Working on becoming stronger readers of nonfiction
Students are reviewing and analyzing multiple documents considering text structure, author, bias, perspective, position, etc.
Readers understand their power as readers to agree or disagree with text/authors
Readers evaluate their theories against other texts and media to create new understandings about the world
Students are learning that readers adjust their thinking based on how the author presents and organizes information in order to understand what the author is communicating
AAP students will write persuasive essays and engage in a debate related to our Ancient Rome and Athens DBQ.
Home/School Connection
What is the relationship between nonfiction and the truth?
What are other perspectives on this topic?
What is your favorite nonfiction topic to read and learn about?
Share an editorial, what was the writer's perspective, how did they construct the argument, did they change your thinking?
Math
What are we learning?
AAP math will spend the next two weeks deepening our understanding of positive and negative integers, we will learn how to graph inequalities on a number line and solve equations with positive and negative numbers
Home/School Connection
Where do you use and see positive and negative numbers? Maybe explore a weather map, what is the difference in temperature between two cities?
Science
What are we learning?
Later this month we will begin our next science unit, Characteristics of Light and Sound
Social Studies
What are we learning?
Students are working on their first DBQ (Data Based Questions)
Students are working towards answering the question: Citizenship in Athens and Rome: Which was the better system?
Students are reviewing multiple documents to get a better sense of the Roman and Greek systems of government and leadership
Home/School Connection
Where would you have wanted to live - Athens or Rome? Why?
