Reading: Class Novel, Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
Determing the theme of narrative texts
Figurative Language - Students will identify and anaylze the meanings of figurative language including similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperboles, and personification in literature.
Word Study - Latin Roots
Writing: Editing & Publishig Personal Narratives - Using Quotation Marks & Commas, Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
Math: Powers of 10
IB Unit of Study: Exploration - Methods, Reasons and Effects of Land and Space Exploration
- Space Exploration Project - To go along with their Google Slide Presentations of their chosen topic related to space exploration, students will also build a 3D model representation of their topic. They should begin bringing materials to school such as things found around the house like cardboard, clay, aluminum foil, straws, lollipop sticks, toothpicks, bottle caps, yarn, etc. Thy will be given time in class this week to build their models. Their projects will be due Thursday, Novemeber 16.
Social Studies: European Exploration - We will explore what the European explorers took to and from the New World during the Age of Exploration.
Science: In class, we will study properties of matter and how we can determine the identity of an unknown substance.
In the science lab, students will continue to study Stars and the Solar System. In this week's activity, students will construct a model solar system and gather observations of the Sun's apparent brightness from each planet within their model. Students will then use those observations as evidence to support a claim that about which planet is best suited to explore with a solar-powered planetary rover.
