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Good Tuesday Morning! Today is Oct. 1 st !. Please find your seat quietly. Complete your Number of the day and your Problem of the Day Copy ALL of your Homework and Test Schedule notes. Take care of any morning needs. (Pencils, bathroom, water, check out a book, etc.).
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Good Tuesday Morning! Today is Oct. 1st! • Please find your seat quietly. • Complete your Number of the day and your Problem of the Day • Copy ALL of your Homework and Test Schedule notes. • Take care of any morning needs. (Pencils, bathroom, water, check out a book, etc.) Number of the Day Worksheet! You MUST KEEP up with this paper! Put your name on it and complete #s 4, 5, and 6 Interesting Quote of the Day: “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” --Martin Luther King, Jr., (American Civil Rights Activist)
The Invention of Rockets • The Chinese invented rockets more than 1,000 years ago. • During the War of 1812, The British dropped rockets. This was the inspiration for “The Star Spangled Banner” • In 1919 Robert Goddard published a paper describing how rockets could reach the moon. His first success was in 1926 when his liquid-fueled rocket climbed 41 feet at about 60 mph and landed 184 feet from the launch pad! • During WW II German scientists developed the V-2 missiles. These scientists eventually came to the US to do more research.
Robert Goddard “The ONE-DREAM man” His dream was to send a rocket in space. It began on October 19, 1899, when he was 17 years old. He climbed a ladder to trim branches from a cherry tree. As he looked up, he had a vision of traveling into space. He later wrote, “ I was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended.
What will I do in this unit? • You will hear and discuss personal narratives. • You will explore ideas for your own personal narratives. • You will visualize sensory details. • You will draft personal narratives, focusing on significant experiences from their own lives.
What is a personal narrative? • Personal narratives off you, as a writer, the opportunity to think about and write true stories about meaningful experiences in your lives. • Personal narratives describe significant events and explain how those events led to learning or a change of some kind. • Character change in a narrative, whether of a fictional character or a real person, often results from learning an important lesson or gaining a new realization about oneself or the world. • Personal narratives also include sensory details to make them come alive for the reader.
Knots in My Yo-yo String Knots in My Yo-yo String is a collection of short pieces that Jerry Spinelli wrote about growing up in Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Today we will read a piece called “Never the Monkey”. In this story Jerry Spinelli writes about something special he owns. While reading this short story I want you to think about special things that you own that you may be able to write about.
“Never the Monkey” • What events did Jerry Spinelli tell about in this story? • Why do you think he might have chosen to write this story?
Think, Pair, Share • Use our think, pair, share strategy that we learned earlier to first think about this question, then discuss it with your partner. The partner will the shortest hair gets to go first. • Question – Jerry Spinelli writes about an object that is very special to him, a gold-plated medal. What special object do you have that you could write about? • Think • Turn and talk
Writing Ideas • Open your writer’s notebook to the “Ideas” section of your notebook and label it “Special Objects” and list special objects that you have that you could write about. I have one…
Independent Writing 20 to 30 Minutes • Today you will write about one of the objects that is special to you, as Jerry Spinelli did in “Never the Monkey”. • Remember to answer these questions while writing: • What makes the object special to you? • How did you come to own the object? • What does the object look like?
Partner Share • Turn and talk with your partner about what you wrote about today. • The partner with the longest hair gets to go first this time.
What type of text did we explore last week? Expository Nonfiction Remember this book? Let’s review! Reading Comprehension Strategy: *recognizing text features
News articles This weeks “Making Meaning” agenda! News articles are short pieces of expository writing that appear in newspapers, magazines, and on websites.
News articles • What newspapers, magazines, or websites have you seen or read? • Why do people read articles and magazines?
Teacher Read Aloud • Shhhh, you’ll be listening to an article without seeing the text features. The title is: “Follow That Ball! Soccer Catching On in the U.S.” From the title, what do you think this article might be about?
