3rd Grade humanities
This week, learners will edit and revise their original narrative story, and type their published piece in Google Docs. We will review editing marks and ways to revise their writing to make their story more interesting and/or better organized. We will also go over the narrative writing rubric to ensure that learners understand expectations for their writing and are challenging themselves to do their best. Learners will go through a checklist for writing content, organization, and grammar, to help them pinpoint areas of strength and parts of their writing that could be improved.
Learners will have their first benchmark this week. Benchmarks are given four times a year in each seminar class, and formally assess learners' understanding of the content covered. Benchmarks are used to inform teaching and track learners' progress.
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This week, we will focus on the drafting process for learners' original narrative stories. Learners will use their plot map outline, as well as their other brainstorming pages, to help structure the sequence of events in their narrative story. Learners will complete their drafts by the end of the week, in preparation for editing, revising, and writing their final narrative drafts next week. We will also review the grading rubric for their narrative stories in order for learners to understand expectations, and to encourage learners to challenge themselves in their writing.
We will continue our social studies unit on the Ohlone. people. Learners will explore how Ohlone people live today, and what traditions they feel are important in their lives. We will read firsthand accounts, watch a short videos clips, and discuss which Ohlone traditions play an important roles in these invidividuals' lives. This week, we will focus on the narrative writing story structure. Learners review the five main plot elements: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. We will continue to read and utilize American Indian legends/myths as examples for our discussion of narrative story elements. Learners will engage in the next brainstorming/pre-writing step of their original narrative stories by completing a plot map outline for the main events of their story. Then, learners will explore how to write a strong introduction by developing multiple ways to "hook" the reader for their story. Learners will choose one of these "hooks", and begin the drafting process by writing their introduction.
We will continue our social studies unit on the Ohlone. people. Learners will explore why Ohlone people today feel it is important to learn about the traditions of their ancestors, and how they keep these traditions alive. We will dive into our first unit on narrative writing and fables, folktales, and myths! This week, we will focus on the narrative writing elements of setting and characters.. Learners will explore how to describe various settings using the five senses, and engage in brainstorming the main character(s) and setting for their narrative piece. As a class, we will read American Indian legends/myths and discuss the stories settings' and character traits.
We will also begin our first social studies unit on Bay Area native people. In their notebooks, learners will reflect on what they already know about native people, and what they want to learn. We will then read a passage that gives learners a framework for learning and talking about native people, and the importance of learning about the Ohlone people. |
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