Chocolate The Touch Fourth Grade
Description: This project will begin a five-day unit on meaning vocabulary through the use of the book The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling. There will be five groups of five students each that will be assigned by the teacher. Each of the groups will rotate through five separate centers over the period of the five days. Groups will be assigned two chapters each from The Chocolate Touch as well as vocabulary words that they will be responsible for. Students will also read selected chapters out of The Chocolate Touch every night as homework. The descriptions of each day and center are as follows. Centers: Day 1: Online Vocabulary Words At this center each group will be assigned vocabulary words that they will be responsible for. Each group will visit pre-approved online dictionaries where they can find the definitions to their words. Listed below are the websites. The groups will be monitored to make sure only the specified websites are being visited. If you are visiting any other website during this time, your group will lose their turn at this center. http://www.wordcentral.com/ http://www.factmonster.com/dictionary.html http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/ Group 1
Devour Tonic Route Absentmindedly Laden Opaque Cranium Corridor Sacrifice
Group 2
Marmalade Ambled Crossly Suspiciously Slyest Crescent Scuffling Beckon Reproach
Group 3
Spectacles Lozenges Enamel Persuade Initials Quenching Spacious Thirsty Colossal
Group 4
Morsel Appetizing Confidence Nimbly Spacious Unison Encountered Avoid Gigantic
Group 5
Drenched Brimful Proprietor Block Delicate Nougat Resist Coaxing Brigand
Day 2: Digital Camera At this center each group will be provided with a digital camera to take pictures around school the of things that they feel represent their assigned vocabulary words. Groups will then print off their pictures and write the definition of each word they found on the previous day. Day 3: Writing a Story At this center each group will be writing a story. In Microsoft Word, open a new blank document. On the computer, each group will write a story using some of
the vocabulary words you looked up on the first day. Be sure to use creativity and imagination when creating your story! Include fifteen of the following vocabulary words: Route Proprietor Absentmindedly Laden Opaque Cranium Crossly Suspiciously Slyest Crescent Scuffling Enamel Persuade Initials Quenching Spacious Confidence Nimbly Block Spacious Delicate Unison Nougat Encountered Resist
Day 4: Create PowerPoint At this center each group will create a PowerPoint presentation over two teacherassigned chapters from The Chocolate Touch. Each PowerPoint presentation should include: Title page: Name of each group member, date, title of project, and clip art. Character page: List o...