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Connections to all curriculum. Great stories with excellent enrichment questions!
< -- Each week, students will be required to choose their own activities showing their knowledge of the assigned vocabulary words that correspond to the whole-class novel being read.
The Google Slide contains all the information and details for completing each chosen task.
Students will submit their choice boards to Schoology by the end of the week.
Students will submit their choice boards to Schoology by the end of the week.
Whole-Class Novel #1: Animal Farm
Whole-Class Novel #1: Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is an allegorical novel about the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalinism. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against the farm owner and build their own society.
In the beginning, a boar named Old Major encourages the animals of Manor Farm to rebel against the humans.
After Old Major dies, two other pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, lead the rebellion by driving the farmer Mr. Jones away and renaming the farm Animal Farm.
Napoleon drives Snowball off the farm and assumes the role that Mr. Jones once held.
Use these flashcards to practice comprehension with your child.
Poetry Resources
Poetry Resources
Monster by Walter Dean Myers is a 1999 novel about Steve Harmon, a sixteen-year-old boy on trial for his alleged complicity in a robbery-turned-murder.
Steve is accused of participating in a deadly drugstore robbery. While in prison awaiting trial, he decides to document his experience as a screenplay.
The trial is heated, but the evidence indicates that Steve was at worst a nonviolent lookout and at best entirely uninvolved and innocent.
Though Steve is cleared of all charges, his lawyer seems to doubt his innocence, leading him to question the prosecution's characterization of him as a "monster."
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