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Pat Lightfoot
WEATHERFORD MS
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6th Grade Reading:

January 5-9, 2009

Monday:  NO SCHOOL (Staff inservice)

Tuesday:  View "Freedom's Conductor: Harriet Tubman"
                 Read "All Aboard with Thomas Garrett" pg. 483-492
                 composition notebooks respond to art pgs. 489-92

Wednesday:  Read "A Glory over Everything" pgs. 470-78
                     quiz

Thursday:  READ magazine... read the play and related article over the Little Rock Nine..."Warriors Don't Cry"

Friday:  Interview with Melba Beals pg. 27 in READ magazine
             Complete dialogue exercise pg. 60 of visual connections



Dec. 15-19, 2008

Monday:  Read "The Nutcracker" from READ magazine.  Students will explore the element of fantasy within a drama.

Tuesday:  Test Review/practice for Benchmarks

Wednesday:  Test Review/practice for Benchmarks

Thursday:  Semester Benchmark Test (Hours 1, 3, 7)
                   Examine results of practice/review in hours 2, 4, 6

Friday:  Semester Benchmark Test (Hours 2, 4, 6)
              even hours:  Christmas activity

Dec. 8-12, 2008

Voc. list #11

fantasy, idiom, delved, gaped, plight, obliged, jubilation, rue, mired, fallow

record voc. definitions in section #1 of spiral...definitions are found on pg. 19 of reader and the glossary of literary terms

discuss the genre of fantasy and how it applies to Tuck Everlasting.  In groups, students will note five significant differences found in the film vs the novel.

Read "The Stone" pgs. 21-30 of reader...complete all margin notes/questions

Tuesday:  quiz over "The Stone"
                 Read "Ola and the Grim" pgs. 285-297
                 Complete margin notes/questions

Wednesday:  Compare "The Stone" to "Ola and the Grim"
                      Discuss the genre of folk tale and how it applies to          
                       fantasy.
                      comparison/contrast chart
                      notes over science fiction

Thursday:  read "All Summer in a Day" pg. 41
                   complete graphic organizer over plot

Friday:  voc. test #11
              Read "The Nutcracker" from READ magazine
              note elements of fantasy found within the play

Dec. 1-5

Monday: voc. list #10
               tranquil, illiterate, receded, oppressive, submission, marionette, teeming, ponderous, gallows, anguish
                Read pgs. 77-88
                symbol wheel

Tuesday:  Read pgs. 89-106
                 symbol wheel/reading log

Wednesday:  AR test
                      comprehensive novel test

Thursday:  view film version of Tuck Everlasting

Friday:  voc. test #10
             complete film version of Tuck Everlasting

Nov. 24-25

Monday:  Read pgs. 51-61
                illustrate symbols
                comprehension questions/answers

Tuesday:  Read pgs. 62-76
                 illustrate symbols
                 complete reading guide

Wednesday-Friday:  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!



Nov. 17-21, 2008

Monday:  Begin fantasy fiction:  Tuck Everlasting
Read pgs. 3-13
Discuss symbolism of the wheel...students illustrate symbol that represesnts these chapters on plot wheel.

Tuesday:  Read ch. 4-6 pgs. 14-28
                 Students complete reading guide
                 illustrate plot wheel

Wednesday:  Read ch. 7-9 pgs. 29-38
                      reading log entries
                     illustrate plot wheel

Thursday:  Read ch. 10-12 pgs. 39-50
                  quiz/illustration

Friday:  Read ch. 13-16 pgs. 51-61
              journal entries
              illustrate plot wheels


Nov. 10-14, 2008

Monday:  Discuss job forms for computer lab
                finish Friday's revisions
                Type poems 1-4
                
Tuesday:  Complete Monday's revisions
                 type poems 5-6
                 

Wednesday:  Complete Tuesday's revisions
                      type poems 7-8

Thursday:  Assemble poetry projects
                   Complete table of contents page

Friday:  Read-around sharing from Final poetry projects


Nov. 3-7, 2008

6th Grade Reading:

