1. Make it a Great Day! Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
*Good Things*
Opening Warm-up: Literacy Wednesday! Please get a Magnet Response Assignment & the reading based on your Lexile reading group color. Carefully read the article. Select a “Magnet Term” to place in the middle of your graphic organizer. Directly quote or paraphrase evidence from the article that will help you answer the Focus Question all around your Magnet Term. Write your claim sentence. Continue as time allows. You have 20 minutes today and 20 minutes next Wednesday. Use your time wisely, or it will use you .
Work Session:
Make-ups & Recoveries over Unit 7 – Monsoon Asia Test?
Literacy Wednesday – Tiered Great Barrier Reef Article from NEWSELA
New Partners & New Seats
Begin Unit 8 – Oceania & Antarctica Partner Mapping Lab Challenge
Essential Question(s): What’s wrong with the Great Barrier Reef AND how can science help save it? What and where are significant physical features, climate zones and available resources of Oceania & Antarctica? How do each of these factors affect human settlement patterns in the region? SSWG 5c 1gh
Closing Cool-down: What is the dominant climate zone of Australia? How does it affect where people are living/not living on this continent?
Materials you will need:
Writing Utensil, Geography Notebook, Transparency & Clipboard
Unit 8 – Oceania & Antarctica Partner Mapping Lab Challenge
Textbook – pgs