Weekly Newsletter
May 6-10
Module 4 Courage in Crisis
Important Dates this Week
Atlas Testing Monday (Science)
Literacy: Module 4, Courage in Crisis
Core Text: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
Lesson 23 Learning Goals
- Make observations and form questions about the text.
- Analyze the authors’ use of obsessed and fascinated to deepen understanding about Malala.
- Organize the events that happened after Malala’s shooting.
- Integrate a source effectively by adding elaboration to develop the topic.
- Analyze the impact of the authors’ word choice on the meaning of the text.
- Analyze in detail what Malala’s responses reveal about her.
- Develop a topic with relevant evidence and elaboration.
- Analyze the authors’ use of chaotic and perplexed to better understand Malala’s and her mother’s experience in Birmingham.
- Identify the text’s central ideas.
- Evaluate and revise the use of sources in the research essay.
- Analyze the impact of the authors’ word choice on the meaning of the text.
Atlas Testing Monday (Science)
Social Studies
Students will write an explanatory research essay in which they respond to the following question: How have your selected individual’s heroic actions in response to a hostile environment positively impacted others? This may be any person throughout our history or a person they know who has displayed heroism in the face of an aggressive or unsympathetic environment.