Monday:  record voc. list #9:  internal rhyme, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, couplet, triplet, quatrain, cinquain, sestet, symbol, theme

Share limerick models
Students write/share limericks

Tuesday:  Models of speaker poems...Brainstorm historical speakers as well as nature speakers
                 Students write speaker poems

Wednesday:  John Henry ballad pgs. 651-655

Thursday:  Read "The Toaster" pg. 659
                  Share models of riddle poems
                  Students write riddle poems

Friday:  voc. test #9
              Write/illustrate contrasting haiku


Oct. 27-31, 2008

Monday:  record voc. #8:  free verse, ballad, haiku, limerick, onomatopoeia, personification, refrain, rhyme, speaker, stanza

Share alliteration pages
phone # and address poems

Tuesday:  notes over Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
Read "The Sneetches"  Discuss the theme found within this narrative poem.  
Write acrostic name poems

Wednesday:  Read "The Sea" pg. 623
Write nature personification poems

Thursday:  Read "The Sidewalk Racer" pg. 662
                   Write speaker poems

Friday:  voc. test #8
              Read "Night Burial"
              write story endings


Oct. 20-24

Monday:  record vocab. #7:  poetry, free verse, alliteration, imagery, haiku

Read "Poetry Drives a Bus"  Students will examine the subject of each stanza and then create a list of 10 activities they do on a daily basis.

Students will write original Poetry +verb + object poems

 

Tuesday:  Introduce E.E. Cummings poetry

Read "maggie and milly and molly and may"  Students will examine the allitertaion and personalities found within each stanza.  Students will identify with one of the characters in the poem. (freewrite in section #3)

 

Wednesday:  Read student models of emotion poems 

                      Brainstorm positive/negative emotions...develop emotion poems in composition notebooks

                

Thursday: write/illustrate alliterative sentences for class collection

 

Friday:  No school (parent-teacher conferences are held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.) 

 

 


Oct. 13-17, 2008

Monday:  Review powernotes over Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius
Quickwrite: section #3
Begin "The Dog of Pompeii" pg. 256 Holt Reader
          Complete all margin notes

Tuesday:  Complete "The Dog of Pompeii" 
                 skills review pg. 270-71

Wednesday:  spiral evaluation
                      read "Pompeii" pg. 702-704
                      discuss/compare the two selections

Thursday:  Fall Break

Friday:  Fall Break


Oct. 6-10, 2008

Monday:  Academic vocabulary for benchmark review:
nonfiction, biography, autobiography, narrator, description, main idea, prefix, suffix, thesaurus, point of view, (first-person, third-person),  fiction

Maya Angelou: pg. 188 The Holt Reader
"Life Doesn't Frighten Me" pg. 190

Complete skills practice pg. 192

Tuesday:  The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln pg. 198
                skills review pgs. 203-204

Wednesday:  Benchmark practice

Thursday:  Go over answers on benchmark practice
                 discuss
                 "Eleven" pgs. 206-211

Friday:  Benchmark Test for First Nine Weeks














Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2008

Monday:  voc. #6:  Learning word roots:  ali, alter, am, amor,  anni, annu, enni, anthrop, aster, aud

alias, alternative, amiable, amorous, anniversary, centennial, anthropology, asterisk, audible, auditorium

Read BOY pgs. 160-176

Tuesday: Review for test
              Final reading log entry...Roald Dahl website

Wednesday:  AR test over BOY
                    Comprehensive novel test

Thursday:  Roald Dahl webquest
                 (computer lab)
Friday:  voc. test #6
            read-around  (students will share autobiographical entries from composition notebooks.)








6th Grade Reading:

Sept. 22-26, 2008 


Throughout a novel study, students will be evaluated through a variety of formats.  These include reading comprehension quizzes, written summaries, reading logs,  dialectical journals, character sketches, reading guides, creative writing, and possibly artwork.

Monday:  voc. #5:  simile
                            metaphor

Students will define these two terms and find examples of each in our reading this week as well as create some original comparisons using both methods.

