Room 7 Sixth Grade (Period Lang ) Assignments
- Instructors
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- 2011-2012 School Year
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- 6th Grade
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- Room 7
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Past Assignments
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To all my students,
It's been a great year of learning. Have a very restful and happy summer. Please read a book or two along the way. See you in August.
It's been a great year of learning. Have a very restful and happy summer. Please read a book or two along the way. See you in August.
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Language Arts Giver Chapters 16 & 17 be ready to discuss the changes in Jonas from chapter 11- 17
Science 14-1 NB SQ3R lesson. Be prepared to take a quiz
Pre-A HOA Lessons 6 & 7 finish anything you didn't finish in school. Remember to write the new work for #7 on the back of the lesson problems 1-4.
Poetry Presentations: Leslie & Miguel A.
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Language Arts Giver Chapters 10 & 11 Quiz
Science 13-2 Read and complete NB pgs 145-147
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Pre-Alg design a prism
Language poetry project due. The Giver chapters 6-9
Science 13-1 finish
Language poetry project due. The Giver chapters 6-9
Science 13-1 finish
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Language Arts: The Giver Chapters 2 & 3. Be prepared to discuss the plot and how it differs from life in the 21st century as we know it.
Poetry Projects: Those who are reciting today prepared the important facts about your poet and how they relate to the creation of his or her works.
Pre-A: 8-4
Social Studies: Career Day Wear something businesslike.
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Language Arts: Read the first chapter of The Giver by Lois Lowry. Make notes regarding what's happening. Answer the two questions that were posed on the board.
Tomorrow Poet Presenters: Bring in your posters, biographies, your poem, and a great exciting presentation. We can't wait.
Pre-A Math: 8-2 GS #17-23 Find one problem from the homework that you find challenging and solve it with your partner.
Science: Chapter 12 Review questions #1-15 and #1-18 omit #10.
Extra Credit Math in Science: #19-23 a must for those under the 80% line.
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Poetry biographical report due 5/21/12. Poem and bibliography for works cited pages due Monday along with rough draft of report.
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Language Arts: Analyze your poem this weekend. Put your anotated poem in your report along with your literary analysis.
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Dear Parents and Students,
This weekend there is no homework. Please enjoy your time, but come to school on Monday well rested to begin showing California how well prepared you are to take the CSTs this week. You are prepared, and you will perform beautifully with a good night's sleep and a good breakfast. I'm proud of how hard you've worked over the past several weeks to prepare. See you Monday.
This weekend there is no homework. Please enjoy your time, but come to school on Monday well rested to begin showing California how well prepared you are to take the CSTs this week. You are prepared, and you will perform beautifully with a good night's sleep and a good breakfast. I'm proud of how hard you've worked over the past several weeks to prepare. See you Monday.
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CGP 7.2.3 WB sheet- Draw out the angles; ask yourself, "What do I know?"
Language Arts: review the grammar pack pages for: colons, semicolons, and commas
Grammar quiz Thursday (tomorrow.)
Language Arts: review the grammar pack pages for: colons, semicolons, and commas
Grammar quiz Thursday (tomorrow.)
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Language Arts: "The Destruction of Tatelolco" pages 96 & 97 Reread the poem; answer all questions carefully.
Review grammar concepts from past worksheets: the use of colons, commas, and semicolons. Small quiz tomorrow over these three concepts.
Science: 12-2 SQ3R the balance of pages in this lesson. Quiz tomorrow.
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Language Arts: Choose a poem and tell me how this poem relates to the poet's life and why he/she wrote it. Explain why you chose this poem and how it "speaks" to you emotionally.
Math: Review the problems you missed on the CST practice- Use the SF text to find this concept-
e.g. supplementary angles, etc. Then explain why you missed those. Review the concepts in the textbook, and choose 4 problems to solve using our CST guidelines for problem solving. These will be reviewed on Tuesday.
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New Work:
Science: 12-1 Finish reading the last 1.5 pages and complete the last 2 pages of the NB. There will a quiz over this on Monday.
Language Arts Poetry Project: Turn in a rough draft of report along with table of contents and bibliography or (works-cited page) *Choose your poem and give a two-sentence explanation as to why you chose that poem. Do no begin memorizing it until I discuss it with you.
