Reading Workshop/Gallery Walk

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

To : 

• use literature to know me and the world
• have an enjoyable literary experience
• write a letter to a classmate and share my reading experience with them and

to read and respond to their letter in turn

Essential Questions:

How can I participate in a meaningful and productive way?

Agenda

    1.  Silent Read
    2.  Literary Letters

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Achieves due Sunday

Social Studies  (period 5)

Goals:

You will tour the room in order to view the masks and read the poems.

• Take notes on the masks and bio-poems.

Essential Questions:

• What do we share?
• What makes us unique?
• What is our classroom identity?

Agenda

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• Set up your exhibit. Include your bio-poem, your mask, and your title card.
• Gallery Walk (Take 2 :)

Hero's Journey Act I/Gallery Walk

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Questions:

What does it mean to be a hero?

Agenda

    1.  Key Word Outline: Act I

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Achieve of Choice due Sunday, 9/23
•  “Back to School: Getting It Together” due Sunday, 9/23

Start with the Stretch!

• Before reading poll
• reading strategy of choice
• activity
• after reading poll
• Do the same with your Leveled Article

• Bring a book to school every day 

Social Studies 

Goals:

You will tour the room in order to view the masks and read the poems.

• Take notes on the masks and bio-poems.

Essential Questions:

• What do we share?
• What makes us unique?
• What is our classroom identity?

Agenda

• Set up your exhibit. Include your bio-poem, your mask, and your title card.
• Gallery Walk

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Finish your mask and glue it on the red construction paper!

Hero's Journey/Identity: Masks

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Questions:

What does it mean to be a hero?

Agenda

    1.  Key Word Outline: Act I

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Achieve of Choice due Sunday, 9/23
•  “Back to School: Getting It Together” due Sunday, 9/23 if not finished in class

• Start with the Stretch!
• Before reading poll
• reading strategy of choice
• activity
• after reading poll
• Do the same with your Leveled Article

• Bring a book to school every day 

Social Studies 

Goals:

To consider what aspects of ourselves we share with others.  

Essential Questions:

When and why do we wear masks?

Agenda

• Decide how you want to present yourself to the class.
• Which aspects of your identity do they want to emphasize?
• Which aspects of your identity do they wish to conceal?
• Create your mask

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Finish your mask and glue it on the red construction paper!

Hero's Journey/Identity: Masks

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Questions:

What does it mean to be a hero?

Agenda

    1.  Key Word Outline

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Achieve of Choice due Sunday, 9/23
•  “Back to School: Getting It Together” due Sunday, 9/23 if not finished in class

• Start with the Stretch!
• Before reading poll
• reading strategy of choice
• activity
• after reading poll
• Do the same with your Leveled Article

• Bring a book to school every day 

Social Studies 

Goals:

To consider what aspects of ourselves we share with others.  

Essential Questions:

When and why do we wear masks?

Agenda

    1.  Mask Project

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 

One Word Resolution/Identity

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

To consider what aspects of ourselves we share with others.  
To choose one word that will inspire me to achieve my goals.

Essential Questions:

When and why do we wear masks?

Agenda

    1.  Excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar
2. "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

One Word Resolution Hyper doc

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 

Social Studies 

Goals:

To consider what aspects of ourselves do we share with others.  

Essential Questions:

When and why do we wear masks?

Agenda

    1.  Excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar

2. "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar


REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Achieve of Choice due Sunday, 9/14
• "To Text or Talk?" due Sunday, 9/14 if not finished in class

Reading Workshop

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

To : 

• use literature to know me and the world
• have an enjoyable literary experience
• write a letter to a classmate and share my reading experience with them and

to read and respond to their letter in turn

Essential Questions:

How can I participate in a meaningful and productive way?

Agenda

    1.  Silent Read
    2.  Literary Letters

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day