This week we are focused on the importance of setting beyond the when and where in which a story takes place. Students will start to read To Kill A Mockingbird. All students will have a paper copy of the text and many students will have access to the text on Learning Ally, where the text is read aloud. To Kill A Mockingbird is a challenging text to read, but it is a beautifully written text that will help students to connect the work that we have done in class regarding self-identity and stereotypes with a text. To meaningfully understand the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird requires understanding the moral universe in which the story takes place. In other words, it requires having a sense of the “rules, constraints, possibilities, potential conflicts and possible consequences” that affect the choices the characters make. In addition to reading the first chapter of To Kill A Mockingbird, students will watch a video, How Stereotypes Affect Us and What Can We found below. Lastly, students will read the poem, "I, too" by Langston Hughes.
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We only have two instructional days before our camping trip this week. Students will be working on writing ACE responses. ACE is a strategy that we use at DGS to answer constructed responses questions. ACE standards for
A - Answer C - Cite evidence E - Explain how the evidence supports the answer In addition to writing ACE responses, students will also have time to read their identify books and work on pivotal moment stories. |
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