Please scroll down this paage to read about all the Dec. Language Arts
activities.
During the month of December we will continue to study Native American
literature. One group of
students is reading the chapter book, GUESTS, by Michael Dorris. The reading
assignments are:
Dec. 7-ch. 6 and Dec. 9-ch. 7 continued vocab. work and sociogram work
Nov. 30-Dec. 7--chapters 4,5, and 6 Ch. 4 by Wed. Dec. 2, Ch 5 by Fri.
Dec. 4 and Ch6 by
Mon. Dec. 7 Students in this group will
be keeping personal vocabulary lists for
each chapter. They will also be creating
Sociograms to show character relationships
Other students are reading various Native American legends.
The week of Dec. 7th the legend group will be reading legends with a Mich.
theme such as: Legend of the Sleeping Bear, Legend of Michigan, Legend of
the Lady Slipper, Legend of Mackinac Island etc...
The week of Nov. 30-Dec. 4th these
students will be reading DREAM WOLF. We will be using a grade 3 basal
reading book for this legend.
Students in this group will be looking at the genre of legend, legend
characteristics, working on fluency
and comprehension questions for the week.
Welcome to the Language Arts page for November. We spent the first months of
school getting to know the "DAILY 3" and the "Reading CAFE" Most days your
child will take part in the DAILY 3:
Read to Self
Read to Someone
Writing/Word Work
During the month of November students will learn about the genre of Native
American Legends. The students will learn that legends are narratives that
are related to a particular culture. They have the characteristics of:
honorable character, brave deed, exaggeration, settting, and tell/explian
how something came to be.
