LESSON PLANS SEPTEMBER 9 - 14

 READING HOMEWORK – Read 15 – 20 minutes in a fiction book

ENGLISH HOMEWORK – Noun(s) assignment – due Thursday

 TEKS/STAAR Readiness and Supporting Standards:

 Monday, September 10

Class starter: Journaling

Identify/practice the more difficult capitalization rules

Grammar review – nouns

 Tuesday, September 11

Class starter:  Journaling

Capitalization test

Use a composition book to review ELA words/rules

                   (“Fact, Jack”)

Grammar review – nouns

Wednesday, September 12

Class starter: Journaling

Recall/review the elements of “plot”

Pre-read “The Wise Old Woman; identify as folktale

Read/discuss “The Wise Old Woman”

Comprehension questions (various degrees of thinking)

Grammar review – nouns

Thursday, September 13

Class starter: Journaling

Collaborate in groups and whole class to create to

          plot line for “The Wise Old Woman”

Friday, September 14

Class starter: Journaling

Fable Friday

Compare the literary characteristics

          of selected fables