5th Grade humanities
Ms. Andrea's fifth grade learners will do Part 2 of the SBA ELA performance task in humanities on Monday, which will wrap up their SBA testing. If your learner was absent last week, they will also do make up testing this week.
Learners will type the final drafts of their scary stories. Mini lessons will focus on when to make a new paragraph, using a checklist to self-assess writing, elaborating suspenseful moments, and using figurative language. We will continue reading Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark as a mentor text and use these short stories to highlight strategies that learners could use in their own stories.
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Fifth grade learners will do Parts 1&2 of the SBA ELA performance task in humanities this week, which will wrap up their SBA testing. If your learner was absent last week, they will also do make up testing this week.
Learners will continue drafting their scary stories. Mini lessons will focus on elaborating the most important parts of their story by using dialogue and detailed descriptions of the setting, events, or character's feelings. We will continue reading Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark as a mentor text and using these short stories to highlight strategies that learners could use in their own stories. This week learners will begin Smarter Balance Assessment (SBA) testing this week. It is extremely important your learner gets a good night sleep and eats breakfast during testing week. The school will be providing additional snacks but please pack your learner's snack as normal. This will help set them up for success during testing. In addition, learners may bring their own headphones if they'd like. Please label these with their last name. Thanks for all you do!
Additionally, fifth grade learners will continue with their new scary story narrative writing unit as they use their story/plot maps and brainstorming to craft an introduction to their narrative. Welcome back! This week, learners will first have a publishing party to celebrate their hard work on their First Amendment freedoms argumentative pieces. Then, leaners will transition into their final writing unit for the year: (fictional) scary stories. This week, learners will engage in the brainstorming and planning process for their stories. To begin with, they will read example scary stories and reflect on what elements of the stories (setting, descriptions, dialogue, action, suspense, etc) makes the stories engaging. Then, they will plan/develop the characters, setting, problem/solution, and main events of their scary story.
Learners will also familiarize themselves with the Smarter Balanced Assessment through practice ELA tests. These practice assessments are not scored, and are used to help learners understand the testing format and tools that are available to them. |
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