MAY 20: All RC points winners receive prizes (ten dollar Walmart gift card, candy etc.) today! Valerie Cash Kaylie Henslee Gracie Watkins Natalie Herendon Aidyn Patterson May 20 --> 6th Grade Awards Ceremony May 21 --> Andretti's Field Trip Click here for information May 22 --> Review for Finals May 23 --> 1st, 4th, & 5th Finals May 24 --> 6th & 7th Finals EXEMPTIONS will be given to each student on May 20th. Please ask your students if they are exempt or not. MAY 6-10 This week we will be focusing on science fiction. Students will be viewing TWILIGHT ZONE episodes, reading "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury, and the poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale. Students will complete questions for the episodes viewed. Students will complete a QUIZIZZ over the short story. Students will also create masks based on character traits they choose after viewing MASKS, a TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE THE BOGO book fair is this week! Students will be attending this tomorrow for part of the class period, but may go back to purchase if they have funds with which to do so. ALL Reading Counts points are due on MAY 17, but all library books are due on MAY 13, and students may not check out any books on or after MAY 13 so it would be best if students could get all points earned by this point. All students have been aware of this deadline for the entire nine weeks grading period. As always this will be a test grade. If students grades are in the mid to low seventies average, not earning these points will cause a student to fail reading for the nine weeks. APRIL 29-May 3 TESTING: 1st period 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th: Science Fiction assignments Brain Pop: literary genres LINKS page for Science Fiction on Google Classroom Documentary and questions Independent sustained reading and RC TESTS (13 days of RC test opportunities including today) TWILIGHT ZONE episodes with literary questions. APRIL 22-26 MONDAY-FRIDAY will be reviews for the MILESTONES testing which begins next week. LINK FOR GA DOE MILESTONES STUDY GUIDE FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS: https://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Assessment/Documents/Milestones/Study-Resource%20Guides/GM_GR06_Study_Guide_2.14.19.pdf STUDENTS also have this link added to their GOOGLE CLASSROOM page. All students without Reading Counts points should be reading a library book that counts for points each evening. Only 19 testing days remain for earning RC points. This will be, as always, a TEST grade. All library books are due March 13th. The last testing date is March 17th. April 8-12 Monday: 6th period: Reading Inventory Others: Complete Reading Fair Project for TWGTB Tuesday: 6th: Complete Reading Fair Project Others: Mood and Tone review links on GC Complete Flocabulary Quiz and BrainPop Quiz Wednesday: Learning Commons/Media Center/Library for all 6th : Mood and Tone Review links on GC. Complete Flocabulary Quiz and BrainPop Quiz Thursday: QUIZIZZ: MOOD AND TONE READING FAIR: 3:30-5:30 pm in Cafeteria Friday: SPECIAL OLYMPICS PRACTICE MILESTONES TEST April 1-5 Monday: Make up movie questions. Read RC books. TUESDAY-THURSDAY: Complete chosen activity for TWGTB-1963 and complete individually or in small group of no more than three. Due date is the middle of class on Monday, April 8th. Friday: READING INVENTORY: ( LEXILE CHECK) READING FAIR is from 3:30 to 5:30 on April 11th in FCMS cafeteria and learning commons! Come out and check the awesome work students have created for the class novels in each grade level! March 25-29 Monday: TEST over last half of TWGTB-1963 Digital Notebook (assigned Feb. 11. Test grade and due March 29) Students have had multiple opportunities to work on this notebook in class. They also may work at home and use DESTINY (the FCMS library on computer/ internet) to find the E book of the novel. TUESDAY: DIGITAL BREAKOUT with historical information pertaining to the 1963 setting. This assignment may carry over to Wednesday. WEDNESDAY: DIGITAL BREAKOUT and Digital Notebook THURSDAY: DIGITAL NOTEBOOK/DISCUSS READING FAIR PROJECTS FOR APRIL 11,READING fAIR (3:30-5:30). Friday: MEDIA CENTER/LEARNING COMMONS MOVIE WITH CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE AND LIST: TWGTB-1963 Independently assigned RC POINTS ARE DUE MAY 17. March 12-22 Learning Commons: check out, return, renew books Constructed Responses: Due March 19th on Google Classroom quiz grade: two daily grades Complete THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM-1963 Chapters 11-15. Quizizz 11/12 chapters Quizizz 13-15 chapters Kahoot Review Test: March 22 February 25-March 1 Monday: Digital Break Out Room Tuesday: Read Chapters 5-6 THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM Advanced: Complete the newest NEWSELA also. WEDNESDAY: OPEN BOOK quiz for chapters 3-6 THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM Work on Digital Notebook for THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM (This notebook is due after book is completed and will be a test grade.) Thursday: Kahoot review and review of constructed response, RACE, format FRIDAY: ( abbreviated schedule) TEST for chapters 1-6 THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM Test: multiple choice and constructed response Constructed response standard has been incorporated since 3rd grade. ALL RC points are due MARCH 8th! TEST GRADE! 