MONDAY – THURSDAY: We will be doing a BRIEF Math STAAR Review lesson at the beginning of each of my classes.
MONDAY/TUESDAY: Creative Writing Stories and Illustrations/6.11/Writing short stories based upon the characters and
year they drew.
WEDNESDAY: Journal Entry/6.10/My Plans For Easter Break
THURSDAY: Parts of Speech/6.10/Identifying parts of s
peech in sentences and completing an activity based on the answers.
HAVE AN AWESOME EASTER WEEKEND!
SEE YA ON TUESDAY!
STAAR Test this Tuesday! NO MATTER how it turns out – YOUR VALUE IS NOT TIED TO YOUR RESULTS!
Monday: ELA Test Review/We will discuss one last time testing strategies, dealing with test anxieties, and what is expected of them on testing day.
Tuesday: STAAR Test Day
Wednesday: Creative Writing Assignment with Illustration/6.10, 6.11/Students will draw cards for the setting, hero, villain, and cartoon character that they must include in their Creative Short Story.
Thursday: Creative Writing Assignment with Illustration (continued)
Friday: Creative Writing with Illustration(continued)
***Almost every day I will be doing a little bit of MATH fun with my classes, to help Mrs. Wilson out as we prepare for the Math STAAR. It might be a math problem, multiplication drills, or a math game.
THIS WEEK: Revising and Editing; SCR
Student Expectation – 6.10C: Revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety.
6.10D.i: complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;
6.10D.ix: correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it’s, affect/effect, there/their/they’re, and to/two/too.
| DAY | ACTIVITY – Reteach/Small Groups/Peer Help | |
| Mon |
a.) What is the question asking me to do? b.) Which answer is obviously NOT the correct choice? c.) Why did I select the answer choice that I selected? Reason through in student led discussions/come together to discuss with entire class. |
6.10D.ii; 6.10C |
| Tues |
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6.10C; 6.10D.i; 6.10D.ix |
| Wed |
over a non-fiction topic |
6.10C; 6.10D.i; 6.10D.ix |
| Thurs |
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6.10C; 6.10D.i; 6.10D.ix |
| Fri |
**I will be at a writing workshop at Region VII. |
6.10C; 6.10D.i; 6.10D.ix |
MONDAY: ESTEEM Lesson 13
TUESDAY: ESTEEM Lesson 14
WEDNESDAY: Extended Constructed Response practice using Curipod/6.10/Using a lesson created on Curipod we will be practicing writing an Extended Constructed Response using our R.A.C.E.S. Writing Strategy
THURSDAY: ECR/6.10/We will be discussing how to improve our responses from Wednesday’s assignment
FRIDAY: ECR Test on DMAC/6.10/We will use the same short story and question to answer a ECR on DMAC
***Next week we will be taking our Semester Exam in both Reading and ELA class on DMAC. That is why we have been doing at least one a quiz/test every two weeks during ELA class. It will be taken in both Mrs. Owens’ reading class and my class.
THERE ARE ONLY 17 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS, BUT REMEMBER…
MONDAY: ESTEEM TRAINING LESSON 12
TUESDAY: R.A.C.E.S Writing Strategy/6.10/We will find the parts of R.A.C.E.S. in our SCR answers.
WEDNESDAY: UIL Listening and Speaking Events today at White Oak Baptist Church/Since we will have a lot of students out for these events we will spend this day completing, correcting, and making up assignments.
THURSDAY: District UIL Competition/We are hosting the district UIL competition today.
FRIDAY: Curipod Lessons/6.11/Extended Constructed Response practice.
MONDAY: R.A.C.E.S. Writing Strategy review/6.10/We will review this strategy every other day.
SCR using Curi.live/6.11/We will be writing about Thanksgiving
TUESDAY: Grammar lessons on Flocabulary/6.10d/parts of speech and capitalization review
WEDNESDAY: Quiz reviewing SCR, revising, editing sentences/6.10 & 6.11/This will be on DMAC
THURSDAY: Christmas activity/We will be creating Christmas ornaments using different languages
FRIDAY: Advanced Classes will be watching “Out of My Mind” the book they read over the summer/All other classes will be working on ECR assignment on Curi.live
ADVANCED CLASSES: ***All of my Advanced Classes are reading a story from Readworks entitled “Hacked” and the lessons are all on Google Classroom. The students may choose to enter the writing contest that goes with these lessons, but it is not mandatory. The lessons online ARE mandatory, but NOT the writing contest. There is a monetary prize of $2000 for the winner of this writing contest. I will send out more details later this week.
MONDAY: VETERAN’S DAY – STUDENTS HAVE NO SCHOOL!
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY: SCR using Curipod/6.10/use Curipod to practice reading a short article; using our writing strategy to write a response. The students will receive individual feedback for their answers
THURSDAY: ELA JOURNAL/6.11/Using TexQuest we will be researching topics being discussed in science and history classes. We will be writing a short informative report on one of these topics.
FRIDAY: SCR on DMAC/6.10/Using our writing strategy we will read a short article and write an answer to a SCR question.
MONDAY: Creative Writing/6.11/Editing our creative writing stories together in groups
TUESDAY: Constructed Response/6.10a/”Why Do Things Go Viral?” article from SCOPE
WEDNESDAY: Illustrations for Creative Writing/6.10c/Creating illustrations for our creative stories
THURSDAY: Revising and Editing/6.10c/”Making Friends” short story with Revise and Edit questions review
FRIDAY: Revising and Editing Test/6.10c/on DMAC practice revise and editing
MONDAY/TUESDAY: ECR Revising and Editing/6.10/We will be examining ECR answers from Test 1 using the R.A.C.E.S. strategies that we have been discussing in class..
WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY: ELA Classroom Journal 2nd 9 Weeks #2/6.10/Spooky Stories – creative writing
FRIDAY: SCR writing prompts/6.11/We will complete examples of writing prompts for short stories together in groups.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/pumpkin-patch-579be1285f9b589aa98504ef.PNG)