6th grade English (Period 6a)
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6th grade working on guidebooks.
6th grade Guidebooks
Students helping other students creates great memories. The 6th-grade students are creating guidebooks, to give to the 5th-grade students when they come for the "shadow day" later this week. While students reflect back on the fears, worries, and confusion they experienced last fall, they realize how much they have grown this school year. They design the guides, to include things that were important to them last fall. We decided as a class on several items to include, such as maps and teacher advice, the students individually choose what to include. The students have a natural real life deadline for this project as they hand them out to their partner on "Shadow Day" they are working hard and excited about sharing their guidebooks.
Weekly Objectives 04/18/17
Weekly Objectives for the week of 4/18/2017
Due to the shortened week, there will not be any Vocabulary Tests this week.
6th grade: The students will continue working on the Research and Informative-writing unit this week. The students were working on their rough drafts at the end of last week. They will finish the rough drafts at the beginning of the week. The students will revise, specifically checking organization, including introductions, conclusions, and text structure. Students will check word choice, changing from passive to active verbs and using the correct cue words for the text structure of the paper. When finished students will do a peer review, and proofread. The final copy of the paper will be due on Friday. The students will have a new word list on Thursday.
CCSS w6.2, W6.4, w6.5, w6.6, w6.7, w6.8, w6.9, w6.10
7th grade: The students will practice writing using and punctuating interjections correctly. Students proofread a short essay and a sample of their own writing. Students will have a test on Thursday over the correct use prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. They will write a short paper demonstrating their knowledge.
CCSS L7.1, L7.2, L7.3, L7.4
8th grade: The students will continue with persuasive writing this week. Using the prewrite from Thursday, the students will write their rough draft. Students will revise checking word choice, organization, claim and evidence to back the claim. Students will look at their sentence structure, making sure to include phrases and clauses correctly. They will do a Peer Review and proofread their paper. The paper is due on Friday.
CCSSW: W8.1, W8.4, W8.5, W8.6, W8.7, W8.8, W8.9
Weekly Objectives 04/10/17
Weekly Objectives for the week of 04/10/17
6th grade: Students will continue the unit on Research this week. Students will review good research practices. The students will select essential research questions from their Science book. The students will practice paraphrasing as they take notes. Organization is important in informational text, both while reading and writing. The students will discuss text structures and use graphic organizers to help them organize their research. The students will write a rough draft, using the notes from their Science books. They will revise the paper for organization, correct use of sentences, and word choice. Students will proofread making sure they used correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. The students will have a Vocab Test on Thursday, with the new cards due Monday.
CCSS w6.2, W6.4, w6.5, w6.6, w6.7, w6.8, w6.9, w6.10
7th grade: Students will continue the unit on phrases and clauses this week. They will continue discussing prepositional phrases. They will practice placing phrases and clauses within sentences, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers. The students will have a vocab test on Thursday, with new cards due on Tuesday.
CCSS L7.1, L7.2, L7.3, L7.4
8th grade: Persuasive Writing, what is it, and why study it? The students will continue the unit on Persuasive writing this week. As students develop personal reasons to improve their own persuasive powers, they will have a class discussion titled, “Is Knowing Obsolete?” As students develop their reasons for the discussion, the class will divide. The students will write a summary statement, with reasons to support their claim. Preparing for a short debate, the students will find facts to back up their opinions. The students will NOT have a vocab test this week.
CCSSW: W8.1, W8.4, W8.5, W8.6, W8.7, W8.8, W8.9
Weekly Objectives 04/06/17
6th grade: Students will continue the unit on Research this week. Students will review good research practices. The students will select essential research questions from their Science book. The students will practice paraphrasing as they take notes. Organization is important in informational text, both while reading and writing. The students will discuss text structures and use graphic organizers to help them organize their research. The students will write a rough draft, using the notes from their Science books. They will revise the paper for the organization, correct use of sentences, and word choice. Students will proofread making sure they used correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. The students will have a Vocab Test on Thursday, with the new cards due Monday.
7th grade: This week we will continue learning the conventions of Standard English grammar; students will start learning the function of phrases and move to clauses. They will practice placing phrases and clauses within sentences, recognizing and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers. The students will have a vocab test on Thursday, with new cards due on Tuesday.
