Students were given a study guide in class today and an hour to work on it with a partner.  Study guide should be completed and brought to class tomorrow!

Unit 1 Test is Tomorrow!  This will be open book and cover concepts learned over the course of past 10 weeks as well as comprehension questions for the stories: “Eleven”, “The School Play”, and “Tuesdays of the Other June”.  Students will be allowed to use their Literature books to go back to the stories.

Homework

• Moby Max Language – Verb Lessons due December 1st:  
  1. Progressive Verbs
  2. Modal Helping Verbs
  3. Perfect Tenses
  4. Verb Tenses To Convey Sequence
  5. The Verb To Be To Convey States
  6. Irregular Verbs
• 60 minutes reading chapter book (over the course of the week!)

Today we presented our Pyramid of Action Projects (Story Elements Poster) and went to the library.

Students do not have school tomorrow, don’t forget!  

Students were notified today about our new MobyMax expectations. Instead of tracking minutes (which many students have been having issues with over the past few weeks), I am now tracking lessons passed.  The lessons that need to be completed and passed are listed in the homework section below and must be finished by Friday, December 1st.

Unit 1 Test is Friday!  This will be open book and cover concepts learned over the course of past 10 weeks as well as comprehension questions for the stories: “Eleven”, “The School Play”, and “Tuesdays of the Other June”.  Students will be allowed to use their Literature books to go back to the stories. A study guide will be given to students on Wednesday.

Homework

• 60 minutes Moby Max Language – Verb Lessons due December 1st:  
  1. Progressive Verbs
  2. Modal Helping Verbs
  3. Perfect Tenses
  4. Verb Tenses To Convey Sequence
  5. The Verb To Be To Convey States
• 60 minutes reading chapter book (over the course of the week!)

We worked on our Story Elements Project for the entire class today! Students were given the entire 100 minute block to complete this project, anything not completed in class is homework over the weekend!  We begin presentations on Monday.

Have a great weekend!

Homework

• 60 minutes Moby Max Language
• 60 minutes reading chapter book (over the course of the week!)

We reviewed Types of Conflict and read the rest of “Tuesdays of the Other June” with a partner and analyzed it for  Character vs. Character and Character vs. Self conflicts.  After a round of Daily 5, we were introduced to our Story Elements Project! Students will be given the entire 100 minute block tomorrow to complete this project, which will be due on Monday when we are presenting them!

ISN’s were also collected today for an organization/completion grade.

Have a good evening!

Crazy hair day tomorrow! Pay $1 to your advisory teacher to participate!  All proceeds will go to support our PTA Puerto Rico Battery Drive!

Homework

• 60 minutes Moby Max Language – Due TOMORROW
• 60 minutes reading chapter book (over the course of the week!) – Be prepared to write about this in Friday’s Bell work!
• One-Pagers DUE NO LATER THAN TOMORROW!!! This is the end of Marking Period 1!
  • These are a summative grade! (80%) (20 points each/40 total)
  • Students were given the directions and rubrics for each of these weeks ago. I will not accept any One-Pagers for Marking Period 1 after Friday (end of school day)!!!

Today we completed our Types of Conflict notes and practiced with examples. We also hovered our new story “Tuesday of the Other June” for new or interesting words and did a word study with them.  We ended class with starting our story. We will finish tomorrow in class.

Have a good evening!

Homework

• 60 minutes Moby Max Language – Due Friday
• 60 minutes reading chapter book (over the course of the week!) – Be prepared to write about this in Friday’s Bell work!
• One-Pagers due no later than November 3rd!! (This Friday!)
  • These are a summative grade! (80%)
  • We were given the directions and rubrics for each of these weeks ago. I will not accept any One-Pagers for Marking Period 1 after Friday (end of school day) – this is the last day of the marking period

Happy Halloween!  We finished our Internal/External Conflict notes today and began our Types of Conflict Foldables.  We had a shortened schedule due to our annual Halloween Celebration. The 6th grade class watched Jumanji in the Auditorium for a Halloween treat.

Stay safe and warm tonight!

