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6858001257300Ela grades 6-8Week 5LEARNING ACTIVITIESApril 20-24020000Ela grades 6-8Week 5LEARNING ACTIVITIESApril 20-24centercenter000053721000The following lessons should be completed by students during the week of April 20-24. Students may determine their own pacing. Lessons are divided into suggested daily chunks, but students may complete more or less each day. All work may be done on notebook paper or typed. 020000The following lessons should be completed by students during the week of April 20-24. Students may determine their own pacing. Lessons are divided into suggested daily chunks, but students may complete more or less each day. All work may be done on notebook paper or typed. Learning Plan / Student Checklist St. Public Schools Louis High School English Language ArtsSuggested PacingLesson ObjectiveWhat will you know and be able to do at the conclusion of this lesson?Missouri Learning StandardWhat content standard will this learning align to?Instructional ActivitiesWhat needs to be done in order to learn the material?ResourcesWhat print and electronic resources are available to support your learning?Your AssignmentHow will you show your teacher that you learned the material?MondayI can summarize a text.RL.1.DUsing appropriate text, determine the theme(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the text.Independent Reading20 minutes minimumNovel of ChoiceNews ArticlesOnline Text Options Reader Response Journal:See attached list of Reader Response prompts.I can identify the author’s purpose after reading an informational text and support my response using evidence from the text.RI.2.BExplain how an author's point of view or purpose is conveyed in a text.Read ArticleComplete Post-Reading QuizComplete Writing PromptVirtually Visit One or More of the Museums Featured in the ArticleNewsela Article:Take a virtual tour of these 12 amazing museums closed because of coronavirusWriting Prompt:Describe what you think the author’s purpose was for writing this text and whether they were successful in this purpose. Support your response with specific details from the text.TuesdayI can summarize a text.RL.1.DUsing appropriate text, determine the theme(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the text.Independent Reading20 minutes minimumNovel of ChoiceNews ArticlesOnline Text Options Reader Response Journal:See attached list of Reader Response prompts.I can determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.RI.2.DExplain the central/main idea(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the plete Guided Lesson (pages 10-13)Guided Lesson:Finding Main Ideas and DetailsComplete Lesson ActivitiesWednesdayI can summarize a text.RL.1.DUsing appropriate text, determine the theme(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the text.Independent Reading20 minutes minimumNovel of ChoiceNews ArticlesOnline Text Options Reader Response Journal:See attached list of Reader Response prompts.I can determine two or more main ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.RI.2.DExplain the central/main idea(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the text.Read ArticleComplete Post-Reading QuizComplete Writing PromptNewsela Article:Chicago aquarium releases penguins after exhibits close due to coronavirusWriting Prompt:Write a paragraph that explains the main idea of the text. Use at least two details from the article to support your response.I can use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.RI.1.BDetermine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative, connotative, and content-specific meanings using context, affixes, or reference materials.Read the flier.Answer the questions that follow.Vocabulary Worksheet:Vocabulary in Context - Figuring Out new WordsMastery Goal:Complete the assignment with 80% accuracy or better (6 out of 7 correct)ThursdayI can summarize a text.RL.1.DUsing appropriate text, determine the theme(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the text.Independent Reading20 minutes minimumNovel of ChoiceNews ArticlesOnline Text Options Reader Response Journal:See attached list of Reader Response prompts.I can determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.RI.2.DExplain the central/main idea(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the plete Guided Lesson (pages 14-17)Guided Lesson:Finding Main Ideas and DetailsComplete Lesson ActivitiesFridayI can summarize a text.RL.1.DUsing appropriate text, determine the theme(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the text.Independent Reading20 minutes minimumNovel of ChoiceNews ArticlesOnline Text Options Reader Response Journal:See attached list of Reader Response prompts.I can determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.RI.2.DExplain the central/main idea(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the plete Guided Lesson (pages 18-23)Guided Lesson:Finding Main Ideas and DetailsComplete Lesson Activities51435007620READER RESPONSE JOURNAL PROMPTS020000READER RESPONSE JOURNAL PROMPTS0000St. Louis Public SchoolsMiddle School English Language ArtsAfter completing a minimum of 20 minutes of independent reading, please select one of the following prompts. Choose a prompt that is appropriate for the text you are reading. Respond to the prompt thoroughly, crafting a well-written paragraph of at least 7 complete sentences. You may only use a prompt one time. Prompts may be typed or hand-written. Some sentence stems to help you begin your responses have been provided. Please be prepared to submit your completed Reader Response Journal Prompts to your teacher upon returning to school. How does a character change in the story? (First the character _____. Then, the character _____.)How do the illustrations help you understand the characters, setting or events in the story? (The illustrations in the story help me understand the _____ in the story because _____)What does this text help you understand? (After reading _____, I now know _____.)What do you already know about this topic? Where have you learned about this topic? (I already know _____ about _____. I learned this information from _____.)What would you like to know more about after reading this text? (I am curious about _____.)From what you've read so far, make predictions about what will happen next and explain what in the text makes you think it will happen. (Based on what I have read so far on _____, I think _____ will happen next. I think this because _____.)Pick a scene in which you disagreed how a character handled a situation/person and rewrite it in the way you think it should have happened.?