Friday, January 16 2nd Block

Tres bien ensemble:

Parts of Speech & Text Structures
DO NOW:
Happy Friday!
1) Complete PRONOUNS and ADJECTIVES in
your Parts of Speech organizer
2) Challenge: complete ADVERBS.
3) Leave comments on the original document.
You have 10 minutes.
Objectives:
You will understand how (and why?) we
categorize words and nonfiction texts.
You will be able to identify text structures and
provide evidence using signal words.
You will know all of the contextual vocabulary
words for the unit test.

Essential Question
Why do we categorize words and texts?
Agenda:

Parts of Speech Organizers

o Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives,
Adverbs
Text Structures Gallery Walk
o Groups find evidence in passages
o Take notes on text structures in why
Jigsaw Vocabulary
o Take notes on all vocabulary: Portal,
community, chronology, abstract, open-ended, reflect

Homework:
Complete Text Structures Organizer (Make a
copy in your folder!)

Announcements:
I either have or will email you and your folks Q2
progress reports by this weekend. Check your
grade and see whats missing!
Unit Assessment on Friday, 1/23!
2nd Quarter Math Assessment moved to
Tuesday, 1/20 (no more day off!)