What We Will Be Working On 11/30-12/4

Out of the Longman Keystone B textbook we will be working on Unit 1 Reading 3 "Ali, Child of the Desert" by Jonathan London

This is a short story about a boy who lives in Morocco, on the edge of the Sahara Desert. The story reveals what kind of challenges people living in the desert face. It also illustrates the resources found in the desert. This section also includes a poem introducing the concept of desert woman as long term survivors.

Students will be reading/listening to this story aloud and complete a guided reading as they read. When they are finished reading the poem they will be performing a reader's theater based off the short story, answering comprehension questions, and discussing the story using higher order questioning to guide their discussions.

Toward the end of reading 3 section students will be working with the grammar point of using simple and compound sentences.

Finally they will be synthesizing all the vocabulary, knowledge of the desert, and grammar points into a graphic organizer to write an essay to show me what they have learned.