Mr. Winters 6th Grade LA

Persuasive Poem rough draft due Friday!

Here is a site to help you come up with ideas (we looked at it in class):

http://writingfix.com/I_Pod_Prompts/With_Own_2_Hands2.htm

Here are some example poems:

http://schools.dcsd.k12.nv.us/cvms/class/cscully/8thGradeChangePoem.htm

Download Poem examples

Vocabulary Quiz Friday!

Here are the words and their definitions:

1st period: Download 100 Words & SAT 16-20 answers

2-4th: Download 100 Words 16-20 answers

Welcome back everybody!

Here is our first reading response for the second half of the school year:

Download Reading Response 8

Here are our vocabulary words for the first two weeks:

1st period: Download 100 Words & SAT 16-20

2nd-4th periods: Download 100 Words 16-20

For those of you who were coming to help me in the morning, I will be there at 8:10!

Homework for 12.12.11

You need to either finish typing or write (in pen) the final draft of your expository essay.

 

Vocabulary Test Friday

We will have a fill in the blank test over the first fifteen vocabulary words from the book 100 Words Every High School Freshman Should Know. Students will have to fill in the appropriate vocabulary by using context clues.

Here are links to the words:

1-5: Download 100 Words 1-5 answers

6-10: Download 100 Words 6-10 answers

11-15: Download 100 Words 11-15 answers

Vocabulary Quiz Friday

Here are the words with their definitions:

1st period (AC):

Download 100 Words & SAT 11-15 answers

2-4 (REGULAR):

Download 100 Words 11-15 answers

11.28.11

Welcome back! Today we continued discussing prepositions (by writing and revising in our journals), and we discussed what would be covered during the month of December.

We will be writing a short expository essay next week. We used the following handout to brainstorm topics that your student are "experts" in. In other words, what your student could explain, describe, teach, etc. Their topic for the expository essay may come from this list.

HOMEWORK: Finish Alpha-boxes handout:

Download Alpha_Boxes

 

Preposition Treasure Map

If you didn't finish you treasure map today, it is due when you return after the break.

Here are the instructions:

Download Preposition Treasure Map

Here are some example sentences:

Download Preposition Island Treasure Map

Vocab Quiz MOVED to Thursday

Click HERE for the words.