Thursday, October 24th

Announcements/Reminders 

• Monday, November 5th - School Closed
• Tuesday, November 6th - School Closed
• Wednesday, November 7th - Friday, November 9th -Fall Conferences (School is Open with Half Day Schedules) 
• Conference Sign Up Link:  Click Here

Reading 

Focus Standards:

• RL.5.1 - Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• RL.5.2 - Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

We are continuing to work with literary text.  Our discussions focus on identifying key events to summarize the text and on identifying signposts to determine what the author is trying to tell us about the character or plot.

Writing

Focus Standards:

• W.5.3 - Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
• W.5.3.b - Text Types and Purposes: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

This week we are finalizing our story ideas making sure that we have a clear message for our readers and that the message is conveyed through the events and other elements in our writing.