15 points: General 20 points: Advanced February 20-22 MAPS TESTING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY FOR READING AND MATH during 4th period. Learning Commons( library/media center) to recheck, check out, return books, read RC books in class. Reading Counts points are all due on March 8th. Students have 13 days from Feb. 20 to test at school to earn their points! This is a test grade. Some students who were previously passing at midpoint may not pass reading without these points! Make up any missing work. Work on Digital Notebook for The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963. February 11-15 Any missing work from last week must be completed as homework since no more class time will be allotted for these assignments. As we read the new novel, students will focus on plot, conflict, theme, tone, imagery and figurative language. Monday: introduce vocabulary for The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 Discuss themes/ideas from the book: class discussion Begin reading the novel. Notify students that the vocabulary test is on Friday, February 15th. The first part of the test is matching, and the second part is composing context clue sentences using the vocabulary word as its correct part of speech. Tuesday: Read TWGTB, discussion Wednesday: Read TWGTB, discussion Thursday: questions for chapters read thus far...on Google Classroom. Friday: Vocabulary Test, Newsela-two articles w/ quiz February 4-8 Monday and Tuesday: Complete Ocean Portfolio poetry and Newsela articles/quizzes about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: View the video Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement ( link is on Google Classroom page.) Students will complete questions as they view and/or after they view for a daily grade. **BrainPop, in class grade "Civil RIghts" QUIZIZZ reviews over figurative language, characterization, theme, sensory imagery and Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Movement Read RC points library books. Go to Book Fair on Wednesday (Friday for 5th period). If time allows this week, vocabulary for the upcoming novel THE WATSON'S GO TO BIRMINGHAM-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis will be introduced. January 28-February 1 Monday: Complete any missing work from Google Classroom and NEWSELA, then begin STEM Poems for the OCEAN portfolio. Tuesday: Snow Day Wednesday: Required Cyber Safety lesson with counselor Thursday: Learning Commons/Library/Media center: Chromebook tutorial and check out/turn in/renew library books. Friday: Complete STEM poems and place in OCEAN portfolio. January 22-25 Complete second acrostic poem and turn in. ( 2 daily grades) Complete Haiku after lesson and video assistance on Google Classroom. (daily grade) View Tsunami BrainPop and complete graded quiz. Students must make a 70% or above. ( daily grade) View Tsunami BBC video via National Geographic on Google Classroom. Complete the questions. ( daily grade) Two assigned NEWSELA articles to read and take quizzes for daily grades. (daily grade) RC POINTS ARE DUE MARCH 8th: independent reading. Students should be reading a library book every night. January 14: Mrs. Summers helped students create their career pathways. January 15: Learning Commons (library/media center) Check out, return, and renew books. Independent reading time in the classroom. ( RC points are due March 8th.) January 16, 17: Complete and present acrostic "peer interview" poem. January 18: Compose an acrostic poem using alliteration and sensory imagery. ( multiple topics from which to choose) Welcome back to the second half of this school year! January 4, 7-11 After instruction, modeling and composing class limericks,Students have been working collaboratively composing their own limericks and creating a Google Slides presentation of their creations. Students have also been peer editing each other's writings. Reading Counts points are due on March 8th! This is, as always, a test grade. November 12-16 Reading Counts points are due December 14th with at least half the points due by November 14th. Students have been aware of this due date since the beginning of school and were given a copy of all due dates for RC points, as a reminder, on October 8th. Letters were sent home on November 12th for students who had fewer than half their required points or none of the required points. Please check with your child about his or her status. Also, feel free to email me at [email protected] We are continuing the reading aloud of Fever 1793. On Wednesday, we will begin working on questions for chapters 16-20. (Students may use the text; this is an in class daily grade assignment. These questions should be completed by the end of class on Friday of this week.)We will also resume working on completing their interactive notebook that goes with this novel. The notebook will be due when we finish the book after Thanksgiving break. More details to follow... Students will work on these assignments Wednesday -Friday of this week along with taking Reading Counts tests and independent reading time if time allows. Each student's independent work time varies. VOCABULARY TEST on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15th! Students received their study guide last Thursday, November 8th along with a thorough discussion and Google Slides review of words and context clue examples. Students should still be reading their Reading Counts library books each evening! Have a joyous and blessed Thanksgiving! November 2-9 11/2: We visited the library to renew books or check out new books. Reading counts