Embedded Files
Harvesting Hope - the story of Cesar Chavez
Videos:
1) History of the Civil Rights Movement
3) Cesar Chavez - Struggle in the Fields
- what person or group is the target of the cartoon?
- which current event is the cartoon about?
- what is the cartoonist's opinion about this person and event?
Question of the Week: How can we combine our resources to make change?
Book Online: Go to your online textbook to hear the story and/or concepts read to you and for you to practice.
Vocabulary Words:
Skills/Concepts:
- Genre: Biography
- Fact and Opinion
- FACT - statement that can be proven true or false
- OPINION - cannot be proved; but can be shown to be valid or faulty
- valid opinions - can be supported by facts, experts, or logic
- faulty opinions - cannot be supported
- Text Structure:
- helps you understand what you read
- it is a way a piece of writing is organized
- external organization: titles and headings, special typefaces, illustrations and graphics
- internal organization: compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence, and description
- before read: preview, look at title, headings, captions, get an idea about the story and how it's organized
- during reading: make a mental movie
- after read: recall events, summarize
- Homonyms
- two or more words that are spelled the same and pronounced the same but have different meanings
- use context clues - the words and sentences around the puzzling word - for clues to figure out the correct meaning of a homonym
- Fluency: Appropriate Phrasing
- grouping words together; let punctuation cues guide you; group words set off by commas or semicolons or dashes; come to a full stop at the end of a sentence
- Listening and Speaking: Analyze an Editorial Cartoon
- newspapers and news magazines run editorial cartoons to point attention to and sometimes make fun of important people and what they have done
Small Groups:
- leveled readers
- main selection reading
- reinforce skills/concepts
- expand the skills/concepts
- extend the skills/concepts
- independent practice
“There is more treasure in books, than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
-Walt Disney
Contact Info:
Mrs. Gail Boe
6th Grade Teacher
gboe@newulm.k12.mn.us
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