Read BOY pgs. 108-122

Tuesday:  quiz 
               Read pgs. 123-131
               
Wednesday:  BOY pgs. 135-143
                    dialectical  journal

Thursday:  BOY pgs. 144-153
                 simile/metaphor review

Friday:  voc. test #5
            artwork over choice of characters using 3 different methods of characterization




6th Grade Reading:

Sept. 15-19, 2008


Monday:  voc. #4 in section #1 of spiral

 Characterization
   (record the 5 methods of indirect characterization and the 1 method of direct characterization) pg. 791
1.  I...description of how the character looks and dresses
2.  I...how the character speaks
3.  I...how the character acts
4.  I...how the character thinks  (inner thoughts and feelings)
5.  I...what other people in the story think/say about the character
6.  D...by telling the reader directly what the character's personality is like (cruel, kind, sneaky, brave, etc.)

Read BOY pgs.60-67

Tuesday:  BOY pgs. 68-79
               reading guide

Wednesday:  BOY pgs. 80-92
                    Roald Dahl author questions

Thursday:  BOY pgs. 93-107
                 quiz

Friday:  vocab. test #4 over methods of characterization
            students will develop autobiographical entries in composition notebooks




Sept. 8-12, 2008

Monday:  voc. #3 in section #1 of spiral

1. character
2. conflict
3. internal conflict
4. external conflict
5.  description
6.  dialect
7.  dialogue
8.  imagery
9.  denotation
10. connotation

Record notes over author Roald Dahl
Begin BOY pgs. 11-19

Tuesday:  Complete chapter one and read pgs. 20-23 of BOY
                discuss examples of characters/conflicts that occur in the first
                two chapters

Wednesday:  Read BOY pgs. 27-34
                    Students will develop 1/2 page summary and 1/2 pg. reading
                    log over the contents of the novel thus far

Thursday:  Read BOY pgs. 35-45
                 dialectical journal entries over selected passages

Friday:  voc. test #3
            read BOY pgs. 46-59

{Quizzes as well as written assignments  will be used to evaluate student's understanding of the autobiographical novel BOY by Roald Dahl.}




6th Grade Reading:

Sept. 1-5, 2008

Monday: LABOR DAY (No school)

Tuesday: vocab. list #2:

1. point of view
2. omniscient third person point of view
3. first-person point of view
4. narration
5. nonfiction
6. fiction
7. autobiography
8. biography
9. tone
10.mood

Sudents will record definitions in section #1 of spirals

pg. 418 First and Third-Person Narraration
Students will develop a time-line of their lives, placing at least three major events from their lives in chronological order.

They will develop one paragraph over the selected event and write about it from a 1st person point of view. (10 min.) Students will select the same event to develop a paragraph using 3rd person point of view (10 min.)


Wednesday: power notes over autobiography: (section #2)

Read "I Kept on Probing to Know" p. 387 (autobiographical essay)

Thursday: Read "Searching for Stories" pg. 392
Brainstorm in section #3 events from students' lives

Friday: voc. test #2
Composition notebooks: students will use writing prompts to develop two autobiographical sketches about their lives.

















6th Grade Reading:

August 25-29, 2008

Monday: vocab. list #1
Life principal words:
1. respect 6. effort
2. responsibility 7. cooperation
3. honest 8. common sense
4. compassion 9. problem solving
5. perseverance 10. commitment

review/record vocabulary in section #1 of spirals
share famous quotations
discuss textbook scavenger hunt
interest inventory

Tuesday: entry-level reading test (questions 1-28)
grade/discuss

Wednesday: entry-level reading test (questions 29-50)
grade/discuss

Thursday: Share background of Gary Paulsen: Students record 3 significant facts about his life. Begin "Storm" pg. 160 in Holt Reader
respond to margin notes/questions


Friday: vocab. test #1 over life principle words

notes over prefixes: dis-, re-, e- with word examples
autobiography: pg. 26
Read "Storm" pg. 427




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