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5th Grade- Reading/Language

12/17/07 

Unit Two: Enduring Friendships

 

 

 

Enduring Understandings

Essential Questions

 

         Friendship is different from popularity.

         I am different from my friends.

         Friends want each other to succeed.

 

 

         How can the differences in friends be beneficial?

         How do I support my friends?

         Why is it important to help a friend succeed?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skills to Be Covered:

  • We will be completing our reading of the play, "The Christmas Carol." We will look at drama terms and compare the play to our prior connections to "The Christmas Carol."
  • We will be using the strategy of visualizing to help us picture the play in heads.
  • We will be looking at the character of Scrooge and how he changes during the play.
  • We will also begin to create a power point based on Friendship. The students will develop similes about friendship and include them in a Power Point.
  • We will continue our Caught YA adventure.

5th Graders: Spelling

 

We will be writing a story based on Christmas words this week.  The students will choose 15 words from a list I have provided to write a story with. It will be due by Wednesday. They will have no other spelling homework this week.

 

 

 

 

  • See spelling directions above.
  • Rewrite Caught YA each day.
  • Read an RR book
  • Work on a vocabulary activity.

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