Friday, January 4, 2008

Essential Questions for January 8-18, 2007

Happy New Year! Welcome 2008!
Reading- How do I gather meaning from reading fictional text? What can I do to improve my fluency in reading aloud? How does fiction develop characters? What are some questioning strategies? How do I defend my opinion based on evidence from the text?
Writing- What are the steps of the writing process? How can I vary my sentence beginnings? How do I research information?
Grammar- What are the rules of capitalization? What are the steps of COPS?
Spelling-
Unit 15
Vocabulary- Unit 10
Math- What are fractions? What are parts of a whole and parts of a group? How do you add fractions?
Science- What are the regions of Georgia?
Social Studies-
Whow are the leaders of our local, state, and national government?
Health- What are the standards of good hygenen?
Character Education- What is humility? What does it mean to be pretentious? How can you show willingness to admit mistakes and take responsibility for your actions?