This is a lesson plan designed to allow students to recall and use the properties of exponents to generate equivalent numeric expressions, identify the appropriate property to use and apply it correctly, and check the numerical value of an expression involving exponents without using a calculator. There is a fun matching activity for students at the end of the lesson to allow students to practice what they have learned and for the teacher to assess their learning by listening to and watching the students work and discuss strategy with each other.

Students will understand the five components of fluency- speed, pausing, inflection, phrasing, and expression and practice reading text the way the author intended. Through the use of a rubric, they will monitor their own growth over time.

In this lesson, students will perform a comparative close reading of select informational texts from the Scottsboro Boys trials alongside sections from To Kill a Mockingbird. Students analyze the two trials and the characters and arguments involved in them to see how fictional “truth” both mirrors and departs from the factual experience that inspired it.

Included in this site is a complete lesson on writing with exponential notation. The lesson includes an introduction activity and discovery, practice, and an exit ticket along with suggestions for the teacher to use throughout the lesson. Students will use integer exponents and discover when to use parentheses for their bases. You will need to insert parentheses where necessary before delivering the lesson or using the worksheet since they are missing around fractions and negative bases if they haven't been fixed by the time you visit their lesson site.