“Shh, We’re Writing the Constitution” PowerPoint: 

“We the People, of the United States of America” PowerPoint:

CPW for selection

Here are Language Arts links:

• Contraction quiz
• Double negatives

Here are links about the Revolutinary War:

• U.S. Constituion for Kids
• The Revolutionary War on Yahooligans!
• America’s Homepage
• The Intolerable Acts
• Fraction Rythyms from Phil Tulga’s site: Go to the bottom, select the songs button, and pick out some of the drum signals from the Revolutionary War.
• Declaration of Indepedence
• Thomas Jefferson interview
• Timeline: The Age of Revolution

Here is the discussion of last week’s selection, “The Master Spy of Yorktown”:

This week we will be reading about an African-American slave who was a spy for the Patriots in The Master Spy of Yorktown.

Here is a PowerPoint for the selection:

And CPW for Master Spy of Yorktown 

• Direct and indirect objects
• Multiple meaning words
• Passive voice

And here are some links on the Revolutionary War:

• America’s Homepage
• Colonial Lexington
• The Intolerable Acts

Question for the week: What inalienable rights should children have?

CPW on The Declaration of Indepedence 

Word Knowledge/Vocabulary/Background for our selection:
 

CPW for our Selection:
 This week in Language Arts: 

• Roots, prefixes, suffixes hotlist
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Misused words

Links on the Declaration of Independence:

• Declaration of Indepedence
• Thomas Jefferson interview
• Timeline: The Age of Revolution

What “natural laws” do you think there are?

This week we will be reading two selections, but don’t worry they are short, and the class did a marvelous job last week with a very long and difficult selection. The stories will cover events that were some of the first physical confrontations in the Revolutionary War.

Here are:

• CPW for the The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• Word Knowledge PowerPoint: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• CPW for The Night the Revolution Began
• Word Knowledge Power Point: The Night the Revolution Began

Here are links about the subjects we will read about this week:

Declaration of Indepedence
Colonial Lexington
The Intolerable Acts

Here are links related to the skills we will be studying this week:

Figurative language
Complex/Compound sentences
Synonyms/Antonyms
Parts of Speech: Use for subjects and verbs

Question for the week, what services do you get for the taxes you and your family pay?

We start a new unit on the start of our nation, the United States of America 

Play the sentence sort game

CPW for “If You Lived at the Time of the Revolution…”
Find out more about the American Revolution:
The Revolutionary War on Yahooligans!
America’s Homepage

Read this site on cause and effect sentences. Write a sentence showing cause and effect and send it to me from the comment box below…

This week we will read about an African American family in “Parmele”

Here is our Word Knowledge and Spelling PowerPoint for this story:

Parmele PowerPoint 

We will be reading “Love as Strong as Ginger” this week. The first three links are about the sound of language.

This week we will be reading about a Yup’ik Eskimo family  in Alaska and how they preserve their culture.

Here is our Word Knowledge PowerPoint for the week

CPW for In Two Worlds 

Here are our links for the week:

This week we will read about a young boy coming to New York from Puerto Rico in “The West Side”

Here is our Word Knowledge and Spelling PowerPoint

• Preposition quiz
• Sensory words and language
• Wikipedia entry on Spanish Harlem