(When _____ did _____, I disagreed because _____. I would have handled this differently by _____.)Copy an interesting/confusing/important/enjoyable quote from the text and explain why you chose it.?(I selected this quote because _____.)Write a summary of what you read today. (Today I read _____. In the text, _____.)What ideas might you have for turning this work of nonfiction into a work of fiction?? Give a brief summary of what your story might be like.?Explain the basic information that is being presented in your article in terms of the 5W's: Who? What? When??Where??Why??Find examples of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, idiom, hyperbole, cliché, allusion, etc.) in the text. Write them down, label each by type of figurative language, and explain what the author means by each sentence.Write down any allusions found in the reading. Explain how each helps the reader’s understanding or message the author is trying to convey.Describe the author’s craft: What was good about the author’s writing? What things might you try to do in your own writing that you learned from this author?Describe how the author makes you feel through their writing. What about it makes you feel this way?51435007620INDEPENDENT READING RESOURCES020000INDEPENDENT READING RESOURCES0000St. Louis Public SchoolsMiddle School English Language ArtsStudents may select any reading material of their choice for independent reading assignments. If a novel is not available at home, please consider the following free resources.548640053340St. Louis Public Library ResourcesThe St. Louis Public Library is allowing residents to apply for digital library cards. There is a quick form to fill out and a library card is generated for the patron. They have an amazing collection of e-books and audiobooks available without ever needing to leave the house. They also no longer issue fines for any late materials.E-Card:? Downloadables: and Graphic Novels:? and Magazines:?. Louis Public Library ResourcesThe St. Louis Public Library is allowing residents to apply for digital library cards. There is a quick form to fill out and a library card is generated for the patron. They have an amazing collection of e-books and audiobooks available without ever needing to leave the house. They also no longer issue fines for any late materials.E-Card:? Downloadables: and Graphic Novels:? and Magazines:?. Louis Public Library []International Children’s Digital Library [en.]Open Library []Storynory []Unite for Literacy []Newsela []Dogo News []Tween Tribune []ReadWorks []Google News [news.]PBS News Hour Extra for Students in Grades 6-12 [newshour/extra]Newseum []New York Times Student Section [section/learning]Time for Kids []Science News for Students []Youth Voices []-190524701500239502783255700centertopPost-reading quiz: Take a virtual tour of these 12 amazing museumsWriting Prompt:Describe what you think the author’s purpose was for writing this text and whether they were successful in this purpose. Support your response with specific details from the text.56959584582000centercenter-1905834390000centercenter002286007772400455295857250100centercenter00-114308458200centercenter55245084785206858007772400centercenter-190584486750045720185725000centercenter00-11431868680000centercenter5715008572500centercenter95250866775000centercenter45720085153500centercenter1143008572500centercenter5715008915400centercenter0011239586582260centercenter-190525717500-1143068580000Post-reading quiz:Chicago Aquarium Releases penguins after exhibits close due to coronavirusWriting Prompt:Write a paragraph that explains the main idea of the text. Use at least two details from the article to support your response.370713041529000Reading Informational Text: Key ideas and detailsRead the passage and answer the questions that follow.You will select one answer for each question.Innovations in Action:Boyan Slat & The Ocean Cleanup ProjectEvery year between 1–3 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean. Some of the sturdier plastic travels long distances on ocean currents. These currents come together to create giant garbage patches, or gyres. The largest gyre is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This gyre is located halfway between California and Hawaii, and it’s massive. It’s roughly the size of the state of Texas! In a gyre, plastic gathers together until it starts to disintegrate, eventually turning into small pieces called microplastics. These tiny particles have a harmful impact on marine life and the environment.Fortunately, some ingenious innovators are putting their brains to work to find solutions to this problem. It’s not as easy as just scooping up the plastic. Any nets that would be used that have holes small enough to gather microplastics would also gather and destroy marine life. Scientists estimate that if cleanup was done in this way, it would take 79,000 years and billions of dollars to do the cleanup—that’s not very efficient! Boyan Slat, from The Ocean Cleanup, has developed an innovative way to approach the problem. He has developed a?plastic-gathering system that uses the wind and ocean waves to do the work. It’s made of a heavy floating barrier that reaches approximately 3 meters underwater. The microplastics are gathered together and then removed from the ocean. The system ensures that marine wildlife isn’t harmed.It will take more people like Boyan Slat and groups like The Ocean Cleanup to completely correct the issue of microplastics in the ocean, but Slat’s work is a great first wave of innovation.Q1. What is the central idea of this passage?Boyan Slat works at The Ocean Cleanup, and he has created a new invention for cleaning up the ocean water using a heavy floating barrier.The Ocean Cleanup has created a system for cleaning up microplastics in the ocean, and the system is designed to keep fish safe.Microplastics in the ocean are caused by sturdy plastic floating to the middle of the ocean, and these piles of plastic are called gyres.Microplastics in the ocean are a big environmental problem, but some people like Boyan Slat and groups like The Ocean Cleanup, are coming up with new ideas to help solve it.Q2. What is this passage mostly about?the problem of plastic in the oceans and how Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup are trying to solve ita man named Boyan Slat and how his invention helps protect marine lifehow plastic bottles travel in ocean currents and how they create great piles of garbagehow nets are ineffective and costly tools for removing trash like plastic bottles from the oceanQ3. Which detail from the passage supports the main idea that inventors are coming up with strategies to help clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?