Reading+Workshop

=​This quarter's challenge task is:=
 * You will be working with one other student from each of the other 5th grade classes on this project.
 * You will need to decide on dates to meet online during our workshop times.
 * You will need to work together to divide up the research.

Quarter 2-- Project

 * 1) You and your partners will be researching each of the five themes of geography for a culture found in one of the stories in the Heritage unit of our Open Court textbook.
 * 2) Select one of the stories listed below. Read the story independently if we haven't already in class.
 * 3) As a group decide how the work will be divided. Ask yourself:
 * Who will research _?
 * What do we need to know for the theme of _?
 * What do I do with the information when I get it?
 * How will we decide who will put together slides for each part?
 * 1) Share information with each other on your group's link at the very bottom of this page. Pick your color.
 * 2) By the end of this project you should have answered the following questions about your story:
 * What is the **location** (absolute and relative)?
 * What is the **place** like (human and physical characteristics)?
 * How have **humans interacted** with the environment (how do they depend on it, how have they modified it, how do they adapt to it)?
 * How are things **moved** in this place (human, information, idea movements)?
 * What is the **region** like (government, land characteristics, people defined name)?
 * 1) You will give a final presentation using PowerPoint the week before Winter Break.

Here is a list of the stories you can choose to do your research. Each story can be found in the heritage unit of your Open Court textbook. Title of Story ||= Genre ||= ===Description=== ||
 * = //The Land I Lost// ||= autobiography ||< * story of a Vietnamese boy growing up in the central highlands of rural Vietnam before the war ||
 * = //In Two Wolds: A Yu'pik Eskimo Family// ||= biography ||< * a story of the last wild Indian people group in Alaska ||
 * = //The West Side// ||= realistic fiction ||< * story of a boy from Puerto Rico who moves to New York without being able to speak English ||
 * = //Love as Strong as Ginger// ||= realistic fiction ||< * the story of a Chinese girl and her grandmother who works in a crab factory ||
 * = //Night Journey// ||= realistic fiction ||< * a story about a Jewish family escaping from their home in Russia ||
 * = //Parmele// ||= autobiography, memoir ||< * an African-American family goes on a road trip to Parmele, North Carolina in the 1940's; these are uneasy times ||

J For a copy of expectations for this project, use the link below to download the **grading rubric**. Keep a copy of your grading rubric in your workshop folder.



Select your group's link to begin sharing information with each other and writing your paper. Group 1

Group 2

Group 3