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Students continue to read Wonder. Students will be working to get to Part 9. They will be asked to reach their reading task at home if they are behind. Please allow students time to catch up on their readings. 

 

Students are also learning to construct a thesis and write an opinion essay in a 5-paragraph format. Students will be focusing on having multiple pieces of evidence that defend their reasons for their opinions. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

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I hope you all enjoy your snow day! Please stay warm. I want to make a reminder post that our classroom is a nut free zone. This includes peanuts, tree nuts, and all types of nuts. This is for the safety of not only me, but students in the class as well. Please check that your lunches and snacks are nut free and do not contain any food items with any nuts in them. If you are unsure about a product, please feel free to reach out to me so I can let you know if it would be safe for our class.  

 

I will see you all Wednesday!

 

Mrs. Lounsbury

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Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful break! This week, we will be continuing our novel study on Wonder. We will be discussing the multiple perspectives of the novel, and which characters hold different biases.  

 

Here is a link to listen to part 1 of Wonder. https://youtu.be/K_xZWu_eILE?feature=shared

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We have started to read the book, Wonder, by RJ Palacio. to write and how the perspective of a character connects to the theme an author writes about. We are focusing of how authors use their bias  We have read up to Chapter 7.  I have attached a link to a read aloud playlist. Anyone who misses any reading can catch up here. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury

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 I hope you had a great break!.  This week, students will begin to learn about reading and thinking about the text from many perspectives. Good bye

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I hope you had a nice long weekend. Students will be working on their November writing assessment. They will be showing their knowledge of Nonfiction texts and how to write multiple paragraph esssyas.

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

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This week we will continue to work on writing our informational/ research papers. Students have picked topics that they are writing about. They have been creating headings based on the main idea of each paragraph. They have been adding nonfiction text features to their texts as well. Here is a video on how I will be instructing students to add quotes to their essays. https://youtu.be/CDGdqoCyAtw?feature=shared 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

This week Students will continue to work on their nonfiction research topics.  We will be focusing on asking and answering questions they have in a nonfiction text while also focusing on a main idea for their essays. Here is a video on how to ask and answer questions.  https://youtu.be/Y_E-N5y1r7g?si=5Zke5uTLTjMpiRXV 

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This week we will be focusing on writing nonfiction texts. Students will be working on writing  multiple paragraphs around a single main idea. Here is a video we will be watching about adding headings to your writing. https://youtu.be/m0y_HvsIP_s?feature=shared 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury 

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This week we will begin our Journey into nonfiction. We will be discussing nonfiction texts, and creating our own survival guides that would have helped someone like Brian survive in the wild. Here is a video discussing fiction vs. non fiction. 

 

https://youtu.be/uF2e_eqI5gI?feature=shared 

 

Please be on the look out for a movie permission slip to watch the Hatchet movie. I will need those returned ASAP.

 

 

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This week we will continue reading Hatchet We will discuss what a climax in a story is and where it is located on a plot mountain.  Students will also be completing a writing assessment. 

 

Christine Lounsbury

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This weeks students will be selecting and sharing a written piece they are proud of. Students will continue to read Hatchet. We are over halfway through. We will continue to Plot the events of the book, and identify all the story elements. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury

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This week we are going to continue reading Hatchet. we have been identifying figurative language in the story. Students will use descriptive language to describe moments and places they have experienced

 

Here is a video of some of the types of figurative language students have been reading and using. .  

 

 

~Mrs. Lounsbury

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This week we will continue to read Hatchet. We will be looking for different types of figurative language, and how it is used to add detail to the story. we will also be working on descriptive writing. 

 

Mrs. Lounsbury