Ms. Dawkins - Language Arts

Enriched Language Arts

Week of March 31 – April 4, 2008

Monday- Benchmark Test #1 – Additional practice on REORGANIZING TEXT.  (6.2.6)
Homework – NONE

Tuesday – Benchmark Test #1 – Additional practice on REORGANIZING TEXT.  (6.2.6)
Homework – COME TO TCAP PREPARATION NIGHT TOMORROW NIGHT – 5:30 – 6:30

Wednesday – LOGIC and Enrichment with Mrs. Triplett.
Homework – NONE

Thursday – Benchmark Test #2 – Additional practice on THESIS STATEMENT.  (6.2.13)
Homework – NONE

Friday – Benchmark Test #2 – Additional practice on THESIS STATEMENT AND PROPAGANDA.  (6.2.13) (6.1.27)
Homework – NONE

Benchmark Test  #1 –Language Arts Skills - Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.  Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order.  Select the best way to combine sentences.  Identify the purpose for writing (to inform, describe, explain, persuade).  Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow.  Evaluate text for fact or opinion.  (6.1.9) (6.1.17) (6.1.18) (6.1.22) (6.1.23) (6.1.26) (6.2.2) (6.2.3) (6.2.6) (6.2.7) (6.2.9) (6.2.10) (6.3.7) (6.3.8)

Benchmark Test #2 – Language Arts Skills - Draw inferences from selected texts. Recognize point of view in literature.  Select an appropriate summary statement and determine whether the theme is stated or implied.  Analyze the use of similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole within context.   (6.1.9) (6.1.17) (6.1.18) (6.1.22) (6.1.23) (6.1.26) (6.2.2) (6.2.3) (6.2.6) (6.2.7) (6.2.9) (6.2.10) (6.3.7) (6.3.8)

Language Arts

Week of March 31 – April 4, 2008

Monday- Benchmark Test #1 – Additional practice on REORGANIZING TEXT.  (6.2.6)
Homework – NONE

Tuesday – Benchmark Test #2 – Additional practice on REORGANIZING TEXT.  (6.2.6)
Homework – COME TO TCAP PREPARATION NIGHT TOMORROW NIGHT – 5:30 – 6:30

Wednesday – Benchmark Test #2 – Additional practice on THESIS STATEMENT.  (6.2.13)
Homework – NONE

Thursday – Benchmark Test #2 – Additional practice on THESIS STATEMENT.  (6.2.13)
Homework – NONE

Friday – Benchmark Test #2 – Additional practice on PROPAGANDA. (6.1.27)
Homework – NONE

Benchmark Test  #1 –Language Arts Skills - Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.  Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order.  Select the best way to combine sentences.  Identify the purpose for writing (to inform, describe, explain, persuade).  Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow.  Evaluate text for fact or opinion.  (6.1.9) (6.1.17) (6.1.18) (6.1.22) (6.1.23) (6.1.26) (6.2.2) (6.2.3) (6.2.6) (6.2.7) (6.2.9) (6.2.10) (6.3.7) (6.3.8)

Benchmark Test #2 – Language Arts Skills - Draw inferences from selected texts. Recognize point of view in literature.  Select an appropriate summary statement and determine whether the theme is stated or implied.  Analyze the use of similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole within context.   (6.1.9) (6.1.17) (6.1.18) (6.1.22) (6.1.23) (6.1.26) (6.2.2) (6.2.3) (6.2.6) (6.2.7) (6.2.9) (6.2.10) (6.3.7) (6.3.8)

Join us for 6th grade TCAP Preparation Night

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

5:30 - 6:30

There will be a quick general meeting in the cafeteria.  Then, parents will meet with their child’s team of teachers for more details.  You will receive helpful hints, online practice sites, TCAP tips, and ideas of what you can do to ensure that your child does well on the TCAP test.

We hope to see you there!!!

Enriched Language Arts

Week of March 24 – 28, 2008

TCAP REVIEW
We will be reviewing and pre-teaching various skills that will be tested on the TCAP Achievement Test.  Please check my website DAILY, as homework and skills taught may change depending on the amount of practice needed.  Thanks for your cooperation.