Remediation Work for concepts not-yet mastered. This is based on how much you retained.
Social Studies: Poster of Rome & US Governments 22" x (?) around that size. Rome on top and US on bottom. All three branches of government
Math: We have still not mastered conversions. SF 7-3 text. Make corrections for Measurement test and write the unit conversion you missed 10 times each. This will be on our CST.
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Language Arts: The final draft of RTL for Bud, Not Buddy was due Monday, but for those of you who have not typed it yet, the format is MLA: 1.5 line spacing, 12 pitch Times New Roman font, do not skip lines between paragraphs, make sure you use examples with quotes and page number, indent paragraphs 5 spaces, and single-lined heading with your name, etc. 10% will be deducted from your grade for each day it's late. Final draft is due Monday, April 23rd.
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Basic Skills CPM 6 Make corrections on all three math packets and worksheets. Ratios, Proportions, and Area/Circumference. Write why you got them wrong and hot you corrected them.
Language Arts - Finish PB pages for Sojourner and make corrections on prefixes you missed.
"TAS" incorporate the question into the answer.
Saturday School is to review concepts the students have struggled with. Division of decimals, LCM, GCF, and work on volume. 8-10 am. If your child has a low grade or has failed tests, they must come.
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Dear Parents:
The work the students have this weekend is for Monday, which is a furlough day, not a free day. They will be doing the same amount of work, only at home. The lessons were reviewed and questions were answered on Friday during class.
Pre-Algebra Review WS pages are to be completed 45, 46, 59,... 61, 66 What is in the packet. Please work out all problems.
Language Arts: A Kind of Grace Read pages 457-463 and answer questions #1-5 on the WS.
HW: PB pgs 273, 276 & 277
1. What does the last paragraph on this page tell you about Jackie’s attitude? p. 458
2. Why do you think the other girls stop going to track practice, but Jackie continues to go? p. 460
3. Why do you think Percy Harris arranges for Jackie to join George Ward’s team? p. 460
4. Do you think Mr. Ward was being honest with Jackie when he said, “Just keep coming to practice,you’ll get better.”? p. 462
5. What does Jackie mean by “practices were pressure free, but there were rules.” ? p.463
Science 6-1 Earthquakes SQ3R and complete 6-1 SNB pgs **Ch 5 Review w/pg & par. is also due if you failed the test. Have your parents sign your test. ***It may be done for extra credit if it was not assigned.
Social St. 9-1 Georgraphy of the Americas SQ3R and answer Rev. Questions at the end of the lesson.
CGP 6 4.4.5 HWS work out all problems
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Language Arts PB pages that aren't "In Class" Just do as many as you have time to do because you can work on them on Wed. afternoon
Social St. Chapter 4 Test corrections
CGP 4.3.3 WS problem corrections in your Per. 5 notebook. If you have any questions about these I will be in tomorrow morning 7:30.
**Reminder** Conversions test on Friday. YOu will need to know all the conversions even between metric and Standard. This will be a word problem test using the conversions.
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Pre- Algebra 7-2 CT 17-24 Classwork HW CT 25-31
Language Arts Chuck Close Up Close 5-3 PB pgs 313, 314, 315 Write in correct spelling words
Basic Skills 6th grade Math 4.3.3 WS Conversions Classwork & Homework - Set up proportions, label and solve. You may use calculators.
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Parents: All work was assigned during class period and students were allowed to work on these assignments during 3 class periods today.
******EXTRA CREDIT******* VISIT THE BOWERS MUSEUM THIS SUNDAY FREE TO SEE THE QIN DYNASTY TERRA COTTA SOLDIERS. BRING IN YOUR TICKET STUB AND GET EXTRA CREDIT FOR SOCIAL STUDIES. SUNDAY IS THE ONLY FREE DAY SO YOU'LL WANT TO GO EARLY.
Social Studies: Chapter 4 take home test
Pre-Alg Rate Worksheets problems #2-6 and #1-12 make sure your check your equations, label your proportions **NO CALCULATORS
6th grade math CGP 4.3.3. GP 15-18 and IP #1-10 This was assigned for classwork
Please make up all past unfinished work. It will not be accepted after this next week.
