Lesson Plans Jan 20-23 MLK Week

Lesson Plans Jan 20-23
TESTING WEEK 
   

Homework for Language Arts Classes

• READ AR Book for 40 minutes every night. Write a poem about butterflies.
• Core 1: Read The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
• Library and AR Final test on Thursday, Jan 15.

 

Language Arts 

Read

• "SHATTERED LIVES": Scope Jan 2015.  EQs: How does war affect children? What hardships come with being displaced from your home? How can humanitarian efforts help refugees? SKILLS: central ideas and details, inference, text evidence, expository writing

Writing and Warm-Ups 

Freewrite, poem, vocabulary, word work

Blog Posts

1. Holiday personal narrative short story that was real for you 
2. Book writing to tell what you like about your current AR book
3. Respond to two classmates' posts with a relevant comment or question.
4. Post your symbolism poem. 
5. Core 1 - Pittman book review: see other post guide.  Print and post.
6.   "Civil War Journal" Short response from page 68.
7. Poem using the word butterfly.
8.  Something about snow.  

 

Vocabulary for "Shattered Lives"

1. refugee 
2. humanitarian
3. haven
4. displaced
5. persecution
6. nongovernmental  
7. dire
8. commodities
9. daunted
10. erupt
    

 Poem 

 

1. Copy the poem.
2. What is the poem's theme?
3. What do you think of this poem?
4. Write your own butterfly poem.  Due tomorrow.  Print and post on your blog.

 Reclusive definition, a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation

 

 

EQ: How did the immigrants carve out a life in the United States?  What role did education play in the settlement of the immigrants? How did theimmigrants change the fabric of America?

Chapter 26: The Immigrants  371- 383

Text notes and outline 
Test