by Mr. Maynard ([email protected])
 | Overall, the fifth graders started the week on a strong foot. In "Reading" today, we did a read aloud of the next three chapters of Because |
of Mr. Terupt, getting introduced to our final three fifth-graders: the loner Jeffrey, the victim Danielle and the observer Anna. The students did a great job coming up with nouns to describe each character's identity. We then listed our seven-fifth graders, coming up with one "identity" noun for each of them:
From here, students learned about the GIST summarizing strategy, which focuses on the 5Ws (who, what, when, where and why) and 1H (how). For the purpose of how we will be doing these "straight and to the point" GIST summaries, students should remember this order of questioning:
1) When and where is the story taking place?
2) Who is involved?
3) What is the problem or situation?
4) How did this problem happen or occur?
5) Why is this a problem?
With this format in mind, we developed a class GIST for Because of Mr. Terupt.
"At the beginning of the school year in Snow Hill School (1), Mr. Terupt's class (2) was struggling getting along and figuring out their identities (3). For example, Alexia was being mean to Jessica and Danielle, Peter was annoying Luke with his antics, and Jeffrey and Anna wanted to go unnoticed (4). Mr. Terupt was worried that his class would not come together and learn as much as possible if these problems were not solved."
We will continue to work on the GIST summary throughout the week.
In "Social Studies," we annotated the rest of the "Our Nation Saw Evil" article in The Chicago Tribune the day after 9/11. We summarized the section on what happened on the airplanes, coming up with the summary that "The terrorists were highly organized when taking over and crashing the planes, causing much destruction and confusion." We then watched CNN Student News, learning about recent terrorist acts in New York and New Jersey this weekend, the leaking of an oil pipeline, and the meaning of related vocabulary such as famine, embargo, boom and bust. We will have our first "CNN Student News" quiz tomorrow.
In "Writing," we took our first D.O.L. quiz of the school year and used our whiteboards as a formative assessment of our understanding of the four types of sentences, which we will have a quiz on tomorrow morning.
It was a productive Monday. Let's continue the momentum tomorrow. :-) Mr. Maynard :-)
- Peter the class clown.
- Alexia the mean girl.
- Danielle the victim.
- Jessica the new girl.
- Luke the brain.
- Anna the observer.
- Jeffrey the loner.
From here, students learned about the GIST summarizing strategy, which focuses on the 5Ws (who, what, when, where and why) and 1H (how). For the purpose of how we will be doing these "straight and to the point" GIST summaries, students should remember this order of questioning:
1) When and where is the story taking place?
2) Who is involved?
3) What is the problem or situation?
4) How did this problem happen or occur?
5) Why is this a problem?
With this format in mind, we developed a class GIST for Because of Mr. Terupt.
"At the beginning of the school year in Snow Hill School (1), Mr. Terupt's class (2) was struggling getting along and figuring out their identities (3). For example, Alexia was being mean to Jessica and Danielle, Peter was annoying Luke with his antics, and Jeffrey and Anna wanted to go unnoticed (4). Mr. Terupt was worried that his class would not come together and learn as much as possible if these problems were not solved."
We will continue to work on the GIST summary throughout the week.
In "Social Studies," we annotated the rest of the "Our Nation Saw Evil" article in The Chicago Tribune the day after 9/11. We summarized the section on what happened on the airplanes, coming up with the summary that "The terrorists were highly organized when taking over and crashing the planes, causing much destruction and confusion." We then watched CNN Student News, learning about recent terrorist acts in New York and New Jersey this weekend, the leaking of an oil pipeline, and the meaning of related vocabulary such as famine, embargo, boom and bust. We will have our first "CNN Student News" quiz tomorrow.
In "Writing," we took our first D.O.L. quiz of the school year and used our whiteboards as a formative assessment of our understanding of the four types of sentences, which we will have a quiz on tomorrow morning.
It was a productive Monday. Let's continue the momentum tomorrow. :-) Mr. Maynard :-)
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