Theme 1

Theme 2

Theme 3

Theme 4

Theme 5

Practice Evaluating

• With "The Story of Nicodemus" use these evaluation questions to review how to evaluate:
  

• 2nd paragraph...Evaluate the reason why the town was named nicodemus.

• Evaluate What information does the author provide to let you know how difficult it was going to be to start Nicodemus.

• Evaluate How the fourth paragraph helps you understand how important Nicodemus was to the country, slavery or its ancestors

Synthesis

• Make a big puzzle.
• the puzzle pieces are the 6 tested strategies
  
• Use the poems from "I never said I wasn't Difficult" to synthesis
  
• Use the synthesis starters

Smoky Nights by Eve Bunting

• About civil rights
  
• For synthesis
  

Theme 6

Non-Fiction

Weekly readers on eduplace.com

• each week has a new non fiction weekly reader
• Good for non fiction practice
• http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/