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6th grade reading
Pat Lightfoot
WEATHERFORD MS
Zip Code: 73096
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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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