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.
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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 Today in class, we began to explore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I was blown away with the rich discussion each class had about human rights, where they see them happening and where they know these rights are threatened in the world. We also made connections to Chicago and the refugees they have seen in the city and how they know people/organizations are helping. I am excited to continue these discussions as we analyze how human rights are threatened in our novel, Esperanza Rising.
Here is a powerful video that we watched: www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/ Next week, we will continue to read chapters from our the book and connect story structure and human rights to the events that unfold. Right now, there is a planned Mid Unit 1 Assessment for Friday. This will include identifying the main idea of a specific human right (page 18 in their workbook) and summarizing it, along with using root word knowledge to identify unknown words. We will work on these skills all of next week. If the quiz is needed to move, I will update families and students. In grammar, we will continue to review parts of speech. Homework next week will be comprehension questions on the different chapters we read and grammar practice as well. In ELA this week, we will be reading further in Esperanza Rising. Students will also be introduced to the Declaration of Human Rights. We will be using this website:
https://www.youthforhumanrights.org/ For grammar, we are briefly reviewing parts of speech. Their notes on this will be glued in their Reading/Writing spiral notebook. Students will have various activities/assignments for the next two weeks before an assessment. Last week, I introduced students to their monthly Independent Reading Assessment. There is one due each month on the last school day of the month. This month's is due September 29th. I will review these with families at our Curriculum Night. Students will have homework in the form of comprehension questions and grammar. |
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