A Peek at the Week

2 1/2 MORE WEEKS OF 5TH GRADE!

21st Cent. Class: Innovation

Specials:

*Monday & Tuesday: Art

*Wednesday - Friday: PE

Math:

*Math's Mate Term 4 Sheet 7 due Friday!

Chapter 12: Geometry

*Review on Monday

*Test on Tuesday

*Review Games from the entire year!

Read & React:

Vocabulary - Unit 14 TEST will be May 17th!

*Practice activities are in their Flocabulary site

*Hands-on Vocabulary Games are within the classroom for your child's use if they'd like as well to support them with their study habits

Read Aloud: The Littlest Bigfoot by: Jennifer Weiner

American Revolution Novel Studies

Sophia's War

*Student's will be focusing on using socratic seminars to study the text closely in advance, listen actively, share ideas and questions in response to the ideas and questions of others, and search for evidence in the text to support their ideas.

Betsy Zane, the Rose of Fort Henry

*Student's will be focusing on cultural diversity, courage, family, and gender roles during the late 1700s

The Fighting Ground

*Student's will be focusing on summarizing and making connections

Creative Writing:

*Compound Subjects & Compound Predicates

- Recognizing Subjects & Compound Predicates

- Identifying Subjects & Compound Predicates

- Applying Subjects & Compound Predicates

*All writing will be integrated along with our novel studies and throughout learning of the American Revolution

*EOY Writing Anchors (Wednesday-Friday this week!)

Exploration:

Exploration Unit

History: Analyze historical sources from multiple points of view to develop an understanding of historical context

History: The historical eras, individuals, groups, ideas, and themes in North America from 1491 through the founding of the United States government

Geography: Causes and consequences of movement

American Revolution

*Analyzing "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine

*Analyzing Patrick Henry's Speech

*Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

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