What we are learning this quarter.
SOCIAL STUDIES
We are working on the following standards.
4.20 Analyze the impact of the American Industrial Revolution, including the significance of:
4.19 Contrast regional differences in the early 19th century, including: the emerging urbanization in the North, the expansion of the plantation system in the South, and the developing West.
4.21 Compare and contrast the characteristics of slave life in plantations, cities, and other farms.
READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS (INCLUDING WRITING)
We continue to read literature and informational text, talk about what they read, and write for a variety of purposes.
We are discussing character traits, point of view in stories, and drawing inferences. Students should have a command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when speaking and conventions of standard English grammar and usage, including capitalization and punctuation, when writing.
Students should...
We always talk about how to find evidence in text to answer questions.
Students will learn about and write opinion papers for the remainder of the quarter.
Students have selected books for independent reading. I keep a log of their reading at school.
We are working on the following standards.
4.20 Analyze the impact of the American Industrial Revolution, including the significance of:
- Watermills (influence of geography)
- Robert Fulton (steamboats)
- Samuel Slater (factory system)
- Eli Whitney (cotton gin)
4.19 Contrast regional differences in the early 19th century, including: the emerging urbanization in the North, the expansion of the plantation system in the South, and the developing West.
4.21 Compare and contrast the characteristics of slave life in plantations, cities, and other farms.
READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS (INCLUDING WRITING)
We continue to read literature and informational text, talk about what they read, and write for a variety of purposes.
We are discussing character traits, point of view in stories, and drawing inferences. Students should have a command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when speaking and conventions of standard English grammar and usage, including capitalization and punctuation, when writing.
Students should...
- Produce complete sentences; recognize and correct fragments and run-ons.
- Use correct capitalization.
- Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text.
- Compound sentences, using coordinating conjunctions.
- Modal auxiliaries
We always talk about how to find evidence in text to answer questions.
Students will learn about and write opinion papers for the remainder of the quarter.
Students have selected books for independent reading. I keep a log of their reading at school.