- Unit 4 is entitled Justice. Students will be working to answer the question: What is Justice? This unit will focus on social studies concepts as well so some of the assignments during this unit will count toward students' social studies grades.
- This week we will be reading the social studies article, A Filmmaker for Justice, by Nancy-Jo Hereford.
- Reading comprehension skills for the week are: explain relationships between ideas in text, making inferences, text structure, and compare literary language.
- The Unit 4 reading comprehension test will be on Monday, January 22nd.
Writing
- Unit 4 is entitled Justice. Students will be working to answer the question: What is Justice? This unit will focus on social studies concepts as well so some of the assignments during this unit will count toward students' social studies grades.
- This week's writing assignment will be to write a research report. This is the prompt: Write a report about an event in U.S. history when justice was achieved. Place your reports in a journal called Justice in America.
- We will work on this assignment during class, however, students may need to work on some of the assignment at home. Students will be graded according to the writing rubric posted on the top right column of this page.
- This assignment is due on Monday, January 22nd.
Spelling
- This week we will be working on spelling words ending in -ing, and using commonly misspelled words correctly.
- The words are: advising, balancing, declaring, emerging, exhibiting, governing, insisting, justifying, mentioning, oppressing, prohibiting, persuading, rebelling, revolting, vetoing, principle, principal, pleas, please
- The spelling test will be on Monday, January 22nd.
Grammar
- Students will be working on using present-perfect tense and using the forms of be and have.
- Students are encouraged to take good grammar notes and to review their notes before each test.
- The Unit 4 grammar test will be on Monday, January 22nd.
Small Group Reading
- Students will be placed into leveled small groups based on the results of the Unit 3 assessments.
- Students will be finishing the following books this week: Cesar Chavez: Fighting for Farmworker, Strike Now!, Iqbal, Dolores Huerta: Voice for the Working Poor.
- Students will also be completing learning stations during our small group reading time. All of these activities go along with our Unit 4 theme of justice. Students will turn in a packet of their work which will also count toward their social studies grades.
- Students will need to take an A.R. quiz for their book.
Math
- Chapter 7: Multiply Fractions
- We will complete lessons 7.10- Chapter Review this week.
- Thursday, we will be taking the Chapter 7 test.
- On Friday, we will begin Chapter 8: Divide Fractions.
- There will be one page of math homework assigned nightly.
- There are many resources available on ThinkCentral to help students.
- Every Friday, we will be having a multiplication timed test. Students should be practicing their multiplication facts daily.
- Our next book will be The Watson's Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Science
- We will begin Chapter 6: Earth and Space.
- Students will be doing lesson 3: What are the inner planets?
- This year we will be using USA Studies Weekly for our social studies content.
- Week 12: Slavery in the Colonies.
- USA Studies Weekly content can be found on the website: https://app.studiesweekly.com/online/