Week 1 Lesson Plans

Wednesday, August 20th

1. Housekeeping and Basic Procedures (Students will be able to
follow classroom procedures.) 55 minutes
a. Introductions 15 minutes
b. Housekeeping PPT 20 minutes
c. Practicing Transitions and Procedures 20 minutes
2. Cengage (Students will be familiar with the basic Cengage
structure and expectations.) 115 minutes
a. Unit Launch 35 minutes
i. Discuss Essential Question and Make Connections
25 minutes
1. View Photograph and Discuss 5 minutes
2. Discuss What defines home? 10 minutes
3. Make Text Connections 10 minutes
ii. Read Aloud (Home, Sweet Smelling Home) 10
minutes
1. Listen 5 minutes
2. Listen again and think about questions 5
minutes
b. Reading Strategies 40 minutes
i. Discuss the Plan strategy 5 minutes
ii. Practice using Plan 5 minutes
iii. Discuss the Monitor strategy 5 minutes
iv. Practice using Monitor 5 minutes
v. Discuss the Connections strategy 5 minutes
vi. Practice using Connections 5 minutes
vii. Discuss the Visualize strategy 5 minutes
viii. Practice using Visualize 5 minutes
c. Form Reading Groups 40 minutes
i. Preview Leveled Library (Novio Boy, Domitila) 10
minutes
ii. Have Students Select a Book 10 minutes
iii. Discuss Student Journals 5 minutes
iv. Silent Reading 15 minutes
3. Lunch 40 minutes
4. Math (Students will be familiar with basic Holt structure and
expectations.) 55 minutes
a. Lesson PPT 30 minutes
i. Warm Up 5 minutes
ii. Question of the Day 5 minutes
iii. Estimating Using Whole Numbers 15 minutes
iv. Checking for Comprehension 5 minutes
b. Homework 1-1 25 minutes
i. Independent Work 15 minutes
ii. Question and Answer 10 minutes

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5. Intervention 55 minutes
a. Discuss Intervention Procedures 15 minutes
b. Silent Reading or Math HW 40 minutes
6. Planning 60 minutes
Thursday, August 21st
1. Housekeeping (Students will be able to follow classroom
procedures.) 55 minutes
a. Review Procedures and Schedule 10 minutes
b. Discuss Rewards 15 minutes
c. What Worked? What Didnt? (From Yesterday) 15 minutes
d. Discuss Seating Chart 15 minutes
2. Cengage (Students will be familiar with vocabulary strategies
and the Unit 1 writing goal.) 115 minutes
a. Review Essential Question 10 minutes
i. Discuss What defines home? 10 minutes
b. Vocabulary Strategies (Context Clues) 40 minutes
i. Connect to Prior Knowledge 5 minutes
ii. Context Clues (video) 5 minutes
iii. How the Strategy Works 10 minutes
iv. Practice Together 10 minutes
v. Try it! 10 minutes
c. Modeling Sentences and Paragraphs 40 minutes
i. Connect to Prior Knowledge 10 minutes
ii. Discuss Different Types of Sentences 10 minutes
iii. Introduce Key Features of Paragraphs 10 minutes
iv. Discuss Example Paragraphs 10 minutes
d. Meet with Leveled Library Groups 25 minutes
i. Check Learning Journals 5 minutes
ii. Groups Meet and Discuss 20 minutes
3. Lunch 40 minutes
4. Math (Students will be able to estimate with whole numbers.)
55 minutes
a. Review Lesson 1-1 15 minutes
b. Discuss Homework 1-1 25 minutes
i. Any Problems? 15 minutes
ii. Additional Examples 10 minutes
c. Lesson 1-1 Quiz 15 minutes
5. Intervention 55 minutes
a. Placement Tests for Inside Phonics 55 minutes
i. Students will work quietly on leveled library reading
and their learning journals or math puzzles when not
being assessed.
6. Planning 60 minutes

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Friday, August 22nd

1. Housekeeping (Students will be prepared for the day.) 10
minutes
2. Social Studies (Students will be able to describe what an artifact
is.) 30 minutes
a. Introduction to Chapter 1 10 minutes
i. Connect to Prior Knowledge 5 minutes
ii. Unit 1 Overview 5 minutes
b. Preview Activity (What is an Artifact?) 20 minutes
i. Students sketch an object they own. 5 minutes
ii. Students role-play as scientists and analyze the
object. 5 minutes
iii. Discuss. 10 minutes
1. Will people living 10000s of years from now
find it difficult to tell a complete story of our
lives? Why or why not?
2. Do you think that people in the future might
come up with conclusions that are incorrect or
partially true?
3. Cengage (Students will correctly use am, is, and are in
sentences.) 85 minutes
a. Growing Together 20 minutes
i. Introduce the Selection 5 minutes
ii. View the Author Video and Build Background
Knowledge 15 minutes
b. Am, Is, and Are 20 minutes
i. Introduce Am, Is, and Are 10 minutes
ii. Practice Together 5 minutes
iii. Try It! 5 minutes
c. Create Self Portraits 25 minutes
i. Draw Portrait 10 minutes
ii. Discuss Portraits 5 minutes
iii. Partner Up and Exchange 10 minutes
4. Math (Students will be able to use exponents.) 40 minutes
a. Lesson PPT 30 minutes
i. Warm Up 5 minutes

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ii. Question of the Day 5 minutes
iii. Exponents 15 minutes
iv. Checking for Comprehension 5 minutes
b. Assign Homework 10 minutes
5. Lunch 40 minutes
6. Intervention 40 minutes
a. Students will work on Math homework or work on their
leveled library book.
7. Planning 40 minutes