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6th grade reading
Pat Lightfoot
WEATHERFORD MS
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6th Grade Reading:

Nov. 8-12, 2009

Monday:  voc. list #9:  poetry, free verse, rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme, refrain, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, speaker

Share Tuck Everlasting essay answers/acrostics
Begin film

Tuesday:  View Tuck Everlasting
                  document 7 differences between novel and film

Wednesday:  Complete film/discuss differences
                      Introduction to poetry:  students will write a metaphor definition of poetry to compile into a class collaborative poem.

Thursday:  Share class collaborative poem
                   Read "Poetry Rides a Bus"
                   Students will write personification poems

Friday:  voc. test #9
             draw letters for alliteration pages...students will develop an alliterative page for a class alphabet book



Nov. 1-5, 2009

Monday:  voc. list # 8:  barbarian, envious, exultant, forlorn, immense, infinite, ordeal, ponderous, receded, sedately

read pgs. 51-61

Tuesday:  Read pgs. 62-76
                 complete reading guide

Wednesday: Read pgs. 77-88
                     summary

Thursday:  Read pgs. 89-106
                   quiz

Friday:  voc. test #8
               TUCK EVERLASTING NOVEL QUIZ
                 AR TEST

Oct. 25-29, 2009

Monday:  voc. list #7:  acrid, anguish, gallows, gentility, oppressive, peril, plaintively, revulsion, teeming, tranquil

record vocab. words within teams...create word cards

Begin TUCK EVERLASTING...read pgs. 3-13

Tuesday:  Read pgs. 14-28
                 quiz

Wednesday:  Read pgs. 29-38
                      reading guide

Thursday:  Read pgs. 39-50
                   dialectical journal

Friday:  voc. test #7
              read pgs. 51-61
              summary/reading log




Oct. 18-22 

Monday:  Return Benchmark tests and go over answers
                Understanding features of a web site pg. 57
                Read pg. 58-59 
                complete pg. 60 test practice and constructed response

Tuesday:
Read pg. 34-41 from "The Martian Chronicles" in readers
   Complete setting circles and skills review

Wednesday:  Do  quickwrite in section#3...
"How does it feel to be an outsider?"
"Why do people sometimes refuse to accept someone into their group?"

Read "All Summer in a Day"pg. 41-49
           quiz

Thursday:  Watch video of Bradbury story
                   complete extending interpretations pg. 51...share responses

Friday:  NO SCHOOL...(Parent/teacher conferences scheduled on Tuesday and Thursday evenings)
             

Oct. 12-14, 2008

Monday:  Review for Benchmark Test

Tuesday:BENCHMARK READING TEST

Wednesday:  Read around...share from composition notebooks

Thursday & Friday:  HAVE A WONDERFUL FALL BREAK!

Oct. 5-9

Monday:  voc. list #6:  perceptive, segregated, redefined, inauguration, elude, inexplicable, legitimate, defiant, simile, metaphor

Read "Maya Angelou" pg. 188-189 and "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" pgs. 190-191

Complete pgs. 192-193 in readers

Tuesday:  Write autobiographical poems using a refrain
                 Use "life" as a model

Wednesday: Read "Storm" pgs. 160-167  Complete all margin notes
discuss  Skills practice: pgs. 168-69

Thursday:  Quiz over Storm
                   Read "Autobiography of a Kid" pgs. 214-221

Friday:  Quiz over "Autobiography"
              voc. test #6
              simile/metaphor practice

Sept. 28-Oct. 3, 2009

Monday:  discuss first half of ch. 8
Complete ch. 8 pgs. 139-145
  Quiz over ch. 8

Tuesday:  Read ch. 9 pgs. 146-163

Wed.:  Read 1st half of final chapter: pgs. 164-176

Thurs:  Complete novel...pgs. 177-181
             sequencing exercise

Friday:  Comprehensive novel test
              AR test

Sept. 21-25, 2009

Monday:  voc. #5:  frugal, imploringly, clamoring, reverence, excavated, resounded, abeyance, illiteracy, symbol sequence

Read ch. 5 pgs. 81-92

Tuesday:  ch. 5 quiz
                 Begin ch. 6 pgs. 93-101

Wednesday: Complete ch. 6 pgs. 102-108
                     Write a summary for ch. 6

Thursday:  Begin ch. 8 pgs. 109-119
                   5 questions/answers

Friday:  voc. test #5
             complete ch. 8 pgs. 120-129
              reading guide 
               





Sept. 14-18, 2009

Monday: voc. #4:  Character, characterization, (6 methods), internal conflict, external conflict

read pgs. 34-42

Tuesday:  Complete ch. 3 (pgs. 42-52)
                 record 5 examples of characterization

Wednesday:  Read pg. 53-69
                      find 2 examples of internal and 2 examples of external conflict

Thursday:  Read pg. 70-80
                   write summary in comp. notebook

Friday:  voc. test #4
              draw page #'s and illustrate 1-2 sentence quotes from the page
               (2-80)
         



Sept. 7-11, 2009

Monday:  Have a wonderful Labor Day!

Tuesday:  voc. list #3:  support, explain, summarize, compare, contrast, predict, novel, point of view, imagery, chronological order

write memory poems for entry in the Weatherford Art Council competition

Wednesday:  Begin AMOS FORTUNE  pg. 2-13
                      quiz ch. 1

Thursday:  AMOS FORTUNE   pg. 14-25 
                   dialectical journal entry

Friday:  voc. test #3
              complete ch. 2 pg. 26-33

August 31-Sept. 4, 2009

Monday:  voc. list #2:
trace, analyze, infer, evaluate, formulate, describe, biography, autobiography, fiction, nonfiction

return/discuss diagnostic test results

Tuesday:  Notes over narrator (first/third person point of view)
    Read "Storm" pg. 160 (example of autobiographical work)

Wednesday:  Discuss "Storm" pg. 434
                      In comp. notebooks, students will retell a portion of the plot from Storm's point of view...writing exercise pg. 434

Thursday:  Read "The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln" pg. 198 (example of a biographical work)

Friday:  voc. test #2
              Video segment 9: Russell Freedman: Unforgettable Personalities
               complete video response sheets
              



August 24-28, 2009

Monday:  voc. list #1
                LIFE PRINCIPLE WORDS:
respect, effort, responsibility, honesty, common sense, problem-solving, cooperation, compassion, perseverance, commitment

20 questions exercise:  GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TEXTBOOK

Tuesday:  diagnostic reading test (part 1)
                 pages 10-16 (questions 1-20)
                 Use UNRAAVEL strategy

Wednesday:  diagnostic reading test (part II)
                      pages 17-24
                      Use UNRAAVEL strategy

Thursday:  discuss/chart performance on diagnostic test

Friday:  voc. test #1
              Read "Eleven" pg. 206
              Complete all margin notes/questions
              Discuss

August 20-21, 2009

WELCOME BACK!!


Thursday:  Class policy
                   

Friday:  Fire drill, tornado drill, intruder drill practice
              Check out books
              Goal letters


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