Welcome to sixth grade! 09/19/2017 Upcoming, Important Dates: Add these dates to your agenda, if they apply to you: Tuesday (09/19) – Dance Tickets for Sale Wednesday (09/20) – LMC for Biblionasium - Dance Tickets for sale Thursday (09/21) – Business Lab for ELA - Last Day to buy a dance ticket Friday (09/22) – Biblionasium Report #1 Due - Back to School Dance Mon.-Fri. (09/25-09/29) – Fall Break – No School If you are not eating, you must read something of your choice. HOMEROOM = SILENCE

Language Arts – Warm Up 09/19/17 I.A.N. Update your Reading Strategies and Writing Strategies T.O.C. using the posters. We will use the document camera in a moment.

Language Arts – Work Session 09/19/17 Biblionasium Reviews First, read all of the options and choose which one you would like to do, based on what you are reading. Next, begin to write your Biblionasium book review on a sheet of notebook paper. Use the R.A.C.E.S. writing strategy to help you. Tomorrow, we will begin to edit and type these reviews during class in the L.M.C. Your Biblionasium Review and your second independent reading ½ sheet are due THIS FRIDAY!

Language Arts – Work Session 09/19/17 Essential Question: How can change be significant? What makes a good story? Standard: ELASE6RL2 – Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. Learning Targets: Define the concept of change through the reading of a narrative. Apply understanding of narrative elements to reading and writing.

Language Arts – Closing Session 09/19/17 Independent Reading Tomorrow, we will begin to edit and type these reviews during class in the L.M.C. Your Biblionasium Review and your second independent reading ½ sheet are due THIS FRIDAY!