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Week 1
 || || Wings for the King **BY ANN SRODA** **Genre**: Play **Main Idea**: An inventor lifts a king's spirits. **Skill:** __Author's Purpose__: **Entertain** - fiction stories with problem and solution **Inform** - nonfiction stories with facts and information **Express the Author's Feelings** **Persuade** - to convince the reader **Review Skill**: Cause and Effect - When reading think about why something happens in the story. **//Vocabulary://** How do inventors inspire our imaginations? **__TECHNOLOGY SITES__** [|Unit 3 Games] Benjamin Franklin Website

 || ||  Leonardo's Horse by Jean Fritz  Leonardo's Horse: A BIOGRAPHY of a FAMOUS ARTIST!!!! Genre: Biography Skill: Main Idea Strategy: Summarize Review Skill: Fact and Opinion Vocabulary: //How do artists inspire future generations?//

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #660000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">TECHNOLOGY WEBSITES:[|Unit 3 Games] [|Renaissance ART RESEARCH]

<span style="background-color: #808000; color: #ffff00; display: block; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> || ||  The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley <span style="background-color: #808000; color: #ffff00; display: block; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">** ** Waterhouse Hawkins - The artist of the first Dinosaur Model! //How can paleontologists help us understand the past?

Skill: __Fact and Opinion__ Strategy: __Predict__ Review Skill: __Main Idea__ Vocabulary:**// ** **
 * Genre: __Biography__

[|Unit 3 Powerpoints] - Click on Week 3 <span style="background-color: #808000; color: #ffff00; display: block; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Social Studies Reearch - The explorers and prehistoric migration <span style="background-color: #808000; color: #ffff00; display: block; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;">Click on the Video clip on the desktop to watch the video on prehistoric migration

<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> || ||  Mahalia Jackson by Julius Lester **<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">**<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Mahalia Jackson - Explore the "Blues" and what Song Artists do to Inspire others **Genre**: EXPOSITORY NONFICTION Skill: Main Idea
 * Strategy**:Graphic Organizers
 * Review Skill**: Fact and Opinion
 * Vocabulary**:  ** **

[|Unit 3 Powerpoint] [|Brainpop] - complete the Main Idea activity guide after you watch the Brainpop video Social Studies Explorer Project: [|Britannica Online] <span style="background-color: #800000; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> || ||  Special Effects in Film and Television by Jake Hamilton <span style="background-color: #800000; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> ** //How do artists create special effects to entertain us?// Skill: GRAPHIC SOURCES Strategy: PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Review Skill: AUTHOR'S PURPOSE Vocabulary:** ** [|Unit 3 Powerpoint] VOCAB AND COMPREHENSION POWERPOINTS <span style="background-color: #800000; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> Explorers Unit- View and learn about different explorers of history!! These were made by our students!
 * Genre: EXPOSITORY NONFICTION