Today, we began our first unit of the year: Exploring Cultural Diversity: A look at ourselves and our community. We browsed the unit overview sheet and talked about things we're excited about and worried about in this unit, as well as any questions we have. We previewed the first book we'll read: Seedfolks, by Paul Fleischman. We talked about our first reading strategy, making predictions and made predictions as we read chapter one. Then, we worked on this week's vocabulary for Seedfolks. The words are listed below.
1. fiction (adj)- something invented by the imagination, specificallly an invented story
2. plot (n)- the main events of a story
3. theme (n)- the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work
4. culture (n)- the set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterize a group of people
5. heritage (n)- practices that are handed down from the past by tradition
6. community (n)- a group of people living in a particular local area
7. diversity (n)- the recognition of individual differences, especially in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs and political beliefs
8. cooperation (n)- collaboration; work together on a common project
Homework: Draw a picture to represent each vocabulary word on your weekly vocab sheet.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment