Unit 1: Finding Your Own Place

Day Activities Homework

1 • Use page 12 to review the present tense form of

“to be”
• Give handout of Be Verb Chart
• Use response cards to practice the sentences on
page 12 (use cards from To Be, But Which One)
• Continue practice by completing To Be, But Which
One task cards activity
2 • Class Hook video: “Work Smarter Not Harder”
• Discuss the theme of the unit, page 1
• Complete vocabulary graphic organizer for
“Growing Together” vocabulary, pg. 14
3 • Add vocabulary cards to word wall for both
Growing Together and Academic Vocabulary
• Discuss author’s purpose and genre, pg. 16, and
add title to charts
• Read and discuss “Growing Together,” pg. 16-21
4 • Complete comprehension quiz for “Growing
Together”
• Early finishers can review academic vocabulary on
Quizlet
5 • Discuss context clues, pg. 8 & 24 Workbook, pg. 11,
• Listen to Context Clues Song 19, 27
• Using Context Clues to Determine Word Meanings
PowerPoint Game
• Context Clues Connect Four Game
6 • Discuss question words, pg. 27-28 (poster set)
• Question word foldable notes
• Beach Ball question words
• Question Word match up (board construction
instructions)
• Escape! The Question Grid
7 • Video: Listen to Teens (Inside teacher resources)
• Complete vocabulary graphic organizer for “Kids
Like Me,” pg. 30
8 • Add vocabulary cards to word wall for “Kids Like
Me”
 • Discuss author’s purpose and genre, pg. 32, and
add title to charts
• Read and discuss “Kids Like Me,” pg. 34-38
• Complete comprehension questions from book as
a Google doc
9 • Complete comprehension quiz for “Kids Like Me” Academic Vocabulary
• Early finishers can review academic vocabulary on Crossword
Quizlet
10 • Discuss compare and contrast, pg. 40 Workbook, pg. 20
• Introduction to Text Structure video
• Sharks reading passage: compare and contrast
• Complete vocabulary graphic organizer for
“Familiar Places,” pg. 46
11 • Add vocabulary cards to word wall for “Familiar
Places”
• Discuss author’s purpose and genre, and add title
to charts
• Read and discuss “Familiar Places,” pg. 48-54
• Complete comprehension questions from book as
a Google doc
12 • Complete comprehension quiz for “Familiar
Places”
• Academic Vocabulary Cloze
13 • Academic Vocabulary Assessment
• End of unit writing project: Compare and Contrast
paragraph: Compare your home country and the
USA, write a passage similar to the workbook
passage on pg. 20
14 • Literature Connection: I Hate English
 How does Mei Mei change throughout the story?
 How does the author show Me Mei’s feelings?
 Vocabulary: lonely, noise, bang, sound, strokes,
tutor, arithmetic, ping pong, checkers, pail,
shellfish, started, glared, continued, suddenly,
invisible