Gary Soto Activity
Hispanic Heritage Month: Hispanic Author Gary Soto
Read Aloud "Too Many Tamales" (click here)
- En español
- Complete Handout: Make a Connection
Spooky House silhouette
Video link (click here)
- What will be your positive and negative space? House, tree, and etc.
- We will create our background of where our silhouette/house will go.
- Use oil pastels of colors in which your black silhouette will stand out. Examples: orange, yellow, purple, blue, etc.
- How to draw a haunted house (click here) Make sure to stop drawing at 2:43 as we will cut it out and paste it on our background.
- Add windows using the yellow paper provided.
- Add any additional details you would like.
snow Globe Creative Story
- Complete the Graphic Organizer (front and back) to begin planning for your Snow-globe Story.
- Narrative Prompt: One day, you get stuck in a snow-globe. How did you end up there? How do you get out?
- Color in your Snow-Globe that goes alongside with your story.
- Begin a Google Doc to type your Rough Draft or you may hand write it on lined paper.
Passport project
Students will be planning an international travel following a template to organize their vacation.
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Google Slide Presentation Outline
Make a Copy!!! Rename it your own! |
Black history month
- Influential and Notable African Americans (click here)
- What to include:
- Name: Life information-Birthday
- Early Life & Education: Location, Family
- Challenges: What types of challenges did they need to overcome?
- Accomplishments: Why do we study him/her?
- Important Life Events
- Character Traits & Legacy: What kind of person are they? What type of legacy have they left?
- Fun Facts!
Finish the narrative
- Students will click on the following Word Document: (click here)
- File>Make a Copy> Title it> Share with me!
- Creative story Outline
- Ms. Rivera has created the beginning of your creative story.
- Your job is to now add a plot (middle) and a resolution (ending) to my story.
- Make sure you add details, imagery, and figurative language (similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, hyperboles, etc) to your narrative.
- Include "dialogue" when the characters are speaking.