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QUARTER 3

ELA: Perseverance

Essential Question: Why is Understanding Others’ Perspective Important?

Our theme for the third quarter is “Perseverance”. We will analyze how characters and people show perseverance in times and events of adversity across nonfiction and fiction texts. Our common novel will be Bud, Not Buddy. 

Advanced ELA students will have our second round of Book Clubs. Students will have an opportunity to choose their second novel for the quarter and discuss these novels in small groups. We will build our conversation skills and learn how to be a strong member of a book club community.

In writing, we will be writing different styles of narrative. Students will learn how to read a text and write from different points of view as well as continuing a story in a way that makes sense.

We will be focusing on the following skills for ELA this quarter:

Literature: making inferences while quoting details from the text, using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words and phrases, reading a text to summarize and determine the theme of a story, and lastly analyzing the point of view included first person and third person.

Information: making inferences while quoting details from the text, determining the main idea and details while writing a summary, choosing the best summary from a group of summaries, analyzing the meaning of unknown words and phrases in nonfiction text, and lastly, analyzing an author’s reasons and evidence for writing a nonfiction piece.