11/09 - 11/13/09 CJones' Language Arts & Earth Science
Lesson Plan For: Language Arts
Teacher: Cherie Jones
Topic: Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 5 Continued
Grammar Chapter 3 “Parts of Speech
Overview”(Verbs, Adverbs,
Prepositions, Conjunctions and
Interjections)
Literature: Read, “Brother” “The Kid
Who Became President”
Practice on the Writing Process /
Descriptive Essays for Thanksgiving Dinner
Advanced Class: Bloom’s Taxonomy Projects
Standard(s):
ELA6R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts.
ELA6R2 The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it correctly in reading and writing.
ELA6R3 The student reads aloud, accurately (in the range of 95%), familiar material in a variety of genres, in a way that makes meaning clear to listeners.
ELA 6RC1 The student reads a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate books or book equivalents per year from a variety of subject disciplines.
ELA6RC3 The student acquires new vocabulary in each content area and uses it correctly.
ELA6W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.
ELA6W4 The student consistently uses the writing process to develop, revise, and evaluate writing.
ELA6C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
ELA6LSV1 The student participates in student –to-teacher, student-to-student, and group verbal interactions.
Journal Topics:
Monday – Take up journals 1-10 for a grade.
Tuesday – Tell me about your Thanksgiving dinner.
Wednesday – Holiday
Thursday – What would you do if your best friend was in trouble?
Friday – Topic of your choice
Lesson Content:
Monday – Go over lesson 5 words for test tomorrow. Begin descriptive essays.
Tuesday – Take a test over lesson 5 words. Work on grammar exercises from chapter 3 (1,3,4,6-8, 10, 13, 14)
Wednesday – Veterans Day Holiday
Thursday - Read, “Brother” on page 111. Answer the questions at the end.
Work on Descriptive essays about Thanksgiving Dinner.
Friday – Work on Descriptive essays. Library visit. Accelerated Reading.
*When they finish early on any assignment they need to read in their A/R book when they can. Every night students need to read for 30 minutes per night and have their parents initial that they did read on their reading logs.
Assessment: Vocabulary/Spelling test over lesson 5
words on Tuesday
A/R Tests
Questions over “Brother”
Descriptive essays about Thanksgiving
Homework: Study for vocabulary/spelling test over
lesson 5 words on Tuesday.
Grammar Exercises over Chapter 3 “Parts of
Speech Overview”
(Exercises 1, 3, 4, 6-8, 10, 13, 14)
Literature story questions over “Brother”.
Descriptive Essays due next week.
Read library books for 30 minutes a night.
Advanced Class: Bloom’s Taxonomy Projects
Chapter 7 – Erosion and Deposition Continued
The Big Idea (Essential Question): How do the processes of erosion and deposition shape the landscape?
Standards
SGCS1 - Students will explore the curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science.
S6CS2 - Students will use standard safety practices for all classroom laboratory and field investigations.
S6CS4 - Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and
manipulating equipment and materials in scientific activities.
S6CS5 Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.
S6CS6
S6CS8 - Students will investigate the characteristics of scientific knowledge.
S6CS9 - Students will investigate the features of the process of scientific inquiry.
S6E5 - Students will investigate the scientific view of how the earth’s surface is formed.
c. Classify rocks by their process of formation.
f. Explain the effects of physical processes(plate tectonics, erosion, depositions, volcanic eruptions, gravity) on geological features including oceans (composition, currents, and tides).
h. Describes soil as consisting of weathered rocks and decomposed organic material.
i. Explain the effects of human activity on the erosion of the earth’s surface.
Lesson Content
Monday
Opening - Start-up Sheet.
Work Session
Library research on science fair projects.
Closing - Wrap up. Ticket Out The Door - Show completed start-up sheet.
Homework: Vocabulary book over chapter 7 terms.
Tuesday
Opening - Start-up Sheet.
Work Session
Midterm start-up Test over start-up sheets 1-4.
Closing -Wrap up. Ticket Out The Door - Show completed start-up sheet.
Homework: Vocabulary Book over chapter 7 terms.
Wednesday
Veterans Day Holiday
Thursday
Opening - Start-up Sheet.
Work Session
Closing - Wrap up. Ticket Out The Door - Show completed start-up sheet.
Homework: Vocabulary Book over chapter 7 terms.
Friday
Opening – Start-up Sheet.
Work Session – Vocabulary book over chapter 7 terms is due!
Draw and label The Course of a River on pages 216 and 217.
Closing – Wrap up. Ticket Out The Door – Show completed start-up sheet.
Homework: None
Start-up Sheet #5 (Chapter 7 – Erosion and Deposition)
Standard – S6E5 – Students will investigate the scientific view of how the earth’s surface is formed.
Monday (Use pages 222-223)
1.What is a glacier? Name the two kinds.
2.Discuss continental glacier.
3.Discuss valley glacier.
Tuesday (Use page 223)
1.The two processes by which glaciers erode the land are ______________ and ______________.
2.What is plucking?
3.What is abrasion?
4.Draw and label figure 13 on page 223.
Thursday (Use page 224)
1.Turn to page 224 and look at Figure 14. Classify these glacial features according to
whether they result from erosion or deposition:
Drumlin, horn, cirque, moraine, U-shaped valley.
2.When a glacier melts, it deposits the _______________ it eroded from the land, creating various landforms.
3.List some landforms created by glaciers.
Friday (Use pages 226-227)
1.Where does the energy in waves come from?
2.Waves are the major force or erosion along coasts. Waves shape the coast through erosion by ____________________________________________________________.
3.List some ways that waves erode.
4.Look at Figure 15. What will eventually happen to the headlands?
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