Hi families! We are just finishing up our second unit, Understanding People with Differences. We read some fabulous books in each of our blocks. We've been focusing on several skills - Perspective, writing Expository Text, Summarizing, Character Analysis, Synthesis, Envisioning, and Story Elements. We are emphasizing developing the skill of identifying and investing ourselves in our character and really knowing the main struggle they are experiencing. In order to really understand reading in DEPTH, we need to go past the point of retelling and thinking that books are simply event after event after event. It's crucial to summarization. Knowing the true struggle the character is going through puts all the events into light by looking through that struggle's "lens." It's also about, as I said earlier, INVESTMENT. The more you know and care about your character, the more you will engage with the book! In order to do that, we need to name traits and...