U3W4+My+Greatgrandmother's+Gourd

=My Great-Grandmother's Gourd (two weeks - one for writing extensions - compare contrast and persuasion)= skill - compare and contrast strategy - inferences word skill - synonyms word strategy - connotations Focus on **theme** []

Work on compare and contrast this week.

I have had my students create a venn diagram comparing grade 3 to 5, topics from the lvl readers, a topic of their choice, and then life in the olden days vs life now - they then turned one of those into a formal written essay

intro video that shows the real Fatima and village []

Also working on quotation marks - students wrote a conversation between two objects using the appropriate punctuation - spoon vs fork, hockey puck vs stick, etc