Page 58 and 59 of the Workbook are assigned as Homework for Monday, 03.02
Intro: We began class by warming up our brains with a game of Scattegories.
Notebooks: In our notebooks, students imagined they could live in one of three historical time periods; Cowboy Times in the USA, Samurai Times in Japan, or Viking Times in Norway. They wrote which one they would rather live and three reasons why, and then we discussed as a class.
New Unit: We introduced our new unit with a short informative video.
https://youtu.be/Jq1J8DHgrJo
Unit 5 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 5 Vocabulary: robbers, jail, wagon, sheriff, pistol, saddle, handcuffs, barrel, rope.
New Grammar: Introduced our 1st Grammar Point of the unit; using made of and used for to describe items.
Example:
This bottle is made of glass.
It’s used for drinking water.
Create and Outlaw: Students created a Wild West Outlaw. They came up with a backstory for their outlaw including:
Picture of Outlaw or Your Crime with 2 vocab words
Your Outlaw Name
A Description of your Outlaw (1 Sentence)
What was your crime? (2 Sentences)
What is the reward for your capture?
Students Books: We worked through page 58 and 59 in the Students Books