we guarantee something to
another person.
I guaranteed my
daughter I would pick
her up right after her
Spanish club meeting.
I guaranteed
my principal
that the
report would
be completed
on time.
Think – Pair - Share
• When have you guaranteed something to
another person?
What’s the word we’re learning
that means “promise or make
certain that something will happen
or be done”?
guarantee
Write word on Word Chart
Part of the book described how rain forests are being destroyed.
Notice the
word
“devastate”
Remember this? This
cracked, dry earth used to
be a lush, green rain forest.
Let’s read this caption
Vocabulary
Word
Focus:
“devastate”
devastate – destroy or
badly damage
Devastate and destroy are synonyms, or words that
mean the same thing or almost the same thing. People
would have devastated, or destroyed, large areas of rain
forest for wood and minerals and to grow cash crops.
• What other words can you think of that are
synonyms of devastate and destroy? What
other words mean almost the same thing?
Did you think of …
wreck
demolish
spoil
ruin
Imagine That!
Places can be devastated by nature as well as by people. For
example, an earthquake or tidal wave can devastate, or
destroy, a city. Insects and droughts can devastate farmland.
Close your eyes and imagine a powerful
tornado devastates a town. Afterward, you
and your friends rush to the town to help.
Think – Pair - Share
• What might you see after a tornado devastates
a town? Open your eyes and discuss.
Imagine That!
Close your eyes and imagine a fire
devastates a forest. When it is safe, you and
your friends visit the forest.
Think – Pair - Share
• What might you see after a fire devastates a
forest? Open your eyes and discuss.
What’s the word we’re learning
that is the synonym of destroy?
devastate
Write word on Word Chart
Last Vocabulary Word Focus!
Let’s read the first sentence.
Notice the
word
“lifeless”
Remember that the last part of the
book tells what happens to rainforest
land when the trees are cut down.
Vocabulary
Word
Focus:
“lifeless”
lifeless – without life or
living things such as
people, animals, or
plants.
In fewer than ten years after slash-and-burn farmers
destroy a rainforest, the rainforest land becomes
lifeless. Plants do not grow there, and people and
animals cannot live on the land.
Look at the word lifeless.
Notice “-less” in the word.
lifeless
“-less” is a suffix (a group of
letters that is ended to the
end of a word and changes
the meaning of the word)
Suffix “-less” means without
or having no
So lifeless means without life or living things
such as people, animals, or plants.
Imagine That!
Close your eyes and imagine your family is
driving on the highway, and your car needs
gas. You stop in a town just off the highway.
You get out of the car and look around.
Strangely, the town appears lifeless.
Think – Pair - Share
• What do you see when you look around the
lifeless town? What don’t you see? Open your
eyes and discuss.
• Why might the town be lifeless?
What’s the word we’re learning
that means without life or living
things such as people, animals, or
plants?
lifeless
Write word on Word Chart
It’s all
about the
DIGESTIVE
SYSTEM!!!
YUM YUM
• 12:00-12:45 --Activity
• 12:45-1:15 --- Lunch
• 1:15-1:45 --Recess/Bathroom
12:00-1:45
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Math Groups
Group 1-Michael, Logan, Bella, Kayla B.
Math Station D
Group 2-Kendall, Jumeah, James, Derek
Math Station E
Group 3-Miguel, Sierra, Meredith, Zack
Math Station A
Group 4-Patrick, Annalee, Sam, Kayla C.
Math Station B
Group 5-Taylor, Lexi, Charles, Ramon
Math Station C
Brain Power!!! How Smart are You?