Category Archives: 6.12 A – J

(12) Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes. The student is expected to:
(A) generate student-selected and teacher-guided questions for formal and informal inquiry;
(B) develop and revise a plan;
(C) refine the major research question, if necessary, guided by the answers to a secondary set of questions;
(D) identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources;
(E) differentiate between primary and secondary sources;
(F) synthesize information from a variety of sources;
(G) differentiate between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials;
(H) examine sources for:
(i) reliability, credibility, and bias; and
(ii) faulty reasoning such as hyperbole, emotional appeals, and stereotype;
(I) display academic citations and use source materials ethically; and
(J) use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.

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.

 

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.