- We read for seventy-five minutes.
- I had book chats with people as needed.
- Shannyn and I logged in and shelved new books.
- Simile--we created similes from given words, wrote them down on page 4, and then shared some.
- We practiced this skill again with our Simile Creation sheets, where we tried to give writers two more similes for their Love-Is-Like poem.
- Alliteration--we shared some examples from our Sense Poems, and then we talked about several different sounds and the effect they have (p. 5).
- We revised the Sense Poems, after I went over the ten questions on page 13.
- I passed out rubrics for people to use as well.
- We got our letters back from our third-grade pen pals, and we started typing our letters back.
- Finish the Simile Creation worksheet (bright yellow handout).
Pair-Share, Then Whole-Class Sharing
- How did each commandment change?
- What scenes are humorous, and why?
- What historical connections do you see? What details from the book resonate with details from history?
- We spent ten minutes working with the new vocab, then turned our answers in.
- Mr. Hoover was here to talk about similarities between the book and Russian history. We took notes, and we asked questions.
- Check the wiki!