Good Tuesday Morning! Today is Oct. 1st!

Number of the Day Worksheet! You MUST KEEP up with this paper! Put your name on it and complete #s 4, 5, and 6

1. Please find your seat quietly.

2. Complete your Number of the day and your Problem of the Day

3. Copy ALL of your Homework and Test Schedule notes.

4. Take care of any morning needs. (Pencils, bathroom, water, check out a book, etc.)

Interesting Quote of the Day: “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” --Martin Luther King, Jr., (American Civil Rights Activist)

“Prehistory” The discovery a clay

The Invention of Rockets• The Chinese invented rockets

more than 1,000 years ago.• During the War of 1812, The

British dropped rockets. This was the inspiration for “The Star Spangled Banner”

• In 1919 Robert Goddard published a paper describing how rockets could reach the moon. His first success was in 1926 when his liquid-fueled rocket climbed 41 feet at about 60 mph and landed 184 feet from the launch pad!

• During WW II German scientists developed the V-2 missiles. These scientists eventually came to the US to do more research.

Robert Goddard

“The ONE-DREAM man” His dream was to send a rocket in space. It began on October 19, 1899, when he was 17 years old. He climbed a ladder to trim branches from a cherry tree. As he looked up, he had a vision of traveling into space. He later wrote, “ I was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended.

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What will I do in this unit?

• You will hear and discuss personal narratives.

• You will explore ideas for your own personal narratives.

• You will visualize sensory details. • You will draft personal narratives, focusing

on significant experiences from their own lives.

Autobiography

What is a personal narrative?

• Personal narratives off you, as a writer, the opportunity to think about and write true stories about meaningful experiences in your lives.

• Personal narratives describe significant events and explain how those events led to learning or a change of some kind.

• Character change in a narrative, whether of a fictional character or a real person, often results from learning an important lesson or gaining a new realization about oneself or the world.

• Personal narratives also include sensory details to make them come alive for the reader.

Knots in My Yo-yo StringKnots in My Yo-yo String is a collection of short pieces that Jerry Spinelli wrote about growing up in Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Today we will read a piece called “Never the Monkey”. In this story Jerry Spinelli writes about something special he owns. While reading this short story I want you to think about special things that you own that you may be able to write about.

“Never the Monkey”

• What events did Jerry Spinelli tell about in this story?

• Why do you think he might have chosen to write this story?

Think, Pair, Share

• Use our think, pair, share strategy that we learned earlier to first think about this question, then discuss it with your partner. The partner will the shortest hair gets to go first.

• Question – Jerry Spinelli writes about an object that is very special to him, a gold-plated medal. What special object do you have that you could write about?– Think– Turn and talk

Writing Ideas

• Open your writer’s notebook to the “Ideas” section of your notebook and label it “Special Objects” and list special objects that you have that you could write about.

I have one…

Independent Writing 20 to 30 Minutes

• Today you will write about one of the objects that is special to you, as Jerry Spinelli did in “Never the Monkey”.

• Remember to answer these questions while writing:– What makes the object special to you?– How did you come to own the object?– What does the object look like?

Partner Share

• Turn and talk with your partner about what you wrote about today.

• The partner with the longest hair gets to go first this time.

Reading Like a Detective

Let’s Practice Our Reading Strategies

What type of text did we explore last week?

Expository Nonfiction

Remember this book? Let’s review!

Reading Comprehension Strategy:

*recognizing text features

This weeks “Making Meaning” agenda!

News articles are short pieces of expository writing that appear in newspapers, magazines, and on

websites.

News articles

News articles

• What newspapers, magazines, or websites have you seen or read?

• Why do people read articles and magazines?

Teacher Read Aloud• Shhhh, you’ll be listening to an article

without seeing the text features.

The title is: “Follow That Ball! Soccer Catching On in the U.S.”

From the title, what do you think this article might be about?

Vocabulary to listen for in the article…

• surge

• stamina

• enthusiasts

- increase

- the ability to work or play for a long time without resting

- people who are really interested in something or do it as a hobby

After reading article…

• What is this article about?

Think – Pair – Share• Why is soccer becoming more popular in the

U.S.? What in the article tells you that?• Why do you think soccer is so popular among

American women?

