Hello 5th grade families!
Students are off to a great start in their natural disaster expert groups. They are gathering research to answer some of their initial research questions. They will have a Mid Unit the on Friday on Analyzing how an author uses reasons and evidence to support points. The work we engage in next week will be a guide for what will be on the test.
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Hello 5th Grade Families!
I hope everyone had a great week! Our 5th graders rocked the ELA lessons this week on analyzing POV and how the speaker's/character POV can influence how the events are told in a text. Next week, we will be moving to unit one of this module where students will be researching a natural disaster and its physical impact in an expert group. The goal will be to gather information to make a relevant PSA. Unit 1: In Unit 1, students build background knowledge about natural disasters to understand how they affect the places that experience them. In the first half of the unit, they research natural disasters in expert groups, focusing on answering the question: "How do natural disasters affect the people and places that experience them?" Students work with a variety of sources, including videos, informational texts, and websites, as they investigate their group's natural disaster and learn about how to stay safe during it. As they research, they think about how authors use reasons and evidence to support particular points, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s). The second half of the unit opens with a Science Talk, allowing students to share their research about the natural disaster they studied in the first half of the unit, and draw conclusions about ways to stay safe during one. Throughout the rest of the unit, students plan, draft, and revise a public service announcement (PSA), explaining how to stay safe during the natural disaster they researched. As they write, they consider how to ensure their PSA is appropriate for the task, purpose, and audience, and learn how to use commas to set off words and phrases as a technique to engage the audience. Other updates: * Greek and Latin test will be Friday * We will begin our next lesson on commas next week Have a great weekend! Ms. Butala Hello 5th grade families!
It was a short week at school but we accomplished a lot in ELA! Now that we have finished reading Promises to Keep, we have been listening to other recordings and reading other essays to analyze what factors other people thought made Jackie successful in breaking the color barrier. Next week, we will be comparing these points of views. There will be a test on Wednesday in ELA. On this test, students will watch a new video and examine the point of view of the speaker and compare it to other points of view we have been learning about (Jackie's, Rachel's or Sharon's). We will continue to practice this on Monday/Tuesday. I will post a list of items the students can review on Google Classroom prior to the test. Have a great weekend! Ms. Butala The start of our new module has been great! Students have had a lot to share about Jackie Robinson as we learn some new things through our text. We focused last week on how a text can have more than 1 main idea using the guiding questions "Why does the author want us to understand about the topic?" and "Are main ideas x and y equally important to understand the text?" We also revisited summarizing, but this time with an informational text.
There will be a mid unit test on Tuesday. Students will be asked to identify two main ideas of a chapter in Promises to Keep and then write a summary for it. On Friday, they glued in notes for writing an effective summary. They will be able to use this on the test Tuesday and I will also have sentence stems on the board. One way they can study is to review those notes and their homework Monday night will be writing a summary for pages 10-17 as practice. Have a great week! This novel projects look amazing! It was so wonderful watching students bring their projects in and show each other. We will be doing presentations this week in class.
The other focus of our week is writing the first draft and then revising the monologues. Students have planned the Beginning, Middle and End of their monologue. They will draft on Tuesday and then revise the rest of the week. Each student has a google document assigned on google classroom where they will type their work. Attached is the writing rubric as well as the presentation rubric. Presentations of the monologues will be next week. Have a great week! This week we begin Unit 3 which will conclude our Human Rights module. Students will be working in small groups. In this group, each student will create an individual monologue surrounding an event in the novel. Each student in the group will capture the event from a different character's perspective.
We will focus a day to create the beginning, then the middle, and finally the end. Some of the strategies we will focus on are including dialogue and sensory details in our writing. I will let families know when we are just about finished so that students can share at home before our classroom performances! The end of novel choice projects (2 of them) are ongoing. All directions are on Google Classroom and students have a graphic organizer and the direction printed off. Our next grammar unit will be about writing Titles correctly. Quarter 1 ended today! The students did a great job finishing up Esperanza Rising this week. We discussed some of the figurative language that was woven throughout the book and character reactions to some of the most important events.
While we are finished with the book, students will be completing end of novel projects and performance tasks the next 2 weeks. On Monday, they will be introduced to their choice board projects- they will be choosing one historical topic to research and one novel project to complete (2 projects total). All directions will be posted in Google Classroom on Monday. Students will have a graphic organizer worksheet for the historical research. I will provide small posters for the historical project. The performance task for this module is creating an original monologue from the perspective of one of our characters in Esperanza Rising. Students will be assigned a small group and an event from the book. Each person in the group will then create an individual monologue for a character that is involved in that event and capture their point of view. Other updates: * Greek and Latin 2 Test Wednesday * We will begin our next grammar unit- Titles of Work We are heading into Unit 2 this week of our Human Rights unit. This unit will transition into more of a writing focus as we analyze character reactions to events in the book.
This week students are also finishing up "Welcome to Chicago" cards for refugees. They will be delivered to a center nearby that is hosting refugees. We connected this to the plot point in Esperanza Rising as she entered the United States after fleeing Mexico. This week: Grammar quiz on Wednesday- Parts of Speech: Students have an optional review to use to study, they can also sign back into Brain Pop through Clever to watch the video. Greek and Latin Unit 1 Test Friday- they can review their packet before the test. Have a great week! Updates for next week in ELA:
* Students will have a week long assignment on Parts of Speech via Brain Pop. It will be posted on Google Classroom on Monday and is due Friday. Students log into the assignment with Clever and use their CPS credentials. *We will ending out first unit of Module 1- students will take a test on Wednesday covering comprehension of the first 6 chapters and how chapter 6 fits into the overall structure of the novel. * Rooms 307 & 304 will take the ELA Reach assessment on Thursday in class * September Independent Reading Assessment is due Friday. To continue to build vocabulary knowledge and strategies to determine the meaning of unknown words, we will begin our first Greek and Latin Unit on Monday. Students will have a packet for this every 2 weeks and the assessment will take place on every other Friday. We will complete the work at school and some will be assigned for homework. You can find it in their RED school folder. Happy Monday!
Tomorrow, students will take their first ELA test (Mid Unit 1 Assessment). It will cover the comprehension of an article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There will be questions on vocabulary, main idea and writing a summary of the article. Students can prepare by: Review workbook pages: 21, 22, 23, 24, 25-27 (was passed back to you) Complete pages 29, 30 and 31 |
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