6th Grade - Writing (ELA) (Period 8) Assignments

Please use the attached study guide to prepare for the spelling test next Tuesday. Please note, the examples are words that follow the rules that the learners will be tested on. These are not necessarily the words that will be used on the test. 

Please use the attached study guide to prepare for our writing about reading quiz on Thursday, the 16th. 

Our indpendent Jane Schaffer argumentative paragraph will be due Friday by 11:59pm. Learners have been working on this assignment during class for the past two weeks. My suggestion would be to encourage learners to proofread their work before submitting. 

Please use the attached study guide to prepare for our spelling test next Tuesday the 16th. If your learner is not going to be present next week, please have them schedule a time (after school on Wednesday, or during lunch on Thursday) to take this test ahead of time. Please note: the list of words given are examples of words that learners might be asked to spell, they are not the words I will ask them to spell. The focus of this test is that learners know these common spelling rules. 

Next Tuesday, the 19th, we will have our Jane Schaffer terminology quiz part 1. The following Tuesday, the 26th, we will build on this knowledge with part two. Please see the study guide attached for information on each part. 

Tuesday, March 12th we will have our end-of-unit grammar test. This test is on run on sentences and fragments, combining sentences, and active and passive voice. Attached is the study guide. Learners are creating their own review games to be played in class on Thursday, the 28th. 

Attached is the study material for our grammar quiz on active and passive voice, on Monday, February 25th.

Attached is study material for our end-of-unit, in-class writing assessment. This will take place next Thursday, the 21st. This test will be a written essay completed in one class period. Learners can bring one sticky note of information with them for this assessment. They may not bring a draft of an essay, though I do encourage learners to practice responding to this prompt ahead of time. 

 

The prompt is: Find a theme in the short story provided. Write an essay that uses evidence to prove this theme. 

 

For this essay, my grading focus is a strong theme and an organized essay. The short story for this assessment will be sent out next Tuesday, the 19th. Learners are encouraged to prepare for their essay using this story.

 

As we near the third trimester, we want to further prepare our learners for success in 7th grade, 8th grade, and high school. As a result, we will be focusing on the following ROAR expectations: being on time to class, having all materials, and using technology properly. Please see the attached document for specific information regarding these ROAR expectations in all sixth grade classrooms. We have explained this focus to learners and we appreciate your support! 

Next Thursday, the 7th we will have a short writing skills quiz. This will be a multiple choice assessment in which learners will be asked to identify the sentences in a paragraph. Please see the attached study guide. 

On February 5th, learners will take a short quiz on the grammar topic of combining sentences. Please use this study guide as an overview of what your learners should know for this quiz. Additionally, your learner has a textbook they are welcome to take home from the classroom, their workbook practice pages, in-class notes, and an exit ticket to study with. 

This message is for a due date change because of Grandparents' Day activities. Please see below: 

 

1. Vocabulary handwritten study tools are now due Monday, the 28th, rather than this Friday, the 25th. 

2. Grammar Workbook pages 361-370 are now due Monday, the 28th, rather than this Friday, the 25th. 

 

If your learner would like to show me their study tool or workbook pages tomorrow, Thursday, the 24th, I will mark their work done early. 

 

Thank you!

Tomorrow, Tuesday, we will have our Grammar Quiz on Fragments and Run Ons. Learners should be able to identify a fragment, run on, and complete sentence. Also, learners should be able to fix a fragment and a run on in multiple ways. The link below is a Kahoot! that learners can use to study: 

 

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/69db0dca-309a-4804-89a0-26231db0eb81 

The grammar quiz that was scheduled for this Friday was postponed until next Tuesday the 23rd. 

The last day learners will have to work on their narratives in class is this Thursday, the 18th. However, I will accept submitted narratives to Google Classroom until 11:59pm on Friday, the 19th. 

Our first narrative is due to Google Classroom tomorrow, Friday, October 12th. Learners have been writing, revising, editing, and publishing this narrative in class. Their final task is to upload and turn in this document to Google Classroom by tomorrow. 

Please complete the two practice pages on your assigned common usage error grammar skills. These pages are due Wednesday, October 10th. 

Learners, please complete the Study Island "Adjectives v. Adverbs" grammar assignment by the end of the day this Friday, the 5th. Use your grammar notes to help you reach a blue ribbon at 85%!