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Weekly Home Fun for Week of 1/9/2017Reading Unit: Character Studies Writing Unit: Literary Essays

Parent Corner:● School is closed January 16th in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.● We have a publishing party this Friday. Feel free to send in drinks or snacks if you can. We also

need some more plastic forks and spoons if anyone is able to buy some for the class.

Monday

Reading Each day this week we will practice one of our skills of the unit that will be on this week’s post test.

Tonight as you read, stop and jot about your character’s trait using the tools below:

1. When I read I can name an idea about the kind of person a character is using a character trait.

● As I read this part when ____ (character) did/said…● This shows me the character is ___ (trait) because...

2. When I read I can notice when a character makes a decision. I can figure out why they reacted this way based on what happened earlier.

● On page ____ the character decided to…● This reminds me of the part(s) of the book when...

Writing Take your draft from school home. Edit using the list below. An adult can help you find things to fix but can not fix your work for you.

Editing Checklist:

● All words are spelled correctly.● Each sentence ends in a period, exclamation point, or question mark● There is a comma after each transition phrase (For example,)● You stay in one verb tense (She walked, The author said)● The beginning of each sentence is capitalized.

Math Complete the Monday math problem solving homework using all steps of SOLVE.

Practice your multiplication flashcards for at least 10 minutes.

Content Closely read and annotate “Different Climates.”

Climate means the average weather patterns in a place from year to year. For example, New York’s climate has 4 seasons and is hot in the summer and cold in the winter.

Tuesday

Reading Tonight as you read a literary text, notice how your character changes and jot using the tools below:

● In the beginning the character (acted/behaved/felt)… For example in the

text when...● The moment that caused ___ (the character) to change was when …● This shows me that the character is starting to change because first he/she

was… and now...

Writing Today in class we started publishing.

1. Make sure you have published at least through body paragraph 2. If you have not, finish publishing up to this paragraph at home tonight.

2. If you’ve already published that far, re-read body paragraph 3 and your conclusion, looking over the writing checklist to make sure you have everything you need to get at least a level 3 (or try for a level 4)!

Math Complete the lesson 19 math homework.

Practice your multiplication flashcards for at least 10 minutes.

Content Re-read your annotations for “Different Climates.”

Based on what you read in the text, why does Brazil have so many different climates? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

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Wednesday

Reading Tonight as you read a literary text, notice how one part of the text connects to the whole story and jot using the tools below:

Story elements: character, setting, problem, solution, lesson

• One important part/element of the story is (name story element)• Some details that describe the (element) are….• The (element) … is important to the story because it shows … (How

would the story change if this element was different?)

Writing Publishing should have been finished in class today. If you did not, please finish at home tonight.

We will take our writing on-demand assessment for literary essay tomorrow in class. Make sure you study and remember the literary essay structure.

If you already finished publishing, you can do a free-write in your writer’s notebook. Choose any genre (realistic fiction, fantasy, poetry, literary essay, persuasive writing, informational writing, how-to) and write at least a page and a half of your best writing for that genre.

Math Complete the lesson 20 math homework.

Practice your multiplication flashcards for at least 10 minutes.

Content Re-read your annotations for “Different Climates.”

(Synthesis) How does the written letter on page 9 connect with the section “Truly tropical”? Use one detail the letter and one detail from “Truly Tropical” to support your answer.

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Thursday

Reading Tonight, notice your story’s lesson as you read a literary text. Jot using the tools below:

• The most important life lesson the character learn is …• My character learns … in the part of the story when… (text evidence)

(What did they realize?)• The author is trying to show us that in life…

Writing Do a free-write in your writer’s notebook. Choose any genre (realistic fiction, fantasy, poetry, literary essay, persuasive writing, informational writing, how-to) and write at least a page and a half of your best writing for that genre.

Publishing party tomorrow! Feel free to bring in snacks if you’d like.

Math Math Test Tomorrow! Study your multiplication facts for as long as you need to tonight.

Complete the lesson 21 homework on multi-step problems. It says to use RDW (read/draw/write), but in our class we use SOLVE so make sure to use SOLVE to complete the problems.

Content Re-read your annotations for “Different Climates.”

How does the picture on page 9 support the section “Hot Highlands?” Use one detail from the picture and one detail from the text to make the connection.

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Friday

Reading

Writing Next week we start writing persuasive essays about a change we want to see in our world. In your writer’s notebook, turn to a clean page, label it Persuasive Essay Ideas, and make a list of as many changes you’d like to see in our class, school, neighborhood, or in your family. Your ideas must be something that are actually possible and realistic (not: I think everyone should get one million dollars).

Here are some examples:

● Our class should get a new smartboard since ours shows up yellow.● My family should get a new sofa because ours is ripped.● Our school should have more vegetarian choices for students who don’t eat meat.

● People should stop throwing trash on the ground in our neighborhood.Put a star next to one idea that you’d like to write about in your on-demand on Tuesday.

Math Complete the mid-module assessment task to show yourself all that you’ve learned about multiplication and division in the first half of this year. This may also show you the things you still need to practice before the state test. If you realize you still don’t understand something on this task, please write me a note below.

Ms. Hokanson, I still need help with…

Science Closely read and annotate the text, “Your Source and Receiver.”

Sound source= the thing that makes the noise

Sound receiver= the thing that receives or hears the noise.

How does the sound source in the human body make a sound? Use details from the text to support your answer.

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