Dear Marquis' parents,

Today was another lesson that I learned about a special event in the Chinese culture (thank you, Marquis!) - the Dragon Head Festival. This festival is very interesting and I enjoyed learning about it from Marquis. He is a wonderful 'teacher'!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Marquis' homework as well as his Anchor Chart binder. We also covered Lesson 11 - Task 1 - U3L8 - In Class - Inspired by Nature.  

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies: indentification, text-to-self and text-to-world connections

2) Key / New vocabulary: translations, definitions, and synonyms

3) Reading strategies: articulation & enunciation, decoding, fluency, and comprehension

4) Text Features: table of contents and photographs

5) Summarization: recall strategy using text photographs

6) Genre: expository text and folktales (myths)

7) Greek Mythology

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please complete the following:

Lesson 11 - Task 2 - U3L8 - Homework - Grammar

Thank you.

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Here is my proposed Lesson Plan for Mon.Mar.06th:

Lesson 13 - Task 1 - U3L9 - In Class - History Lives

[HW - Lesson 12 - U3W4 - Mar 06 - Homework - Weekly Test]

Thank you once again.

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Have a wonderful week to the whole family (especially to Marquis' uncle, as per the tradition about the Dragon Head Festival and the need to cut his hair to save his uncle, my goodness! I truly enjoy listenting to Marquis explain these wonderful Chinese folktales. Thank you once again, Marquis!) and I look forward to seeing Marquis next Monday. 

My very best regards are with the entire family, as always.

Mr. Grande.