Good morning scholars, it’s time to bring the world to us through Google Earth.  Today, we are headed to the hidden worlds of the National Parks.  We will follow park rangers on a journey to places most people never go.  This field trip is packed with plenty of videos, so lets start exploring.

Peace

Click Here for The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks

Which location was your favorite to visit and why? Let me know in the comments section below.

ELA Expectations for today:

Reading — I still need opinion papers from Parker, Natalie, and Aires.  Refer to Wednesday’s post.  Please turn these in today.

Reading Response Journal Letters — I still need reading response letters from Parker and Aires.  Please turn these in today

Daily Check-In and Questions of the day — Click Here for Daily Check-In & Questions

Article of the Day —  this week we will be reading and learning about Ancient Animals and Fossils.  There are a lot of cool articles this week, but I really enjoyed the one about The King of the Tyrant Lizards..so cool.  I hope you enjoy them.  Select one article today from your assignment and complete your book of knowledge entries.

DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) — 30 minutes of reading a book of your choice.

Good morning scholars, I hope you’re rested and ready to write.  We need to finish up our opinion writing today before we can move on.  See you at 11:00.

Peace

ELA Expectations for today:

Reading — BIG THANK YOU to Declan, Emilio, and Silas for turning their opinion writing.  The rest of you will continue to write this and turn it in today.  Please see yesterday’s post for detailed guidance on writing this opinion piece.  Our zoom meeting will be about this piece of writing.

Reading Response Journal Letters — Thursday’s group is due today.  Parker, please turn your letter in today.

• Tuesday: Silas, Parker, Nate, Ivy
• Thursday: Cleo, Natalie, Emilio, Aires, Declan

Zoom Meetings — Aires’ Zoom Meeting @ 10:00

Click Here for Zoom Meeting @ 11:00

Article of the Day —  this week we will be reading and learning about Ancient Animals and Fossils.  There are a lot of cool articles this week, but I really enjoyed the one about The King of the Tyrant Lizards..so cool.  I hope you enjoy them.  Select one article today from your assignment and complete your book of knowledge entries.

Typing — 15-20 minutes of typing practice.

DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) — 30 minutes of reading a book of your choice.

 

ELA Expectations for today:

Reading — We’ve been learning that good readers take time and learn more about a topic by looking at outside sources.  Yesterday we read a letter written by the Women’s Political Council, persuading blacks to stay off city buses in protest of Rosa Park’s arrest. We also watched the documentary about the Montgomery bus boycott.  I asked each of you yesterday in our daily questions whether you thought the bus boycott was a good solution or not to the problem.

Today we’re going to share that response in writing. This piece of writing will be graded. You will want to do your best work making sure your writing looks like third-grade writing.  You will use the framework found on page 26 of your readers notebook when writing this piece.

Please look below at the example of how I began writing the first paragraph of the introduction to my paper.

Notice that the first paragraph is indented.  Also notice how my introduction sentence tells the problem revealed in our story and also in the letter we read yesterday. In the second part of the introduction paragraph, I tell the solution to the problem, this follows the framework on page 26. You will need to add one more sentence to your introduction—you will tell whether you agree or disagree with how the problem was solved.  Use the introduction below to begin your writing.

Please add strong evidence that supports your opinion in the second paragraph.  This evidence should come from the text, then add a concluding paragraph that restates your thinking.  You have all written opinion pieces before and they turned out really well.  I look forward to reading these.

You may use pencil and paper, typing, or dictation while completing this assignment.  When you are finished, please email your writing to me.

Reading Response Journal Letters — thanks to Silas, Ivy, and Nate for turning in their letters yesterday.  Parker, please turn your letter in today.

• Tuesday: Silas, Parker, Nate, Ivy
• Thursday: Cleo, Natalie, Emilio, Aires, Declan

Zoom Meetings — Aires’ Zoom Meeting @ 10:30

DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) — 30 minutes of reading a book of your choice.

Good morning scholars, today we will be focusing on an outside text to help us understand the problem and solution that the black community tried in Montgomery, Alabama.  Also, if you are in the Tuesday group for the Reading Response Journals, you letters are due today.

Peace

ELA Expectations for today:

Reading — today we will stop to read an outside text that will help us understand the problem and solution that the black community faced.  Also, please make sure your evidence collection box (page 20 in you reader’s notebook) looks like the one below.  Make sure you also watch the video on Rosa Parks.

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Reading Response Journal Letters — what are you reading this week?  Letters will be due this week on:

• Tuesday: Silas, Parker, Nate, Ivy
• Thursday: Cleo, Natalie, Emilio, Aires, Declan

Daily Check-In and Questions of the day — Click Here for Daily Check-In & Questions

Zoom Meetings — Aires’ Zoom Meeting @ 10:00

There will be no whole class zoom meeting today due to an appointment that I have.  See you on Thursday.

Article of the Day —  this week we will be reading and learning about Ancient Animals and Fossils.  There are a lot of cool articles this week, but I really enjoyed the one about The King of the Tyrant Lizards..so cool.  I hope you enjoy them.  Select one article today from your assignment and complete your book of knowledge entries.

Typing — 15-20 minutes of typing practice.

DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) — 30 minutes of reading a book of your choice.

Good morning scholars, I hope you all enjoyed the weekend.  Today we will finally get to our ask a climber a question.  This all started when we took our virtual field trip to Yosemite Valley.  If you have any questions about the pics today, please add a comment at the bottom of today’s post. I hope you enjoy it.

Peace

ELA Expectations for today:

Ask a Climber a Question — today, I’d like to introduce you to a really good friend of mine.  I’ve know Bruce for nearly 40 years and he is not only an amazing climber, but an amazing person who I call my friend.  Here’s our interview were Bruce answers all of your questions.  I hope you enjoy it.

Interview with a Climber, Part 1 

Interview with a Climber, Part 2

 

Reading Response Journal Letters — what are you reading this week?  Letters will be due this week on:

• Tuesday: Silas, Parker, Nate, Ivy
• Thursday: Cleo, Natalie, Emilio, Aires, Declan

Daily Check-In and Questions of the day — Click Here for Daily Check-In & Questions

Zoom Meetings — Aires’ Zoom Meeting @ 10:00

Article of the Day —  this week we will be reading and learning about Ancient Animals and Fossils.  There are a lot of cool articles this week, but I really enjoyed the one about The King of the Tyrant Lizards..so cool.  I hope you enjoy them.  Select one article today from your assignment and complete your book of knowledge entries.

Typing — 15-20 minutes of typing practice.

DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) — 30 minutes of reading a book of your choice.