Vocabulary Test Retakes:

Today (10/31) @ 3:00-4:00 pm (My room)

Wednesday (11/1) @ 7:15-7:50 am (Mrs. Baileys room)

*YOU MUST HAVE THE SLIP I PASSED OUT IN CLASS SIGNED BY A PARENT TO TAKE THE RETAKE!!!!*  No exceptions

Homework

• 60 minutes Moby Max Language – Due Friday
• 60 minutes reading chapter book (over the course of the week!) – Be prepared to write about this in Friday’s Bell work!
• One-Pagers due no later than November 3rd!! (This Friday!)
  • These are a summative grade!

Today we reviewed the Vocabulary Test to better understand how to answer these types of questions. We also read our Article of the Week and working on the activities that go along with it.

Vocabulary Test Retakes:

Tuesday 10/31 @ 3:00pm (My room)

Wednesday 11/1 @ 7:15 am (Mrs. Baileys room)

*YOU MUST HAVE THE SLIP I PASSED OUT IN CLASS SIGNED BY A PARENT TO TAKE THE RETAKE!!!!*  No exceptions

Halloween is tomorrow! We will have a small celebration as a whole 6th grade – please no costumes or candy!

Homework

• 60 minutes Moby Max Language
• 60 minutes reading chapter book (over the course of the week!)
• One-Pagers due no later than November 3rd!! (This Friday!)

Today we took our Vocabulary test. There were two mistakes found on the test that I have since fixed and regraded, which added a few points to many tests. Please log onto iLearn to see if your grade has been fixed!  Retake session will be announced next week.

Have a great weekend!

Homework

• 60 minutes Moby Max Language
• 60 minutes reading chapter book (over the course of the week!)
• One-Pagers due November 3rd!!

Today we reviewed literary elements for “The School Play” and learned internal and external conflict notes. We ended class playing a review game for tomorrow’s test! Don’t forget to study!

TEST TOMORROW – Vocabulary test. Students should use their ISN notes, Moby Max Language, & Quizlet to study! There is a practice worksheet on Google Classroom as well. Student must first sign into their Dearborn Email to access their Google Classroom. https://mail.google.com/a/dearbornschools.org

Block 1 Quizlet – https://quizlet.com/join/wWdAq2P5k  – don’t forget to click “Join Class”!

Block 2 Quizlet – https://quizlet.com/join/fPKc3qmwQ – don’t forget to click “Join Class”!

Block 3 Quizlet – https://quizlet.com/join/cf6jv4z2N – don’t forget to click “Join Class”!

Homework

• 20 minutes of reading “good-fit” book (60 minutes per week!)
• 60 minutes of MobyMax-VOCABULARY!
  • ALWAYS log in through Clever at https://dearbornschools.org/resources/students
• One-Pagers are due no later than November 3rd! (End of marking period 1)
  •   Book #1 and Book #2 directions have been given to the students!

Today we read the story “The School Play” by Gary Soto and analyzed it using the pyramid of action. We read the story as a class and analyzed the story up to the climax, then completed the rest with a partner.

Upcoming Tests – Vocabulary test on Friday, October 27, 2017.  Students should use their ISN notes, Moby Max Language, & Quizlet to study!

You will be asked to APPLY the noun rules! Make sure you study and practice these using Moby Max Language!

Block 1 Quizlet – https://quizlet.com/join/wWdAq2P5k  – don’t forget to click “Join Class”!

Block 2 Quizlet – https://quizlet.com/join/fPKc3qmwQ – don’t forget to click “Join Class”!

Block 3 Quizlet – https://quizlet.com/join/cf6jv4z2N – don’t forget to click “Join Class”!

Homework

• 20 minutes of reading “good-fit” book (60 minutes per week!)
• 60 minutes of MobyMax-VOCABULARY!
  • ALWAYS log in through Clever at https://dearbornschools.org/resources/students
• One-Pagers are due no later than November 3rd! (End of marking period 1)
  •   Book #1 and Book #2 directions have been given to the students!

Have a wonderful evening!

