Verbal Group: Fairy Tales on Trial
The Junior Great Books program brings high-quality literature and student-centered discussion to the classroom while providing a superb framework for practicing reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing.
This Week's Lesson:
Objective:
Activity: Students will read and analyze the characters in each fairytale for behaviors that are acceptable and unacceptable. They will decide on which character to indict and take to trial.
AZCCR Standards:
Grade 7: S3C4
PO4 – Explain the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship:
a. upholding the Constitution
b. obeying the law
c. paying taxes
d. registering for selective service
e. jury duty
Grade 4: S3C3
PO2 – Describe the responsibilities of the local government.
PO3 – Describe the possible consequences of violating laws.
Grade 6:
6.RL.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
6.RI.8
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
- Students will analyze the fairytale "The Tinderbox" and prepare their parts for the trial.
Activity: Students will read and analyze the characters in each fairytale for behaviors that are acceptable and unacceptable. They will decide on which character to indict and take to trial.
AZCCR Standards:
Grade 7: S3C4
PO4 – Explain the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship:
a. upholding the Constitution
b. obeying the law
c. paying taxes
d. registering for selective service
e. jury duty
Grade 4: S3C3
PO2 – Describe the responsibilities of the local government.
PO3 – Describe the possible consequences of violating laws.
Grade 6:
6.RL.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
6.RI.8
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
quantitative Group: At the Mall With Algebra
In this unit, students explore two- and three-dimensional shapes with a focus on their properties, relationships among them and spatial visualization. The reasoning skills that they build upon in this unit help them to develop an understanding of more complex geometric concepts.
This week's Lesson: Cover Up!
Objectives:
AZCCR Standards:
6.EE.7 Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations of the form x +
p = q and px = q for cases in which p, q, and x are all nonnegative rational numbers.
- Students will solve equations using the cover-up method.
AZCCR Standards:
6.EE.7 Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations of the form x +
p = q and px = q for cases in which p, q, and x are all nonnegative rational numbers.
Spatial Group: drawing stars and building polyhedra
In this unit, students explore our numeration system in depth and discover a stone with unusual markings. By the end of the unit, students uncover the mysteries found on this stone, by applying and extending their new knowledge of place value and other numeration systems.
This Week's Lesson: lesson 3 and 4
Objective:
Students will draw all of the 8-pointed stars, and make a conjecture that predicts which "over numbers" produce the same star.
Students will draw all the 9-pointed stars, distinguish continuous stars from overlapping stars, and describe the structure of a star with a multiplication fact.
Vocabulary: factor, product, asterisk, point, line segment, polygons
Standards:
5.MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
5.MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
5.MP.3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
5.MP.4 Model with mathematics.
5.MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically.
5.MP.6 Attend to precision.
5.MP.7 Look for and make use of structure.
5.MP.8 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Students will draw all of the 8-pointed stars, and make a conjecture that predicts which "over numbers" produce the same star.
Students will draw all the 9-pointed stars, distinguish continuous stars from overlapping stars, and describe the structure of a star with a multiplication fact.
Vocabulary: factor, product, asterisk, point, line segment, polygons
Standards:
5.MP.1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
5.MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
5.MP.3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
5.MP.4 Model with mathematics.
5.MP.5 Use appropriate tools strategically.
5.MP.6 Attend to precision.
5.MP.7 Look for and make use of structure.
5.MP.8 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.