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Social Studies Study 4-1 for quiz Review Questions The Lesson was read in class.
CGP 4.3.1. Make Quiz corrections #1-12 Make sure you have your index cards.
Under the Royal Palms PB Problem-Solution Page and Comp Questions. The selection was read in class
Pre-Algebra RS 126-138 (131) This was started in class. You should only have 4 or 5 problems.
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Language Arts The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay read pages 412-423 twice answering comprehension questions on the WS as you read the selection.
Vocabulary: make vocab cards and put the part of speech on each one as it is used in the selection.
Test on Tuesday
PB pages: 249-254, 256-262 Compare & Contrast will be Confucius and Laozi instead of the prompt in the PB page 261. This will double for Social Studies
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Language Wordly Wise 6 This was given with little other homework this week.
The Lost Aztecs pgs 360-376 PB pgs 211 & 212 first questions 213-228
Social St 8-1 SQ3R China
CPM6 WS 1 & 2 SHOW ALL WORK SOLVE ALL PROBLEMS ON THOSE 2 PAGES.
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Turn in "Free as a..." RTL
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Reread "Free as a..." by Linda Armstrong Write a response to literature paper describing three of the literary devices. Use examples in quotes. You don't have to cite stanza or line since this poem is a long sentence and has neither stanzas nor lines. MLA or neat handwriting, skip lines or it will not be corrected.
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"The Brook" by Alfred Lord Tennyson Finish the worksheet pages carefully. Wordly Wise Lesson 3- you should be half finished with this-due next Tuesday.
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Pre-Algebra 5-7 MC 70, 72, 79, 80, 81(a,b,d) 82
Language Arts Tuck Everlasting Final Comp Test and Vocab Test overall words. The words are on the website from Thursday's homework. "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson finish the questions and answers if not finished in class, and write MLA standard analysis about the poem. We have discussed this in class.Corrections of all vocabulary missed on last 2 tests. I need a definition and a synonym that has the same connotation as the word.
Social Studies Make test corrections with pg & P and tell why you chose the wrong answer.
Optional & this is extra credit: Design the pyramid on page 171 CAREFULLY following the instructions.
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Pre-Algebra 5-6 MC 73 finish graph and answer questions 75 b,d, f
Language Arts Tuck Everlasting Vocabulary corrections "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson (optional) Reread and answer the questions.
Social Studies Chapter 5 Essay discussing the influence of the NIle River on Egyptian civilization including its affects on: trade, architecture, calendar, transportation, fishing, daily life, agriculture, and protection. Be specific. Study for Chapter 5 final.
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Tuck Everlasting Vocab Test 1-4 and Comp Test 1-5. Spelling and vocab corrections from Lesson 1.
We will be correcting the next 4 pages from grammar pack.
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A Christmas Carol Use essay writing format from Ms. Vela to write the introduction and paragraph one.
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AR Test on Christmas Carol
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Students and Parents- Reminder that the class will be attending A Christmas Carol on Monday at The Glendale Centre Theatre. . We will be leaving the school about 8:30 a.m. Please bring a jacket. If you dress in nicer attire, the school uniform does not apply. Bring a sack lunch with drink since we will have a picnic afterwards. Please no glass. You may bring a camera, but no photography during the performance.
The only other homework is to write appropriate sentences for the vocabulary words you missed. See you Monday.
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*** Stave Two" Retake test will be given either at 7:30 a.m. or during the dance. The choice is yours. If you come want to take the test in the morning, it will be given promptly at 7:30.
A Christmas Carol- draw the climax on an 8 X 11 sheet of paper. Use imagery and fill the page. It can only be the scene at the grave when the Spirit commands Scrooge to face himself and the consequences of his life's actions.
Finish Describe the Setting in "Stave Four" using complex sentence structure, imagery, appropriate vocabulary and consider the impact of the setting on the tone, plot, and climax of the story.
A Christmas Carol- draw the climax on an 8 X 11 sheet of paper. Use imagery and fill the page. It can only be the scene at the grave when the Spirit commands Scrooge to face himself and the consequences of his life's actions.
