Language Arts
In Language Arts this week, students took some time to reflect on a partnership video they recorded last week. They look at an exemplar for an effective partnership and then evaluated their own work, using teacher feedback, to develop an action plan for a new video they will record on Sunday. We also looked at how authors choose to resolve some aspects of a plot line and not others. It is important to investigate and and infer why an author would make that choice in light of the whole text. We also did an optional mini-lesson about theme development and putting story parts together to create a whole.
As writers, we looked at creating inner and outer story lines to bring out meaning. We also looked at teacher and student exemplars, compared them to rubrics/checklists and labeled the stories with this characteristics to refer to later. Students began writing their rough drafts which will be due on April 10th.
Social Studies
Students created Prezi accounts this week and have been working toward building an engaging presentation about The Persian Wars, Athens and Sparta, The Golden Age of Athens or Alexander the Great. They also created a plan to incorporate the Social Studies standards into their presentations. They will have all Monday to practice and presentations will begin on Wednesday.
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