Welcome back! I hope everyone is refreshed from the weekend.
Today in Language Arts, we began our new unit on reading and writing informational texts. We defined an informational text as a nonfiction text that gives information. Some examples are newspapers, magazines, internet articles, nonfiction books, encyclopedias and news scripts. Students did an informational text pass where they analyzed different informational texts and decided what made them interesting or not-at-all interesting. We will use the students' ideas to begin our discussion on text and graphic features tomorrow. During this unit, students will be reading and then writing their own informational text.
In Social Studies, we began our new unit introducing geography. Students demonstrated their current level of understanding by labeling basic features on a map of the world- the seven continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica and Australia), the four main oceans (Indian, Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic) and the compass directions (north, south, east, west). After, students read an Introduction to Geography article and answered these questions:
1. What is geography?
2. What is physical geography?
3. What is human geography?
4. Who created the first map? When?
We will begin by discussing these questions tomorrow.
HOMEWORK: Students need to tally their weekly reading pages and complete a reading response prompt. They need to study their MONO words for the vocab quiz tomorrow. If students did not finish reading the geography article and answering the questions in class, they need to complete that as well.
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