1. Sixth Grade LA/Reading
LA6 Quarter 1 Week 7 October 12-16, 2015
Mrs. Nabulsi

2. Department of Defense MISSION STATEMENT VISION STATEMENT
Educate, engage and empower each student to succeed in a dynamic world.
To be among the World’s leaders in education, enriching the lives of military-connected students and the communities in which they live.

3. Humphreys Middle/High School
Mission Statement
Vision Statement
Educate , engage, and empower each student to succeed in a dynamic world
Helping students to be life-long learners equipped with skills for success in a changing world.

4. AdvancEd Goals Reading Writing
To help students read for understanding and build their comprehension skills. 
to help students to summarize by creating strong topic sentences, clear detail sentences and a supporting conclusion.

5. MONDAY, October 12, 2015 Columbus Day
No school

6. Standards covered this week
6E2a.1: Discuss ideas for writing, keep a list or notebook of ideas, and use graphic organizers to plan writing.
6E2a.2: Choose the form of writing that best suits the intended purpose.
6E2a.3: Write informational pieces of several paragraphs that engage the interest of the reader, state a clear purpose, develop the topic with supporting details and precise language, and conclude with a detailed summary linked to the purpose of the composition.
6E2a.8: Review, evaluate, and revise grade-level-appropriate writing for meaning and clarity.
6E2a.9: Edit and proofread one’s own writing, as well as that of others, using an editing checklist or set of rules, with specific examples of corrections of frequent errors.
6E2a.10: Revise writing to improve the organization and consistency of ideas within and between paragraphs.
6E1b.7: Make reasonable statements and conclusions about a text, supporting them with evidence from the text.

7. Tuesday/Thursday - October 13/15, 2015 Language Arts
CNN
Go over vocabulary – Test on Friday
EDIT IT
Daily Fix-It First - Parts of speech -Cornell Notes
Go over types of developmental paragraphs
Go over transitions
Final draft of Patriot Pen due Thursday in Google Aps It will NOT be accepted later.
This Friday. If you want to enter the contest have paper printed and entry form attached. Complete entry form as instructed. It is in Google Aps and online.

8. teresas parents have formed a Service Organization for the Community
FIX IT
What kind of sentence is it?
What is the part of speech of each word?
What are the functions of each word in the sentence?

9. teresas parents have formed a Service Organization for the Community
FIX IT - Teresa’s parents have formed a service organization for the community. (possessive, capitalize first word, do not capitalize common nouns, period at end)
What kind of sentence is it? - Declarative
What is the part of speech of each word?
T-n used as adj p-n h-helping verb f- main verb a-art(adj) s- adj o- noun f - prep t- art (adj) c- n
What are the functions of each word in the sentence?

10. Teresa’s parents have formed a service organization for the community
4. What are the functions of each word in the sentence?
What is the action?
Is there a helping verb?
Who is doing this action?
Put subject and verb together and ask what?
Subject?
Verb phrase?
Direct object?

11. Teresa’s parents have formed a service organization for the community
4. What are the functions of each word in the sentence?
What is the action? formed This is the main action verb
Is there a helping verb? yes, have. Verb phrase is have formed
Who is doing this action? parents This is the subject
Put subject and verb together and ask what? Parents have formed what? organization
S APV DO
Parents have formed organization

12. Teresa’s parents have formed a service organization for the community
S APV DO
Parents have formed organization
Now find the modifiers ( adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrase servings as adjectives and adverbs)
Adjectives tell which one, what kind, how many, whose about the NOUNS (subject or direct object)
Whose parents?
What kind of organization?
Articles function as adjectives. A

13. Teresa’s parents have formed a service organization for the community
Look for prepositional phrases:
for - preposition
community - object of the preposition (noun)
the - article
S APV DO
Parents have formed organization

14. Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Reading
CNN
Go over vocabulary - Test on Friday
Cornell Notes on Literary Elements Finish
Discuss the literary elements of Old Yeller
Do the Read and Response on the form given to you earlier
Outline for your Westward Expansion – work on this

15. Thursday 15, 2015 Language Arts
CNN
Idiom
Analogy
Finish Daily Fix-It

16. Types of Analogies Cause and Effect
What’s the relationship?
GIFT : JOY :: rain : flood TEARS : SADNESS :: smiles : joy
A gift can cause joy; tears are an effect of sadness.
Cause and Effect

17. Analogy POISON: DEATH :: A. Mixture: soluble B. sugar: sour
C. medicine: health
D. milk: bottled
E. solid: liquid

18. Make a sentence
POISON can cause DEATH.

19. Put all answers in the same sentence
MIXTURE can cause SOLUBLE.
SUGAR can cause SOUR.
MEDICINE can cause HEALTH
MILK can cause BOTTLED.
SOLID can cause LIQUID.

20. Answer C

21. IDIOM -To lead a Spartan’s life
`To lead a Spartan’s life’ that is the meaning of `to lead a simple life, because the Spartans were traditionally indifferent to comfort and luxury.  Source: 

22. Friday, October 16, 2015 Reading
CNN
Reading Strategy - Cause and Effect
New book - return books
Marking the Text looking for cause and effect

23. Form for Weekly Reading
Template for Weekly Read and Response
Student _______________________ Book title __________
Author ______________________ Block ____________
Date _______________________ Book Report #______
Copy question:
Copy question:
Copy question:
Copy question

24. Rubric for Weekly Reading
NOTE: There are four sections to each response. Each section counts 25 points. In order to get all 25 points in each section the student must do the following five things, each of which i worth five (5) points toward the twenty-five (25).
1. Write the questions
2. Write the answer when called upon in a complete sentence
3. Begin the topic sentence with keywords from the stem and not rely on the stem or nouns in the stem. Do not use pronouns in the topic sentence. When the directions say “Write a paragraph,” the student must write a paragraph.
4. Answer all sections of the question. For example, the questions dealing with definitions usually have five parts. Do all five parts. Each is worth five points toward the twenty-five for that question.
5. Be correct in the answer and answer it with examples and details.