Franklin Weekly Agenda Template (15-16)

Course Name: 6th

grade language
arts
Do Now:

Monday the 2nd

Tuesday the 3rd

Wednesday the 4th

Thursday the 5th

Friday the 6th

Look back at your

notes. On your Do
Now paper, explain
what theme is. Then,
answer the following
question: how do we
find the theme in a
text.
Students will be able
to
determine
the
theme of the story and
distinguish
which
details pertain to the
theme by completing
the Jackie Robinson:
Justice at Last theme
sheet.

Get
out
you
theme
worksheet. How is topic
different than theme? Is it
possible for a story to have
more than one theme?

Reflect
back
to
Jackie
Robinson:
Justice at last. What
does prejudice mean?
Provide
another
example of prejudice
behavior
in
our
society.
Students will be able
to identify and define
key
phrases
and
background
information
in
the
short story, Letter
from a Concentration
Camp, by answering
the question: What did
the
Japanese
experience in the U.S.
after the Pearl Harbor
bombing.

Get out your Do now!

Papers. Answer the
following
question:
Can you read a
picture? Can a picture
make
you
feel
emotion?

Look back at your gallery

walk notes from yesterday.
How did those pictures
make you feel? Why is it
important that we learn
about these events in
history?

Students will be able

to evaluate pictures
pertaining
the
Japanese
concentration camps
and make predictions
about the text by
completing a gallery
walk and discussion.

Students will be able to

analyze the key details in the
story Letter from a
Concentration Camp by
annotating the text with a
shoulder partner.

Activities:

- Second read of Jackie

Robinson: Justice at Last
Theme
worksheet
(modified from previous one
1 quote given)

- Go over how to dissect

prompts
- Theme PCR using
worksheet from previous
day

- Look at author, pictures,

and
title
to
make
predictions.
- Gallery walk with images
from concentration camps
- Gallery walk discussion
- Review the purpose of
chunking the text
- Chunk the text

- First read of Letters from

a Concentration Camp
- Read the text aloud
- Stop after every chunk and
have
shoulder
partners
determine the key details
and annotate the text.
- Discuss the key details and
annotations using a cold call
discussion
6th period:
- End of the trimester
celebration

Homework:
Upcoming Dates:

None
None
None
End of trimester is 11/6. All work needs to be turned in my 11/5 so I can grade it.
End of trimester celebration is 11/6 during sixth period.

None

None

Strategies
Implemented to

Graphic Organizers
Marking the text

Images/Visuals
Gallery Walk

Marking the text

Reading with a focus

Objective(s):

Students will be able to

analyze a prompt and the
theme in the story, Jackie
Robinson: Justice at last by
composing a PCR pertaining
to theme.

Graphic Organizers

- Complete K and W of
KWLR chart
- 4 Corners
- Background information
Prezi and discussion on
WWII
and
Japanese
Internment Camps

Images/Visuals
KWL

Meet ALL
Student Needs:

Reading with a focus

Think-pair-share
Reaching a consensus