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5th Grade Reading and Social Studies--->
The Reading Lab is where bright young readers come to discuss, through in-depth dialogue, literature that they are reading._____
The Social Studies Parlor is where students respond to critical questions related to different aspects of Social Studies, and then discuss their responses through thoughtful discussions.
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Explaining Your Evidence (01/23/12)
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Now that we are about half way through the year I want you to start explaining your evidence with every answer. When you explain your evidence you are showing your reader how the details you chose for your answer support your opinion. When you do not do this a reader has to guess how a set of details supported your thinking. The following example is an example of explaining your details from the packet "Charles." Laurie thinks that Charles is cool and admires him. Because he said that, "Charles had to stay after school. And so all the children stayed to watch him." So that means that Charles is cool. (because all of the kids stayed after school because they think he is cool). The underlined section is the authors explanation, showing how the details support their opinion. Without it we have to guess that the other students stay because they think Charles is cool; however, some readers may not see that connection when they read the detail. Some readers may think that the other students stayed because they too got in trouble. Another good example is the following: I think that Laurie is fascinated by Charles because the story says, "The teacher spanked a boy though" and "Charles yelled all the way up the hill." These details show that Laurie is so fascinated by Charles that he can't wait to tell his parents about him, and that he wants to talk about Charles instead of telling his parents what he did at school. Again, the underlined section is the author's explanation, showing how the details support their opinion that Laurie is fascinated with Charles. With a partner, talk about why this explanation is a good example of explaining a set of details.
The following is an example of an answer that does not explain the details: Laurie feels like he is better than Charles because of the way he talks about him. "Teacher spanked him and made him stand in the corner. He was awfully fresh." "Charles was bad again." The opinion is that Laurie feels that he is better than Charles, however, the author does not tell us how the details show that Laurie thinks this. For all we know, Laurie is just giving the facts, not giving his opinion of Charles. The following is another example of an answer that does not explain the details: Laurie is Charles because Laurie's Mom said, "An era of my life was ended, my sweet-voice nursery-school tot replaced by a long-trousered, swaggering character who forgot to stop at the corner and wave goodbye to me." With a partner, talk about how the author could improve this answer.
Your blog assignment is as follows: You are to re-write both the non-examples and explain how the details support the opinion. When you are done this, read other students work and comment on if they fixed the sentences properly.
Dr. Cornelius
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TheGiver -- the green man
Article posted February 16, 2012 at 12:51 PM GMT-8 •
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The change Claude went through is he went from a arrogant,vain and selfish person to a caring young man from his experiences in the forest for a year.He changed because before he went into the forest he was very selfish and was very mean to peasants but at the end of the story he helped the peasants get rid of the boar.Then helped them gather food so he went from selfish person to a caring person.So of coarse Claude went through a positive change.
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Article posted February 16, 2012 at 12:51 PM GMT-8 •
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[[Dr. Cornelius]] ---> Former tutor for Prince Caspian, King of Narnia. Presently running Dr. Cornelius' Reading Lab for bright young pupils.
[[Nathan Hale]] --->Teacher and American Revolution Spy currently over-seeing the Social Studies Parlor.
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