If you need additional practice on anything, please let me know so I can find something for you.  We will continue completing practice tests on Think Link.  Also, here are a couple great TCAP practice web sites for practice:

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_6th_lang.htm

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la-grammar.html

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm

Monday – TCAP Review - Grammar – Review prepositional phrases.  Discuss how to distinguish between prepositions and adverbs, page 354.  Complete Exercise 9 page 358 and Exercise 10 page 359, Distinguishing Between Prepositions and Adverbs.  Sing the “Yankee Doodle” preposition song. (6.3.4) (6.3.11)
COLONS – Discuss the use of colons.  Watch a Brain POP movie on colons.  Complete Exercise 28 page 576, Supplying Colons in Sentences, and Exercise 29 page 576, Proofreading for Colons.  (6.3.10)
Homework – NONE

Tuesday– TCAP Review – Complete a mini-TCAP test, which is formatted exactly as the real test will be.
Grammar – Complete a preposition word sort to review the prepositions.  Sing the preposition song to the tune on “Yankee Doodle.”  (6.3.4) (6.3.11)
COLONS – Discuss the use of colons.  Complete Exercise 31 page 577, Using Colons. (6.3.10)
Homework – NONE

Wednesday – TCAP Review - Grammar – Complete practice on types of punctuation.  (6.3.5) (6.3.6) (6.3.10)
LOGIC and Enrichment with Mrs. Triplett.
Homework – NONE

Thursday – Grammar – Identify prepositional phrases in poetry.  Create prepositional poems following the checklist provided.  (6.3.11)
Homework – Grammar - Quiz tomorrow on adverbs, prepositions, and punctuation

Friday – TCAP Review - Benchmark Test #1 – Complete additional practice on reorganizing text.
Grammar - Complete a quiz on adverbs, prepositions, and punctuation.  (6.3.4) (6.3.10) (6.3.11)
Homework – NONE

Benchmark Test  #1 –Language Arts Skills - Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.  Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order.  Select the best way to combine sentences.  Identify the purpose for writing (to inform, describe, explain, persuade).  Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow.  Evaluate text for fact or opinion.  (6.1.9) (6.1.17) (6.1.18) (6.1.22) (6.1.23) (6.1.26) (6.2.2) (6.2.3) (6.2.6) (6.2.7) (6.2.9) (6.2.10) (6.3.7) (6.3.8)

Language Arts

Week of March 24 – 28, 2008

TCAP REVIEW
We will be reviewing and pre-teaching various skills that will be tested on the TCAP Achievement Test.  Please check my website DAILY, as homework and skills taught may change depending on the amount of practice needed.  Thanks for your cooperation.

If you need additional practice on anything, please let me know so I can find something for you.  We will continue completing practice tests on Think Link.  Also, here are a couple great TCAP practice web sites for practice:

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_6th_lang.htm

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la-grammar.html

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm

Monday – TCAP Review – Grammar – Review prepositional phrases.  Discuss how to distinguish between prepositions and adverbs, page 354.  Complete Exercise 9 and Exercise 10 page 358, Distinguishing Between Prepositions and Adverbs.  Sing the “Yankee Doodle” preposition song. (6.3.4) (6.3.11)
COLONS – Discuss the use of colons.  Watch a Brain POP movie on colons.  Complete Exercise 28 page 576, Supplying Colons in Sentences, and Exercise 29 page 576, Proofreading for Colons.  (6.3.10)
Homework – NONE

Tuesday– TCAP Review – Complete a mini-TCAP test, which is formatted exactly as the real test will be.
Grammar – Complete a preposition word sort to review the prepositions.  Sing the preposition song to the tune on “Yankee Doodle.”  (6.3.4) (6.3.11)
COLONS – Review the use of colons. Finish Exercise 29 page 576, Supplying Colons in Sentences, and complete Exercise 31 page 577, Using Colons.  (6.3.10)
Homework – NONE

Wednesday – TCAP Review – Benchmark Test #1
Grammar– Complete practice on types of punctuation. (6.3.5) (6.3.6) (6.3.10)
Homework – NONE

Thursday – TCAP Review – Benchmark Test #1
Grammar – Discuss and review QUOTATION MARKS- Exercise 35 page 578, Using Quotation Marks With Direct Quotations, workbook page 158, Quotation Marks in Direct Quotations.  (6.3.6)
Homework – Grammar - Quiz tomorrow on adverbs, prepositions, and punctuation

