La Lectura

Our essential question this week in literacy was:  How did democracy developed? We read some expository texts that presented information about the topic. One of our main objectives was to engage and participate in a conversation, using evidence to support claims, and politely express opinions or disagreements while practicing the principles of a democratic community. Students dug deep into the text analysis, asking questions to clarify understanding, identifying key ideas and details and making relevant and meaningful connections to how these concepts have been  relevant for thousands of years until today. Honoring this week’s democratic process during our elections, we discussed our rights and obligations, and the importance of civic participation. Other objectives included:

• Cite relevant evidence from the text.
• Paraphrase fragments from the text in oral and written form.
• Determine the structure of a text: Comparing and Contrasting.
• Accurately identify singular nouns and plural nouns.
• Use Latin/Greek roots to determine the meaning of unknown words.
• Spelling: understand the patterns and rules of hiatus, diphthong, and triphthong.

 

Ciencias

As we continue with our observation and documentation of the development of our milkweed bugs habitats and terrestrial environments, we began with our  studies of  the interesting phenomenon of Wolves of Yellowstone. We will be reading and studying different articles showing the contrast before and after the wolves were reintroduced. In this lesson, which will span over a few weeks, students will explore and explain how species are interconnected and how energy flows from one organism to another in an ecosystem. The questions to be explored are:

How did the wolves cause a cascade of changes in Yellowstone?
What surprised you or stood out to you?
How did the biotic (living) factors change once the wolves were introduced?
How did the abiotic (nonliving) factors (such as streams, rivers, ponds, etc.) change once the wolves were introduced?

 

 

 

 

Mathematics

This week we continued working on Chapter 4 Ratios.

Our objectives were:

• Write ratios to compare two quantities
• Interpret ratios given in fraction form
• Use a ratio to find what fraction one quantity is of another or how many times as great one is as the other
• Write equivalent ratios and ratios in simplest form

History & Geography

This week we continued learning about Ancient Greece and Rome. Our objectives were:

• Describe Julius Caesar’s rise to power, his conquests during the Gallic Wars, and his alliance with Pompey and Crassus
• Summarize the events of each of the three Punic Wars
• Identify Hannibal and Scipio Africanus

English Writing & Spelling

Our objectives for writing were:

• finish revising our writing using DARE
• Understand how and when to Exchange parts of our writing exchanging our conclusions for Jammin’ Conclusions
• Being using CUPS to edit
• Understand and edit Capitals in our writing
• Understand and edit Usage in our writing

Our Greek and Latin roots this week were:

• Equ- equal, even, level
• Fall, fals- deceive, lie, wrong
• Fen- to strike