North Carolina Language Arts Standard Course of Study: Grade 5 Unit Activity NC Language Arts Grade 5 Students define Tier 2 vocabulary with their student packet and complete various vocabulary. The student’s knowledge of the vocabulary words is assessed at the end of the unit using a multiple choice final vocabulary test. Students also examine the author’s craft by investigating similes and onomatopoeia within the novel, Walk Two Moons. Then, students create an artistic representation of two similes found within the text in order to compare the two. During “Discussion Director” students create text based on discussion questions for their small groups. Increase reading and writing vocabulary through: wide reading. word study. knowledge of homophones, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms. knowledge of multiple meanings of words. writing process elements. writing as a tool for learning. seminars. book clubs. discussions. examining the author's craft. Before, during and after reading students will complete a K-W-L. I will use this to assess what the students know before, want to know and learned from reading the texts. Students also interact with the text and make inferences and evaluations by perusing and browsing three different areas full of books and information on travel. Students will use an Internet workshop to seek additional information about travel and travel destinations. Students will also complete Interact with the text before, during, and after the reading, listening, and viewing by: making predictions. formulating questions. supporting answers from textual information, previous experience, and/or other sources. drawing on personal, literary, and cultural understandings. seeking additional information. making connections with previous
Problem(s) & Solution(s) (What goes wrong in the story and how is it solved?): What do you predict will be the most significant problems in this book? How do you believe the problems might be solved? _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Write down any other questions or predictions: ABC Travel Book Choose one or two items from the chart below to create pages for an alphabet book for all to share. Each page should include a large capital letter, an illustration or some artistic impression, and a paragraph (at least 5 sentences) explaining your letter representation. Design your page with an interesting format and type font. Your page should be vertical. The following words are examples you may use but are not limited to: A Alabama Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) B Bonne Terri Mine, Missouri Black Hills Badlands Bunker Hill C Colorado River Covered Bridges Cadillas Ranch, TX Cape Canaveral D Delaware Dinosaur Adventure Land Dinosaur National Park E Everglades Ellis Island F Florida Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water G Great Lakes Georgia Gateway Arch H Hersey Chocolate Factory Hover Dam Hatteras Lighthouse I Indiana Idaho Intrepid Aircraft Carrier & Space Museum, NY J Jacksonville Jamestown, VA K Kentucky Derby Kitty Hawk L Lake Charles Liberty Bell M Mammoth Hot Springs N New York City Niagara Falls, NY O Ohio River Trail Ozarks
Lewiston, Idaho Lucy the Elephant Mt. Rushmore Mt. St. Helens Oregon Trail Old Faithful P Pacific Coast Highway Pikes Peak Pipestone National Monument Q Queen Mary (ship) R River Rapids adventure Rosewell, New Mexico S San Francisco Smithsonian Sioux Falls Statue of Liberty T Tucson City, Arizona Times Square, NY Teton Mountains U Universal Studios V Vietnam Veterans Memorial W Washington National Cathedral WWII Memorial Washington Monument X X on your own travel treasure map (where do you most want to go?) Y Yellowstone National Park Yosemite Z Zion National Park Character Sketcher Your job as Character Sketcher is to identify a character’s actions (traits) and explain or prove these traits, identify the character’s goal (which is what the character wants to do or accomplish), identify the problem and solution in the reading, and complete a sketch or illustration of the character. You need to be aware that the character traits you will choose will be implied character traits. In other words, they are not directly stated in the passage. You really want to use descriptive words for your character traits. You do not want to use words like good, bad, nice, and mean. Be sure to use your “Descriptive Character Traits” page for help. Sometimes the solution to your character’s problem will not be in the section of the book that you are reading. In this case, you will need to come up with a possible solution for your character’s problem. When you begin artistically representing your character, try to use any physical
Quotation/Passage and page number “I should explain right off that my real name is Salamanca Tree Hiddle. , my parents thought, was the name of the Indian tribe to which my belonged.” (page #7) Your response, reactions, and connections to the quotation or passage. Connection: We all would like to know where our names came from and if there is a family connection. As we were later told in the story, ’s grand-mother’s tribe was the Seneca. We can investigate and discover that this tribe is one of five tribes that are a part of the Iroquois nation that originated in the area. Double Entry Diary Now, it’s your turn… Go for it!
word(s) that imitates the sound it represents “Outside the hospital, I heard the warbling of a bird, and it was such a familiar warble.” Page 99 Example: What this passage adds to the story: Example: What this passage adds to the story: Simile: a comparison that includes the words like or as “…my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings and we drove three hundred miles straight north…” Page 1 Page number: Example: What this passage adds to the story: Page number: Example: What this passage adds to the story: Artistic Representation Now that you have chosen two examples of similes, please artistically represent one of these comparisons. You may use any artistic medium. The following are options: colored pencils, watercolors, pastels, collage, etc. Enjoy!