6th: Today, we began the class by reading a story (The Empty Table) and formulating deep-thinking discussion questions about the story, using our Bloom's Taxonomy questioning sheet. Then, we read the Curtis chapter of Seedfolks and formulated more deep questions and had a class discussion about the chapter. Finally, we shared the artifacts that we brought in to represent our personal culture surrounding food and we glued these artifacts to our pizza boxes. We discussed the personal culture food celebration that will be on Friday and sent home this note to families to inform about the celebration.
Homework: Tonight, bring in an artifact or picture to represent something about your heritage. Here are some questions to think about:
How long has your family lived in Atlanta?
Where were you born?
Do you when your family immigrated to America?
Where did your ancestors come from originally?
7th: Today, we began class by going over our informational text homework from Friday. We pointed out the text features and graphic aids in the text, discussed the text and reflected on how these features added to our understanding. Then, we began our discussion of government types. Ms. D modeled how to take notes on the government informational text "Oligarchy," then students worked together to take notes on the informational text "Monarchy." Finally, students broke off into groups to study one of these 6 types of government: dictatorship, communism, theocracy, international government, democracy and anarchy.
Homework: Finish up reading and taking notes on your type of government. Be sure to have chapters 12-15 read in The Giver and come prepared with an active reading activity for each chapter in your readers' notebook.
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