Nov 26-30, 2012

This week, we will be moving on to Collection 2 in our textbooks.  It focuses on characters and how the traits they have make a story believable or not.  We'll be talking about traits characters have and how to recognize actions that fit with what we know about the characters.  We'll be reading the story "Ta- Na- E-Ka" about a Kaw Native American girl who needs to go through her tribes traditional rite of passage into adulthood.  We'll start with background and vocabulary information and listening to the story.  Later in the week, students will be reading the story on their own and answering questions in their workbooks.