Our Poetry quiz will be moved to Monday.

IXL is still due tomorrow though. All of the starred lessons are due (in 6th grade skills).

PBIS Hot Chocolate and Donuts will be rescheduled for Tuesday, Mach 3rd.

Enjoy your day off!

Today we did some pronoun practice as bellwork. We then reviewed identifying verse, stanza, refrains, and rhyme scheme with the poem “Message from a Caterpillar”. We reviewed theme and discussed theme with an animated short as well as “Message from a Caterpillar”. As a class, we collaboratively created a theme constructed response which will help us with tomorrow’s activity.

Homework

• Read Theory (5 passed every week) – 25 passed since January 18th
• Read your “good fit” book for 20 minutes (you need to do this for your One-Pagers!)
• One-Pager #5 & 6 due March 20th
• IXL Pronoun Types (AA #1-6) & Analyzing Literature (F #3)– due February 28th!
• Poetry Quiz February 28th – Types of & identifying verse, stanza, refrain, rhyme scheme

Homework

• Read Theory (5 passed every week) – 25 passed since January 18th
• Read your “good fit” book for 20 minutes (you need to do this for your One-Pagers!)
• One-Pager #5 & 6 due March 20th
• IXL Pronoun Types (AA #1-6) & Analyzing Literature (F #3)– due February 28th!
• Poetry Quiz February 28th – Types of & identifying verse, stanza, refrain, rhyme scheme

Today after SSR time, we studied and took notes on the structures of poems. We then practiced identifying rhyme scheme in various poems as a class and with a partner.

At the end, we were given a planning page template for essay writing called an IBC and a sample proficient essay to glue into our writing ISN as a guide. We began discussing how to use this plan. This discussion will continue tomorrow.

Homework

• Read Theory (5 passed every week) – 20 passed since January 18th
• Read your “good fit” book for 20 minutes (you need to do this for your One-Pagers!)
• One-Pager #5 due March 20th
• IXL Pronoun Types (AA #1-6) & Analyzing Literature (F #3)– due February 14th!

Today after going to the library we finished our pronountype notes. We then completed our types of poems notes in our ISN. We did a prompt breakdown to understand what it was asking us to do. We did this independently then compared our thinking to a partner’s and Mrs. Dailing’s. Any time left was for IXL and updating our My Learning Plans.

Homework

• Read Theory (5 passed every week) – 20 passed since January 18th
• Read your “good fit” book for 20 minutes (you need to do this for your One-Pagers!)
• One-Pager #5 due March 20th
• IXL Pronoun Types (AA #1-6) & Analyzing Literature (F #3)– due February 14th!

Bellwork: SSR (sustained silent reading) & metacognition log

Reading: We started our poetry unit today. We took notes on 4 types of poems and will finish the remaining 4 tomorrow.

Writing: Today we broke down another writing prompt to better understand what it was asking us to do. We then had time to type up our academic goals on My Learning Plan.

Homework

• Read Theory (5 passed every week) – 20 passed since January 18th
• Read your “good fit” book for 20 minutes (you need to do this for your One-Pagers!)
• One-Pager #5 due March 20th
• IXL Pronoun Types (AA #1-6) & Analyzing Literature (F #3)– due February 14th!

Today after our silent reading time we read and made connections with our story “The Good Deed”. If you were absent you can read it here: https://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/student/ebook_gr6/osp/data/u1_good_deed_se.pdf

We also worked on breaking down a prompt to better understand what it is asking us to write about. We will continue this learning next week.

Have a great weekend!

Homework

• Read Theory (5 passed every week) – 15 passed since January 18th
• Read your “good fit” book for 20 minutes (you need to do this for your One-Pagers!)
• One-Pager #5 due March 20th
• IXL Pronoun Types (AA #1-6) – due February 14th!

Today after our silent reading time we did a vocabulary investigation for our new story “The Good Deed” by Marion Dane Bauer. We worked to investigate a chosen unknown or important vocabulary word and presented our words to the class.

We were also given a due date for the IXL Pronoun practice that was announced in class last week. This is due next Friday, February 14th. You need to earn 100 points for full credit.

Homework

• Read Theory (5 passed every week) – 15 passed since January 18th
• Read your “good fit” book for 20 minutes (you need to do this for your One-Pagers!)
• One-Pager #5 due March 20th
• IXL Pronoun Types (AA #1-6) are due February 14th!

For the next few days, we are working on the 6th grade Mid-Year Writing Assessment so I can see where students’ needs lie in terms of essay writing. This is a cold-write where students follow the directions and write based on a prompt independently. We should be done with this by the end of class tomorrow.

Homework

• Read Theory (5 passed every week) – 15 passed since January 18th
• Read your “good fit” book for 20 minutes (you need to do this for your One-Pagers!)