CCSS L7.1, L7.2, L7.3, L7.4
8th grade: Persuasive Writing, what is it, and why study it? The questions will guide the students, as we begin the unit on Persuasive Writing. As students develop personal reasons to improve their own persuasive powers, they will have a class discussion titled, “Is Knowing Obsolete?” As students develop their reasons for the discussion, the class will divide. The students will write a summary statement, with reasons to support their claim. Preparing for a short debate, the students will find facts to back up their opinions. The students will have a Vocabulary Test on Thursday. We will not have a new list as we work on this unit.
CCSSW: W8.1, W8.4, W8.5, W8.6, W8.7, W8.8, W8.9
Weekly Objectives 03/13/17
Weekly Objectives: 03/13/17
Mrs. Duffy’s English Classes
6th grade English: The students are starting a new chapter this week. We will take a pretest over sentence writing; develop goals for the chapter, and practice writing different types of sentences. The students will learn the 4 main types of sentences and use them in their future writing. The students will learn the difference between writing good sentences and fragments. They will figure out ways to fix fragments and create good sentences. The students will have a vocabulary test on Thursday and new cards will be due on Monday.
CCSS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
7th grade English: The students are working with verbs this week. Specifically, we will review Linking Verbs, and practice using them in sentences. Students will practice the song on Linking verbs, to help them as we move on with verbs. The students will continue working on Verb Tense, Singular and Plural verb usage. The students will have a vocabulary test on Thursday and new cards will be due on Monday.
CCSS 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
8th grade English: Students finished working on Clauses, last week. We will move on to the Verbals this week. This is new material for the students and may be challenging for them. The students will practice writing sentences using Participle phrases, Gerunds, Infinitive and prepositional phrases. The students will have a vocabulary test on Thursday and new cards will be due on Monday.
CCSS 8.1,8.2,8.3,8.4
6th grade Vocab List 12
Vocab List 12
6th grade
The prefix of a word serves to change the meaning of the main part of the word. The prefix DIS- has several meanings. DIS-can mean “away” or “apart,” “deprive of” or “remove from” “cause to be the opposite of,” “fail” or “stop,” and “do the opposite of.” The words in this list all have the prefix DIS-.
This week on your cards, write the word on the front. When finished write TWO dictionary definitions of the back. (If only one definition in dictionary, use one.) On the front of your card draw a circle around the prefix of the word.
Discharge
Disclose
Disdainful
Disgrace
Dispatch
Disregard
Distasteful
Distinguished
Distort
Distress
Weekly Objectives 01/17/17
Weekly objectives: 1/17
6th grade English: Students will start a unit on Capitalization this week. They will begin with a pretest, to check their prior knowledge. The students will create a book of capitalization rules, each day we will discuss the rules, complete an assignment and write the rules in the book. The vocabulary test will be on Thursday. The new cards will be due on Monday. L6.1, L6.2, L6.3
7th grade English: Students will conduct a short research project to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation. The students will use their Science book to pre -write and choose their own topic. Students will gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms, effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. The vocabulary test will be on Thursday, and their new vocabulary cards will be due on Monday.
Standards: CCSS W7.1, W7.6, W7.7, W7.8, W7.10
8th grade: Students will start working on Research methods and Digital Citizenship. This unit will be ongoing for several weeks. Students will learn to search for information from multiple print and digital sources and assess the credibility of each source. Students will identify guidelines for evaluating the credibility of content online. Students will be able to answer the essential question: Why is it important to be alert and check sources while exploring online? Students will have a Vocab Test on Thursday and create new vocab cards. The cards will be due on the following Monday.
Standards: CCSS W8.4, W8.5, W8.6, W7.8, W8.9, W8.10
Happy New Year! Weekly objectives 1/1/2017
Welcome back to school! It sometimes is a hard transition for middle school students to get start up school after a two week break. We will spend some time getting back in the swing of school this week.
6th grade: Students will start the week, reviewing material from before break. We will revisit Coding, and some technology reminders. Students who did not finish their narrative before break, will need to complete that assignment. The students will review the stages of the writing process, complete a prewrite assignment for a personal narrative. The students will choose something that happened over break to write this personal narrative. Working specifically on descriptive words, dialogue and point of view, the students will complete a rough draft, revise, proofread and present the paper on Friday.
7th grade: Students will start the week, reviewing material from before break. We will revisit Coding, and some technology reminders. Students who did not finish their narrative before break, will need to complete that assignment. The students will review the stages of the writing process, complete a prewrite assignment for a personal narrative. The students will choose something that happened over break to write this personal narrative. Working specifically on descriptive words, dialogue, setting and point of view, the students will complete a rough draft, revise, proofread and present the paper on Friday.
