Ask your 2nd Grader:

• What was the name of the law that was passed to end segregation in 1964?
• What is integration?
• What are civil rights? What are some examples of civil rights?
• What is an array? Can you draw an array that represents the repeated addition equation 5+5+5+5? What multiplication equation would represent the array that you drew?
• What is the title of the national anthem of the United States? Who wrote our national anthem? During what war was our national anthem written?
• What are some of our national symbols? Which is your favorite?

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:
    • Generate text-based observations and questions about the I Have a Dream text.
    • Use the known root word equal to determine the meaning of the words equality and equally. 
    • Explain how images contribute to a text.
    • Identify and explain the purpose of adjectives.
    • Identify and explain the purpose of adverbs.
• Tennessee Foundational Skills:
  • Alphabetize
  • Adverbs
  • Read words with the ‘ea’ spelling
  • Read words with the ‘ar’ and ‘or’ spelling
  • Identify the subject and predicate of a sentence.
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in the student reader stories.
  • Spelling Words: after, barber, camera, difference, birthday, swirling, thirteen, chirping, burden, furnace, hamburger, turtle, marker, parcel, ramparts, safari, informer, organize, perform, war

Math:

• Area and Perimeter

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

• Social Studies: United States Government

Dates to Remember:

• Report Cards Issued: March 26th
• Navigator Day: March 28th
• No School: March 29th
• Tennessee State Museum Field Trip: April 16th