Vocabulary to listen for in the article… • surge • stamina • enthusiasts - increase - the ability to work or play for a long time without resting - people who are really interested in something or do it as a hobby
After reading article… • What is this article about? • Think – Pair – Share • Why is soccer becoming more popular in the U.S.? What in the article tells you that? • Why do you think soccer is so popular among American women?
Reflect • What did you say to your partner to help explain your thinking today? • What can you say to your partner next time if you don’t understand what he/she said?
IF I call you to my table, please come quietly. You will not need to bring anything but your brain.
Making Meaning - Vocabulary Meet at the carpet
Remember the text features on these pages? Let’s read this caption Notice the word “guarantee” Map, photographs, and captions This photo shows rain forest trees.
Vocabulary Word Focus: “guarantee” guarantee – a promise or make certain that something will happen or be done The large amounts of rain and the varying (different) life cycles of the trees in the rain forest guarantee, or make certain, that fruits, nuts, flowers, and seeds will be produced all year long for animals to eat.
People sometimes guarantee, or promise, something will happen or be done. • When has another person guaranteed something to you? A mechanic could guarantee their work on a car. A student could guarantee completion of a project.
Sometimes we guarantee something to another person. I guaranteed my principal that the report would be completed on time. Think – Pair - Share • When have you guaranteed something to another person? I guaranteed my daughter I would pick her up right after her Spanish club meeting.
What’s the word we’re learning that means “promise or make certain that something will happen or be done”? guarantee Write word on Word Chart
Part of the book described how rain forests are being destroyed. Notice the word “devastate” Remember this? This cracked, dry earth used to be a lush, green rain forest. Let’s read this caption
Vocabulary Word Focus: “devastate” devastate – destroy or badly damage Devastate and destroy are synonyms, or words that mean the same thing or almost the same thing. People would have devastated, or destroyed, large areas of rain forest for wood and minerals and to grow cash crops.
What other words can you think of that are synonyms of devastate and destroy? What other words mean almost the same thing? Did you think of … wreck demolish spoil ruin
Imagine That! Places can be devastated by nature as well as by people. For example, an earthquake or tidal wave can devastate, or destroy, a city. Insects and droughts can devastate farmland. Close your eyes and imagine a powerful tornado devastates a town. Afterward, you and your friends rush to the town to help. • Think – Pair - Share • What might you see after a tornado devastates a town? Open your eyes and discuss.
Imagine That! Close your eyes and imagine a fire devastates a forest. When it is safe, you and your friends visit the forest. • Think – Pair - Share • What might you see after a fire devastates a forest? Open your eyes and discuss.
What’s the word we’re learning that is the synonym of destroy? devastate Write word on Word Chart
Last Vocabulary Word Focus! Let’s read the first sentence. Remember that the last part of the book tells what happens to rainforest land when the trees are cut down. Notice the word “lifeless”
Vocabulary Word Focus: “lifeless” lifeless – without life or living things such as people, animals, or plants. In fewer than ten years after slash-and-burn farmers destroy a rainforest, the rainforest land becomes lifeless. Plants do not grow there, and people and animals cannot live on the land.
Look at the word lifeless. Notice “-less” in the word. “-less” is a suffix (a group of letters that is ended to the end of a word and changes the meaning of the word) Suffix “-less” means without or having no lifeless So lifeless means without life or living things such as people, animals, or plants.
Imagine That! Close your eyes and imagine your family is driving on the highway, and your car needs gas. You stop in a town just off the highway. You get out of the car and look around. Strangely, the town appears lifeless. • Think – Pair - Share • What do you see when you look around the lifeless town? What don’t you see? Open your eyes and discuss. • Why might the town be lifeless?
What’s the word we’re learning that means without life or living things such as people, animals, or plants? lifeless Write word on Word Chart
12:00-12:45 --- Activity • 12:45-1:15 --- Lunch • 1:15-1:45 --- Recess/Bathroom 12:00-1:45