points are due December 14th with at least half the points due by November 14th. Students have been aware of this due date since the beginning of school and were given a copy of all due dates for RC points, as a reminder, on October 8th. Students completed the movie questions for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" They may use the movie link, the PDF file of the Story and the "Literary Terms You Need to Know" reference page. All the resources and the questions can be found on the student's Reading Google Classroom page. 11/5: We will review for the 11/6 test over "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" ( In class Kahoot! review) 11/6: Multiple choice test over "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". If time remains, students will be able to read their library books independently and take RC tests online. 11/7: Reading Inventory per Mr. Young, our curriculum coach 11/8: Students will receive new vocabulary from FEVER 1793 (ten words) acting as a study guide for the test on Thursday, November 15th. We will review the words in class via a Google Slide presentation and create context clue sentences aloud to help reinforce the meanings and parts of speech. 11/9: As a class, we will read aloud in our current class novel, FEVER 1793. This is an early release day, so classes will only be 40 minutes. October 29-November 2 Students who need to complete project presentations will do so on Monday of this week. We will also begin reading an adapted version of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." We will also view a movie version this week. The students will read aloud the story in class, but the movie will be watched independently in school via a link shared to their Google Classroom Reading page. They will have assignments with the movie and will be able to take notes and start and stop as is necessary since they will view independently. The movie assignments will be worth a quiz grade (two daily grades). The test over the story/film will be given after the story has been read, movie viewed and participation in a Kahoot review. Friday is a scheduled library/media center day, so some of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" assignments may carry over into next week. Happy Halloween! Students still need to be reading their library books every night! All Reading Counts points are due December 14th! October 17-26 Students will begin a group project covering chapters 1-13 of Fever 1793. Students will choose one project from three available choices. They have a rubric to follow, and all work should be done in class. If a student is absent from his or her group for more than one day, that student will be required to do an independent project. (This is a test grade.) These projects are due Tuesday, October 23 ( date on Goggle Classroom is invalid) giving students five class periods to work and two class periods to present their projects. Students will continue reading FEVER 1793 on Friday, October 26. October 8-12 Monday: Media Center visit to choose new RC point books for this grading period: RC points are due December 14th. Students also received Reading Counts paper reminders to take home to parents and/or post on the refrigerator at home. Tuesday: Teacher led review of chapters through 13 in FEVER 1783. Test announced for Friday: chapters 1-13 with no book use during the test. Advanced students were able to work on their interactive notebooks for FEVER 1793. Wednesday: Reviewed for the test with KAHOOTS. Discussion of any questions etc. All figurative language notes and references, including video links, posted to student Google Classroom pages. Those students who do not have access to internet at home will receive paper copies of all notes except the video links. These notes cannot be used during the test. Figurative language will be ongoing through sixth grade, and even through college, so students are expected to conquer these terms this year! Thursday: Review for the Test with KAHOOTS and Rebel passes given for the top five scorers! Also, review of figurative language will be teacher led. Friday: TEST for chapters 1-13 FEVER 1793 Remaining class time after test will be used for independent reading of RC books. *********************************************************** REQUIRED READING COUNTS POINTS ARE DUE OCTOBER 5th! THIS IS A TEST GRADE! Vocabulary Test: Wednesday, October 3rd. Students have had the words, definitions and parts of speech since September 25th. October 1-8 We finished chapter six questions for Fever 1793 in class today and read aloud in the novel. We will review for the vocabulary test tomorrow, October 2nd and continue reading in the book. Wednesday, October 3rd, we will have the vocabulary test. Thursday, October 4th, we will continue reading in the novel. Friday, October 5th is an abbreviated schedule for reward day, and we will continue reading in the book and/or work on the interactive notebook in Google Classroom. October 8: We will visit the media center to choose new books for the next round of Reading Counts Points that will be due on December 14th. Students will be required to have the same number of points as the first nine weeks. September 24-28: 20 minutes of independent novel reading Continue reading Fever 1793 Sept. 25 Students received the second set of vocabulary words for the novel. Teacher led discussion about the vocabulary and the Google Slide presentation of the words as an introduction to the vocabulary Discussed context clues and part