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6th grade reading
Pat Lightfoot
WEATHERFORD MS
Contact Pat LightfootPage Last Updated Sep 02, 2008
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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.}
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