Ask your 2nd Grader:

• How is an autobiography different from a biography?
• How does the SCAPE (Setting, Characters, Action, Problem, and End) strategy help you write a narrative? 
• Can you put the adjectives joyful, ecstatic, and happy in order from least strong to strongest? 
• What is an array? What is the difference between a row and a column?
• Where did “The Star-Spangled Banner” originate? What do the lyrics mean?
• What are national symbols? Why are they important? Can you name some that you’ve learned about this week?

What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:

 ELA (English Language Arts):

• • Wit and Wisdom Module 3: Civil Rights Heroes
    • Essential Question: How can people respond to injustice?
    • Learning Goals: 
      • Build knowledge about Ruby Bridges’ response to injustice.
      • Elaborate on narratives by adding details.
      • Rearrange simple and compound sentences to increase sentence variety.
      • Ask and answer questions about the illustrations in Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation.

• Examine three story elements of Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation.

• Identify the story elements of Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation and recount the story.

• • • Use the meaning of known words to predict the meaning of unknown compound words.
    • Use sentence-level context and glossary to determine and clarify the meaning of the words inferior and superior.
    • Use sentence-level context to determine the meaning of the words improve, reject, and convince.

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • Review spellings for /e/, the short e sound: ‘e’ as in pet, ‘ea’ as in head
  • Read words with /f/ sound spelled ‘ph’ as in phone
  • Review nouns, adjectives, and verbs
  • Introduce non-fiction student reader, The War of 1812 and timeline
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in the non-fiction student reader, The War of 1812
  • Spelling words: noise, night, kneel, wrinkle, ripple, ferret, whistle, window, western, jungle, jolly, ginger, gentle, margin, photo, dolphin, graph, finish, traffic, Britain

Math:

• Arrays and Area

Social Studies/Science (We will rotate between science and social studies every two weeks.):

• Government and Civics:
  • U.S. Constitution
  • Tennessee Constitution

Dates to Remember:

• March 25th – Report Cards Issued
• April 4th – Navigator Day
• April 15th – Progress Reports Issued
• April 18th – No School