I look forward to meeting some of you this week for the start of October conferences.
Writing
This week our focus is on story mapping. We will read a story together as a class. We will
"mark it up" meaning we will read it first discussing what that story was about and take notes. We will then read it for a second time to map the story on the story arc. The focus is for students to see how stories are structured. (Setting, initiating event, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution).
Reading
We are starting our second read aloud, "Oggie Cooder" by Sarah Weeks. I love this book! It's a great book to discussion characterization, motivation, and how characters change over time. We will track our thinking together as class and write reading responses.
Social Studies
We are moving on to government. We will read the Social Studies Weekly news article together as a class and take notes in our journal.
Spelling: Spelling words will be passed out tomorrow. The students have two weeks to study their words.
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