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- 3D Model - This lesson helps students investigate setting. Students are asked to create a 3D model of one of the major settings in the book. They are challenged to include as many details as possible, including the time of day and season of the year.
- Adjectives in Advertising - The student will be able to list adjectives that describe a popular product.
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Word - Students will think critically about their interpretations of the events in an image and write about those ideas.
- Adjectives Using Poetry - Students will write an original lyrical poem using adjectives and descriptive language.
- Authors Purpose & Fact or Opinion - For students to be able to identify the authors purpose and to know what informal, persuasive and entertaining papers are.
- Beach Umbrella Writing-Main Idea - Using an Umbrella as a prop to teach Main Idea, Supporting Details, and Conclusion concepts.
- Bad Characters - Trial and Error - Students will be able to support their arguments with evidence from the text.
- Character Counts - Students will understand the importance of courtesy in school.
- Common or Proper Noun? - Students will be able to recognize and capitalize proper nouns with 90% accuracy.
- Direct Definition Context Clues - Use context clues and text structures to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary.
- Does the Media make Us Numb? - I would like students to understand how the workings of the media influence our lives on a grander scale.
- Expository Writing In Context - We will have a competition to see who is the most persuasive and we will have 3 people read their stories at the assembly on Wednesday.
- Express Yourself! - Students will identify figurative language used in "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck with a 90% accuracy.
- Visualization While Reading - Help students give purpose to reading.
- Mixed Bag Vocabulary - Students will be given 5 completely unfamiliar vocabulary words.
- Final K Sound - Students will use coding to sound out unknown words identify key elements.
- Ghost Canoe - Students work on their reading comprehension via visualization while we are reading the book "Ghost Canoe".
- Halloween Newsletter - Create a newsletter based on the attached research about the history of Halloween, jack-o'-lanterns, costumes, the name Halloween, and other topics.
- Hot Words for the SAT - Students will build their word power.
- Identify and Use Pronouns - Student will be able to identify and apply in their writings the selected cases of pronouns.
- Idioms - Students will be able to figure out the meaning of common idioms with an 80% accuracy by the end of the lesson.
- Introductory Paragraph Lesson - The student will be able to identify, understand, and create their own introductory paragraph to an essay.
- Independent and Shared Reading - Students will: recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylish elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- James and the Giant Peach - Show students the book and determine what they know about the book.
- Letter Writing - The students will be writing a personal-business block style letter and a narrative essay.
- Listening and Speaking Skill - Conversation skills for grocery shopping.
- "Lost Generation" - The students will be engaged and on task as demonstrated by active listening and watching the video, participation in the discussion both before and afterwards.
- Love of Learning - To teach them that argumentative writing weaves into movie reviews and restaurant reviews that all comes under the umbrella of persuasive writing.
- Making a Recipe - Recipe including a variety of vocabulary related to cooking.
- Making Brochures: Trip to Mars - Students will construct a travel brochure advertising a fantastical trip to Mars.
- Making Connections - The students will be able to identify the characteristic of mysteries, learn to make predictions and create possible outcomes.
- Monster Exchange - How do we create directions for drawing a monster?
- Narrative Essay - The students will orally present a 5-Paragraph essay based on the Rainbow Writing method.
- Narrative Fairytales First Steps - Test their growing knowledge of narrative elements without the assistance of the teacher.
- Olagbegi's Etymology - This course will teach prefixes, suffixes, root words, and grammar of different languages relative to English.
- Open-Ended Questioning - Students will distinguish between open and closed questions and will create their own open-ended questions to strengthen their comprehension skills.
- Parts of a Paragraph - Analyze the paragraphs of a selection from a book. Identify the topic sentences and main ideas of a paragraph.
- "Passports-Travelling Back In Time - To examine and analyze a culture and traditions that many are unfamiliar with in their own lives.
- Personal Essays - Examining the structure of Personal Essays to determine how to form a working thesis.
- Poetry in Action - Students will increase their understanding of poetry, and become poets themselves.
- Prefix Spin - This lesson will focus on vocabulary building and increased knowledge of prefix usage.
- Prefix/Suffix Review - How to separate them and create new words using them.
- Punctuation - Students will be able to express how and when to employ the dash, the hyphen, parentheses, and semicolon's in sentences.
- The Outsiders Vocabulary - Students build vocabulary and use it outside of the classroom.
- Reader Response Journal - To gain insight and empathy to many various contents in the book (The Watsons Go to Birmingham), but especially regarding racism, prejudice, and discrimination.
- Reading Strategies - Reading strategies help students develop a new way to read develop critical thinking skills.
- Reading & Understanding a Story - Students should be able to read and understand the story through a "Vocal Reading".
- Reading Into Context and Meaning - To get the students to visualize the content of the letter, and to think about the details.
- Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - The goal in this class is to promote reading fluency, comprehension, and writing.
- Run-on Sentences - The student will be able to break a run-on sentence into smaller sentences.
- Seasons in Poetry - Students will be able to learn what alliteration is, how it works to establish "word music" for the reader's ear, and how to apply it in their own writing.
- Selena: Biography and Vocabulary - Develop interest in biographies.
- Starting Language Arts Class - Students will understand the expectations for their behavior and the expectations that I have for this years Language Arts, Reading, and Native Literature classes.
- Sticks and Stones - At the conclusion of this lesson, students will understand the power their words have on other classmates.
- Synonyms & Antonyms - Students will better understand the terms synonym and antonym.
- Target Audience in Advertising - Students will complete a graphic organizer and write a paragraph describing how they came to the conclusion of which target audience a given television commercial was designed for.
- Text Interaction - To demonstrate various strategies to aid student comprehension, motivation, interest and interaction with text.
- The Different Types of Writing - This topic will be noted by students by the techniques that they learned at the simple note taking lesson.
- The Highwayman - The evaluation of figurative language in narrative poetry by determining the effect of this language compared to stating something "literally".
- The Johnstown Flood - To develop and increase reading fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary identification, understanding, and usage.
- The Most Dangerous Game - Part 4 - To analyze the impact of setting on a character's traits and emotions To use descriptive adjectives and nouns to compare Sanger Rainsford & General Zaroff.
- The Proper Use of Adjectives - Demonstrate the ability to learn about adjectives.
- The Wave - Addressing the issue of peer pressure in society and in the novel the wave.
- Trapped by Fear - The student will be able to define and address Main Idea and Supporting details.
- Trino's Choice - Context Clues - Students will be able to use self-monitored reading using learned strategies.
- Understanding Nouns - When reading sentences, students will be able to distinguish nouns from other parts of grammar; like pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs.
- Using Inferences - How can we determine the nature of the relationship between T-Ray and Lily using Inferences?
- Vivid Verbs and Adjectives - Students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the importance of incorporating vivid verbs and descriptive adjectives in their narratives.
- Vocabulary Jeopardy - This lesson will focus on vocabulary building and recognition using text related vocabulary in a Jeopardy game.
- What are acronyms? - What sorts of acronyms exist in folk tales and short stories?
- Writing Fix - What If... - Each Student will refer to the 6 traits of writing to create their own imaginative 3 stanza poem concentrating on word choice.
- Writing Opening to a Narrative - Students will be able to write an opening to a narrative that hooks the reader and creates suspense.
- Working With Adjectives - The students will broaden their knowledge about adjectives through using them to describe both objects and music.
- Writing holiday postcards - Using the present and past tenses.
- Writing Reviews - Understand, respond to, and use written language effectively in a range of contexts.
- You Know You Want to Do It My Way - TLW use the key components of a written essay.
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