“Scientists estimate that if cleanup was done in this way, it would take 79,000 years and billions of dollars to do the cleanup—that’s not very efficient!”“These tiny particles have a harmful impact on marine life and the environment.”“In a gyre, plastic gathers together until it starts to disintegrate, eventually turning into small pieces called microplastics.”“Boyan Slat, from The Ocean Cleanup, has developed an innovative way to approach the problem.”Q4. If you were telling someone about this passage and wanted to only include the most important facts, what would you say?Microplastics are collecting in the ocean currents. Every year, millions of tons of plastic collect in the ocean and create gyres. One of the largest gyres is called “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.”Microplastics in the ocean are creating problems and need to be removed. People like Boyan Slat and groups like The Ocean Cleanup are working on removing the plastics using some innovative ideas.Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup care about the ocean. They’re cleaning the ocean water and creating technology that’s safe for marine life.Scientists have developed new technology to clean up the ocean. It’s a passive system that relies on the wind and ocean waves to do the work.Q5. What would be a good summary of this text?Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup are worried about plastics in the ocean. They’re inventing amazing machines to help improve the environment.Every year millions of pieces of plastic collect in the ocean in “garbage patches.” Boyan Slat and groups like The Ocean Cleanup are working on creative solutions to clean up the plastics.Plastics float along the ocean’s powerful currents and collect in giant patches. Nets aren’t effective tools for cleaning up the plastic because they can hurt marine animals.There’s a garbage patch in the ocean the size of Texas. It contains millions of pounds of plastic, is harmful to animals, and should be removed.Q6. What detail from the text could be left out without changing the summary?The detail that microplastics are gathering in large patches in the ocean.The detail that Boyan Slat and The Ocean Cleanup are helping to solve the issue of microplastics in the ocean.The detail that microplastics are harmful to the environment.The detail that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is roughly the size of Texas.Q7. What evidence can you find to show that Boyan Slat considered the ocean’s complex ecosystem when designing his solution for the microplastics problem?“It’s not as easy as just scooping up the plastic.”“He developed a passive plastic-gathering system that uses the wind and ocean waves to do the work.”“These tiny particles have a harmful impact on marine life and the environment.”“The system ensures that marine wildlife isn’t harmed.”Q8. Why does the author include the detail it would take 79,000 years and billions of dollars to do the cleanup?to encourage people around the world to help fund the massive cleanup effortsto explain why an innovative approach is needed for collecting microplastics from the oceanto evaluate how environmental scientists have determined the cost of the cleanupto describe the massive effort it will take to take care of the diverse ocean wildlife present near the gyreVocabulary in Context: FIGURING OUT NEW WORDS15240281305Central City Harbor Parking NoticeAs the hurricane season rapidly descends upon us, please take a moment to review the ground rules for parking at Central City Harbor. If we all keep these sanctions in mind, we are sure to be spared from the terrific confusion that ensued late last summer.Follow all parking signs, regardless if they seem incorrect or counterintuitive.If you do not have a reservation, please do not assume that you can park at the harbor, even in an emergency (i.e. if a hurricane approaches rapidly). Your vehicle may be towed or booted.Current?registration with the Harbor Authority is always required to use Central City’s employee parking structure.00Central City Harbor Parking NoticeAs the hurricane season rapidly descends upon us, please take a moment to review the ground rules for parking at Central City Harbor. If we all keep these sanctions in mind, we are sure to be spared from the terrific confusion that ensued late last summer.Follow all parking signs, regardless if they seem incorrect or counterintuitive.If you do not have a reservation, please do not assume that you can park at the harbor, even in an emergency (i.e. if a hurricane approaches rapidly). Your vehicle may be towed or booted.Current?registration with the Harbor Authority is always required to use Central City’s employee parking structure.Read the flier and answer the questions that follow.Q1.What does the word?current?mean in rule #3? [Choose 1 answer.]A up-to-dateB ongoingC simpleD ordinaryQ2.What’s the meaning of the word?incorrect in rule #1? [Choose 1 answer.]A correct beforeB to make correctC correct againD not correctQ3.What does?ground?mean as it’s used in paragraph 1? [Choose 1 answer.]A splendidB difficultC floorD basicQ4.What does the word?required?mean in rule #3? [Choose 1 answer.]A wantedB acceptedC neededD helpedQ5.What’s another word the author could use instead of?ensued? [Choose 1 answer.]A occurredB causedC producedD repairedQ6.Which meaning of?notice?is used in the title? [Choose 1 answer.]A announcementB recognizeC observeD noteQ7.What’s another word the author could use instead of?rapidly? [Choose 1 answer.]A smoothlyB swiftlyC graduallyD easily ................
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