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Check out
our New for 08-09
Class Wiki
Use the login info
provided by Mr. Curry on
the first day of school
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This
will be used as the
main class website this year
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In
6th
Grade Language
Arts, we use Holt
Language Arts.
 Our first reading
selection of the year is Just Once . This is a
story about a boy who yearns to live out his dream of sports glory. The
story helps us learn about plot elements and it focuses on setting and
character.
Tutorial
page for Just Once
Scaffolded
Questions
This week's Reading Vocabulary:
devastating,
nurturing, anonymous,
tolerant, ponder
We will also
start the
year with Spelling Lesson 1 and a writing sample.
Unit 1 Spelling
Words
contract,
comment, liquid, nonsense, sack, ethnic, summit, splendid,
rapid, contact, advance, depth, admit, glance, sketch, impulse
This
Week's Puzzle
Sheets: Word
Search | Crossword
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for Group A (periods 2-3) and Group C (periods 5-6)
In 6th Grade
Social
Studies, we are using the newly adopted Glencoe Social Studies text
program, Discovering Our Past: Ancient Civilizations. We
will engage students in doing individual and group projects and we will
be doing art and craft assignments for nearly every unit.
 Chapter 1 / Section
1: Early Man
Pages 122-131
Note-Taking
Guide 1.1
Section 1 Test
View Video
"Otzi-Iceman of
the Alps"
PreHistory Tutorial
| The Dawn
of Man | Human
Evolution Game
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Mon
Aug 25
HR-1-2-3-4-5-6
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Spell:
pretest Lesson 1
Interactive Reader pages 1-2
Read: Just Once pages 4-10
Write: Start Essay "My hopes/Fears about Middle
School"
HW-->
Spelling Puzzles / Write Missed Words 5 X each |
Classmate
Bingo - Cooperative Activity
Geography Challenge Sheets |
Tues Aug
26
HR-6-1-2-3-4-5
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-Read:
Discuss Just Once pages 11-14
Answer Questions
p 15
#1-5 using complete sentence answers for #2-5
-Write: Proofread
Essay: "My
hopes/Fears about Middle School" (5 paragraphs)
--HW: Spelling Worksheet |
Geography Skills
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Wed
Aug 27
HR-5-6-1-2-3-4
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-Read:
Finish p. 15 questions
Take
quiz on QuizLab
-Write: Revise Essay and Submit
Holt HB (HH) ❑ Diagnostic Review pp. 2-4
HW: Spelling Sentences |
Read:
Pages 122-126
Answer Question p 126
Reading Check &
Connecting to the Past |
Thur
Aug 28 (No HR)
1PM Dismissal
4-5-6-1-2-3
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-Read:
Write a Summary based on the story Map (p. 15 #1)
Vocabulary
Review p. 16
Holt HB (HH) ❑ Sentence or
Sentence
Fragment? pp. 4–6
HW: Study for Spelling Post test
(if
needed) |
Read:
127- 131
Do: p. 128 Geo Skills
Do: p. 131 #1-6
Note taking WB 1.1
45th Anniversary of Martin
Luther
King, Jr.'s I have A Dream
Speech
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Fri Aug
29
HR-3-4-5-6-1-2
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-Spelling
Post test
-Grammar Quiz: Sentence or Fragment
Turn In Spelling Packets |
Take
QuizLab
SS Test 1.1
Film
on Otzi, Ice Man of the Alps
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 Next Week:
Monday Holiday
September 1st
Projects We Will Do This Year:
Book Reports: Maniac McGee
/ Nothing
But the Truth,
Hatchet,
The Cay
Narrative Story: Halloween Motif
School Spelling Bee
Thanksgiving Poem Project (View Here)
Expository: How To
Essay
Poetry: Student Haiku (see below)
Research Project (Soc St: Country)
Social Studies Artifacts Faux Project
Geography Bee
Ancient Building Model
Student Team Units for MesoAmerica and Rome
Country Report (see below)
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See the Country Report
Link
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View Some Student Work
of the Country Project
Vietnam
by Alexander
Russia
by Sally
Mexico
by Mateo
United
Kingdom
by Kelvin
Ireland
by Eric
Switzerland
by Cybill
Venezuela
by Jason
Iraq
by Felipe
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Students have
shared with us their
oral presentations, using a variety
of materials to do so. Some
went high tech with a power point presentationfor their country.
Others did posters or display boards and one student even brought in
products of his country to show the class. Hopefully the students
all learned about getting over their nervousness and presenting in
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