of speech for each word. VOCABULARY TEST over this set of words is October 3rd. Students were also introduced to the interactive notebook they will complete as we read the novel. This notebook has been assigned in Google Classroom and will be due/completed by the end of the novel. Focus for this week will also be, aside from reading the novel in class, figurative language, completing questions over chapters 1-5 and perhaps beyond if time allows. Students should be reading a library book with points every night at home. SEPTEMBER 17-21st Today, September 18th, we reviewed context clues, and I modeled all four of the context clue types with their vocabulary words. Students who do not have access to internet at home received the paper copy of context clue notes that I had put on Google Classroom. Students should study the notes, the vocabulary and practice writing context clue sentences at home. If they don't have all their RC points, they also need to be reading their library books. :) On Friday, September 17th students received a list of ten vocabulary words with the part of speech and definition. There will be a test over these vocabulary words on Thursday, September 20th. Students will be responsible for knowing the part of speech, the definition and using each word in a context clue sentence. These words are from the first six chapters of a novel we started on Sept.13th. This in-class read novel is Fever 1793 . This novel is an example of historical fiction and covers the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793. We have also viewed an excerpt from a documentary about the yellow fever epidemic in as a pre-reading activity. Also, students have viewed and taken notes over context clues from links on their Google Classroom page I also added Context Clue notes for reference to their Google Classroom page. Students will be responsible for completing an interactive notebook on Google Classroom. They will work on this as they read the novel. ATTENTION! :) Reading Counts points are due for all students on October 5th. As referenced in previous entries, this will count as a test grade. Any students who do not have all their points and/or who have no points for Reading Counts received a letter on Friday to be signed by a parent or guardian and brought back to me. SEPTEMBER 6, 7 and 10: Students will be working on "Characterization: Walt Masters" and "Close Reading Activities for "The King of Mazy May". These assignments are in Google Classroom. There is an audio link so students may listen to the story again at home if they would like. However, the assignments are geared toward the page numbers in our literature book so it would not be effective for them to work on the assignments themselves at home since they do not have an assigned reading book. They will have plenty of time in class to complete these assignments if they are on task! Monday, August 27: Reading Inventory for Mr. Young Moby Max Reading skills: Literature Students should be reading their library books at home every night! :) Guest Speaker in the gym 1:30-2:30 The remainder of the week: Moby Max, Book Fair, "The King of Mazy May" by Jack London. The focus points for this story are: vocabulary, conflict, theme, characterization, and plot. Reading Counts testing is UP AND RUNNING! YAY! Students may take RC tests to earn their 15 required points (20 for the advanced classes)! These points are due OCTOBER 5th! These points count as a test grade! Welcome to 6th Grade Reading! MEDIA CENTER for orientation and checking out books: Tuesday, August 7th INFORMATION ABOUT 6th Grade READING COUNTS As part of 6th grade reading curriculum, students are required to read books as part of the Reading Counts program. They will be allowed to check out books from the library and take tests online to assess their comprehension of the book they chose. Each book has a different point value based on its lexile score. The lexile range for middle school is 955-1155. *Each nine weeks, students are responsible for earning 15 Reading Counts points. *Gifted/advanced students are responsible for earning 20 Reading Counts points. Students will have an opportunity for extra credit with their Reading Counts points. If a student earns 30-40 points, that student will receive a 100% quiz grade (two daily grades). *If a student earns 41 or more points, that student will receive a 100% test grade. * If a student earns 41 or more points, that student will receive a 100% test grade. The students should have in their possession the schedule for the entire year with the due dates and the range for the nine week period. This nine week period for Reading Counts is August 7-October 5. Reading Counts points must be completed by October 5th. *Students may also read books from my classroom library, the public library, their personal books etc. Students must be certain their is a Reading Counts test for the book if they intend on using the book as a points book. :) |
Assignments for August 9-August 24 ( approximate time frame)
Daily Bellringer Literary Focuses: August 9th, SENSORY IMAGERY, THEME, CHARACTERIZATION Klondike Gold Rush Video with questions SETTING FOCUS for upcoming reading assignments: The Yukon/Klondike Gold Rush August 10th-16th (approximate ending date for these assignments) We will begin this unit with "To Build a Fire" by Jack London After reading the story and throughout next week, students will have various in-class assignments with focus on Sensory Imagery, Theme and Characterization related to the short story. |