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Homework due tomorrow, Wednesday, December 9th : Students should read from chapter 14 to chapter 19 of the Island of the Blue Dolphins, and then complete their Literature Circle tasks for that week.
Homework due, Thursday, December 10th : Students should prepare for their spelling quiz. They should bring in five sentences, each containing a one of their spelling words.
Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Reading the assigned novel does count towards the nightly reading. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, as long as you make sure you get your assigned reading done. Please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.
Today during writing workshop we completed a lesson on using quotation marks to signal dialogue. The students then got a chance to use what they had learned by punctuating a paragraph that contained dialogue between two characters.
Homework due tomorrow, Thursday, December 3rd: Students should bring in their completed spelling assignments.
Homework due Wednesday, December 9th: Students should read from chapter 14 to chapter 19 of the Island of the Blue Dolphins, and then complete their Literature Circle tasks for that week.
Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Reading the assigned novel does count towards the nightly reading. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, as long as you make sure you get your assigned reading done. Please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.
During todays literature class, the students discussed Island of the Blue Dolphins, from chapter 7 to chapter 13. Some of the questions discussed were, how mature was Karana’s six-year-old brother, Ramo; does the environment in the novel just serve as the setting, or is it also a character; what drove the Aleuts to become violent against other Indians? After a whole class discussion the students then broke into their four person Lit circles and continued their own discussions, with learning specialist MaryBeth Ventura and myself circulating though the classroom.
In cultural studies, the students started a review quiz on the four main Californian Indian tribes that we have been discussing. This review will be continued during our next class.
Homework due tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2nd: Students should bring in the work they did on their literature circle assignments, and be ready to discuss the 7th to 13th chapters of Island of the Blue Dolphins. Each student should be able to answer the following question. Who were the Aleuts?
Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Reading the assigned novel does count towards the nightly reading. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, as long as you make sure you get your assigned reading done. Please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.
Continuing our work on personal memoirs the class read the handout, "Questions For Memoirists." We discussed the importance of writers choosing subjects that matter to them. If a writer is bored by their subject very likely their readers will also be bored. The 6th grade writers then spent the rest of the writing workshop working on their own drafts of personal memoirs.
In cultural studies, the students continued to work on research for their Californian Indian Presentations. The 1st drafts of their reports will be due next Monday.
