Week

CCSS

RI.5.1
RI5.2
RI 5.9
W.5.3
W.5.5
W. 5.9
L.5.4
SL.5.1
SL.5.2
SL.5.6

Weekly Instructional Objectives

In order to plan their own journal entry, with guidance and

support from peers and adults, students will develop writing as

needed using Historical Fiction planning organizer.
In order to plan and draft their own journal entry, students will
integrate information from several texts on the same topic .
In order to plan and draft their own journal entry, students will

orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a

narrator and/or characters;
In order to plan and draft their own journal entry, students will
organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
In order to draft and revise their own journal entry, students will
use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and
pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses
of characters to situations.
In order to draft and revise their own journal entry, students will
use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to
manage the sequence of events.
In order to draft and revise their own journal entry, students will
use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey
experiences and events precisely.
In order to draft and revise their own journal entry, students will
provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences
or events.

Teaching & Learning

Strategies
Students will begin
completing the Planning
Tool for Historical Fiction
Journal Entry graphic
organizer
Students will write first
drafts of their journal
entry

Texts Used
Excerpts from Pedros
Journal by Pam Conrad,
includes a journal entry
and the authors note

Assessments
Writers Workshop
conferences
assessing students
work on the
Planning Tool and
their drafts
Inferring Word
Meaning Meaning
Graphic Organizer
Formative observational

assessment for speaking

and listening during
discussion partnerships
and whole group
sharing