Yuki; An Alaskan Adventure Unit Plan Rebecca Durichek
Week1 / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Comprehension / Connect:
Dr. Ladd (Cody’s father) shares with students about working in Alaskan village with Eskimos who believe similarly to the Siberian Eskimos in Yuki’s village. (already arranged)
Talk with your partner about a time you encountered someone of a different faith. How did you feel about their beliefs and about your own?
4.2.3l / Activate Background Knowledge:
Do ABC Brainstorm about Alaska
Use Blackline# 3 on Gambell, Alaska
Teach selective underlining. Stress that they are looking for the main ideas about how people earn money in Gambell, Alaska.
Show pictures of Alaska’s job industries.
4.2.2a,b,c,e,j,m / Concept of Definition Map—Industry in Alaska / --Read Chapter 1 aloud to students as they follow along in their books.
Respond to the questions from DLG p. 20 4.2.2i
Add to ABC brainstorm for Alaska after reading chapter 4.1.4d
Center Time: 4.1.5a
--Buddy Read Chapter 1
Divide paper in 4 sections
Draw pictures and brief descriptions from descriptions in Ch. 1 of
ulu, sea peaches, Muhr eggs, and Yuki / --Introduce cooperative learning roles.
--Model and practice discussion using sticky notes.4.1.4b,e
Vocabulary / Introduce Vocabulary with 3-Column Notes
including definitions for students
- deftly
- mused
- peninsula*
- nestled
- sympathy
- vainly
- tradition
- froth
4.1.3a / Snap/Clap / Quiz
Week
1 / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Writer’s Workshop/ Grammar / Minilesson:
News reporting and including the 5Ws and the 1 H (Model)
Use accident with Puny as example.
DLG p. 23
Review types of sentences and modifying statements
DLG pp. 18
Write own sentences and modify to question, command, and exclamation 4.3.3b,j
DOL Wk. 6 Day 1 from Daily Language Review books each grade level / Minilesson:
News reporting brainstorm (Model)
Students brainstorm a news report using a graphic organizer
4.3.1a,b
Types of sentences
pp. 32, 33
pp. 34, 35
4.3.3b,j
DOL Wk. 6 Day 2 / Minilesson:
Writing a News Report
using sequence
Assignment:
Write a news report using graphic organizer
including chronological
sequence4.3.1c
Common and Proper Nouns DLGp. 20
pp. 78, 79
pp. 82, 83
4.3.3i
DOL Wk. 6 Day 3 / Minilesson: Speaking about a recent event
(Model listening and giving feedback)
Students share with partner an event. Partner listens, gives feedback. Reverse roles
4.4.2a,b,c,d
Names and Titles of People
pp.80, 81
DLG p. 24
Activity # 2 top of page
4.3.3i
DOL Wk. 6 Day 4 / DOL Assessment
Spelling/Reader’s Workshop /
Group---Sort
(Color/Cut/Tchr Intro)Red—WW #
Yellow—WW#
Green—S&A#
Blue—S&A#
Minilesson: Differences between fiction and non-fiction
4.2.3a / Sort and Write / Speed Sort / No Peeking Sort / Test43.5a
Red Concept
Will use next year. Don’t have numbers of Words Their Way Sorts
Minilesson: Differences between fiction and non-fiction / Yellow Concept
Minilesson: Characteristics of different genres
4.2.3a / Green Concept
Minilesson:
Characteristics of different genres / Blue Concept
Week
2 / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Comprehension / Review events of Chapter 1. Write 1 sentence summary. Discuss
4.2.2c / --Read Chapter 2
--Discuss events in chronological order
Assignment:
Sequence events for Chapters 1 and 2 using pocket chart
DLG p. 22
4.2.2f / --Review Chapter 2 with a Story Frame including the Shaman, Yuki , Grandfather, and the problem
p. 18 from Summer Institute
4.2.3k
Center:
Buddy read Ch. 2 or listen to it.
4.1.5a / --Read Chapters 3 and 4 aloud with students following along in their books
--Before reading chapter 4 make predictions on how Yuki will get out of the cave
Do writer’s workshop now
Then read Chapter 4
4.1.4d / Center: Buddy read or listen to Ch. 3 and 4
Practice Radiant Reading
pp. 28, 29, 30
4.1.5a
Vocabulary / Vocabulary Strategy:
Vocab Map including definition given, synonym, picture, and sentence
- jagged
- crest
- eternity
- secure
- artifacts
- ancestors
- intricately
- engrossed
- mused
- suspicious
- permafrost
4.1.7f / Quiz
Yuki: An Alaskan Adventure Unit Plan Week 2 Read Aloud: Julie of the Wolves Rebecca Durichek
Week2 / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Writer’s Workshop/Grammar / Minilesson: Friendly Letter Format from Writer’s Handbook
4.3.2g
Noun Review
DLG p. 27
Write sentences including common and proper nouns. Trade. Underline C in green
Underline P in red.
