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    • Science and Social Studies
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    • Research
    • SELF-REGULATION LESSONS
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  • Learning At Home Resources
    • art
  • LANGUAGE SUPPORTS
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    • Topic Sentence
    • Elaborate
    • Claim
    • Evidence Then Reasoning
    • Reasoning Then Evidence
    • Counter and Defend
    • Sequence
    • Cause & Effect: Compounding Linking Words
    • Comparison
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      • Listening Tool
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    • Bloomz
    • Class Slideshows
    • Home Work
    • Self Evaluation Ideas
    • Davids Semi-Secret Videos on Morality
    • Probability Meter
    • Rubric: Quality
    • Rubric: Mastery
    • Reflections
    • Read Alouds, Book Groups, and Documentary Film List
    • Class Photos and Videos
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    • 4th Grade Life Skills Part 1
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    • What does it take to learn something?
    • Ethics
    • A Note on Electronics
    • Focus on the Solution, Not the Problem
    • 3 Ways to Be
    • Making Peace With Mistakes
    • You Get Time
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    • Organisms
    • Logo
    • Self Portraits
    • Trees
    • Graphics + Text
    • Symbols / Totems
    • Cranes
    • Sumi-E
    • Chuck Close
    • Ink Monsters
    • String Art
    • Object Integration
    • Representational Masters
    • James Rizzi
    • Lettering
    • 漢字
    • Mandalas
  • Science Resources
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    • Curiosity and Science
    • Introduction
    • Earth's Systems
    • Energy
    • From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
    • Earth’s Place in the Universe
    • Earth and Human Activity
    • Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
  • Math Remodel
    • Depth of Knowledge - Math
  • Logic
  • New Page

Whole Class Books
El Deafo
The Circuit Parts 1, 2, 3
Tuck Everlasting

To Kill a Mockingbird (girl)
Of Mice and Men
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Diary of Anne Frank
Sounder
Lord of the Flies
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle? 
Crispin Trilogy
My Brother Sam is Dead
Elijah of Buxton


Small Book Groups
The Giver
The Graveyard Book
Al Capone Does My Shirts
In Real Life
Rules
Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary

Becoming Naomi Leon
Bud, Not Buddy


Documentaries
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdb4XGVTHkE
-life in the undergrowth
Our Town (Like Lessons: Thornton)
http://www.iameleven.com
http://sugarcoateddoc.com
http://cts.compassion.com/events/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdb4XGVTHkE
-the secret life of series
http://www.pbs.org/pov/webjunkie/
-happy
http://www.netaddictionrecovery.com/the-problem/gaming-addiction/339-bbc-documentary-on-video-game-addiction.html
-on the way to school
-baraka and samsara
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deeEitS9P5M
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcro5iM5vw
-remember the titans
-mcfarland usa
-http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/bully/
-ted talks: Computing in Rural India
-cave of forgotten dreams
-http://www.thebeforeproject.org
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5d8GW6GdR0