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__ This Week’s Agenda __ __Mar 7 – Mar 11, 2011 __ **__Reading Instructional Focus:__** Informational Text/Research skills 1) Understand and use text features: graphs, illustrations, captions etc. 2) Assess, organize and evaluate arguments 3) Determine the validity and reliability of sources and information **__Word of the Week:__** ﻿antagonistic (adj): aggressive; hostile; opposed; unfriendly  **__Essential Question:__** Why are reference and research skills important in everyday life?  “The heights by great men reached and kept  Were not attained by sudden flight.  But they, while their companions slept,  Were toiling upwards in the night.”  - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  **__WARM UP – Journal:__** If you went to a foreign country and you couldn’t speak the language, what strategies and resources would you use to survive? Explain.  1) Journal and Planner 2) Use TP-CASTT to analyze the poem: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost 3) Complete and review: At War With the Mosquito (Reference/Research) **__Homework:__** Work on Florida Achieves **__WARM UP – Journal:__** Create a pie chart to show how your day at school is spent. Remember to use percentages for each category of activity. Give your chart a title. 1) Journal and planner 2) Poetry Analysis: Interactive Reader - Questioning p.166 3) SQ3R Strategy 4) Reading a Map: Exercise 1.2 (Packet) **__Homework:__** Work on Florida Achieves Wednesday: Stamina #8 Practice **__WARM Journal:__** Survey your classmates about their favorite cafeteria meal. Draw a bar graph to show the results of your survey. 1) Journal and planner 2) Poetry Analysis: Interactive Reader – Rhyming Pattern p.167 3) Reading for Information 1.14 (Packet) **__Homework:__** Work on Florida Achieves  **__WARM Journal:__** Which reference resource would you use to find the following:  a) definition of a word b) synonyms for a word c) flight departures and arrivals d) page number for a chapter e) definition of a word used in the text __** Agenda **__ 1) Journal and planner 2) Using Graphic Aids 1.15 (Packet) 3) Mini BAT Reference and Research – “Fire!” Work on Florida Achieves
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 * NO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK. ENJOY YOUR SPRING BREAK. SEE YOU ON MARCH 21st. **