Room 18
Working Together to Understand...
Math:
Study Links 3.3 due Tuesday the 8th
Reading:
Book Talk due the 17th and 18th
Book Talk Blog due the 17th
http://grade5world.wordpress.com/
Language:
Quote of the Week due Friday the 11th--Anne Frank and then the 18th
December Packet due the 18th
Social Studies:
US states test on the 16th
States packet due on the 16th
Vocabulary:
Wordly Wise Lesson 6 due Friday
Math:
Study Links 2.9 Due Tuesday
Study Links 2.10 Due Thursday
Wordly Wise:
Lesson 4 due Friday
Quote of the Week Due Friday
Choose one of the following quotes by Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Biography--Pitara
Biography--Biography base
�Freedom is not worth having
if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.�
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
�Strength does not come from
physical capacity.
It comes from an
indomitable will.�
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Math:
Study Links 2.7
Wordly Wise:
Charades for Lesson 3 due Friday
Quote of the Week:
Response to Miss Aza due Friday
2.4 Study Links--Due Tuesday
Scholastic Biography for Melba Pattillo Beals
Video of Little Rock Nine and Central High School Integration
Wordly Wise:
Lesson 3--Due Friday
Test Friday--Spelling and Definition
Math:
Reviewed Unit One Test on Monday--started lesson 2.2
Study Links 2.2 assigned Tuesday (due Wednesday)
Language Arts:
Quote of the Week--Handed back on Tuesday Response to Miss Aza due on Friday
Wordly Wise:
Sentences using LAST week's words. Sentences must include an adjective, adverb, and/or a possessive noun.
Here is a portion of our lesson from class today.
The students and I discussed the importance of having our families help us converse about these quotes.
Enjoy,
Miss Aza
Homework October 5th-9th:
Math:
Unit One Test Tuesday
2.1 homework due in class on Friday
Language Arts:
Quote of the Week due Friday--Questions 1-4
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Links for Dwight D. Eisenhower:
White House
American History About.com
Vocabulary:
Wordly Wise--Lesson 2 workbook due
Wordly Wise quiz on Friday--spelling and definition
Quote of the Week
An assignment due Friday mornings
Every other week there will be a new quote near the door of Room
18. Your assignment is to write down the quote in your neatest
cursive in your quote journal. You are then to respond to the quote just below it.
What does it mean to respond to a quote?
- Research and
explain who the person was who said the important words. Give some detail about their lives
and accomplishments (Q1)
- Write why you think the author of the
words said what they did. (Q2)
- Write what you think the quote means.
(Q3)
- Give examples
of how this quote is connected to your own life. Give at least one
example. (Q4)
Going above and beyond:
On the page adjacent
to the quote and the response, you may draw a picture or something else that
you feel helps to represent the words, or the feeling of the quote.
…
Second Week of the Assignment:
Quote books with be returned by Monday afternoon or Tuesday
morning. Quote books will be marked with deeper or clarifying questions
from me. Your response to the question is due that Friday.
|
Quote
of the
Week |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
Q1
Research |
Research is thorough. We have a good picture of the author of the words life and
accomplishments. The research is written in your own words. |
Some research about the person, but not clear about
their accomplishments. The
research is written in your own words. |
Much is missing about the person or the research is NOT
written in your own words. |
|
Q2 Why? |
You explain, using detail from research, why you think
the author would have said or written what they did based on the author’s
accomplishments. |
You give an explanation that doesn’t really fit the
experiences and accomplishments of the author but make a good, observable
effort to. |
You give an explanation, but it does not make sense to
the experiences of the author. |
|
Q3
Interpret |
Explains what you think the quote means by pulling apart
specific phrases and metaphors from the quote and putting them into
understandable language. |
Explains what the quote means. Attempts to pull out phrases and metaphor from the quote. |
Explains without making reference to the specific words
in the quote. |
|
Q4
Connections |
Explains a way in which this quote is connected to your
own life, experiences or observations. |
|
Says the quote is in no way connected. |
|
Week Two Response |
Answers the question(s) Miss Aza has asked. |
You have answered some of the questions |
You did not answer the questions
0 points |
|
Above and Beyond Extra
Credit |
All is done to best ability. |
Used a Drawing, a Timeline, etc to further explain the
research or the idea of the quote. |
Found a picture of the author of the words. |
·
“Author of the words = the person who you are
studying
·
Observations for the Connections section could be
things you have heard on the news or
through family discussions, etc.