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6th Grade Reading

May 21-24, 2012

Monday:  Skills review pgs. 768-773
                Skills reviw pgs. 612-615

Tuesday:  spiral evaluation
                 test review

Wednesday:  SEMESTER TEST
                      check in books

Thursday:  end of year survey
                   final activity

Friday:  TEACHER CHECK OUT
May 14-18, 2012

Monday: Notes over literary criticism
Read Stray pg. 731
Read Trial by Fire pg. 717

Tuesday: Molten Mountains
video response sheet
Read Pompeii pg. 702-705
Introduction to the Dog of Pompeii from powernotes

Wednesday: Read "The Dog of Pompeii" pg. 256-269
complete skills review

Thursday: Read The Ancient Library of Alexandria
HR pg. 337-343
Skills review pg. 345

Friday: Read Zlateh the Goat pgs. 274-282
skills review pg. 284

May 7-11, 2012

Monday: voc. #25: OLYMPIAN GODS/GODDESSESS:
zeus, poseidon, hades, hermes, dionysus, hera, hephaestus, ares, apollo, artemis, demeter, athena, aphrodite

Read Atalanta & Hippomenes pg. 112 (Holt Reader) skills review pg. 117

Tuesday: Medusa's Head pg. 132 (Holt Reader)
skills review pg. 147

Wednesday: Perseus and the Gorgon's Head pg. 360
view related video over Perseus

Thursday: Read Baucis & Philemon pg. 257
Complete "Myths in our Lives" pg. 318-322 (Holt Reader)

Friday: voc. test #25
Read the myth over Daedulas & Icarus
view related video


April 30-May 4, 2012

Monday: voc. list #24: Tai Chi, oblige, suspicious, isolated, cruiser, hobble, refineries, cringe, turnpike, mining
Read pgs. 94-111
reading log

Tuesday: read pgs. 112-129
reading guide

Wednesday: read pgs. 130-145
quiz

Thursday: Read pgs. 146-166
5 Q&A
Friday: voc. test #24
illustrations with descriptive passages

April 23-27, 2012

Monday: 6th Grade Field Trip

Tuesday: Begin Max the Mighty
pgs. 1-26
quiz

Wednesday: Read pgs. 26-44
reading guide

Thursday: Read pgs. 45-70
7 Q & A's

Friday: Read pgs. 71-93
reading log



April 16-20, 2012

Monday: Go over questions on OCCT practice test
Discuss test-taking tips and strategies

Tuesday: (Morning classes take Math OCCT)
afternoon classes view Freak the Mighty film

Wednesday:(Morning classes take Reading OCCT)
afternoon classes complete Freak the Mighty film

Thursday: Morning classes view Freak the Mighty film
afternoon classes read a play from READ magazine

Friday: Morning classes view Freak the Mighty film
afternoon classes read a play from READ magazine

April 9-13, 2012

Monday: NO SCHOOL (staff in-service)

Tuesday: voc. #23: fantasy, mood, summarizing, dynamic character, static character, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

notes over parts of a plot diagram

OCCT: complete through pg. 25 (grade & discuss)

Tuesday: OCCT practice
pgs. 115-123

Wednesday: OCCT practice
pgs. 124-130

Thursday: OCCT practice
pgs. 131-137

Friday: voc. test #23
pgs. 138-143

April 2-6, 2012

Monday: voc. #22 suffixes: -ness, -ous, -ship
words = tenderness, greatness, marvelous, glamorous, friendship, citizenshi, myth, legend, fable, folk tale

Read pgs. 128-140 (complete reading guide)

Tuesday: Read pgs. 141-160
quiz

Wednesday: AR Test over Freak the Mighty
Freak acrostic

Thursday: An interview with Rodman Philbrick
test practice: pgs. 12-17
OCCT test prep. book
(grade/discuss)

Friday: voc. test #22
test practice pgs. 18-29
OCCT test prep. book

March 26-30, 2012

Monday: Voc. #21: fiend, urgency, dyslexic, parole, gruel, obligation, toxic, furrowed, tenement, dysfunctional

Read pgs. 48-62

Tuesday: Read pgs. 63-71
character quotes

Wednesday: Read pgs. 72-87
7 questions and answers

Thursday: Read pgs. 88-107
reading guide

Friday: voc. test #21
TEST PRACTICE
pgs. 12-21 (OCCT PREP BOOK)

