3rd Grade humanities
Writing: This week, learners will be completing their autobiographical history. They will be looking at their rough draft, then editing their work to cut the pieces that do not add to their essay and inserting more descriptive and detailed language.
In addition, learners will also be focusing on a few key aspects to a final draft essay as it pertains to the computer. First, they will be (re)learning how to format paragraphs and sentences correctly. Although it is often second nature with physical writing, students have continued to struggle with specific functions of the keyboard such as the shift, space, enter and tab keys; and how it specifically relates to their final draft. Learners will also be learning how to become more efficient in their typing as well as how to utilize both hands and all fingers (Basic typing skills!).
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Writing: This week, learners will utilize their family history narrative outlines to write their drafts. Learners will engage in mini-lessons and activities on using higher level vocabulary, pacing of events, and description language, and integrate these skills and knowledge into their writing to add more detail and refine their narrative's organization. .
Social Studies: We will continue our unit on Alameda history in conjunction with learners' upcoming Trimester 2 family history project. This week, will we focus on how Alameda has changed since learners' families have lived here. Learners will integrate this knowledge into their family history narratives. Writing: For this short week, learners will continue on their informational narrative writing. We will be focusing on structure of their writing. Some of the things we will cover specifically are introduction (leads, hooks, etc), conclusions, the rules of using dialogue and how to use it successfully in their essays. They will be taught these methods and skills through a variety of mini-lessons and activities as well as putting their knowledge to practical use when writing their informational narrative on their personal Alameda history.
Social Studies: This week we will continue our unit on Alameda history in conjunction with learners' upcoming Trimester 2 family history project. Learners will integrate their knowledge of Alameda history and their personal family history in the narrative pieces they write in the upcoming weeks. If you have not done so, please complete the family history questionnaire with your learner! Writing: Learners will return to narrative writing this week, with a focus on figurative language. Learners will review narrative story structure by watching a short film and identifying the characters, setting, and 5 main parts of the story (intro, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution). Throughout the week, learners will engage in mini lessons and activities on different types of figurative language, including similes, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, and alliteration. Learners will watch movie clips, listen to music, and read poems with examples of figurative language, and then create and illustrate their own figurative language phrases, and incorporate figurative language into their writing.
Social Studies: This week we will begin our unit on Alameda history in conjunction with learners' upcoming Trimester 2 family history project. Learners will integrate their knowledge of Alameda history and their personal family history in the narrative pieces they write in the upcoming weeks. If you have not done so, please complete the family history questionnaire with your learner! Writing: In humanities this week, learners will be revisiting narrative writing! They will begin by relearning story structure. This will include characters, setting, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. They will then begin their lessons on figurative language. We will be covering metaphors, similes, personification, onomatopoeias, and alliteration.
We will also be beginning our lessons on Alameda history! |
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