ELA6RC1 Students selected a fiction book from the McCleskey media center on April 16. After reading the novel, students have a choice of fourteen creative topics. Students are to pick one or two topics and respond in a formal paper one to two pages in length. This paper will be due May 7.Download FICTION BOOK REPORT II
ELA6C1 Students will continue to identify the parts of speech and use pictures and original sentences to cement the knowledge for their writing and the CRCT. This work will be combined in a book the students will be working on in class, and most will be created and learned during class time. Besides the eight parts of speech, we will continue working on direct and indirect objects, predicate nouns and predicate adjectives, clauses and phrases, and compound and complex sentences.
ELA6RC1 When visiting the media center on February 5, students chose a fiction novel. After reading the novel, students have a choice of fourteen innovative responses. Students are to pick one or two topics and respond in a formal paper one to two pages in length. This paper will be due February 26.
ELA6W2: Students will state a clear position in a persuasive writing piece using the writing process. Students will develop an argument with organized and relevant evidence and provide a sense of closure to the writing.
Students have read a biography from our media center and will write in class about why the person they studied should be a person of the year for a specific year. This essay will be written in class and students will complete a checklist as well as peer editing to perfect this piece. This persuasive writing piece will be submitted in ink or typed. Students will also be presenting this information in an oral presentation.
ELA6R1 and ELA6RC1 Beginning the week of December 1, students will be demonstrating complete comprehension of a novel. All students will identify and analyze sensory details, figurative language, dialogue, description, theme, setting, plot,characterization, conflict, point of view, and tone. Using prereading techniques, the novel will be read, summarized, and discussed during class time, and writing assignements will be given.
ELA6W3 Students will use on-line resources as well as print information to gather material for a social studies project. Students will be taught all aspects of research skills from classroom instuction and instruction from Mrs. Albritton in the media center. We will be covering notetaking, paraphrasing and summarization skills. There will be a discussion on how not to plagiarize and how to constuct a works cited page which will be turned in for a grade in L.A. class.
ELA6R1.i and j standards are about mythology from different cultures. Students will be studying a whole range of myths, folktales, and fairy tales; they will pick from a large number of books which stories they want to study further. Students will need to identify characters, plot, and theme from their chosen tales. We will be discussing storytellers and methods of storytelling. Students will be presenting oral stories using changes in voice and body movement. The standards for this activity are ELA6KS2.b and ELA6LSV2.c.
ELA6RC1 Students will select a fiction book from the media center. They will complete one of the assignments in ink or typed:this assignment will be due on October 21. Students will have a choice of writing a script for a talk show or creating a wish list with reasons in a one to two page paper.
ELA6C1 Students will continue studying the eight parts of speech. With the help of daily diagrams students will learn all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, prepositional phrases, conjunctions and interjections. We will also be mastering direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nouns, and predicate adjectives. Types of sentences and punctuation will also be empasized throughout the year. We will continue working on this standard part of every class for the entire year.
ELA6RC1/ELA6LSV2 Students will pick a nonfiction book from the media center and prepare an oral report with note cards and visual aids for the purpose of teaching the class new facts from their book. The oral presentations will begin on September 8, and students will complete a checklist to assure the success of the report.
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