This week in 6th grade Language Arts...

6A and 6B have completed the novel Number the Stars!!  Final test will be on Monday. 

6C is reading Chains.

As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom.



All 6th graders will begin a several week study of Newspapers, Advertising, and Propaganda.
Vocabulary Words for the next 2 weeks:
1.    deadline
2.    editor
3.    feature story
4.    headline
5.    index
6.    inverted pyramid
7.    journalism
8.    jumpline
9.    lead
10.  layout
11.  flag
12.  obituary
13.  reporter
14.  slander
15.  libel
16.  caption
17.  advertisement
18.  classified
19.  banner
20.  copy

PLEASE send in any old newspapers you may have around the house.  



PROGRESS REPORTS COME OUT ON WEDNESDAY!  SEVERAL STUDENTS DID NOT DO ASSIGNED PROJECTS.  STUDENTS WERE GIVEN AT LEAST 3 WEEKS FOR EACH PROJECT WITH TIME TO WORK ON THEM IN CLASS --SO THERE REALLY ARE NO EXCUSES.  THIS WORK CANNOT BE MADE UP AT THIS POINT.

THE NEXT PROJECT IS DUE MARCH 7TH--BLACK HISTORY MONTH BINGO CARDS.