Our class librarian, Eliza, and her group of helpers have been busy at work reorganizing our library! They organized the books by genre using colored stickers to show which genre they are. They are also continuing to add stickers inside the book cover that list their Lexile level so we can know which books we should read. Check it out!
Ms. Bad asked me to tell you about what awesome stuff we have been doing to prepare for our next novel. Well, first, we did some research on the history of the time period of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. You might already know but it takes place int he 1930s when there was segregation, which means African Americans were had to be in separate public place and they were being treated badly and very unfairly. We researched on three things: The Civil Rights Movement, the life of the African Americans in the 1930s, and finally, the Great Depression. After we did some searching for facts, we wrote a research outline on what we learned. We even learned how to use APA format when citing our sources. Then we all made GOOD PowerPoints about what we researched. That means there were less words and more pictures, and we had to present more than just read the words off the slide. Then we showed them to two other students that researched the other topics so we could learn about everything. We are excited to finally start reading the book next week! |
AuthorLiteracy Linguist: Megan Archives
May 2018
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