Category Archives: 6.10 A – E

(10) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts–writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:
(A) plan a first draft by selecting a genre appropriate for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as discussion, background reading, and personal interests;
(B) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:
(i) organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, coherence within and across paragraphs, and a conclusion; and
(ii) developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and details;
(C) revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety;
(D) edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
(ii) consistent, appropriate use of verb tenses;
(iii) conjunctive adverbs;
(iv) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
(v) pronouns, including relative; (vi) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences and correlative conjunctions such as either/or and neither/nor ;
(vii) capitalization of proper nouns, including abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;
(viii) punctuation marks, including commas in complex sentences, transitions, and introductory elements ; and
(ix) correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it’s, affect/effect, there/their/they’re, and to/two/too; and
(E) publish written work for appropriate audiences.

March 24 – 28, 2025

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ELA STAAR on April 8th – 12 more days to prepare to SLAY the STAAR!!!

Monday – Finish ELA DMAC Test, Extended Constructed Response practice/6.10. 6.11/Practicing our ECR strategies to prepare for the STAAR test on April 8th.

Tuesday – Correcting/Editing ELA DMAC Test, Extended Constructed Response practice/6.10. 6.11/Practicing our ECR strategies to prepare for the STAAR test on April 8th. The students who do not need to correct their responses will be preparing to share their DREAM JOB/CAREERS Essays that they prepared for an assignment a few weeks ago.

Wednesday – Breaking Down the ECR Strategies/6.10, 6.11/We will be discussing all the parts of an ECR and how we can improve our responses.

Thursday/Friday – DREAM JOB or CAREER/6.12/In the Think Lab the students will be sharing their essays and visual aids with their classes. We will be using the new “toy” that Mrs. Kelley has in the Think Lab.  It is a really neat interactive and touch screen computer screen that I want the students to learn to use.

 

March 17 – 21, 2025

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                                                  HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!      MONDAY – TUESDAY: Extended Constructed Response(6.10./6.11): We will be reviewing the parts of a GOOD ECR response, aka essay, and discussing how to make a good score on the STAAR Test ECR quesions. We will be writing on Google Classroom about Spring Break.

WEDNESDAY: Revise and Edit(6.10): I will be giving them a copy of their written ECR to be edited and then corrected online.

THURSDAY: Journal Day(6.10): The students will be given a Journal Prompt to write an ECR about.

FRIDAY: Sentence Bad Guys(6.10): Introducing the 4 Sentence Bad Guys and how to find and fix their mistakes.

***PLEASE encourage your son or daughter to work on IXL Writing Strategies/Grammar & Mechanics Recommendations at least 15 minutes each night.  IXL will assess what your son/daughter needs to work on based upon their diagnostic test that they took in January. ALL of this will help them with the STAAR test in April. 

         ELA/Reading STAAR Test is in 19 days – Tuesday, April 8th!

February 17 – 21, 2025

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MONDAY: President’s Day  – No School

TUESDAY: Review for MOCK STAAR/6.10/Writing an SCR to practice for the MOCK STAAR.

WEDNESDAY: ELA MOCK STAAR test

THURSDAY: Take a look at our test’s answers and make corrections as needed.

FRIDAY: ELA 2025 Journal Entry 2/6.11/After watching a brief video, we will write about what we saw.

*** I was born and raised in Longview, but I lived in Florida for 17 years and trying to explain TEXAS weather to them was EXACTLY  like this Dr. Seuss meme that I found – SO TRUE!

February 3 – 7, 2025

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FEBRUARY IS HERE….

Monday: Revise and Edit Review/6.10/We will be reviewing for a short DMAC test on Thursday in preparation for the benchmark and STAAR.

Tuesday:  Rules of Debate/6.11/We will discuss, practice, and go over the rules/how a basic debate works.

Wednesday: Revise and Edit Test on DMAC/6.10/We will take a 15 question practice test on DMAC in preparation for the benchmark and STAAR.

Thursday: Debates/6.12/Debates in the Think Lab.

Friday: Revise and Edit Test on DMAC corrections/6.10/We will discuss the DMAC test and work on corrections.

January 6 – 10, 2025

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HAPPY NEW YEAR AND WELCOME TO 2025!

Monday: Teacher’s Work Day – Student Holiday

Tuesday: ESTEEM Survey – ONLY for students that participated in ALL of these health lessons.

Wednesday: Edit/Revise/Correct – we will take a look at our constructed responses to the DMAC test from December 16th – 17th

Thursday: Journal – we will start a new online Journal on Google Classroom.  The students will be given a writing prompt.

Friday: Detective Hanlon Mystery – students will read together in class the mystery and answer the questions about this mystery/Flocabulary Review Lessons to complete online.

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated every day.

 

Welcome to White Oak Middle School and ELA Class

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August 14 – 16, 2024

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Mrs. McGoldrick’s English Language Arts Classes

***EACH STUDENT WILL NEED A 1″ 3 RING BINDER FOR THIS CLASS. IT MAY BE ANY COLOR.***

Wednesday: Class Introduction/Classroom Policies/Notebook Cover Sheets – we will go over general WOMS policies, classroom policies, a brief introduction to what we will cover in this class, and work on completing our Notebook Cover Sheets

Thursday: Online Google Docs Journal – each student will create an online journal on Google Docs which will include a writing assignment at least once a week.  The student will be given various writing prompts in Google Classroom like a photo, a video to watch, a sentence to complete and elaborate on, a short story to read, a poem to read, etc.  These are just examples of what might be used.  (6.11)

Friday: Nouns (Proper vs. Common) – the students will identify both proper and common nouns; Newspaper Errors – the students will be given copies of the Longview News Journal to read and look for any grammatical or spelling errors.  (6.10c)

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