Vocabulary
- eventually
- coincidence
- imagine
- contagious
- unsuspecting
- assigned
- pretended
- staring
- curious
- awful
Reading
Five Minute Reading Challenge
Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills.
Read passage from "Unnatural Creatures".
Continued reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio; chapters "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and "Jack Will".
Five Minute Reading Challenge
Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills.
Read passage from "Unnatural Creatures".
Continued reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio; chapters "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and "Jack Will".
Writing
"Wonder" Writing
Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "The Library"
Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used an image they selected off of https://storybird.com for their creative inspiration. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are not the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see!
Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used an image they selected off of https://storybird.com for their creative inspiration. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are not the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see!
"Wonder" Writing
- Write 8 complete sentences using beginning, middle, and end format. Please write neatly.
- Include correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization.
- Use 4 of the vocabulary words in your essay. Please underline your vocabulary words.
- Tell me what happened in the story with your own words. Be sure to include the following answers:
- Describe how Auggie's first month of school went. What were the ups and down of attending his first month of school?
- How did Auggie feel about the way the other kids treated him when they saw him at school? Was he mad at the other kids for looking at him this way?
- Discuss Auggie's friendship with Jack. How does Auggie describe their relationship? What classes do they have together?
- Do you think the teachers put Jack Will in the same classes at Auggie and sat them next to each other in class on purpose? Why?
Vocabulary Baseball
Baseball to strengthen writing skills and vocabulary comprehension!
Student sat at "home-base" with pencil and paper.
Teacher "pitched" a vocabulary word to student. Student wrote a complete sentence using the "pitched" vocabulary word. A hit occurred when if the sentence was complete and the vocabulary word usage was correct; a strike occurred when the student did not use a complete sentence or the word was used incorrectly. Students were also thrown out on base if they were unable to use the thrown word correctly.
Baseball to strengthen writing skills and vocabulary comprehension!
Student sat at "home-base" with pencil and paper.
Teacher "pitched" a vocabulary word to student. Student wrote a complete sentence using the "pitched" vocabulary word. A hit occurred when if the sentence was complete and the vocabulary word usage was correct; a strike occurred when the student did not use a complete sentence or the word was used incorrectly. Students were also thrown out on base if they were unable to use the thrown word correctly.
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