Written and Illustrated by Michael Dooling
Genre: Biography
Target Skill: Main Idea and Details – tell important ideas and details about a topic
Target Strategy: Summarize – tell the important parts of the text in your own words
Essential Question: Why are details important in a biography?
Big Idea: We communicate in many ways.
Grammar
Pronouns: a word that can take the place of one or more
nouns in a sentence
-Subject Pronouns or Norminative Pronouns
– I, you, he, she, it, we, and they
–Object Pronouns or Objective Pronouns
– me, you, him, her, it, us, and them
– follow action verbs and words like to, for, at, of, and with
Subject and Object Pronouns
Young Thomas Edison Jeopardy
Guided Reading Books
The Wright Brothers
George Washington Carver
The TV Kid
The Life of George Washington Carver
Social Studies Connection
Thomas Edison
Samuel Morse / Morse code / Locust Grove
Hedy Lamarr
Industrial Revolution