Prepositions

Remember Prepositions? That song, you learned in Writer's Workshop? Yea, you still need to know Prepositions for Language Arts too!

Prepositions

(To the tune of Yankee Doodle)

about above across after

along among around at

before beside between against

within without beneath

through

during under in into

over on off to toward

upon near for from except

by with behind below down

Text Codes

Immigration Unit

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Homophone Review

Fourth Quarter!

Welcome back!

Our first week back has been busy! We are beginning Unit 5 in our Vocabulary Workshop workbook. In addition, we are touching on a Black History Month Project that was pushed back a few weeks due to additional snow days and a few extra days to complete our Tuck Everlasting unit project.

 We discussed bias, prejudice, and perspective in class and students were assigned an African-American Inventor to research. We will spend two days in the library researching our inventor and then will write a few reflections in a journal format reflecting on what we've learned. The goal of this project is for students to experience the difference in material available on individuals who lived many years ago and reflect on how bias, prejudice, and perspective of people during that time period may have impacted the amount of information we have on these inventors in addition to the scarcity of written records and technology during the time.

We will be finishing up this activity next week!

Run-On Review

Please review how to correct run-on sentences by re-viewing Ms. Shahani's video. It is posted on her blog but I attached a link below!

Ms. Shahani's Run-On Video

The final days of February

This week we have been nearing the end of Tuck Everlasting in class. In furthering our discussion on characterization and inferencing, we have been working on our compare and contrast paragraphs in which we compared and contrasted two characters from Tuck Everlasting. Next week, we will quiz over Ch. 9-16 vocabulary, characterization, and the metaphor "A Ferris Wheel is a wheeling calendar" which we discussed thoroughly in class as well as created a visual representation of the comparison. Next week we will also be finishing Tuck Everlasting and talking about larger themes present throughout the novel as well as our final culminating project over the novel. After finishing our Tuck Everlasting unit, we will spend some time celebrating and remembering Black History Month.