*Lesson Plans/homework are subject to change at teacher discretion.
Social Studies
Monday, August 27
Objective: TLW understand and use keys and legends on a map.
Standards: Reading 5-2.7, Reading 5-6.2
1. Review notes from previous day.
2. Discuss why we use keys (to unlock doors, etc) Discuss how a key to a map is similar. It unlocks information that we can find on the map. Connecting Prior Knowledge
3. Show different examples of keys using the Atlas Big Book pages 8, 10, 12, 14, and 15. Discuss how each key to a map maybe different. Complete outline notes for key. Graphic Organizer
4. Complete “Wales” map with a partner and check.
5. Students create their own map with a key of their neighborhood. Brainstorm some things to include, (Roads, streams, playground, park, etc.) Make sure they include key and title. Drawing
6. Collect for classwork grade.
Assessment: Classwork/Homework
Homework: review notes
Tuesday, August 28
Objective: TLW understand and use scales on a map.
Standards: Reading 5-2.7
1. Review notes from previous day.
2. Ask students why everything on a map is shrunken down. What would happen if we made everything life-size?
3. Every map has a scale. Record notes on outline for a scale. Graphic Organizer
4. Complete “Map Scales and Distances” page with a partner and check answers. (You may do this together as a class using overhead or activboard)
5. In groups, students need to create a map of the classroom using a scale of 1 ft = 1 cm. For example, the room in 25 ft. long so it will be 25 cm on the paper. Discuss how some students will need to measure and others will need to draw. This does not need to be detailed. Get the length of the walls and the book shelves, cabinets, etc. Cooperative Learning, Drawing
6. Share maps and discuss similarities and differences.
Assessment: Observation/Questioning
Homework: review notes
Wednesday, August 29
Objective: TLW understand and use latitude and longitude.
Standards: Reading 5-2.7
1. Brainstorm ways early mapmakers made maps. Explain that today we use a grid system of latitude and longitude. Brainstorming
2. Show streaming video Title – Geography Basics: globes, maps, and graphs Segment – Projection and other methods… Technology
3. Distribute student atlases and look at world map on page 4-5. Discuss the grid system that is there and how it measures in degrees.
4. Use the student atlases to identify and complete notes. Graphic Organizer
5. Distribute “Latitude-Longitude Grid” and have students complete.
6. Check answers.
7. If time allows students may quiz each other on map skills notes.
Assessment: Classwork
Homework: review notes for test
Thursday, August 30
Objective: TLW play review game for test.
Standards: Reading 5-2.7, Reading 5-6.2
1. Review notes to be studied for test.
2. Play review Jeopardy game. Game
3. If time allows, students may pair up and quiz each other.
Assessment: Observation/Questioning
Homework: study for test
Friday, August 31
Objective: TLW take map skills test.
Standards: Reading 5-2.7
1. Distribute tests and review directions.
2. Students work on test and turn in when finished.
3. Early finishers read books at seats.
Assessment: Formal Test
Homework: none
Reading
Monday, August 27
Objective: TLW analyze narrative elements in a story
Standards: 5-1.6, 5-1.9, 5-1.5, 5-1.8
1. Beginning activity: complete Daily Language Review
2. Discuss narrative writing (story told by one person – first person character who is talking and telling the story) In the novel, the story is told by Peter from his point of view.
3. Read aloud Thank You Mr. Faulkner and have students make connections to the text using a sticky note as you read.
4. Share connections and brainstorm a list of elements that are necessary to make a story (characters, setting, plot, theme, tone, point of view, etc.) Brainstorming
5. Word study: “characters” – people involved in story, “setting” – the time and place, “plot” – problem/solution, “theme” – central idea or lesson from novel after reading, and “tone” – how you feel when you read the story(what you think they mean and actual meaning) Graphic Organizer
6. 100 BC: review connections and ask students to try to make a text to text connection with any of the books you have been reading such as War With Grandpa or Thank You Mr. Faulkner
Assessment: Observation/questioning
Homework: read 2 lines of 100 BC
Tuesday, August 28
Objective: TLW analyze narrative elements using background knowledge from novel
Standards: 5-1.9, 5-1.8, 5-3.1
1. Beginning activity: complete Daily Language Review
2. Word study: “identity” and “meander” (what you think they mean and actual meaning using context clues) Graphic Organizer
3. Have students use the narrative elements from yesterday to think back to the novel and identify each element. Chart responses on chart paper. Discuss how as you read things like setting and tone change. Connecting Prior Knowledge
4. Read chapters 12 – 16 and stop on unfamiliar words to figure out meanings from the context.
5. Have students read “The Dove and the Ant” and identify narrative elements.
6. 100 BC: review narrative elements and have students identify one element in their books to share.
Assessment: Observation/questioning
Homework: read 2 lines of 100 BC
Wednesday, August 29
1. Students will spend one hour in the library learning proper procedures, expectations, etc.
Thursday, August 30
Objective: TLW continue reading to identify narrative elements and how they change
Standards: 5-1.9, 5-1.8
1. Beginning activity: complete Daily Language Review
2. Word study: Review narrative elements and their meanings. Have students write meanings in their own words and get help from a buddy if necessary. Connecting Prior Knowledge
3. Discuss how certain narrative elements change as you read. Read chapters 17 – 21 and model identifying changes in elements as you read. Then stop to ask students what elements have changed occasionally. Add to the chart from yesterday
4. 100 BC: have students pick a fiction book out of the baskets and have them complete the story element chart as they read. Have them share their elements with a partner.
5. Review for test by playing trashcan basketball. Give procedures before playing. Use questions on review sheet.
Assessment: Observation/Questioning
Homework: Study notes on novel, Read 2 lines 100 BC
Friday, August 31
Objective: TLW complete a test on War with Grandpa chapters 1 - 21
Standards: 5-1.9, 5-1.8, 5-1.5, 5-1.6, 5-1.3, 5-3.1
1. Beginning activity: complete Daily Language Review
2. Hand out tests and go over directions
3. Students take tests and read books at seat when finished.
4. 100 BC: genre – what is War with Grandpa? Interpret the genre of your book.
Assessment: Formal Test
Homework: Read 2 lines 100 BC
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