DOL Wk. 7 Day 1 / Minilesson:
Friendly Letter Brainstorm (Model)
Students will complete a friendly letter brainstorm to Alyssa Quail (former student who is a musher in Alaska ) about the Iditarod 4.3.1a
Abbreviations
pp. 84, 85
Use proper abbreviations in letters
DOL Wk. 7 Day 2 / Minilesson:
Writing a Friendly Letter (Model)
Students write a friendly letter using their graphic organizers to Alyssa Quail
4.3.2g
Titles of Books
Writer’s Handbook
pp. 398, 399
DOL Wk. 7 Day 3 / Minilesson: Writing a Friendly Letter with Voice (Model)
--Students write a friendly letter to Yuki pretending to be a friend giving him advice about how to get out of the cave. Tell him what types of things he must do to escape alive. 4.3.2a,g
Make a list of titles from reading log properly capitalized and underlined
DOL Wk. 7 Day 4 / DOL Wk. 7 Day 5 Assess.
Spelling/ Reader’s Workshop /
Group---Sort
(Color/Cut/Tchr Intro)Red—WW #
Yellow—WW#
Green—S&A#
Blue—S&A#
Minilesson:
Poetry
4.2.3a / Sort and Write / Speed Sort / No Peeking Sort / Test 4.3.5a
Red Concept
Ordering don’t know # of sorts
Minilesson:
Poetry / Yellow Concept
Minilesson:
Learning from dedications / Green Concept
Minilesson:
Characters
4.2.3l / Blue Concept
Week
3 / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Comprehension / --Review Chapter 3 and 4 with 1 sentence summaries.
--Discuss.
4.2.2a,b,q / --Discuss main characters and supporting characters
Discuss how the author develops characters by what he/she says about them, about what the characters say, by their actions, and what other characters say about them
--Read Chapters 5 and 6 aloud
Use 4 Column Notes to brainstorm words that describe Grandfather, Yuki, Nathan, and Yuki’s Dad. 4.2.2e,3c / --Review Chapters 5 and 6 with a one sentence summary.
--Pre-reading~See p.30 DLG
4.2.2a,b,q
Finish Character Notes / --Share likenesses and differences of characters from 4 column notes
--Read Chapter 7
--Venn diagram of
- Paul before and after conversion
- Zacchaeus before and after meeting Jesus
4.2.2a,b,q
Vocabulary / Vocab Strategy:
4-Column Notes
Words:
- vicious
- relentlessly
- sanitarium
- harpoon
- gale
- custom
- provisions
- frigid
Vocab Map
Words:
- harsh
- horizon
- scarce
- isolated
- raspy
- sinister
Yuki: An Alaskan Adventure Unit Plan Week 3 Read Aloud: Julie of the Wolves Rebecca Durichek
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / FridayWriter’s Workshop/Grammar / Minilesson:
Haiku Poetry
DLG p. 18 (Model)
4.3.2j
Commas within a sentence DLG p. 33
4.3.3i
DOL Wk. 8 Day 1 / Minilesson: Continue haiku poetry
Students write poems.
Share.
4.3.2j
Singular Nouns pp.74, 75
4.3.3i
DOL Wk. 8 Day 2 / Minilesson:
Research Reports DLG
p.33 on whales
4.3.2k
Plural Nouns pp. 76, 77
4.3.3i
DOL Wk. 8 Day 3 / Minilesson:
Use Venn Diagram from Thursday’s comprehension activity to begin two paragraph essay about the shaman before and after his illness. Use number notes (Model)
4.2.2o,p
Singular Poss. Nouns
pp. 86, 87
4.3.3i
DOL Wk. 8 Day 4 / DOL Wk. 8 Day 5 Assess.
Spelling/Reader’s Workshop /
Group---Sort
(Color/Cut/Tchr Intro)Red—WW #
Yellow—WW#
Green—S&A#
Blue—S&A#
Minilesson:
Setting
4.2.3c / Sort and Write / Speed Sort / No Peeking Sort / Test 4.3.5a
Red Concept
Will fill in with pages when book arrives
Minilesson:
Plot
4.2.3b / Yellow Concept
Minilesson:
Theme
4.2.3k / Green Concept
Minilesson:
Mood
4.2.3k / Blue Concept
Week
3 / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Comprehension / --Review Chapter 7 with 1 sentence summary.
4.2.2q / --Read Chapters 8, 9
Center:
Buddy read or listen to Ch. 8,9
4.1.5a / Minilesson:
Epitaph Discuss Grandfather and how he influenced others about God. How will people remember Grandfather?
