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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Peek at the Week</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Week of November 30<sup>th</sup>-December 3<sup>rd</sup></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Reader’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">December’s comprehension skill of the month is summarizing fiction text.<span> </span>To embark on this comprehension strategy, every fifth grader will be given a book to read for the month.<span> </span>They will meet with their groups once a week.<span> </span>Between meetings, they will be responsible for completing their assigned reading and summarizing the text that they have read.<span> </span>The readers will be given time during reader’s workshop to complete their assignments.<span> </span>If they do not complete their work during reader’s workshop, they will have to complete this work at home.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Writer’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">During the month of December, the students will be writing persuasive essays.<span> </span>This week, they will identify an audience and what they would want to persuade that audience to think or feel.<span> </span>Mini-lessons this week will concentrate on generating ideas, audience, transitional words and phrases, and writing a strong lead.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">Social Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center">After learning about early Colonial America, the fifth graders will now learn the events that lead to the United States becoming its own country through the Revolutionary War.<span> </span>To do this, every group of fifth graders will be given a time line highlighting the events that led to the Revolutionary War.<span> </span>In their groups, the fifth graders will be responsible for illustrating and writing facts on the timeline.<span> </span></p>