Mar. 12-16, 2012

Monday: Begin the novel Freak the Mighty
quiz over ch. 1-3

Tuesday: Read pages 15-27
complete reading guide

Wednesday: Read ch. 6-8
discussion over first part of novel
quiz

Thursday: Idiom illustrations
Afternoon classes: benchmark remediation/reward

Friday: NO SCHOOL (parent-teacher conferences are Tuesday and Thursday evenings)



Mar. 5-9, 2012

Monday: Students will receive benchmark III review
Go over terms

Test practice pg. 239-241
simile/metaphor practice pg. 242

Tuesday: Benchmark review
Test practice pgs. 676-679

Wednesday: SPIRAL EVALUATION
Test smarts: pg. 781-786

Thursday: BENCHMARK TESTS IN MATH & READING
Math-morning/reading-afternoon
Friday: Read-around day
Students will share their "injustice" stories, or the thematic stories from their composition notebooks

Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2012
Monday:

voc. #20: synonym, root, word families, prefix, base words, suffix, word origin, homophone, antonym, homonym
Read Two Japanese Folk Tales from Holt Reader
pgs. 73-79
skills review pg. 81

Tuesday: Read "Ta-Na-E-Ka
pgs. 135-141 / respond to the six open book icons throughout text

Wednesday: Read "The Wind People"pg. 145-147
complete test practice and practice 2 pg. 148

Thursday: Read "The All-American Slurp" pgs. 86-98
skills practice pg. 99

Friday: voc. test #20
students will write a story based on one of three themes: pg. 226
their stories will support the theme of their choice




Feb. 21-24, 2012

Monday: NO SCHOOL (Staff in-service)

Tuesday: voc. #19
roots: derm, cred, dem, cycl, cyclo, dent, dont
words: dermatology, credible, democracy, epidermis, bicycle, incredible, orthodontist, cyclone, epidemic, dentures

Create sentences using vocab. strategies: comparison (like) contrast (but, however), definition/restatement clue, example (such as), description (color, imagery)

Wednesday: Wartime Mistakes, Peacetime Apologies
Test practice pg. 164

Thursday: Visual connections: War, Internment, and atonement
video response sheets
Friday: voc. test #19
Read The Bracelet pg. 150


Feb. 13-17, 2012

Monday: voc. #18 = roots: cide (the killing of, killer); cise (cut); cord, cor (heart); corp (body); cosm (universe, world)

words = homicide, pesticide, incision, incisors, cordial, coronary, corporation, corpse, cosmos, microcosm

Read pgs. 183-195 (5 Q & A)

Tuesday: Read pgs. 196-206
reading guide

Wednesday: Read pgs. 207-214
Watch video clips of Code Talkers

Thursday: AR Test over novel
Literature circle questions

Friday: voc. test #18
Read about the author pgs. 215-224
Complete reading guide

Feb. 6-10, 2012

Monday: voc. #17 (roots) Aud, Bibl, Bio, Chrom, Chron
Words: Audible, Auditorium, Bible, bibliography, biography, biology, monochrome, polychrome, chronological, synchronize, idiom

Read pgs. 120-134

Tuesday: Read pgs. 135-145
reading guide

Wednesday: Read pgs. 146-158
quiz

Thursday: Read pgs. 159-171
colorful quotes

Friday: voc. test #17
Read pgs. 172-182

Jan. 30-Feb. 3, 2012

Monday: voc. #16 : roots: ali, alter (other); am, amor (love, like); anni, annu, enni year) ; anthrop (human being); aster(star)

words: alias, alternative, amiable, amorous, anniversary, annually, centennial, anthropology, aster, asterisk
Code Talker
read pgs. 57-67
quiz

Tuesday: Read pgs. 68-84
reading guide

Wednesday: Read pgs. 85-97
quiz

Thursday: Read pgs. 98-112
war journal

Friday: Read pgs. 113-119
voc. test #16
reading log



Jan. 23-27, 2012

voc. #15 = roots, hydra, hydro = water, micro=small, sci= know, scope = see, tempo = time

words: dehydrate, hydroelectric, microscope, microwave, conscious, science, telescope, periscope, contemporary, temporary


Author introduction to Joseph Bruchac "Tell Me A Tale" video response sheet

Tuesday: Begin Code Talker
read pgs. 1-22
quiz

Wednesday: Read pgs. 23-37
5 Q & A

Thursday: Read pgs. 38-49
reading guide

Friday: voc. test #15
read pgs. 50-56
reading log entry

Jan. 16-20, 2012

Monday: NO SCHOOL (staff in-service)

Tuesday: voc. #14 = suffixes:
-al, -ant, -ation, -ism, -less, -ment Test on Friday...students will write the meanings of these suffixes and identify a word that makes use of the suffix

