Literacy+-+Curriculum+Maps



Image Above: Jefferson Reading Room Room, U. S. library of Congress

**Essential Question: How can reading, thinking, writing, listening, and speaking help me envision, describe and create a sustainable life?**
Green Magnet Green Book List, ordered 12/14/09

**FOR Ms. Melendez's STUDENTS TO DOWNLOAD - 4 Files**
Save these files to Book Reviews folder on your desktop. Open starred* files, 2, 3, and 4. 1. 2. * 3. * 4. * 5. DIRECTIONS FOR ASSIGNMENT you will send to karengphillips@gmail.com • Select a Review or Overview, read it, cut and paste it into the Book Review, template section #4. • Underline important information in the review you’ve copied. • Use this underlined information and your knowledge of the book to write a summary of the book in your own words, in the template section #5. • If you think we should purchase this book, support your recommendation with reasons you think reading this book will help us understand what a green world will be like and/or why it’s important to go green. Sign your name, Green Magnet, class 823. OR. • Write a critique, describing why you don’t think this book is worth purchasing: it won’t help us go green, it’s If recommending the book for us to purchase, suggest whether the book should be in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade classrooms. Give the book 1-5 stars, one indicating that the book is terrible, five indicating that the book is great. We generally only want to purchase books with 4*s or more.

**//FOR Ms. Guardado's and Mr. Gibbons' Students to Download - 3 Files//**
1. 2. 3.

For Student Sign-Up to Review Books:
 * FOR TEACHERS**
 * [[file:Book Review Green Lesson Guardado-Gibbons.doc]] - For Guardado and Gibbons**
 * Excell Chart for Teachers to Complete** [[file:BooksTeacherCarroll-Clark12-7 noon.xls]]


 * Instructions for teachers to distribute to students**. Print and cut. [[file:Book Review Instructions-4 to legal page.doc]]

Unit Names Essential Questions Enduring Understandings Culminating Projects Word Work: Academic Language, Content Vocabulary and Oral Fluency Workshops Readers Workshop Writers Workshop Listening and Speaking Workshop Conventions: Spelling, Grammar, Usage, Mechanics Embedded Technology Suggested Resources - books divided into units Magnet Standards
 * The 11-3 Maps for Grade 6, 7, and 8 are in draft form, and include:**