Friday – TCAP Review – Benchmark Test #1 – Complete additional practice on reorganizing text.
Grammar - Complete a quiz on adverbs, prepositions, and punctuation.   (6.3.4) (6.3.5) (6.3.10) (6.3.11)
Homework – NONE

Benchmark Test  #1 –Language Arts Skills - Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.  Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order.  Select the best way to combine sentences.  Identify the purpose for writing (to inform, describe, explain, persuade).  Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow.  Evaluate text for fact or opinion.  (6.1.9) (6.1.17) (6.1.18) (6.1.22) (6.1.23) (6.1.26) (6.2.2) (6.2.3) (6.2.6) (6.2.7) (6.2.9) (6.2.10) (6.3.7) (6.3.8)

Language Arts

Week of March 17 – 21, 2008

ENJOY YOUR SPRING BREAK!!

Please replenish your supplies over the break.  You will definitely need dry erase markers for the next couple of weeks while we review for TCAP.

Language Arts

Enriched Language Arts

Language Arts

Week of March 3 – 7, 2008

Monday – Finish writing book report and illustrating bookmark.
Present propaganda collages.  (6.1.27)
Grammar – Complete workbook pages 131 – 132, Bad and Badly, and pages 133 – 134, Good and Well.  (6.3.1) (6.3.4)
Homework – Grammar – Quiz tomorrow on the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs

Tuesday – THINK LINK TEST – Students will take the 3rd and final THINK LINK TEST for this school year.  This test is based on the skills taught through the end of 6th grade, and it will show us what skills we must focus on before the TCAP Test.  Individual student scores will be sent home in the near future.
Grammar – Complete a quiz on the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs. Complete workbook pages 131 – 132, Bad and Badly, and pages 133 – 134, Good and Well.  (6.3.1) (6.3.4)
Homework – NONE

Wednesday – Discuss the questions and answers to the THINK LINK TEST.
Finish presenting propaganda collages.  (6.1.27)
Grammar – Introduce and copy the preposition song to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.”  (6.3.11)
Homework – NONE

Thursday – Finish discussing the questions and answers to the THINK LINK TEST.
Grammar – Begin discussing prepositions. Practice the preposition song to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.”  (6.3.11)
Homework – NONE

Friday – Read “La Bamba,” pages 336 - 341.  Define the vocabulary words using context clues, answer comprehension questions, and complete sequence of events from “La Bamba.”  Create a comic strip illustrating the main events from “La Bamba.”  (6.1.10) (6.1.21)
Grammar - Troublesome Modifiers – Students will continue creating a foldable to express the meaning of bad, badly, good and well. (6.3.4)
Homework - NONE

Enriched Language Arts

Week of March 3 – 7, 2008

Monday – Finish writing book report and illustrating bookmark.
GROUP PROJECT – Students will meet with their group members to finish their propaganda project.  Each group will present their propaganda advertisement and commercial.  (6.1.27)
Grammar – Check Exercise 20 page 549 and Exercise 28 page 550 – 551, Troublesome Modifiers.  (6.3.4)
Homework – Grammar – Quiz tomorrow on the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs

Tuesday – THINK LINK TEST – Students will take the 3rd and final THINK LINK TEST for this school year.  This test is based on the skills taught through the end of 6th grade, and it will show us what skills we must focus on before the TCAP Test.  Individual student scores will be sent home in the near future.
Grammar – Complete a quiz on comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs.  Complete workbook pages 131 – 132, Bad and Badly, and pages 133 – 134, Good and Well.  (6.3.4)
Homework – NONE

Wednesday – LOGIC and Enrichment with Mrs. Triplett.
Grammar – Introduce and copy the preposition song to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.”  (6.3.11)
Homework – NONE

Thursday – Discuss the questions and answers to the THINK LINK TEST.
Grammar – Practice the preposition song to the tune of “Yankee Doodle.”  (6.3.11)
Homework – NONE

Friday – Read “La Bamba,” pages 336 - 341.  Define the vocabulary words using context clues, answer comprehension questions, and complete sequence of events from “La Bamba.”  Create a comic strip illustrating the main events from “La Bamba.”  (6.1.10) (6.1.21)
Grammar - Troublesome Modifiers – Students will continue creating a foldable to express the meaning of bad, badly, good and well. (6.3.4)
Homework - NONE