1. Lesson Plans Week 4 September 25-27

2. Monday Warm-Up! Define Variable In your own words. Write down the context in which you might use the word. Then use the dictionary to check your work

3. Monday, September 23 Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance Introduction to Author’s Purpose Smartboard Lesson Two Station Rotations Station 1 Complete Worksheet Number 26 with learning team Station 2 Independent Study Option Time

4. Tuesday Warm-Up This is Charleston, South Carolina after the Civil War. Write five adjectives to describe this picture.

5. Tuesday, September 24 Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance Review Roles for Reciprocal Teaching and read pages 100-101 orally Assign Roles/Clarify Task Chart Learning Teams read and discuss All Summer in a Day pages 102-110 using round-robin reading and roles to guide discussion

6. Wednesday Warm-Up! List 5 nouns from the following paragraph: Much of the Southern United States was destroyed during the Civil war. Farms and plantations were burned down and their crops destroyed. Also, many people had Confederate money which was now worthless and the local governments were in disarray. The South needed to be rebuilt.

7. Wednesday, September 25 Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance Learning Teams Review Story and Complete the Story Triangle Introduce Class Novel and Read First Chapter as a whole group

8. Thursday Warm-Up! List 5 verbs from the following paragraph: The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War is called the Reconstruction. The Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877. The purpose of the Reconstruction was to help the South become a part of the Union again. Federal troops occupied much of the South during the Reconstruction to insure that laws were followed and that another uprising did not occur.

9. Thursday, September 26 Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance Review Author’s Purpose Complete page 51 from the workbook (Details from All Summer in a Day) Visit the Library to check out, renew, and return books

10. Friday Warm-Up Write the following number sentence in words: 123+456=579

11. Friday, September 27 Warm-Up/Housekeeping/Attendance Comprehension Quiz for All Summer in a Day Two Station Rotations Station 1 Work on Independent Study Options Station 2 Read Novel and make text/self connections on chart paper