During Unit 3, the students will be investigating the BIG Question "What are some patterns in nature?".
To start our investigation of the BIG Question, we will be reading "The Man Who Named Clouds". We will be developing answers to the weekly question "What is the value of looking at patterns in nature?" and will begin to identify nature patterns in our schema. This is a biography about Luke Howard, the man who came up with the first recognized system for naming clouds. During this story we will be studying how to interpret graphic sources. We will also be reviewing fact and opinion.
The next story in the unit is called "Adelina's Whales". We will take our BIG Question investigation a bit further as we look at how patterns in nature affect the lives of animals. This is a nonfiction story that looks at a little girl's experience with whales as they migrate to her town each year. Our skill for the week is fact and opinion. We will begin looking at how to determine validity of facts and opinions.
We will be investigating myths during week 3 of the Unit- both Greek and Native American- as we look at how people have used literature to come up with explanations for some of the phenomenons in nature, typically seen in nature patterns. The students will read the a few fictional explanations of why night and day occur, ending with our story of the week "How Night Came From the Sea". We will be studying generalizations and will come up with a list of generalizations about myths through our exploration of the genre this week.
The next story is called "Eye of the Storm". It is an awesome nonfiction account of Warren Faidley's adventures photographing storms. We will be looking at how weather patterns can affect nature and us! We will be continuing to work with identifying causes and effects in text as our skill of the week.
The final story of this unit is "Paul Bunyan". This will be our first look at folk tales, specifically Tall Tales which are also used to explain some natural phenomenons. We will be coming up with a list of generalizations as we review this skill during our genre investigation of tall tales. We will be comparing this genre to our previous genre study of myths to see how the two are alike and how they are different.
To start our investigation of the BIG Question, we will be reading "The Man Who Named Clouds". We will be developing answers to the weekly question "What is the value of looking at patterns in nature?" and will begin to identify nature patterns in our schema. This is a biography about Luke Howard, the man who came up with the first recognized system for naming clouds. During this story we will be studying how to interpret graphic sources. We will also be reviewing fact and opinion.
The next story in the unit is called "Adelina's Whales". We will take our BIG Question investigation a bit further as we look at how patterns in nature affect the lives of animals. This is a nonfiction story that looks at a little girl's experience with whales as they migrate to her town each year. Our skill for the week is fact and opinion. We will begin looking at how to determine validity of facts and opinions.
We will be investigating myths during week 3 of the Unit- both Greek and Native American- as we look at how people have used literature to come up with explanations for some of the phenomenons in nature, typically seen in nature patterns. The students will read the a few fictional explanations of why night and day occur, ending with our story of the week "How Night Came From the Sea". We will be studying generalizations and will come up with a list of generalizations about myths through our exploration of the genre this week.
The next story is called "Eye of the Storm". It is an awesome nonfiction account of Warren Faidley's adventures photographing storms. We will be looking at how weather patterns can affect nature and us! We will be continuing to work with identifying causes and effects in text as our skill of the week.
The final story of this unit is "Paul Bunyan". This will be our first look at folk tales, specifically Tall Tales which are also used to explain some natural phenomenons. We will be coming up with a list of generalizations as we review this skill during our genre investigation of tall tales. We will be comparing this genre to our previous genre study of myths to see how the two are alike and how they are different.