Kate Messner has written, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., which won the 2010 E.B. White Read Aloud Award for older readers. Below you will find a links to other authors if you are looking for a book to read.
http://www.katemessner.com/kids-what-to-read-next/
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Homework - June 4
Math 6W - Finish Worksheet Practice and Application - Be sure to put new fraction, decimal, and/or percent beside the numbers for each problem!!
Language Arts: Finish Fable - Final Copy!! Make sure to edit for complete sentences, dialogue, spelling, capital letters, and prepositional phrases...
Reading: If you have any late work you need to get that in. Some students are missing the assignment for Chapter 9 & 10. I have let students know if they were missing any work today.
6W/6S - Work on Independent Reading goal - You only have a week and 1/2 to conference over books! Read! READ! READ!
6W -Reading - Questions over chapter 10
6S students have already done this assignment, but some still need to get it in to me.
Language Arts: Finish Fable - Final Copy!! Make sure to edit for complete sentences, dialogue, spelling, capital letters, and prepositional phrases...
Reading: If you have any late work you need to get that in. Some students are missing the assignment for Chapter 9 & 10. I have let students know if they were missing any work today.
6W/6S - Work on Independent Reading goal - You only have a week and 1/2 to conference over books! Read! READ! READ!
6W -Reading - Questions over chapter 10
6S students have already done this assignment, but some still need to get it in to me.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Homework - May 31
Reading: Finish reading chapter 10 - Phantom Tollbooth
Vocabulary word for Word Wall needs to be completed (Word, picture, and definition)
Continue to fill in Concept Map over characters Milo meets on his journey
Language Arts: Rough draft needs to be done of Fable - Remember dialogue, setting, and moral!!!
Vocabulary word for Word Wall needs to be completed (Word, picture, and definition)
Continue to fill in Concept Map over characters Milo meets on his journey
Language Arts: Rough draft needs to be done of Fable - Remember dialogue, setting, and moral!!!
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
May 30 - Homework
Reading: Vocabulary is Due on Thursday - Triple Entry Journal
Finish Questions over Chapter 10 -
Language Arts: Work on Fable Due Friday
Math: If you did not finish pages 306 - 307 Module Assessment Review
Finish Questions over Chapter 10 -
Language Arts: Work on Fable Due Friday
Math: If you did not finish pages 306 - 307 Module Assessment Review
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
6S/6W Reading - Finish reading chapter 9 and questions
Triple Entry Journal is due on Thursday over words from Section 3 - (underlined words)
6S/6W Language Arts - Continue writing Fable
Third paragraph should be about an event the character has which goes all wrong. The wiser character should be in the background explaining why this was not a good idea.
Math: Many need to finish page 306 & 307
Social Studies: Journal Response
Triple Entry Journal is due on Thursday over words from Section 3 - (underlined words)
6S/6W Language Arts - Continue writing Fable
Third paragraph should be about an event the character has which goes all wrong. The wiser character should be in the background explaining why this was not a good idea.
Math: Many need to finish page 306 & 307
Social Studies: Journal Response
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Homework - May 24
Language Arts: Time to start writing your Fable! Write the first paragraph of your fable. Make sure you have your planning sheet completed first. A Long, long, time ago......... The reader should get a sense of your character in the first paragraph.
Reading: 6S & 6W - Finish reading chapter 9 and do questions if you did not finish!
(Refresher.... irony - total opposite of what you would expect to happen; personification - giving human qualities to something nonhuman, text to self connection for number 6) Sorry! (The number 6 questions is from page 107 not 102)
Math: Page 306 6S - Do problems 2 & 3 Math test on Tuesday!! Start studying Key concepts in Module 4; Try practice problems throughout the different sections.
6W - Study for test - Module 4 Tests --Look over key concepts page in the Module!!
Based on today's class some students need to fix problems that had a misunderstanding on. (For example some students forgot how to do prime factorization correctly so you need to redo problems you got wrong.
Reading: 6S & 6W - Finish reading chapter 9 and do questions if you did not finish!
(Refresher.... irony - total opposite of what you would expect to happen; personification - giving human qualities to something nonhuman, text to self connection for number 6) Sorry! (The number 6 questions is from page 107 not 102)
Math: Page 306 6S - Do problems 2 & 3 Math test on Tuesday!! Start studying Key concepts in Module 4; Try practice problems throughout the different sections.
6W - Study for test - Module 4 Tests --Look over key concepts page in the Module!!
Based on today's class some students need to fix problems that had a misunderstanding on. (For example some students forgot how to do prime factorization correctly so you need to redo problems you got wrong.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
May 23
Keep working on independent reading goal!! ONLY A Couple of more weeks!
6W Reading: Finish reading chapter 9 in Phantom Tollbooth and comprehension questions over chapter
Remember a Paradox is contradictory term such as, It was the best of times and the worst of times.
6S- Language Arts - Fable Planning Organizer
Science: Binders need to be organized
6W Reading: Finish reading chapter 9 in Phantom Tollbooth and comprehension questions over chapter
Remember a Paradox is contradictory term such as, It was the best of times and the worst of times.
6S- Language Arts - Fable Planning Organizer
Science: Binders need to be organized
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