Read "Separate but Never Equal" pg. 332-334
complete test practice and constructed response sheet

Wednesday: Read "The Gold Cadillac" pgs. 318-329
complete reading check/discussion questions

Thursday: Brainstorm experiences with injustice
Students will write a narrative about a time they experienced or witnessed an injustice

Friday: voc. test #14
complete pgs. 187-193 in Holt Reader
Maya Angelou and "Life Doesn't Frighten Me at All"
skills practice and skills review

Jan. 9-13, 2012

Monday: voc. test #13 over last week's prefixes on Thursday!
Read The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln (p. 196 in Holt Reader)
complete margin notes and skills review - pg. 204

Tuesday: Read "All Aboard with Thomas Garrett" pg. 483
complete constructed response pg. 487

Wednesday: Examine the Harriet Tubman series pg. 489-493
complete test practice and constructed response

Thursday: Read "A Glory Over Everything" pg. 470-477
complete pg. 479
voc. test #13

Friday: Compete/discuss/quiz over A Glory over Everything

Jan. 4-6, 2012

Wednesday: Return/discuss benchmark tests
prefixes: auto-, co-, de-, dis-, in-, re-, trans-
(chart p. 315) record in section #1 of spiral
Read "I Was Not Alone" pg. 311

Thursday: "Warriors Don't Cry"
read drama about the Little Rock Nine & their impact on the history of civil rights

Friday: Brainstorm figures in history
write apostrophe poems addressing/asking questions of these key figures in history

Dec. 19-20, 2011

Monday: Benchmark math (morning)
Benchmark reading (afternoon)

Tuesday: Read-around day with poetry projects

HAVE A JOY-FILLED CHRISTMAS BREAK!

Dec. 12-16, 2011

Monday: Write personification poems
complete "about the poet"

Tuesday: final drafts of personification poems

Wednesday: assemble poetry projects with table of contents and title page

Thursday: spiral evaluations
begin benchmark review

Friday: benchmark review
test practice

Dec. 5-9, 2011

Monday:
voc. #12 = ode, oral tradition, irony, allusion, connotation, denotation, figurative language, tone, abstract subject, concrete subject

simile/metaphor sentences & illustrations

Tuesday: Write odes

Wednesday: final draft day for odes

Thursday: write personification poems

Friday: voc. test #12
final draft day for personification poems




Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2011

Monday: voc. #11 = haiku, limerick, imagery, mood, stanza, rhyme scheme, slant rhyme, couplet, quatrain, cinquain

write 5 W poem

Tuesday: Write 5 senses poems
(+ - emotions as abstract subjects)

Wednesday: contrasting haiku
illustrate

Thursday: limerick
begin final drafts

Friday: voc. test #11
final draft day


Nov. 21-22, 2011

Monday: phone number/address poems

Tuesday: contrasting haiku

Wed-Fri.: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Nov. 14-18, 2011

Monday: voc. #10 = poetry, free verse, rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme, refrain, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, speaker

Read pgs. 97-106
quiz

Tuesday: AR Test over Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting acrostic

Wednesday: View film version of novel
note character differnces

Thursday: View film version of novel
note event differences

Friday: voc. test #10
Poetry is....

Nov. 7-11, 2011
Monday: voc. #9 = barbarian, envious, exultant, forlorn, immense, infinite, ordeal, ponderous, receded, sedately

Read pgs. 52-58

Tuesday: Read pgs. 59-70
reading log entry

Wednesday: Read pgs. 71-84
quiz

Thursday: Read pgs. 85-96
5 Q & A

Friday: voc. test #9
read pgs. 97-106
reading guide

Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2011

Monday: voc. #8 = acrid, anguish, gallows, gentility, oppressive, peril, plaintively, revulsion, teeming, tranquil

Complete Night Burial endings/ share student endings/original ending

Tuesday: Begin Tuck Everlasting
Read pgs. 3-17
reading log/quiz

Wednesday: Read chapters 5-8
Complete character quote page

Thursday: Read pgs. 36-46
reading guide

Friday: voc. test #8
Read pgs. 47-58
5 Q & A
Oct. 24-28, 2011

RED RIBBON WEEK

Monday: Benchmark Reward/Remediation 6th & 7th hours
red ribbon acrostics

Tuesday: Read "All Summer in a Day" pgs. 42-49
quiz

Wednesday: Watch film version of Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day"
In section #3 of spiral, document 5 comparisons and 5 contrasts

Thursday: Read "The Martian Chronicles" pgs. 35-39 in Holt Readers
Complete all margin notes and skills review on pg. 41

Friday: Read pgs. 53-61
Complete test practice pg. 56 & 60

Oct. 17-21, 2011

Monday: Benchmark Review

Tuesday: BENCHMARK READING TEST (6th graders will take their math tests in the morning and their reading tests in the afternoon.) All students will report to their first hour class for testing

Wednesday: write endings to a scary story

Thursday:
Friday: HAVE A GREAT FALL BREAK!

