05/04 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Government and Democracy Informational Writing:
1. Topic: Citizenship, Patriotism, and Symbols of America
2. "Brain Dump” knowledge and questions
3. Categorize using the booklet.
4. Information gather to add knowledge and answer questions.
5. We will flash draft about Citizenship and Patriotism tomorrow.
2. Free choice read for at least 30 minutes
3. Point of View Reading Response Assignment:  What point of view is your story being told from?  How does the point of view affect how the story is told?
4. Complete activities that help YOU become a better reader:
• Read MORE Fiction and/or Non-Fiction
• Practice Spelling/Vocabulary
• Practice Fluency with a partner by choosing one of the poems from "We Are America" by Walter Dean Myers: Read it, reread it, then perform it for a friend.
• Learn more about conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections by leading yourself through the lesson and completing the activity.
• Practice using correlative conjunctions (neither/nor, either/or) with Conjunction game or Conjunctions
• Practice making inferences by answering these riddles or these riddles.