Week 21 (Tues)

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

STANDARDS:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
  Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
  Student Friendly Translation: I can use the text in a story to support my analysis of the story and to draw inferences.
  Puedo utilizar el texto en una historia para apoyar mi análisis de la historia y para sacar conclusiones .

OBJECTIVE:

Students will be able to...

• Answer the reading comprehension questions
• Refer back to the reading
• Make inferences and predictions 

DO NOW: (5-10 minutes)

Daily Dose of Grammar

Please come in quietly, sit at your assigned seat, take out appropriate supplies, write in agenda, place homework and all other old assignments on your desk. Then begin working on your Do Now with the date on top. 

Things Needed for Today:

• ELA Notebook
• Pencil & Eraser

• Whole Group:
1. Collect Homework/Stamp Agendas
2. Review Do Now
3. Go Over Agenda & Explain Homework
4. Read Hatchet Chapter 1 

—     Being alone in the wilderness raises many concerns.  In order to survive you will need food, water, and shelter until the rescuers arrive.

       —--Of these three items, which is the most urgent?

Independent Station


1. Google Classroom














• Google Classroom
• Log onto https://classroom.google.com
• Use your LA Alliance Email and Password (remember to add @students.laalliance.org when entering your email/ If your zscaler password does not work, try alliance2014) **If you remember that you never joined/ were able to set up your email, come talk to Ms. Trang**
• Open up the document and begin working on the Introduction to Hatchet
• Remember to click submit/turn in when you are finished.

• Daily Writing Prompts (DWP)
• 5 FULL sentences (spelling & grammar counts!) 
• Title it 
• January 19 
• January 19th is “Popcorn Day.” If you could invent your own flavor of popcorn, what would it be and why?
  
  

• Hatchet Chapter 1 Reading Comprehension
  Please refer back to the Chapter that we read today in order to answer the worksheet. http://scotland.k12.mo.us/view/637.pdf
  
  
  As Brian is thinking about things in this chapter, the narration changes location. Sometimes he is remembering his life at home or the trip in the car with his mother. As you are reading, make notes in the margin about where he is.
  
  
  
1. Keep a list of information that you learn about Brian as you are reading: How old is he? What do we know about his family? What kind of life does he usually live?
  
  
  2. Where is Brian in this chapter? Why is he there? Where is he going? How does he feel about this?
  
  
  3. Brian thinks about "the secret," but he doesn't tell us what the secret is. What do you think it might be?
  
  
  4. How many people and what kind of gear are on the airplane?
  
  
  5.  Brian's mother gives him a small hatchet to put on his belt. Why do you think she gives it to him? How does Brian react when his mother gives him the hatchet, and how does he want to react? Why doesn't he react the way he wanted to?
  
  
  6. What happens to the pilot?

• REMINDER: 

Star Student: 15 lucky students will be selected for Thinking & Acting Responsibly and be awarded with a Free Dress band!