In these two weeks, we learned about how to make predictions about a narrative by looking at the title and the pictures. We also learned how to annotate or think-aloud when reading a text. We learned more about how to identify the main idea in a narrative.
Oct. 10-Oct. 21
During these two weeks, we learned more about the main idea of a narrative and the difference between the main idea and supporting details. The main idea describes the most important part of the story. It gives an overall idea of what the story is about. Details support the main idea.
We also learned about point of view in a narrative. First person point of view is when a character in the story is the narrator. He/she describes how he/she feels and what he/she thinks. The pronouns we usually see are “I, me, we, my, us, etc.” Second person point of view is when the narrator addresses the reader using pronouns like “you and your.” Third person point of view involves a narrator that is not a character in the story. He/she describes what the characters in the story do, feel, and think. The pronouns we see with third person point of view include “he, she, they, them, hers, his, etc.”
Week of Oct. 3-Oct. 7
This week we learned about similes and how to identify them in the excerpts from the narrative (short story) “Eleven.” We used a frayer model to define what a simile is, create our own example, and find an example from the text.
Week of Oct. 10-Oct. 14
This week we discussed important vocabulary in the narrative “Eleven.” We created a foldable to discuss the main idea, setting, and characters in the story. Make sure to study these concepts and your vocabulary words for the post-test on “Eleven” coming up on Tuesday, Oct. 18!
Week of Oct. 3-Oct. 7
This week we learned about figurative language (similes) and how they help us understand a narrative. We created a frayer model that we used to identify similes in the short story “Eleven” and how to create our own similes.
Week of Oct. 10-Oct. 14
This week we learned how to annotate a narrative which included making predictions, visualizing, and asking questions. We also read and discussed the short story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros. We highlighted important vocabulary words used in the text. Make sure to study your questions and vocabulary for the “Eleven” post-test coming up on Tuesday!
Don’t forget to study your vocabulary list for the Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes quiz on Tuesday, October 4. Good luck, and have a great weekend!
Don’t forget to study for your quiz on Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Make sure you know the characters, setting, plot, and theme of the story.
This week we began learning about author’s purpose and textual evidence. Make sure you study the three meanings of author’s purpose: to inform, to entertain, and to persuade.
Make sure that you study the meanings of setting, character, theme, and main idea for the quiz. You need to also study these story elements as they are used in “A House of My Own.”
9/19-9/23
This week in class, we read an excerpt from Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and “The Missing Cat.” We discussed the plot of the story including what one should include when writing about plot. Plot includes the main events of the story including main characters, the problem, and the solution in order. We created a three square of the plot of the stories where we included the definition of plot, the plot of the story, and an illustration that represented the plot.
Week of 9/19-9/23
In class, we read ” A House of My Own” by Sandra Cisneros, and we applied our understanding of setting, theme, characters, and main idea to the text. We created a foldable for all four story elements. We learned the following vocabulary words from the text:
Flat, apartment, porch, pillows, petunias, books, stories, shake, quiet, space, and poem. We translated the words and wrote them in a sentence.
9/8-9/16
In class we applied our learning of story elements to the short story Birthday Barbecue and an excerpt from Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
Story elements: Title, author, genre, characters (who?), setting (when or where?), theme/main idea, plot, problem, and solution.
Vocabulary: Personal narrative, mysteriously, shot (needle), plump, puzzled, grant, omen, lopsided, twinkling, mischief, grin, thread, tacks, parasols, and courage.