This week’s announcements:

1. Spelling and Reading Test on Friday
2. On Tuesday there is an 8:30 Mass.
3. Religion in class assessment on Friday!
4. Mystery reader on Friday at 9 am!

Spelling Words: 

• surprise

• pilgrim

• subtract

• control

• sample

• inspect 

• contrast

• employ

• exclaim

•  Athlete

bonus words: contraction, embrace, completion

High Frequency Words: common, though

Weekly Vocabulary words: 

    slavery: a system in which people are owned by others.

   abolitionist: a person who believes slavery should be stopped.

    violence: actions that cause great harm, damage, or injury.

    equality: the right of all people to be treated the same.

    influential: having a great effect on someone or something.

Unit Vocabulary Words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar

Language and Conventions- VCCCV Patterns, Synonyms and Antonyms

Reading

Weekly question: How do communities change over time?

Week 1 story: Frederick Douglass

Weekly Objectives and standards:

• Interact with sources in meaningful ways.
• Develop oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.
• Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in a text.
• Respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.
• Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding words using knowledge of syllable division patterns.
• Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by developing an engaging idea with relevant details.
• Compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft.
• Introduce a topic or text, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.

Standards

NA_RI_3_1_1

Refer explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.

NA_RI_3_2_3

Explain how key details support the main idea.

NA_RI_3_8_3

Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., first/second/third in a sequence).

NA_RF_3_4_a_1

Read with purpose.

NA_W_3_1_1

Write opinion pieces on topics or texts.

NA_W_3_1_a_1

Introduce the topic or text.

NA_W_3_10_4

Write routinely over shorter time frames (a single sitting) for a range of discipline-specific tasks.

NA_W_3_10_5

Write routinely over shorter time frames (a single sitting) for a range of discipline-specific purposes.

NA_W_3_10_6

Write routinely over shorter time frames (a single sitting) for a range of discipline-specific audiences.

NA_SL_3_1_a_3

Explore ideas under discussion.

NA_L_3_4_d_1

Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

NA_L_3_5_1

Demonstrate understanding of word relationships.

Writing

1. Start on Final Drafts of the historical fiction narratives.
2. Once finished, students will present them if they feel comfortable.
3. Due Friday!

Objectives (Students will……)

• learn about capitalization, verbs, and types of pronouns.
• edit sentences to improve coherence and clarity.
• edit their historical fiction stories for correct usage of grammar
• edit drafts using standard English Conventions, including capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places.

Math:

1. We will be starting on Chapter 10 this week!
2. Vocabulary words: denominator, equivalent fractions, fraction, numerator, unit fraction
3. Essential Question: How can fractions be used to represent numbers and their parts?

Students will be able to:

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Model with mathematics.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Use appropriate tools strategically.
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

Math standards for this week:

Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.1

Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a part of size 1/b.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NF.A.3

Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.

Monday- Lesson 1: Unit Fractions

(We will start with a pre-test to see how much students know about fractions. Then students will watch a video to get a visual of what beginning fractions are)

Tuesday: Lesson 2: Part of a Whole 

(Start with a reteach to warm up from the day before, then a video to preview new lesson)

Wednesday: Lesson 3: Part of a Set

(Start with a reteach to warm up from the day before, then a video to preview new lesson)

Thursday: Lesson 4: Problem Solving Investigation, Strategy: Draw a Diagram

(Start with a reteach to warm up from the day before, then a video to preview new lesson)

Friday- Review lessons 1-4 with math stations and review games

Social Studies: 

This week students will learn about the great Irish famine from 1845-1852.

Students will be able to…..

• Locate historical information from a variety of sources such as primary and secondary written sources, maps and images.
• Select relevant information from the sources to answer historical questions.
• Record information by note taking, categorizing and summarizing.
• Examine the information critically, distinguishing between fact and opinion and detecting inconsistencies and bias.
• Synthesize information from a selection of sources to predict and anticipate,
• create narratives, lines of argument or explanations.
•  Describe the impact of famine and emigration on Irish society (S2 E2 LO2.7)
• Identify the different groups/classes of people in rural Ireland in the mid 19th century (S2 E2 LO2.9)
• Discuss how and why the great Irish Famine is commemorated (S1 E1 LO1.3)

Science

1. This week we will start to learn about living and nonliving animals in Chapter 4.
2. Lesson 3: What are the life cycles of some animals?
3. Videos and worksheets for enrichment activities.
4. By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to develop and use models to describe how some animals grow and change during their life cycles.
5. Life cycle of a Grain beetle.
6. Animal life cycles 60-second video.
7. Comparing life cycles video.
8. Life cycles lesson check.

Learning Objectives

DCI-3-LS3.A.2

Many characteristics of organisms are inherited from their parents.

DCI-3-LS3.A.3

Other characteristics result from individuals' interactions with the environment, which can range from diet to learning. Many characteristics involve both inheritance and environment.

PE-3-LS3-1

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

PE-3-LS3-2

Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Religion:

• Students will attend 8:30 non buddy School Mass
• Students will discuss Stations of the Cross to prepare for Thursday.
• Students will attend the Stations of the Cross on Thursday at 12:30 Mass.
• Celebrate the life of Saint Joseph.
• Learn about key events in St. Joseph’s life to create a timeline.
• Discuss lent and its importance.
• Finish session 17 and start session 18.