Read Aloud - The Secret Life of Bees
Big Idea: What makes a family?
Essential Questions:
Essential Questions:
- What are the important family relationships in the story?
- How can relationships be different in a family?
- How does the social backdrop affect these family relationships?
Independent Reading
BIG IDEA: What lessons can we learn from reading?
Essential Question for 3rd Quarter:
* How do different literary elements help us to better understand our reading?
Essential Question for 3rd Quarter:
* How do different literary elements help us to better understand our reading?
Writing
Focus: Six plus One Traits of Writing -- Organization & Sentence Fluency