Last week students worked on 5-sentence paragraphs using imagery from poetry, learned about ethical appeal in literature, and completed a practice TAKS passage, free writes, silent reading and conferencing.
This week readers will:
- begin a review of TAKS Objective 1 material covered earlier this school year, including idioms, analogies, and common prefixes, roots and suffixes as well as main idea
- review last week’s TAKS passage and complete another
- read silently and continue with conferencing
Writers will:
- begin immersion reading for persuasive essay
- pick a topic and begin research
- practice 5-sentence paragraphs