Sixth Grade LA/Reading LA6 Quarter 1 Week 4 September 21-25, 2015 Mrs. Nabulsi

Department of Defense MISSION STATEMENT VISION STATEMENT Educate, engage and empower each student to succeed in a dynamic world. To be among the World’s leaders in education, enriching the lives of military-connected students and the communities in which they live.

Humphreys Middle/High School Mission Statement Vision Statement Educate , engage, and empower each student to succeed in a dynamic world Helping students to be life-long learners equipped with skills for success in a changing world.

AdvancEd Goals Reading Writing To help students read for understanding and build their comprehension skills.  to help students to summarize by creating strong topic sentences, clear detail sentences and a supporting conclusion.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015 POD CNN FOR STUDENTS JOURNAL - How do we protect the ones we love? Hand back graded papers and log into grade sheet. Track our Standards Go over rubric for outside reading Go over answers for each outside reading weeks 1-3. Turn to Old Yeller week four lesson plan

Form for Weekly Reading Template for Weekly Read and Response Student _______________________ Book title __________ Author ______________________ Block ____________ Date _______________________ Book Report #______ 1. Copy question: 2. Copy question: 3. Copy question: 4. Copy question

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Language Arts Take SRI Begin research on Project: Westward We Go! Journal Topic: Best restaurant in Korea

Rubric for Weekly Reading NOTE: There are four sections to each response. Each section counts 25 points. In order to get all 25 points in each section the student must do the following five things, each of which i worth five (5) points toward the twenty-five (25). 1. Write the questions 2. Write the answer when called upon in a complete sentence 3. Begin the topic sentence with keywords from the stem and not rely on the stem or nouns in the stem. Do not use pronouns in the topic sentence. When the directions say “Write a paragraph,” the student must write a paragraph. 4. Answer all sections of the question. For example, the questions dealing with definitions usually have five parts. Do all five parts. Each is worth five points toward the twenty-five for that question. 5. Be correct in the answer and answer it with examples and details.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Reading CNN Go over vocabulary - Test on Friday Go over project: Westward We Go Go over Patriot Pen

Thursday, September 24, 2015 Reading CNN Daily Fix-It Edit-It: Languages of the World Idiom:Add fuel to the fire Analogy: Read: May have to go finish SRI

juana threw the stick to her dog patches. The dog retrieve it quick Juana threw the stick to her dog Patches. The dog retrieved it quickly. please set the table for dinner Please set the table for dinner.

IDIOM -FUEL THE FIRE Fuel the fire When you forgot to pick me up after not calling earlier, that just fueled the fire. MEANING: To make things worse; to become angrier. SOURCE; The Roman Livy once said that water will put out a fire, but that adding more wood only fuels the fire and makes it hotter like one mean act followed by another mean act only makes the receiver angrier. Thus, meanness fuels a fire.

Analogy a. speak:sound b. wave:hand c. whisper:word d. stub:toe FLAP: WING:: a. speak:sound b. wave:hand c. whisper:word d. stub:toe e. sing:bird

Put given pair in a sentence An animal will FLAP its WING.

Place others in same sentence An animal will SPEAK its SOUND. An animal will WAVE its HAND. An animal will WHISPER its WORD. An animal will STUB its TOE. An animal will SING its BIRD.

Answers B

Friday, September 25, 2015 Test over vocabulary words. Study on quizlet.com Unit 1 Voc. 2 hero chaparral squawling poultice rescue save Brainstorm - prewriting for Patriot Pen Write thesis and complete graphic organizer (2 copies)