Ask your 2nd Grader:

• Who are the characters in Separate Is Never Equal? What is the problem?
• How did the Mendez family respond to injustice? 
• Why is ending a narrative with a sense of closure important? 
• What steps can you take to determine the meaning of an unknown word in a text?
• How are repeated addition and multiplication related?
• What is the U.S. Constitution? How does it help protect our rights as American citizens?
• Why does the state of TN have a constitution?

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: 
    • Draw connections between the beginning and ending of the story to understand the text, Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation. 
    • Determine an essential meaning of the text.
    • Identify ways that the Mendez family responded to injustice. 
    • Craft a narrative that includes thoughts, feelings, actions, and a sense of closure.
    • Write a narrative paragraph.
    • Improve exploded moment narratives by adding a temporal word.
    • Determine the meaning of the new word formed when the prefix uni- is added to a known word. 
    • Use the meaning of known words to predict the meaning of unknown compound words. 
    • Determine the meaning of the new word formed when the prefixes bi- and tri- are added to a known word.

• Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • Read words with the long e /ee/ sound spelled ‘ea’ as in peach
  • Read words with the ‘ar’ and ‘or’ spellings as in dollar and work
  • Find the subject and predicate of a sentence
  • Identify verbs and adverbs in sentences
  • Alphabetize to the second letter
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in the non-fiction student reader, The War of 1812
  • Spelling words: after, barber, camera, difference, birthday, swirling, thirteen, chirping, burden, furnace, hamburger, turtle, marker, parcel, ramparts, safari, informer, organize, perform, war

Math:

• Arrays and Area

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

• Animal Classification

Dates to Remember:

• April 4th – Navigator Day
• April 15th – Progress Reports Issued
• April 18th – No School