Embedded Files
Please bring the following items for class:
1 One subject notebook, OR create a section in a your binder, only for ESL class
Chromebook
Pens and pencils
A good attitude!
Provided by teacher: A personal writing journal to be used during the course of the year.
SYLLABUS here
Q1 PART I : Getting Started - Opening weeks
Q1 PART I : Getting Started - Opening weeks
Many ways to say hello
Essential English Phrases Bilingual (Spanish-English)
Resources - ESL Website - Student Resources and Links tab
Vocabulary we hear in classes and see on assignments
The Language of Math
Q1 PART II : Class overview and Assignments
Q1 PART II : Class overview and Assignments
Unit 1: How are we connected to the natural world?
Focus on Biology and Chemistry terms
Organization of life
The Scientific Method vocabulary and explanations
Into the nucleus of a cell
Native Americans - Geography, Tribes, and Dwellings, then and now
Background information and terminology
Reading : Myths in Native American culture
Pre-reading vocabulary study
Grammar focus: some/any and adjectives of amount
Grammar focus: mixing the present and past tenses
Q2- Q3 Class notes and Assignments
Q2- Q3 Class notes and Assignments
Reading and vocabulary
Reading 1 Biography - Roberto Clemente
Working with vocabulary, dates, and timelines
Learning idioms - baseball in American English
Understanding baseball idioms in English
Writing Goal
Guided biography writing
ACCESS TESTING
Q3 Class notes and Assignments
Q3 Class notes and Assignments
Reading and vocabulary
Literary non-fiction - My Life in the Desert
Working with descriptive language: adjectives, Figurative language - similes, sensory detail
Understanding word families : adjectives and their related nouns
Reading Goal
Listening and reading vocabulary in context
Following a narrative, a personal experience
Writing Goal
Using descriptive language in our own literary non-fiction
Using a graphic organizer to contain our ideas
Typing and editing a narrative with a checklist
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Vocabulary for reading
Social Studies - The Bouncing Ball
Defining and categorizing vocabulary: rubber, bounce, material, artifact, explore, statue, Olmec, Mayan, ancient peoples, historian
(SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE VOCABULARY LIST BELOW)
Reading for meaning
Subtitle questions - guiding our understanding
Pair reading
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