Read aloud
Main character of Alone
An idea about something that will happen later in the text
What is a prediction?
For most of the pandemic, this number of feet was the distance the CDC recommended to spread unvaccinated people apart
What is "6 feet"?
Moving words and phrases
across the page
like
this
What is "line dancing"?
Wrote an imitation "Say ______" poem that featured flips, dances & tumbles
Who is Ashley?
Cave name from the Wild Boars' soccer team rescue
What is Tham Luang or "Cave of the Sleeping Lady"?
What is evidence/ examples?
Currently, the youngest eligible age to get a COVID-19 vaccine
What is 12?
Repeating beginning sounds
What is alliteration?
Our original skateboarder who started the wave of recess & break riding
Who is Fin?
Harvey's slightly clueless, mostly unhelpful & always hungry sidekick in the House of Always
Who is Wendell?
To "read between the lines" of a text (for example, say WHY something is happening, or the deeper meaning of something)
What is inferring? (or an inference)
The phrase for staying home, limiting contact with others, and when necessary, staying physically apart to reduce the spread of covid-19
Pulling one line or word to be alone, by itself, in a poem to make it catch readers' attention
What is isolation?
Name 2 fifth graders who have overnight-camped with their families already this spring/ summer
Who are Izzy, Collin...
Setting of From the Desk of Zoe Washington (the city in which Zoe lives)
What is Boston?
A text/ book format not written in paragraphs, but instead written like a poem, or many different poems
What is "in verse"?
Name two items removed from classrooms before this pandemic school year began
Rugs, couches/ pillows, fans...
Four ways poets and creative writers get ideas
(Name any 3 of the following)--
What are observations, passions, memories, wonders, & concerns about the world.
The name of Ethan's newest family addition, circa late winter 2021 (we met him snoozing a few times on Google meet)
Who is Darwin?
4 servants of Mr. Hood
Who are Rictus, Jive, Carna & Marr?
Foreshadowing
Our last day of in-person, unmasked school was on this date (+/- 7 days)
What was March 17, 2020?
A kind of humor that involves taking something from real life, and making it exaggerated or super-ridiculous (we used it for humor poetry; Ryder taught us this)
What is satire?
The name of Emaleigh's leopard gecko
Who is Wheatley?