Reflect

• What did you say to your partner to help explain your thinking today?

• What can you say to your partner next time if you don’t understand what he/she said?

IF I call you to my table, please come quietly. You will not need to bring anything but your brain.

Making Meaning - Vocabulary

Meet at the carpet

Remember the text features on these pages?

Map, photographs, and captions

This photo shows rain

forest trees.

Let’s read this caption

Notice the word “guarantee”

Vocabulary

Word Focus:

“guarantee”

guarantee – a promise or make certain that

something will happen or be done

The large amounts of rain and the varying (different) life cycles of the trees in the rain forest guarantee, or make

certain, that fruits, nuts, flowers, and seeds will be produced all year long for animals to eat.

People sometimes guarantee, or promise, something will happen or be done.

• When has another person guaranteed something to you?

A mechanic could guarantee their work on a car.

A student could guarantee completion

of a project.

Sometimes we guarantee something to another person.

Think – Pair - Share• When have you guaranteed something to

another person?

I guaranteed my daughter I would pick her up right after her

Spanish club meeting.

I guaranteed my principal

that the report would be completed

on time.

What’s the word we’re learning that means “promise or make

certain that something will happen or be done”?

guaranteeWrite word on Word Chart

Part of the book described how rain forests are being destroyed.

Remember this? This cracked, dry earth used to be a lush, green rain forest.

Let’s read this caption

Notice the word

“devastate”

Vocabulary Word

Focus: “devastate”

devastate – destroy or

badly damage

Devastate and destroy are synonyms, or words that mean the same thing or almost the same thing. People

would have devastated, or destroyed, large areas of rain forest for wood and minerals and to grow cash crops.

• What other words can you think of that are synonyms of devastate and destroy? What other words mean almost the same thing?

Did you think of …

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Imagine That!Places can be devastated by nature as well as by people. For example, an earthquake or tidal wave can devastate, or destroy, a city. Insects and droughts can devastate farmland.

Close your eyes and imagine a powerful tornado devastates a town. Afterward, you and your friends rush to the town to help.

Think – Pair - Share• What might you see after a tornado devastates

a town? Open your eyes and discuss.

Imagine That!

Close your eyes and imagine a fire devastates a forest. When it is safe, you and your friends

visit the forest.

Think – Pair - Share• What might you see after a fire devastates a

forest? Open your eyes and discuss.

What’s the word we’re learning that is the synonym of destroy?

devastateWrite word on Word Chart

Last Vocabulary Word Focus!

Remember that the last part of the book tells what happens to rainforest land when the trees are cut down.

Let’s read the first sentence.

Notice the word

“lifeless”

Vocabulary Word

Focus: “lifeless”

lifeless – without life or living things such as people, animals, or

plants.In fewer than ten years after slash-and-burn farmers

destroy a rainforest, the rainforest land becomes lifeless. Plants do not grow there, and people and

animals cannot live on the land.

lifeless

Look at the word lifeless.

Notice “-less” in the word.

“-less” is a suffix (a group of letters that is ended to the end of a word and changes the meaning of the word)

Suffix “-less” means without or having no

So lifeless means without life or living things such as people, animals, or plants.

Imagine That!Close your eyes and imagine your family is driving on the highway, and your car needs

gas. You stop in a town just off the highway. You get out of the car and look around.

Strangely, the town appears lifeless.

Think – Pair - Share• What do you see when you look around the

lifeless town? What don’t you see? Open your eyes and discuss.

• Why might the town be lifeless?

What’s the word we’re learning that means without life or living

things such as people, animals, or plants?

lifelessWrite word on Word Chart

It’s all about the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM!!! YUM YUM

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• 12:00-12:45 --- Activity

• 12:45-1:15 --- Lunch

• 1:15-1:45 --- Recess/Bathroom

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Math Groups

Group 1-Michael, Logan, Bella, Kayla B. Math Station D

Group 2-Kendall, Jumeah, James, Derek Math Station E

Group 3-Miguel, Sierra, Meredith, Zack Math Station A

Group 4-Patrick, Annalee, Sam, Kayla C. Math Station B

Group 5-Taylor, Lexi, Charles, Ramon Math Station C

Brain Power!!! How Smart are You?