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Ms. Seeley, Language Arts, 5th Grade

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Ms. M. LA Week of May 22

Mon: Readers Theater and class clean up
Tues: Readers Theater and class clean up
Wednesday: Readers Theater and class clean up
 
Thursday is class party and Friday Final Advocacy

Ms. M. LA Week of May 15

Mon: Work on posters, Biography Presentations 
Tues: Finish working on posters, Final Biography Presentations
Wed: Self Bio portrait finalize and hang up! Finishing Malala Cube. Hang up Malala class poster. 
Thurs: Tour the Room (1/2 class share posters other ½ walks around). Reading comprehension (group acting/reading activity)
Fri: Tour the Room (1/2 class share posters other ½ walks around). Reading comprehension (group acting/reading activity)

Ms. M. LA Week of May 8

Mon: begin working on Open House Bibliography Poster Boards, Presentations
Tues: Continue working on Poster boards, Presentations, silent reading
Wed: Finish working on poster boards. Continue Presentations. Silent reading. 
Thursday: Self Portrait Activity. 'The who was? Show'
Friday: Self Portrait Activity. 'The who was? Show'

Poem Analysis- 4/20

After choosing your famous poet to write a biography about- pick one of their poems and complete the poem analysis!
 
**Please complete if missing in Infinite Campus**
 
this will go on your display, too!

Ms. M's LA Week of April 24

Monday: Warm up. Finish Drafting Biography Essay. Finish Reading Malala. Malala Kahoot. 
Tues: Warm up. Watch Malala Speech. Peer Revise Rough Drafts. Malala Comprehension worksheet. Color part of Malala poster if time. 
Wednesday: Warm up. Finish word doc to print for Open House poster board. Finish coloring part for Malala class poster. 
Thursday: Warm up. Finish working on rough draft. Turn in rough draft. Beginning final draft. Malala Kahoot. 
Friday: Malala Interactive Cube

Ms. M. Language Arts Week of April 10

This week and next (due to testing) we have creative 'Who lives here' warmups where we practice writing using the RACES format and using our written answers to help guide verbal responses. 
Students will continue their project/drafting their poets' biography. They will also read three chapters daily of Malala(the chapters are very short). They will also have a comprehension worksheet/discussion on the chapters read. 

Ms. M. Language Arts Week of April 3

This week we are researching our chosen Poets and finding relevant information for our biography projects.  We are also reading a chapter a day of I Am Malala. 

Ms. M LA Week of March 27

This week in LA the class will cover:

-what a biography is

-how to read one and annotate for key information

-begin choosing a poet/poem to write a biography on

-daily independent reading of 'I Am Malala'

January 30- February 3

Hello!
This week in Language Arts we are working on our informational essay. We have picked our topic from their we will be using this information to write an essay. 
In reading, we continue our book while answering comprehension questions and taking quizzes. 

January 23-27

Hello!
This week in Language Arts we are finishing up the difference between summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting a website. With that, we will be starting to plan our research paper. In reading we are still working our way through Hatchet. We will be answering comprehension questions and taking chapter quizzes. 

January 17-20

Hello!
This week in Language Arts we are working on looking at the difference of summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting a website. These are skills to help build up to our research paper.

January 9-13

Welcome back!
Language
This week in language arts we are going to dive into our research unit. We will be focusing on finding out if a website is bias or not and how to evaluate different websites. This will help us when it comes to looking at website when we start research and writing. 
 
Reading
This week in reading we are starting our new book Hatchet.