Scrimmages

Hello, parents! Today I am sending home students' folders with their first scrimmages inside. Please review their scrimmage and sign on the record sheet. These will be due Monday.

We are quickly working toward our second scrimmage, which will be next Thursday. The scrimmage will cover the following standards (reviewing some from the last scrimmage):

• RI.5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
  
  
  We have practiced this a lot in class. This overlaps with characterization and the indirect/direct characterization we worked with two weeks ago. We've discussed making inferences about a character based on what they say and do, and we've done this together on the white board with a character from Hidden Figures, Dorothy Vaughan. 
  
  
  RI.5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
  
  
  Both classes will have summarized several chapters of Hidden Figures out loud and in writing. They will have to summarize a passage from Hidden Figures for their scrimmage. 
  
  
  RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
  
  
  This is a review from last week, but will also be applied to Hidden Figures. We will be 9 chapters in, and we will be able to see several themes unfold already. 
  
  
  Homework:
  Read and Annotate Chapter 6
  Written summary of Chapter 6 (1 paragraph)