Objective: Student will use Lois Lowry's novel Number the Stars as a vehicle for working on reading comprehension and analysis, creative writing, and social studies.
Today we...
-Briefly discussed background information on WWII
-Read through chapters 1-3 (aloud) of Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
-Discussed charecters and setting, charted charecter and their traits on the white board
-Looked at maps of Europe to see which countries were occupied, located Denmark and Copenhagen on the map
-Watched a PBS video clip about tourism in Copenhagen
-Practiced creative writing skills by writing an imaginative opening scene of a fiction story featuring a character who's running
Washington State Standards covered:
-Students are able to read grade level texts aloud smoothly and expressively.
-Students are able to apply prior knowledge to a reading, connecting the text to current or cultural events.
-Students are able to predict and infer, citing textual examples to support their inferences.
-Students are able to summarize of the main ideas in a text.
-Students are able to understand time and sequence in a text (for example, explaining foreshadowing in a work of fiction or steps in nonfiction)
-Students are able to read to learn new information, analyzing appropriateness of a variety of resources and using them to perform a specific task or investigate a topic.
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