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Learning Target: I can explain how series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit together to provide the structure for a story, drama, or poem.  I can identify and use interjections correctly. 

Monday: 

• Reading: Introduce plays using Brainpop.com. Students will discuss how a play should be read and its parts. Working with a partner, students will create a Venn Diagram discussing the differences between a book and a play, then write a paragraph explaining those differences. ​
• Grammar: Students will view an introductory video clip on interjections and practice identifying interjections in sentences.
  
• Vocabulary: Unit 15 affixes     

Tuesday:

• Reading: As a whole group, students will read "The Tortoise and the Hare". While reading students will play close attention to our drama voc. terms. 
• Grammar: Students will continue to practice identifying and using interjections via a Nearpod lesson. 
  
• Vocabulary: Unit 15 affixes - sorting activity      

Wednesday: 

• Reading: As a whole group, students will read "Yeh Shen". While reading students will play close attention to our drama voc. terms.   
• Grammar: Students will continue to practice identifying and using interjections via a Nearpod lesson. 
  
• Vocabulary: Unit 15 affixes - context clues activity 

Thursday: 

• Reading: Working with a partner, students will create an ending scene to either, "The Tortoise and the Hare" or "Yeh Shen". The ending must take place 1 year after the event and tell what the characters are presently doing. ​  
• Grammar: Students will play Interjections Kahoot.  
  
• Vocabulary: Unit 15 affixes - context clues activity 

Friday: 

• Quiz
• MLK activity
• Educational Fun Friday