Next Week in ELA

• Monday, March 5th 
• We will be traveling to The Paley Center for Media by school bus to take part in an exciting program that is a GREAT introduction for our next unit in ELA.  Our next unit covers injustice and overcoming it.  This trip will introduce the topic by having them look at various video clips from the civil rights movement and identifying and discussing the injustices they witnessed and what makes people stand up to injustice. 
• Tuesday, March 6th
• ReadyGen Lesson 4B.16 with a focus on determining the meaning of academic and domain specific words and phrases in the text "A New Beginning" in the text collection (RI5.4).  They will also be able to determine two or main ideas of the text and explain how they are supported by key details as they summarize the text (RI5.2).  We will continue to work in class on the PBA by modeling a strong introduction and conclusion and then passing out drafting paper for them to start drafting.
• Wednesday, March 7th 
• STAR Testing for current Reading Levels.  Then we will do the last lesson for this unit - ReadyGen 4B.18.  Our focus will be to compare text structure and themes across the three texts we have read in Unit 4B.  Students will have time to work on finishing or revising their PBA with classmates.
• Thursday, March 8th 
• Elevate will be with us to continue our study skills series.  If time permits students will revise and edit their PBA which is due on Friday!
• Friday, March 9th 
• End of Unit Test - The test consist of one text that the students will read independently.  Students will then answer 6 text dependent comprehension questions, 4 text dependent vocabulary questions, and 1 text dependent written response.   With the time left over students must complete their final draft to turn in.

Homework:
Homework:

• Homework Packet #23 will be passed out on Monday.  Each day, students should read the first article and do ONE page of the homework packet.  Packets are due Thursday!
• Reading Response Journals are to be completed 5 nights out of the 7 days of the week.  Students are expected to read for 30-45 minutes on their own.  Then they should spend 5 minutes writing a brief summary of what happened in the pages they read.  They should spend another 5 minutes writing a reflection toward what they read.  What it meant to them.  What they felt.  How they can connect and relate to it.  This is part of STUDYING to be a better reading, writer and thinker. 
• PBA:  The PBA is due on Friday!