What's happening this week in 6th grade Language Arts...

Students will continue to study advertising, propaganda, and persuasion.  They are responsible for all their notes over the last week.  We will have a quiz on Thursday or Friday.

Groups have developed a product (energy drink, cereal, shoes, technological device, etc).  Monday, they will finish the "story board" for their commercial.  Tuesday (weather permitting) we will go outside and film the commercials.  Wednesday, we will complete the editing process.

PLEASE remember everyone: you need your products, props, and costumes.

We will continue reviewing for EOG's every day.

I will be sending home the first reading passage this Tuesday.  Please check to make sure your child has that passage.  Remember, it's ok for you to sit and read with him/her.  You may also help them with finding and proving their answers.  The more help they have--the better.

I will grade each of these packets.

Students: please continue working on Moby Max and read!

A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL THE PARENTS WHO SENT IN BASKET ITEMS!  We really appreciate each and every one of you.

Homework for this week...

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Poetry, Poetry and more Poetry

We will continue our Poetry Unit this week.

New vocabulary words will be given on Monday.

Students will have a Vocabulary Test on Thursday.

We are also practicing EOG test taking strategies.

ANY STUDENT MISSING WORK NEEDS TO SEE ME BEFORE WEDNESDAY.


Please continue working on Moby Max at home.

Week of March 23rd...To all my celestial tender-hearted pigeon eggs and gallant thunder-darting wafer cakes...

We are studying POETRY!

Students are reviewing several types of poems, learning some new ones, and writing their own versions.

We are currently working on Elizabethan Sonnets.  1st Block and 4th Block have an original one due this Friday.

Friday, we will have a vocabulary tests on the poetry terms given on Monday.

We are also doing grammar almost every day in our warm up activities.  

DON'T FORGET-WE HAVE A FIELD TRIP ON THURSDAY.

What is for homework you ask...MOBY MAX at least 3 times a week for 30 minutes.  Read every night and keep those book slips coming.

Language Arts News

Read, Read, Read...if your child says they have no homework in Language Arts--NOT true.  They need to read every night.  Several students have not handed in any book slips yet even though they should be on #5.

ALSO, they should work on Moby Max at least 20-30 minutes 3 nights a week minimum.



This week, students are doing a short research classwork assignment on a person from the Harlem Renaissance.

Please ask your child if they decided to do the BIOBOX or the BIO POSTER.  If they chose box, they will need 5 sheets of card stock.  If they said poster, then they will need one poster board.

I will have step by step directions for each one.

As always, thank you for all you do.

What is happening in Language Arts...

We have finished Folklore and I am grading final tests in between typing.  I will have those back to the students Tuesday.  Please make sure you see them and initial them.  Every student should have brought home a Grimm Brothers Reading Passage and an Arachne the Spider Reading Passage last week to have signed.  If you haven't seen them...

My goal is to have all those grades posted to Power School this week as well.  If you have not yet received your password for Power School, please stop by the front office.

I have changed the 40 Book Challenge a bit.  By having just one deadline (previously) students were waiting until the last minute.  So, now we are breaking it up a bit.  The first reading summary sheet is due this Tuesday.  Students need to pace themselves to have 10 books completed by end of this 9 weeks.  

Now, we are studying Black History Month.  Everyone received a BINGO card.  The first 2 projects are due by this Wednesday (they have known for about 2 weeks).  In all, 4 boxes must be completed and students may work ahead.  Unlike, regular BINGO they do NOT have to have 4 in a row.  I'm trying to make it a bit easier by saying any 4 blocks at all are fine.  Again, only 2 are due by Wednesday. 

So far, we have discussed the Triangle Slave Trade.  Students worked together to identify countries, discuss trade, and map out route. 

Friday, I introduced the Underground Railroad and again students worked together to:

1. Find Positions 1 through 7 on the map. Place an “X” to mark each spot on the map. 
2. Color the rivers blue on the map.
3. Trace the state borders along the dotted lines with a pencil.
4. Label the names of the states. DO NOT COLOR THE STATES!
5. Using a red crayon, connect the “X”s with a single line from south to north. 
6. Color the free states purple, the slave states yellow, and Canada green.
7. Write the name of the state each of the seven positions are in on the chart above.

More Advanced Questions:
8. Find the approximate latitude of each of the seven positions and write your findings in the chart above.
9. Every degree of latitude = 60 miles. Using the latitudes you found in question 8, determine how many miles travelled to each position from the last. Add up the total mileage for a complete trip on the underground railroad. Remember, most of this trip was done walking. Think about what it was like to have to walk that far.


NOTE:  1st Block did not do this lesson yet because band students were playing for awards ceremony.    We will do this lesson on Tuesday.


This week, we will continue with spirituals and slave quilts.





The following week we will study the Harlem Renaissance.





Thank you for all the donations to make these lessons happen!!

Folklore

We are currently studying Folklore.  So far, students have read fairytales from around the world and discussed a few of Aesop's fables/morals.  They have written Pourquois.  They are due tomorrow and I can't wait to see the finished products.  We will also cover Tall Tales, Legends and Myths.

We will not have a vocabulary test until the entire unit is complete.