Finish Describe the Setting in "Stave Four" using complex sentence structure, imagery, appropriate vocabulary and consider the impact of the setting on the tone, plot, and climax of the story.
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Multiple Meaning Word Pack. You should be able to determine the part of speech and meaning based on how the word is used in each sentence. You have had more than a week to do this. Only look up the words if you don't know the meaning. We will discuss this tomorrow.
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Know vocabulary words in context for "Stave Three" Be prepared to take a short quiz over Staves 1-4 Tuesday.
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Finish 'Stave Three" test.
Read "Stave Four" and continue making vocabulary cards.
Write summaries for stave 1-3.
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A Christmas Carol "Stave Four" Continue to read focusing on vocabulary words in context. Make flash cards with the appropriate synonym based on the meaning of the word in the context of the sentence.. **Use a Thesaurus**
Study "Stave Three" words for quiz tomorrow.
"Stave Four" questions: All these questions don't need to be answered tonight, nor do you have to finish reading the entire chapter. **Remember** Dickens is telling the story to send a message. Annotate the important examples that will support your thesis statement. (the author's message)
1. What does the spirit of Christmas future look like? Why does Dickens portray him in this manner?
2. What is this spirit’s personality like?3. How does Scrooge feel about this spirit (paragraph 8)?
4. What is the point of the long discussion between Joe and Mrs. Dilber (paragraphs 43-78)? Hint: they relate to Scrooge’s property.
5. What are some of the words Dickens uses to create the tone of the paragraphs that follow? (79-83) What is this mood?
6. When Scrooge asks the phantom to let him "see some tenderness connected with a death,” (paragraph 104) what does the ghost show him? Why can't the spirit give him more hope at this point? What does Scrooge still need to do?
7. What is the lesson Scrooge learns in this stave that he has not learned before? Why is this stave needed when Scrooge’s attitude has already seem to change so much.8. What is the last warning in the stave? How does this assist Scrooge in his final decision?
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A Christmas Carol You should be highlighting all words in your book and writing the applicable synonym next to it. This is the direction for all Staves as directed at the beginning of the novel.
Vocabulary Test on "Stave Two" and "Stave Three"
Multiple Meaning Word List pg. 2 only.
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A Christmas Carol Be prepared to discuss: Literary devices, tone, plot, characters, and setting in Staves 1, 2, 3 tomorrow. Test on Stave 3 vocab.
"Multiple Meaning Words" page one. There will be a quiz on these word variations. P.O.S. as well as the contextual meanings.
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Grammar 47, 48, 49, 50
Read "Stave Three" of A Christmas Carol. Answer attached questions from this chapter.
I want pg number supporting your answers.
Make flash cards for each word you don't know using the appropriate synonym. The words are in a file under "Stave Three Vocabulary" attachment.
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There are some fun links below if you're interested.
British Money
Dickens' Dictionary
The Victorian Timeline of Social Reforms
A Christmas Carol maze game online.
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Christmas Carol vocab #74-83 Be prepared to take a quiz on these words tomorrow,
All questions from Staves One and Two are due tomorrow.
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A Christmas Carol vocab words 64-73 flashcards to be made and quiz over the ten words will be given tomorrow.
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A Christmas Carol "Stave 2" Read the first 10 pages of the second chapter.
Study vocab words from 33-63. Test tomorrow. For those students who weren't prepared today, you must have finished your two sets of questions.
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Christmas Carol Vocabulary cards 33-63. Vocab Test on Monday Please study. Read "Stave One" Answer Comp questions. on separate paper
Think about the Theme of the book based on what we've read so far.
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Where the Red Fern Grows Response to Literature essay MLA format typed. Complete the 5 paragraph essay citing (page) for examples. Spell check, 1.5 spacing, do not skip lines between paragraphs, proper grammar and punctuation will be graded. All hand-written papers must be written neatly in cursive skipping lines. All grammar, spelling, and punctuation grading will apply.
A Christmas Carol vocabulary words 1-32: finish making flashcards including: p.o.speech, synonyms, antonyms, and a sentence for each word. There will be a test on these words on Monday, Nov 7th. We will be reading "Stave One" 11/7/11