Title: Unit 1. Lesson 3. Week 5. How do celebrations contribute to a community’s well-being?
Course: 2024 Basic Language Arts 2 > Section: First Trimester

Week 7.

Sessions
Session 1 | How do celebrations contribute to a community’s well-being? Memorize the following KEYWORDS: attend, celebrate, check out, event, Lent, parade, safety, speaking of, tip, tourist trap. Are there any unique celebrations in your community? Watch the video and prepare the questions for the class. Let's Learn About Conjunctions. | Find information about an interesting celebration and complete the organizer. Then, compare your answers with a classmate. Go to your printed Awesome Reader and Writer and read “Celebrate Weird Times, Come on!” Find five sentences you do not understand. Look at the pictures on this page and discuss the questions. Listen to a guide talking about Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Enjoy Mardi Gras! | Choose a word from each sentence from Exercise 2 and write four different sentences with each of them.  Write “T” if the sentences are true, “F” if they are false, or “N” if the information is not given. Listen again. What do they mention about the following words? Write some sentences in the space below. Enjoy Mardi Gras!  Think of a festival you have attended or would like to attend. Work with a classmate to produce a written guided tour of the event. Include the information that would answer the questions. Answer your Language LOG pages 72 and 73. | Due to the activity that we will be having this week, we might continue with the same unit next week.
Session 2 | How does your community celebrate the beginning of spring? CONJUNCTIONS. Memorize the following KEYWORDS: actually, ancient, commemoration, demonstrate, lantern, legend, memorable, mesmerize, speech, and symbolize. | Read “Festival of Colors” and match the questions with their answers. Listen to a student describing Hiroshima Day and sequence the events she participated in. A Message of Peace. | Read the text again and match the linking phrases in bold with their function. Write them in the correct space. Write one example of a celebration and one example of a commemoration. Then, discuss the differences with a classmate. Listen again. Use the words in the boxes to complete the sentences. A Message of Peace. Answer your Language LOG pages 74 and 75. | Due to the activity that we will be having this week, we might continue with the same unit next week.
Session 3 | Should tourist be free to do anything they want at a festival? Meomirze the following KEYWORDS: accept, approximately, attraction, broadcast (v.), claim, climb (v.), huge, owner promotion, and theory. Watch the video and prepare the questions for the class. Learn about Coordinating, Correlative, and Subordinating Conjunctions. | Read “The World’s Biggest Food Fight. Follow the instruction your teacher gives you. | Write questions about the text using the words in the boxes. Then, ask and answer the questions with a classmate. Match the halves to create logical sentences. More than one option might be possible. Underline the conjunctions to complete the sentences. Combine the two sentences with the correct conjunction. Answer your Language LOG pages 72 and 77. | Due to the activity that we will be having this week, we might continue with the same unit next week.
Session 4 | What is your favorite celebration? What do you do to participate in this celebration? Open the myON app and scan the book. | Open myON and start reading the book. Mid-Autumn Festival. | Continue reading the book and record your opinion. | Due to the activity that we will be having this week, we might continue with the same unit next week.
Session 5 | How do you participate during ma special celebration? Open the myON app and scan the book. | Open myON and start reading the book. Halloween. | Continue reading the book and record your opinion. | Due to the activity that we will be having this week, we might continue with the same unit next week.