This document provides an overview of an English language course for 5th grade students called "Animal Encounters". The 4-week course covers topics like grammar, reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, speaking, listening, and research. Students will read stories about people working with wild animals, watch a documentary on gorillas, and research an endangered animal. Evaluation will include weekly assessments of grammar, reading, writing, and content, as well as two cumulative evaluations. Students' previous knowledge in science, English, and technology will support the course.

1. Intel Educar Marta Elena Aguilar Uribe Octubre 2010

2. Animal encounters The girls read different stories about people who have worked in several activities involving wild animals.as a warming up activity we watch the movie “Gorillas in the mist” to create conscience of what is happening with these animals. Finally each girl is given a wild animal to research why it is endangered,theirhabitat,behavior,diet,familylife,and what people are doinbg to help them.

3. English: Grade five Name: animal encounters 5th Four weeks 10 blocks (1 .5 hours each).

4. Topics Grammar reading comprehension vocabulary Writing Speaking listening Research

5. Skills Identify and apply the different parts of speech.verb tenses Write complete, coherent Summaries read out loud with good pronuntiation and intonation make oral presentations Make generalizations,mainidea,supporting details, and draw conclutions. learn and use new words,use the dictionary, compare and contrast,descriptiveparagraphs,answer comprehension questions. view for information and details work appropriately in group

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9. At the beginning of every class, we review the previous class activities.

10. At the end of each class we evaluate the class, and each other’s behavior toward it.

11. We also have weekly evaluations, taking into account grammar,reading,writing,and specific contents.

12. There are also two accumulative evaluations during the period, where we evaluate the contents seen during the period.

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