1. WELCOME Please begin your bellwork from your newsletter at a VL0. Be sure to… Sentences in the baskets, please! Record your homework THANK YOU! Get your StoryTown book Please complete a Pink Poster Activity when you are done.

2. Autobiography Historical Events Scientific Articles How-to Articles

3. Robust Vocabulary ST: Page 180 1.Which of the Wright brothers’ schemes for making money is the most interesting to you? Why? 2.What did Bernoulli discover about the amount of pressure air exerts when it moves? 3.What happened when the Wright brothers rigged up a wind tunnel?

4. Robust Vocabulary con’t ST: Page 180 4.What part of the Wright brothers’ story do you find most astounding? Why? 5.Where might you expect to see a replica of the Wright brothers’ airplane? 6.Why did the Wright brothers need to stabilize their glider’s position? 7.Why did the Wright brothers disband the exhibition?

5. From Inspiration to Invention 1.What often motivates an inventor to think up a new gadget? 2.Which invention do you think is more useful, Lisa’s or Jamila’s? Why? 3.In what ways are Lisa Marie Wright and Jamila Jordan like the Wright brothers when they were young? Bonus: “Comparing Texts” on pg 106 ST: Page 104, ? on scratch paper

6. Fluency Fun: Choral Reading The more of us that read at a VL1, the less other people hear ST: Page 87

7. When you are done writing, please use your editing skills to correct the following sentences on your slate: 1.The frog the turtle and the snake shared a pond. 2.The teacher laughed. And clapped at the end of the play. Please take this time to check your rubric, and verify that you will earn a 4 in every skill! After you have revised it for voice, and the form of a friendly letter, please create your final draft.

8. Conventions Practice Practice Book, p 18