We reviewed the Pyramid of Action and discussed the 5 components of plot (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution) using the story “Little Red Riding Hood” with a partner and check our answers as a class. We also used pre-reading strategies with our Newsela Article of the Week. We labeled text features and used them to make predictions on what the article will be about. We also visited the library to check out new books!

Upcoming Tests – Vocabulary test on Friday, October 27, 2017.  Students should use their ISN notes and Quizlet to study!

Block 1 Quizlet – https://quizlet.com/join/wWdAq2P5k  – don’t forget to click “Join Class”!

Block 2 Quizlet – https://quizlet.com/join/fPKc3qmwQ – don’t forget to click “Join Class”!

Block 3 Quizlet – https://quizlet.com/join/cf6jv4z2N – don’t forget to click “Join Class”!

Homework

• 20 minutes of reading “good-fit” book (60 minutes per week!)
• 60 minutes of MobyMax-VOCABULARY!
  • ALWAYS log in through Clever at https://dearbornschools.org/resources/students
• One-Pagers are due no later than November 3rd! (End of marking period 1)
  •   Book #1 and Book #2 directions have been given to the students!

Have a wonderful evening!

We reviewed story vocabulary today and applied it to the story “Eleven” with a partner.  We also set up our ISN’s with the Pyramid of Action and discussed the 5 components of plot (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution), we will continue with this tomorrow and apply it to a short story.

Upcoming Tests – Vocabulary test on Friday, October 27, 2017.  Students should use ISN to study!

Homework

• 20 minutes of reading “good-fit” book (60 minutes per week!)
• 60 minutes of MobyMax-VOCABULARY!
  • ALWAYS log in through Clever at https://dearbornschools.org/resources/students
• One-Pagers are due no later than November 3rd! (End of marking period 1)
  •   Book #1 and Book #2 directions have been given to the students!

Have a wonderful evening!

We discussed the story “Eleven” today and learned how to properly cite textual evidence.  We then wrote a C.E.R. response about the narrator’s point of view in the story “Eleven”.

Upcoming Tests – Vocabulary test on Friday, October 27, 2017.  Students should use ISN to study!

Have a great evening!

Homework

• PG movie permission slip due tomorrow!!
• 20 minutes of reading “good-fit” book (60 minutes per week!)
• 60 minutes of MobyMax-LANGUAGE!
  • ALWAYS log in through Clever at https://dearbornschools.org/resources/students
• One-Pagers are due no later than November 3rd! (End of marking period 1)
  •   Book #1 and Book #2 directions have been given to the students!

Today we read the short story “Eleven” by  Sandra Cisneros. We made and adjusted our predictions as we read. We also practiced what “group discussion” looks like by observing a video clip that modeled what it should look like, sound like, and feel like prior to practicing discussion topics with our table groups.

Have a great evening!

Homework

• 20 minutes of reading “good-fit” book (60 minutes per week!)
• 60 minutes of MobyMax-LANGUAGE 
  • ALWAYS log in through Clever at https://dearbornschools.org/resources/students
• One-Pagers are due no later than November 3rd! (End of marking period 1)
  •   Book #1 and Book #2 directions have been given to the students!

Today we worked on making predictions about a story using the text features available. We will confirm or adjust our predictions tomorrow as we read the story “Eleven”. We wrote our predictions in our ISNs and shared with a partner. We then completed common and proper nouns and worked on abstract and concrete nouns.

Don’t forget tomorrow is late start! No advisory. Block 1 starts at 9:00 am!

Progress reports:  Progress reports are only given out to students that have a C or lower in any class. If your student was not given a progress report it would be because their grade is above a C in their classes!

Homework

• 20 minutes of reading “good-fit” book (60 minutes per week!)
• 60 minutes of MobyMax-LANGUAGE 
  • ALWAYS log in through Clever at https://dearbornschools.org/resources/students
• One-Pagers are due no later than November 3rd! (End of marking period 1)
  •   Book #1 and Book #2 directions have been given to the students!

Middle school reading success is all about comprehension and expanding their vocabulary! If you would like to be more involved in working on reading at home, here are some resources to get you started! Simply ask these questions before, during, or after your student has completed their 20-60 minutes of reading at home! Click on the links to find out more:

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