Thursday, December 18, 2008

December 18, 2008

Period 4: Vocabulary Words 84-90
Questions Page 28 (1-6) Page 26 (2-4)

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

December 17, 2008

Periods 1 & 8: Story Test and Spelling Test L4
Periods 4 & 7: Spelling Test L4

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

December 16, 2008

Period 4 & 7: Vocabulary Words 47-83

Monday, December 15, 2008

December 15, 2008

Period 8: Find other facts in the story about Lincoln and write a 6 sentence paragraph (minimum)

Monday, December 8, 2008

December 8, 2008

Period 1 & 8: Finish writing on Lincoln

Period 4 & 7: Complete definitions for words 28-46....due Wednesday 12/10

Friday, December 5, 2008

December 5, 2008

Periods 4 and 7: Second novel due...... Period 8: up to Chapter 16 in Hatchet

Monday, November 24, 2008

November 24, 2008

Periods 4 & 7: Questions for Christmas Carol on Page 10 and Vocabulary Words 1-27

Thursday, November 20, 2008

November 20, 2008

Periods 4, 7, 8: Spelling Test on Lesson 3

Period 4: Rough draft of writing due on Special Someone

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

November 18, 2008

Period 4: Rough draft writing assignment due Friday. Language Link for Brother due tomorrow

Thursday, November 13, 2008

November 13, 2008

All Classes: Permission slips and $5 due by 11/14 for field trip.

Period 1: Finish writing about the most important person in your life.

November 13, 2008

All Classes: Permission slips and $5 due by 11/14 for field trip.

Period 1: Finish writing about the most important person in your life.

Monday, November 10, 2008

November 10, 2008

All Classes: Story Test on Storm on Wednesday, 11/12/2008. Permission slips and $5 due by 11/14 for field trip.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

November 4, 2008

All Classes: Final copy as well as rough draft due tomorrow of writing #2 for John Collins Writing Folder

Thursday, October 30, 2008

October 30, 2008

John Collins Writing Assignment #2

Narrative Writing

Autobiographical Incident

When you write an autobiographical incident you bring an experience or memory to life as you share a true story about yourself.

Your assignment is to write a narrative about an experience you’ve had. You will write about an incident in your life to express your feelings. You will be writing to inform your teacher, classmates, friends, or family members who were involved in the incident. Refer to Pages 86-90 in the Literature Book for more ideas and suggestions.

FCA’s

A minimum of 4 paragraphs with at least 4 complete, well-constructed sentences in each paragraph using details in chronological order. Mix of short, medium and long sentences _____/10

Correct verb usage_____/5

Correct punctuation_____/5



Rough Draft is due October 31, 2008 to partner read in class. Final Copy and rough draft and due November 5, 2008.

October 30, 2008

Periods 1, 4, 7, 8: All classes must have their rough draft of Autobiographical Incident #2 for tomorrow.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

October 23, 2008

Period 1: Bring in book. Story Test on The Stone

Period 4, 7, 8: Spelling Test Lesson 2. Story Test on The Stone

October 22, 2008

No Homework

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

October 21, 2008

Period 1: Summarize story up to where we read with at least 5 sentences

Thursday, October 16, 2008

October 16, 2008

Period 4: Test on Vocabulary words and grammar link on the story

Periods 7 & 8: Test on President Cleveland Where Are You?

October 16, 2008

Periods 7 & 8: Story Test on President Cleveland Where Are You? Reading Counts Test on novel selected for the class

Period 4: Chapters 10 -12 questions on Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry....Montage Due

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

October 14, 2008

All Classes: No homework

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

October 8, 2008

Period 1: Summarize the events that led Jerry to being confused

Periods 4, 7, 8: Hyperbole worksheet

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

October 7, 2008

Periods 4, 7, & 8: Complete back of personification worksheet

Monday, October 6, 2008

October 6, 2008

Period 1: Summarize what was read in the story, President Cleveland, Where Are You?

Friday, October 3, 2008

October 3, 2008

All Classes: No homework.....Have a good weekend!

Thursday, October 2, 2008

October 2, 2008

All Classes: Spelling Test on Lesson 1 words

Periods, 4, 7, 8: Test on LaBamba

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

October 1, 2008

Periods 4, 7, 8: Test on Metaphors and Similes

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Setpember 30, 2008

All Classes: Similes and Metaphors Worksheet

Monday, September 29, 2008

Classes should be reading a novel which will be due October 17, 2008

September 29, 2008

No homework. All classes should have similes to try and find the answer to.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

September 25, 2008

No homework.

September 24, 2008

No homework.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

September 23, 2008

No homework

Monday, September 22, 2008

September 22, 2008

September 22, 2008
Period 1: None
Period 4: Students should have read Chapters 1-3 of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Book and completed the questions for the chapters.
Period 7 & 8: Test on Ta-na-e-ka

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Friday, August 29, 2008

Welcome Back Students!

Welcome Back Students to School!! I hope that you had an enjoyable summer and you are ready for a fun-filled year in sixth grade. We are going to have an awesome time this year in Language Arts.....so get ready for some reading, writing, and grammar. Our language arts class will meet everyday for 60 minutes and will include reading stories from our literature book as well as additional novels selected. Some of the material that we read, we will supplement with additional projects.