Hey parents and others! This month we are doing something really fun. We, as a class, are reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry! Right now we are in chapter five and we are already loving it. It is about an African American family that has to go through all of the struggle of the historical time period because of racism and discrimination. Every chapter we have had a different purpose for reading. In chapter one, we focused on building our vocabulary. In chapter two, we focused on looking at the characters types, character relationships, and character personalities. In chapter three we also focused on that but we also looked at how they where related and how they acted though all of this. Right now in four and five we are working on our inferencing powers! In those chapters we have to write at least one sticky note with an inference on it about the character personalities or the historical time. In chapter six, we analyzed the dialect used in the book. We learned that dialect is a version of a language that uses different idioms and slang. For chapters seven and eight, we learned about metacognition (thinking about our thinking) and we practiced using fix-it strategies, like rereading or asking questions about what we read, to monitor our comprehension. For chapters nine and ten, we anlayzed the subplots in the story and predicted how they would be resolved. There are lots of subplots in ROTHMC! For the last two chapters, our purpose for reading was for pleasure and enjoyment! Like Ms. Bad always says, you should always be reading a book just because you want to learn more.
Well that is all for today! Thanks! Check out the photos below of our inference poster with all our inferences from chapter four and five and some of the examples of Southern dialect we found in chapter six! There's also some photos of our sticky notes that we used to monitor our comprehension and metcognition.
Well that is all for today! Thanks! Check out the photos below of our inference poster with all our inferences from chapter four and five and some of the examples of Southern dialect we found in chapter six! There's also some photos of our sticky notes that we used to monitor our comprehension and metcognition.