| Who Is Ms. Mulhollan? |
Teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies is an awesome job. After teaching middle school and high school, I have found the elementary setting both rewarding and challenging. I incorporate many approaches to learning from my middle school background to prepare my fifth graders for middle school. Organization, note taking, and scholarly behavior are fundamentals in my classroom.
I completed my degree at Sam Houston University in journalism education, and I feel it beneficial to my students to provide them with many opportunities to read, research and write about life experiences as well as historical topics. Instilling the love of literature, I choose many genres for my students to explore: such as mysteries, historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction and nonfiction. My hope is that each student finds that one book that hooks him or her into the love of reading. |
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Second Semester...Here We Go...
updated January 20, 2009
Language Arts
Using the language of the discipline plot terms, Students are analyzing class novels and their pleasure readers for conflict, rising action events, climax, falling action events and...
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Reading Records/Book Summary due Weekly (homework)
Due Date: November 14, 2008 |
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Students are to read 30 min. nightly or 180 weekly and document their time on the reading record form. See links below.
Once a week students are to analyze where they are in their novels and write a brief book summary. At least one plot term describing the point in which they are reading is to be used. The plot terms are conflict, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denoument.
This is a weekly assignment and is due each Monday.
Students: Enjoy your reading time!!!! |
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Current Events due Thursdays weekly
November 12, 2008 |
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| Students are to chose an appropriate current event, write a summary of the article which includes the 5 w's and h. They are also to apply the dimensions of depth and complexity to their articles. An analysis of a system present in the article should be included. |
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Current Event Rubric Individual.doc
procedure letter 08.doc
Topical Outline Textbook Notes Rubric.doc
October 24 SS notetaking Bering Strait.doc
| Social Studies Text Outlining Notes-Model (27.65 KB)
Students are learning the text structure of their social studies text and practicing outlining notetaking skills. Use this as a model for text based notes. |
Nightly Reading Record.doc
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Condit Elementary School
Ms. Melanie Mulhollan
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