Oct. 10-14, 2011

Monday: voc. #7 = symbol, imagery, metaphor, simile, short story, novel, connotation, denotation, plot, point of view
Read "Ellis Island" pgs. 288-289
video response sheet to "Americans All"

Tuesday: Read "What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything" pg. 557
complete characterization chart

Wednesday: working with similes and metaphors
handout

Thursday: read around using composition notebooks

Friday: voc. test #7
Spiral Evaluation
Oct. 3-7, 2011
Monday: voc. #6 = characterization, conflict, external conflict, internal conflict, dialect, dialogue, foreshadowing, main idea, mood, tone
Read pgs. 224-233
Tuesday: read pgs. 234-253
quiz
Wednesday: About the author: pgs. 255-262
reading logs
Thursday: AR Test over Esperanza Rising
crossword puzzle
Friday: voc. test #6
art activity over novel

Sept. 26-30, 2011
Monday: parent-teacher conferences (no school)
Tuesday: voc. #5: character, characterization, external conflict, internal conflict, six methods of characterization: appearance, speech, actions, thoughts, other's thoughts & opinions, direct characterization
Read pgs. 179-198
Wednesday: quiz/discussion over yesterday's chapter
read pgs. 199-213
reading guide
Thursday: Read pgs. 214-233
character quotes
Friday: voc. test #5
complete character quotes


Sept. 19-23, 2011
Monday: voc. #4: monotonous, jalopy, accosting, complexion, immigration, demeanor, irritation, valise hesitantly, murky
Read pgs. 121-138
character quotes
Tuesday: Read pgs. 139-157
quiz
Wednesday: Read pgs. 158-178
5 Q & A
Thursday: Read pgs. 179-198
reading log
Friday: voc. test #4
read pgs. 199-213
reading guide

Sept. 12-16, 2011
Monday: voc. #3 (12 Powerful words) trace, analyze, infer, evaluate, formulate, describe, summarize, explain, compare, contrast, predict
All reading assignments taken from the novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Read pgs. 58-80
Tuesday: quiz over yesterday's reading
read pgs. 81-99
5 Q & A
Wednesday: read pgs. 100-120
quiz
Thursday: read pgs. 121-138
reading guide
Friday: voc. test #3
Composition notebooks

Sept. 6-9, 2011

Monday: No School (Labor Day)
Tuesday:
voc. #2: trace, analyze, infer, evaluate, formulate, describe, autobiography, biography, fiction, nonfiction
Begin Esperanza Rising pgs. 1-22
quiz
The novel study will include author notes over Pam Munoz Ryan and an emphasis on the elements of plot and characterization. Students will engage in shared class reading, teacher-led reading, and independent reading. Comprehension will be measured through class discussion, reading logs, quizzes, reading guides, summaries, and journal entries.

Wednesday: Esperanza pgs. 23-38
10 questions/answers

Thursday: Esperanza pgs. 39-57
quiz

Friday: voc. test #2
Esperanza pgs. 58-72
reading guide

Aug. 29-Sept. 2, 2011
Monday: voc. list #1: life principle words = respect, effort, responsibility, honesty, common sense, problem-solving, cooperation, compassion, perseverance, commitment
go over results of entry-level test
Tuesday: getting familiar with textbook: scavenger hunt
20 questions (in teams)
Wednesday: Read "Eleven" pages 574-576
complete quiz over selection
Thursday: locate/discuss the use of imagery through similes in the story
brainstorm positive/negative life events in section #3 of spiral
Friday: voc. test #1
timed writing #1 = narration about a positive life event (use at least one simile)
timed writing #2 = narration about a negative life event (use at least one simile)

Aug. 22-26
Monday: Class policy
homework policy/life principles letter (1st hour)
fire/tornado/intruder drills
Advisory power point

Tuesday: 1st hour: PBIS Assembly
setting goals
letters

Wednesday: check out textbooks
20 questions scavenger hunt
(getting to know your book)

Thursday: discuss/grade 20 questions
begin entry-level reading test

Friday: Complete entry-level reading test



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