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Threshold 5 Essentials

Liz @SCCLC

BHP Newbie here --

This is my first year teaching BHP to multi-grade classes of 6th and 7th graders.  I've gotten a lot of great tips from Zach Cain, but because of the way the calendar falls this year, I've got 7 days (5 50-min. classes and 2 75-min. classes over 2 weeks) to cover Threshold 5 in order to stay on pace.  What are the must-dos, with an eye toward middle schoolers losing focus heading into winter break?

I appreciated some of the ideas here Must Have Lessons for Threshold 5 but I'm short on planning time and would love to know which few high-impact activities you would prioritize to maintain the narrative arc without getting bogged down in the details.

Thanks!

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  • Thank you,  for sharing your resources and suggesting this sequence, and  for chiming in!

    My main question for you,  is, how much time you allow (in class or at home) for students to make the mini-book? And also, what is it's size? 8.5x11 folded in half, or smaller than that? Thanks again!

  • in reply to Liz @SCCLC

    I actually got the idea from  a while ago and it's one of my new favorite methods.  She might have simple instructions to follow.  But overall, yes, it's a regular sheet of paper that they keep fold in half four times, bind with staplers and then trip the ends so that it becomes a 14 page book.  I do words on one side and an image on the opposite side.  It usually takes about one class period for us (40 minutes). Once we've done it once or twice, then eventually I assign them for homework later in the year. 

  • in reply to Todd Nussen

     , that was a great description of making and using the mini-book!

    I also agree with you and  -- "How Closely Related Are We?" is mindblowing. What a terrific opener and a great introduction to the giant diversity that comes without a giant difference in DNA.

  • in reply to Donnetta Elsasser

    Yup, I never learn from my mistakes.  I plan for 5 minutes but it typically into a 10-15 conversation and debate. 

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