Language Arts
We will read the story entitlled "Here Be Dragons." This is a short short story that can be compared and
contrasted with the story, "The Smallest Dragonrider." The literary focus is compare and contrast.
KEY WORDS and STEMS will be studies on a weekly basis.
Spelling will include HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS and KEY WORDS
(You will find the KEY WORDS on flashcards in this lesson-just click on flashcards).
STANDARDS ARE STUDIED AND TESTED ON A DAILY BASIS.
The WRITING FOCUS will include NARRATIVE WRITING and Responding to Literature.
We are engaged in independent reading which requires outside reading for homework reading.
The independent reading and the outside reading is documented in a journal that is kept
and maintained by each student. They must log in each time they read and write an
entry for every fifty pages read. These entries must be geared to six assigned strategy
prompts that have been assigned for this reading project. They must read at
least (500) five hundred pages eacjh (9) nine week period. This reading activity will give
each student (2) test grades to average into the final (9) nine week grade. They may also
read another (100) pages and earn (10) ten extra point. This is a wonderful way to enhance
their language arts grade, not to mention how much it will help them to gain more reading
expertise and raise their MAP READING scores.
LANGUAGE ARTS
MRS. JOAN COAN
ENCORE: We are studying the NINETEEN THIRTIES which includes the GREAT DEPRESSION
We are covering the facts that lead up to the DUST BOWL and the migratiion to the panhandle,
which was the plains of Texas and Oklahoma in order to grow grain on the fertile soil. In contrast
to the rest of the country, especially the East where there were soup kitchens and financial choas,
and tremendous job losses. WE ARE NOW VIEWING A MOVIE WRITTEN BY JOHN STIENBECK THAT
DEPICTS THIS TIME PERIOD IN THE WEST. We also watch Channel One News which is a great
aid in covering current events, and other information that is important and necessasry for a well
rounded enrichment learning environment.
