Analysis. Application. Agency.

During today’s read aloud, scholars were challenged to think back on the characters met in Chu Ju’s House. After generating a long list, students employed another strategy scholarly readers use to understanding characters more deeply, particularly their motivation. Why someone does something reveals a lot about his or her character.

As we were reading, students were encouraged to ask: What do the characters’ actions reveal about who they are on the inside?

  • Identify character traits that describe each character.
  • Provide evidence from the text.

This process is very similar to what we have been doing with the main character, Chu Ju, and is a wonderful strategy students can use when reading independently.

Below is a picture of some text evidence we found to think more deeply bout Chu Ju and Quan.

As an extension or application of yesterday’s work with factor pairs, today we explored how factors, which can represent the dimensions of a quadrilateral, can be used not only to find the area, but also to find the perimeter. Working was various arrays (rectangles), we inquired into efficient ways to calculate the perimeter. As students calculated the perimeter of shapes, we came up with several formulas that could be used effectively and efficiently.

P = (W + W) + (L + L)

P = 2W + 2L

P = W + L + W + L

P = 2(W + L)

Multiple Sources:


Challenge: How can knowing the attributes and formula for a rectangle help you figure out the formula for a triangle?

We also looked at the connection between factors and multiples, which are often confused. As we inquired, we realized a number is always a factor and a multiple of itself.


The follow is a video for teachers, but it might be helpful.

We continued tuning in to our new country of focus and central idea by examining the images we sorted yesterday a bit more closely using the Think. Puzzle. Explore. visible thinking routine.

  • THINK: What do you THINK you know about the the images?
  • PUZZLE: What questions or PUZZLES do you have?
  • EXPLORE: What do the images make you want to EXPLORE?

We then dove into some multiple sources to pique our curiosity. Using the text and graphic clues in the various nonfiction texts, we were able to pose purposeful and powerful questions about which to ponder. This process will help us focus our thinking as we prepare to inquire. Through the review of images and information text, students interests will be activated, so that they might then be intrinsically motivated to pursue information independently – agency.

 

 

 

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