STANDARDS Essential Question: How can ideas, themes, and stories connect people from different times and places? TEKS 5.19(B): Ask literal, interpretive, evaluative, and universal questions of the text. 1. Function (p.17) 2. Compression(p. 17) TEKS Content Concept: Authors often combine pictures and words to make procedural directions as clear as possible Literacy Skills: Analyze Text Structure Interpret Visual Information Identify Main Ideas Prepare to Read: In groups BIN/TABLE 1 Hypothesize ways to build an arch Roman style. Read Article: Build an Arch, Roman Style (Cricket pg. 16-17) Closed Reading Questions 1. Identify details that explain how Roman builders used a centering 2. What three activities does this text teach you? TEKS Connection Craft and Structure Identify Main Ideas 3. The main idea of a paragraph tells what the entire paragraph is about. Work with a partner to write the main idea of the introductory paragraph. Analyze Text Structure 4. Authors use headings and smaller subheadings to tell readers what information will come next. What are the headings and subheadings in this text? Interpret Visual Information: 5. With a partner, explain how the pictures help readers understand the directions. Are some pictures more important than others? Would the directions be clear without the pictures? Explain your ideas. Work with a partner to make 3 predictions about what will happen next in this story. Use story details to make and support your predictions. September Cricket p. 16-17 Paper Pencil Sticky notes (place list on the chart on the outside wall)
5.2(A): Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes. Weekly 1. Function (p.17) 2. Compression(p. 17) 3. Anchored (p. 35) 4. Defective (p. 38) 5. Outlier (p. 36) 6. Jeopardy(p. 30) 7. Collusion (p. 31) 8. Pillage (p. 32) Homework: Frayer Models over all vocabulary (above) BIN/TABLE 4 Prefix/Suffix (an affix which is placed before the stem of a word): o Using the Prefix graphic organizer, complete for the following prefixes (meaning, words with definitions that relate to the definition of the prefix, and an illustration). Ten words for each prefix. sion De Multi Di tive Closed Prefix/Suffix Sort-Please complete the table below using the weekly prefixes and suffixes (above): Prefix/Suffix and Meaning In (Prefix) Inside In (Prefix) Inside In (Suffix)Inside Word Meaning Origin Inbound Function word to indicate inclusion, Greek location or position Inside That is located inside or within Greek Insulin Neutral chemical compound Latin Vocabulary words Dictionary (book/online) Thesaurus Paper Pencil
Essential Question: STANDARDS How do diversity and adaptation affect animals and humans? Core Content Concept: Human activities have had a profound impact on the environment. TEKS 5.11(C): Analyze how the organizational pattern of a text (e.g., cause-and-effect, compare-andcontrast, sequential order, logical order, classification schemes) influences the relationships among the ideas. 1. Anchored (p. 35) BIN/TABLE 2 A. Prepare to read Why is adaptation a crucial component of survival? B. Read the article: MUSE: The Mystery of the White Monarchs (Expository Nonfiction p. 34-39) Close Reading and Text Analysis Key Ideas 1. Using specific details from the text, explain why it is so rare to see a white monarch. 2. Why does being an outlier make a species a prime target for predators? Give examples to support this statement. TEKS Connections: Interpret Phrases: Craft and Structure 3. How can new environments redefine what is weird and what is normal? Select specific passages from the text to formulate your answer. Analyze Text Structure: 4. The text discusses many cause and effect relationships that exist between man and nature. Why is this structure an effective way to discuss the adaption of white monarch butterflies? 2. Defective (p. 38) 3. Outlier (p. 36) Literacy Skills: Interpret Phrases Analyze Text Structure Muse (September) Pgs. 34-39 Paper Pencil Sticky notes (place list on the chart on the outside wall)
STANDARDS Essential Question: How have physical and human characteristics of place shaped modern Cambodian Culture? Core Content Concept Individuals may shape significant historical change. TEKS 5.11(C): Analyze how the organizational pattern of a text (e.g., cause-and-effect, compare-andcontrast, sequential order, logical order, classification schemes) influences the relationships among the ideas. 1. Jeopardy(p. 30) 2. Collusion (p. 31) 3. Pillage (p. 32) Literacy Skills: Analyze Word Choice Analyze Text Structure BIN/TABLE 3 Prepare to read: Use the concept map (p. 20) to summarize what you know about deforestation Read Article: Faces: Leng Ouch Fights to save Forests (p. 30-33) Close Reading and Text Analysis: 1. Identify a sentence that explains why Leng Ouch risks his life for this cause. 2. Identify the actual effects of the agreements between the government and large corporations. 3. How can we be certain collusion was involved? Use explicit details from the text to support your answer. TEKS Connection: Analyze Word Choice: 4. Reread the section entitled Ouch Puts His Life on the Line and note the verbs and adjectives the author uses as she describes Leng s life. What mood is created by her word choice? Analyze Text Structure: 4. The article follows a problem/solution text structure. Why do you think this structure is used? Why do you think the author identified a problem without mentioning a solution? Faces (September) page 30-33 Paper Pencil Sticky notes (place list on the chart on the outside wall) Graphic Organizer (see Ms. Butler)
STANDARDS Essential Question: Why do people leave their homestead? TEKS: 5.1(A) Explain when, where, and why groups of people explored, colonized, and settled in the United States, including the search for religious freedom and economic gain. BIN/TABLE 5 Open Book quiz! Social Studies book Paper Pencil White construction paper