Wednesday, October 8th & Thursday, October 9th

On Wednesday we reviewed our vocabulary words after we corrected the daily grammar worksheet.  Then students worked on finishing their Civil War leaders notes.  Those who finished early worked on the level 4 option.  They used additional sources to find more perspectives about other notable Civil War era people.

Then we worked on understanding challenging texts by reading and analyzing the Gettysburg Address.  I informed the students that they can use resources and group discussions to figure out key words and main ideas.   

Today students shared some of their sentences from the homework and they worked with a partner to discuss their Clara Barton organizers.  We determined which facts were the most important and we added those details to our notes.  Then we read another document about Clara Barton from the Red Cross website.  Students worked with partners to read the text and identify new details about her.  After students took notes, they answered three questions about Clara Barton's perspective and the results of her actions.

After that, we watched the Civil War BrainPop video and began to take notes about the results of the war.  Tomorrow we will use the social studies textbook to get additional details for our notes.