What will our legacy as Christians be?(Model)
Read from Stephen Covey’s Highly Effective People for Kids
Have students write a epitaph
4.3.2a / --Review Chapters 8 and 9 with 1 sentence summary each.
--Read Chapter10 aloud
Read Iditarod Dream by Ted Wood
Use internet to locate information about the Iditarod and dog sledding
Create a concept map with class
4.1.7f, 4.2.2a,b,c / Buddy Read Ch. 10 or listen in a center
4.1.5a
Vocabulary / Vocab Strategy:
Each group does 2 vocab maps on cardstock.
Share and post.
Words:
- sinew
- cunning
- poised
- lunge
- furled
- expanse
- menancing
- carcass
- entangled
- traces 4.1.2a,b
Create word find on puzzlemaker / Quiz
Yuki: An Alaskan Adventure Unit Plan Week 4 Read Aloud: Julie of the Wolves Rebecca Durichek
Week4 / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Writer’s Workshop/Grammar / Minilesson:
Research Reports
4.3.2k
Plural Possessive Nouns
pp.88, 89
4.3.3i
DOL Week 9 Day 1 / Minilesson:
Descriptive Poetry
Whale Poems (Model)
--RHPoetry
--Write and illustrate poem
4.3.2j
Compound Words p. 90
4.3.3i
DOL Week 9 Day 2 / Minilesson:
Descriptive Poetry
Snow Poem (Model)s
--RHPoetry
--Write and illustrate poems
Students share.
4.3.2j
Pronoun I
pp. 388, 389
4.3.3i
DOL Week 9 Day 3 / Minilesson:
Research Reports continued
4.3.2k
Letters, Envelopes
pp. 393, 395
4.3.3i
DOL Week 9 Day 4 / DOL Week 9 Day 5 Assess.
Spelling/Writer’s Workshop /
Group---Sort
(Color/Cut/Tchr Intro)Red—WW #
Yellow—WW#
Green—S&A#
Blue—S&A#
Minilesson:
How the lead hooks us
4.2.2n / Sort and Write / Speed Sort / No Peeking Sort / Test 4.3.5a
Red Concept
Will fill in numbers when book arrives
Minilesson:
Titles and their meaning
4.2.2n / Yellow Concept
Minilesson:
Characters’ points of view 4.2.2n / Green Concept
Minilesson:
Examples of similes and metaphors
4.2.5d / Blue Concept
Week
5 / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Comprehension / --Review Chapter 10 with a 1 sentence summary
4.2.3j
--Students bring in food to share at local community center
--Discuss how the Campbells “lived” their Christianity by caring for others / --Read Chapters 11 and 12
DLG p. 36
Visualization: picture what Grandfather’s cabin looks like while reading
Draw picture of Grandfather’s cabin from description in Ch. 11
4.7.1b / --Students use Venn Diagram to compare and contrast their life with Yuki’s life
Use as assessment
--Students brainstorm questions and interview student or church member about their baptism (Model)
4.3.1b / --Share information from interviews
--Seed discussion about one important thing each student learned from Yuki*
--Take down index cards from “You are My Witnesses, Says the Lord” bulletin board and discuss way students have witnessed to others
--Discuss themes
- Cultures
- Tradition
- Faith
- Witnessing
*Celebrate with Moose Tracks icecream during discussion
Vocabulary / Vocabulary Strategy:
Students use dictionary at each group. Divide paper into 4 sections.
Draw picture to go with each word and write definition and sentence in block.
- arctic
- ancient
- embers
- mist
Yuki: An Alaskan Adventure Unit Plan Week 5 Read Aloud: Julie of the Wolves Rebecca Durichek
5 / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday
Writer’s Workshop/Grammar / Minilesson:
Descriptive Writing
Use Julie of the Wolves
(Model)
4.3.2f
Noun Review p. 94
4.3.3i
DOL Week 10 Day 1 / Minilesson:
Strong Nouns and Verbs
4.3.1i
Noun Review p. 98
4.3.3i
DOL Week 10 Day 2 / Minilesson:
Vary sentence patterns and length
4.3.1k
Game on board with 2 teams review nouns, possessives
DOL Week 10 Day 3 / Minilesson:
Overused Words
Share descriptive paragraphs
4.3.1i
Test
DOL Week 10 Day 4 / DOL Week 10 Day 5 Assessment
Spelling/Reader’s Workshop /
Group---Sort
(Color/Cut/Tchr Intro)Red—WW #
Yellow—WW#
Green—S&A#
Blue—S&A#
Minilesson:
Use of descriptive words and phrases / Sort and Write / Speed Sort / No Peeking Sort / Test
Red Concept
Will fill in with page numbers when books arrive
Minilesson:
How illustrations enhance the story / Yellow Concept
Minilesson:
Voice
Ramona the Pest / Green Concept
Minilesson:
Voice
Hank the Cow Dog / Blue Concept