8th grade: Students will start the week reviewing material from before break. We will revisit the Web Quest " A Dicken's of a Party" complete a short reflection, move on to a discussion on Charles Dickens and the power of the written word. The students will watch "Oliver Twist" the movie, they will use the material from the web quest and the movie to write a Comparison paper for their final project of the semester.
Weekly Objectives 11/14/16
Weekly Objectives 11/14/16
Mrs. Duffy, English
Vocabulary words this week are common educational words. The following words are important for all Middle School students to know, understand and use Determine, Distinguish, Metaphor, Interpret, Locate, Summarize, Trace, Point of View, Theme.
Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: L6.4, L6.5, L6.6, L7.4, and 7.5, L7.6 and L8.4, L8.5 L8.6
6th grade: Students will review their vocabulary words and definitions. We will discuss the differences in definitions of their words. Students will review the stages of the writing process, and learn the writing traits for the Prewrite stage in the writing process. Students will write a rough draft for a narrative, combining elements of literature, including setting, plot, theme, characters, and pov. The students will revise their narratives, especially for the traits of organization, word choice and revision. Students will edit and present the final copy of the narrative on Friday. Students will share with the class using schoology.com.
Standards: CCSS W6.3, W6.4, W6.5, W6.6, W6.7, W6.8, W6.10, L6.1
7th grade: Students will review their vocabulary words and definitions. We will discuss the differences in definitions of their words. Students will continue a unit on Research methods and Digital Citizenship. Students will understand the importance of using a variety of search strategies, master new strategies for effective and efficient online searches, learn to create and execute a five-step plan for conducting an online search; to search for information from multiple print and digital sources and assess the credibility of each source. Students will have a Vocab Test on Thursday and create new vocab cards. The cards will be due on the following Monday.
Standards: CCSS W7.4, W7.7, W7.10, SL7.1, SL7.4, SL7.6, L7.3
8th grade: Students will review their vocabulary words and definitions. We will discuss the differences in definitions of their words. Students will continue learning The 6+1 writing traits, this week. The students will review the stages of the writing process and continue writing the short research project to answer a question they have about the election. Students will finish writing their rough draft, revise their paper using the traits, of organization, word choice, and voice. Students will present their research findings on their blog. They will have a Vocab test on Thursday and create their new Vocab cards which will be due on Monday.
Standards: CCSS W8.2, W8.4, W8.5, W8.6, W8.9, W8.10.
Objectives for the week of 10/17
Weekly Objectives 10/16/16
Mrs. Duffy
Vocabulary words this week are common educational words. The following words are important for all Middle School students to know, understand and use. Multimedia, Narrative, Opinion, Plagiarism, Purpose (author’s or Writer’s) Quotation, Reflection, Resolution, Revise, Root (word) All students 6-8 are on list 3.
Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: L6.4, L6.5, L6.6, L7.4, and 7.5, L7.6 and L8.4, L8.5 L8.6
6th grade:
6th grade:
Students will review their vocabulary words and definitions. We will discuss the differences in definitions of their words. We will continue learning the stages in the Writing Process this week. The stages of Revision and Peer Review will be discussed and added to their learning journals. Students will practice revision on a writing sample. Students will have a quiz over the 8 parts of speech and the stages in the writing process on Friday. The Vocab Test will be on Thursday and the new vocab cards for list 4 will be due on Monday.
Standards: Writing 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.10, Language 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3
7th grade: Students will review their vocabulary words and definitions. We will discuss the differences in definitions of their words. Students will have a quiz on the Stages of the Writing Process on Friday. Students will discover the writing traits as a common vocabulary to use as they are writing. The Vocab test will be on Thursday. The new vocab cards will be due on Monday.
Standards: Writing 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.10 and Language 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
8th grade: Students will review their vocabulary words and definitions. We will discuss the differences in definitions of their words. 8th grade: Students will review their vocabulary words and definitions. We will discuss the differences in definitions of their words. Students will complete a peer review of the informational paper on a career. Students will revise their paper and proofread the final paper. When finished students will present their paper on their Blogs. Students will reflect on their research, developing goals toward their career choice. The students will set long and short term goals for their future, including specific goals for this school year. Students will refer back to their goals, several times throughout the year. The Vocab test will be on Thursday. The new vocab cards will be due on Monday.
Standards: Writing 8.2, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9 and 8.10 and Language 8.1, 8.3