Week of 1/13

Dear Parents,

I didn't even bother to send y'all the link to last week's website post because the week was so messed up by that crazy cold weather! Can't believe we were down to 6 degrees last week, and this week we'll have some temps in the upper 50s. Gotta love Georgia weather :)

Most of last week's lesson plans will be used this week since we have a full five days. (What's that like?) So if you actually bothered to check last week's update, this week will look very similar :) I rewrote lesson plans last Tuesday for last week since it was a short week. Here's what this week will look like.

School Events
Tues, 1/14 My homeroom library visit
Thurs, 1/16 Economics test (Mrs. Wilson's homeroom)
Fri, 1/17 Chick-Fil-A Biscuits, $2.50; Chapter 11 Shurley English test (my ELA class only)

Mon, 1/20 NO SCHOOL! MLK, Jr. Holiday
Tues, 1/21 Back to School

SOCIAL STUDIES
(Mrs. Wilson's homeroom)

Mrs. Wilson's class will be studying economics this week! For more information. click the "Social Studies" page at the top, and look at all the standards at the bottom of the page.

Monday: SS5E1-4: money, supply and demand, budgets, and credit cards
Tuesday: SS5E1-3: competition, fair trade, budgeting versus spending, 4 sectors of the US economy
Wednesday: SS5E2 - 4 sectors of the US economy; what do taxes pay for?
Thursday: Economics test
Friday: Constitution and Economics Win, Lose, or Draw!

LANGUAGE ARTS
POW Topic: WE ARE FINISHED WITH POW FOR THE YEAR! We will continue to write essays in language arts classes. From now on, morning work will be different for each language arts teacher.
Shurley English: Chapter 11
Skills:

1. Predicate Nouns - Pattern 4! (Example: Mrs. Thompson is a teacher. Who is a teacher? Mrs. Thompson - Subject Noun. What is being said about Mrs. Thompson? Mrs. Thompson is. Verb. Mrs. Thompson is what? Teacher. Verify the noun. Does "teacher" mean the same thing as "Mrs. Thompson"? YES - Teacher, Predicate Noun. Is, Linking Verb. A, article adjective. Subject Noun - Linking Verb - Predicate Noun, Pattern 4)
   
2. Possessive Nouns (showing ownership)
3. Subjective, Objective, and Possessive Pronouns (a subjective pronoun replaces a noun in the subject; an objective pronoun replaces a noun that's an object; possessive pronouns show ownership)

Monday: Chapter 11, Lesson 1. Introduce predicate nouns.
Tuesday: Chapter 11, Lesson 2. Review predicate nouns. Introduce possessive nouns. Classroom Practice #51
Wednesday: Chapter 11, Lesson 3. Review predicate nouns and possessive nouns. Introduce subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns. Classroom Practice #52
Thursday: Chapter 11, Lesson 4. Review predicate nouns, possessive nouns, and subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns. Classroom Practice #53. Homework: Chapter Checkup #54
Friday: Chapter 11 Test

*Several students will be making Passion Project presentations this week!

READING 1
HOMEWORK: Read 30 minutes every day.

Common Core ELA Standards for Reading 1
RL.5.6. Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.

Phase 1: Book Hooks
Tuesday: Select poems from Beauty of the Beast and Mother Earth, Father Sky
Wednesday: Select poems from Pass It On
Thursday: Select poems from My Dog Ate My Homework!
Friday: Select poems from 20th Century Poetry Treasury

Phase 2: Conference Questions
Who is narrating the book you are reading? How does the narrator feel about the events being described? How can you tell? (RL.6)

Phase 3: Student Choices

• Continued independent reading
• Passion project
• Creative writing (write your own book)
• Computer programming
• Online books and videos
• Edgenuity (reading)

Monday: Whole Group
Read Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout by Shel Silverstein. Who is narrating? What is the narrator's point-of-view (POV)? If we change the narrator, how would the POV change? Discuss possible changes with different narrators: Mom, neighbor, garbage collector? 

Friday: Whole Group
50 States Haikus - use atlases to analyze 50 haikus about the states to identify which state the haiku describes. Work in teams to solve the clues the fastest!

READING 2
HOMEWORK: Read 30 minutes every day.

Common Core ELA Standards for Reading 2
RL.5.6. Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.

Whole Group

• Monday: Read Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout by Shel Silverstein. Who is narrating? What is the narrator's point-of-view (POV)? If we change the narrator, how would the POV change? Discuss possible changes with different narrators: Mom, neighbor, garbage collector? 
  
• Tuesday: Zipper Up Zack - identify figurative language examples; discuss point-of-view. Switch the poem to 1st person!
  
• Wednesday: A True & Delicious Tale - identify the figurative language examples; how are you like the poem?
  
• Thursday: Read about haiku poetry.
  
• Friday: Write haikus!
  

Small Groups (Tuesday through Friday)

• Instructional Conversation: Read short story, First Day. Read it three times and answer close reading questions. Discuss point-of-view and supporting evidence.
• Computer: Visit Edmodo to choose an article about New Year's Day from either Wonderopolis or Tween Tribune. Read and comment about what you've learned, then share your New Year's Resolutions!
• Mr. Bryan: Read the book Holes by Louis Sachar.
• Mr. B: Color and fold figurative language fortune tellers! Review the vocabulary, color each triangle, then cut it out, fold and play!

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