1. 6 TH GRADE INDEPENDENT STUDY Assignments: May 14 to May 21

2. Housekeeping  Natural Disaster Project  Poem  My Access Dog Essay  Monday 1:00-2:00 CST Testing makeup only  Sample  Stamp Sample  T3 Week9  2%  Grade Work

3. Pg.315 Ecosystems-Chapter 15

4. Graphic Organizers  Front of Workbook

5. Living Parts of the System Causes: Power Plants Factories Volcanoes Carss  Producer-Plant that can use sun’s energy  Consumer-eats other things  Herbivore-deer (Ms. Busk)  Carnivore-Wolf (YOU! AAGH!)  Decomposer-consumes “waste”

6. Food Chains and Food Webs  Graphic Organizer  With your group label  Producers  Consumers  Decomposers Food ChainFood Web

7. Symbiosis-Balance…..  Birds sitting on cows  Remora fish on sharks  At least 1 member benefits from the interaction Togetherness…. 2 species live together for a long time…

8. Animals in your ecosystem-Pg. 328  Marine Ecosystem  “threatened” species  Declining because of pollutants  They eat sea urchins…too many sea urchins…too much kelp…unbalanced  What is an animal being threatened in your ecosystem? Sea OttersResearch

9. Due: Cards Global Warming’s Effect on the ______Ecosystem

10. Science-5/28  ____ Read Ch. 15 Lesson 3. Take Cornell Notes.  _____Ch. 15 Lesson 3 Q’s Pg. 321  _____ Ocean Q’s Pg. 333  _____Ch. 15 Assessment Pg. 335  _____Wordsplash 15.3  _____Put 2 of your cards into 1 parag. Each for your report  Science Research Report… “Global Warming and It’s Effect on the _________ Biome” Report Due June 15  Study for Ch. 15 Test  Science Benchmark June 1 Grade______ TW_________%

11. Writing a Research Paper “All Write” Page 183  Example

12. Steps in Research Paper  Web  Put all ideas on web  Some will be deleted later  Research-cards  List research Questions  Do more research!- add to cards 1.Prewriting

13. More Prewriting….  Make outline  Use cards  Green-Intro  Yellow-Details  Yellow  Green-Conclusion

14. Writing-Pg. 190 Intro Paragraph  Intro-Grab your audience!  Body-Most important!

15. Daily Language Practice  Grade Last Week  This week…Grade work  Sentence Practice  # of errors in paragraph

16. Poetry Project-Where is it?  Typed 14 Pt.  Double Spaced  6 stanzas  Picture inserted

17. Play “Phantom Tollbooth” Test next week! Pg. 633 Standards: I-Summaries Theme Images

18. Summary-Show your work  Selection Support Pg. 174  Practice Guide  3 part topic sentence  Name it  Verb it  Finish it

19. Play “Dragon, Dragon” Pg. 434 Standards: -Analyze themes conveyed through Characters

20. Themes and Images  Central idea, insight about life…  How “pictures” are created by language or characters  Look for the theme behind the “outcome” of the characters actions ThemesImages

21. Plot  1 st  2 nd  3 rd  4 th  5th  Conflict-problem  Resolution-how it is solved  Let’s find out who the characters are… Pg. 435 Sequence of EventsArranged around….

22. Dragon Slayer Project-Due June 15  Pg. 445  Want Ad from newspaper  Pg. 445-Research and Tech  Dragon in other literature and cultures Want AdCompare and Contrast Chart

23. Language Arts T3 Week 11 ____Read “Dragon, Dragon” Pg. 434. Do Q’s Pg. 442. ____Selection Support Pgs. 126, 129 ____Write the Introduction/Thesis Paragraph of your Biosphere paper ____Write 1 paragraph of the body of your paper ____Research Paper-Read “All Write” Pgs. 183-194 with parent/guardian. (cards not grid) Parent/Guardian Signature______________ ____Daily Lang. Practice Week 35 Study for Act II Test Dragon Slayer Project Due June 15-See Pg. 445 for more information (Want Ad and Research) Grade______ TW______%

24. Decline of Rome  Decline of Rome Chapter 15

25. Ch. 14 Study Guide  ***Paul  Peter  Constantine  Bishop of Rome  Pax Romana  Bethlehem  When did Christianity and Judaism become 2 religions?  What happened to make Roman leaders stop Christianity?  List 3 ways Jesus spread his message. Definitions/Who were they?Concepts:

26. Benchmark Test Good Luck!  Jeopardy!  Test

27. Social Studies 5/28  ____ Read Ch. 15 Lesson 1. Take notes.  ____Ch. 15.1 Workbook  ____Ch. 15.1 Questions Pg. 498  Brochure Final Project Due June 15-Do you have Microsoft Publisher on your computer? Bring Zip Drive if you want to use here and home. More details next week! Grade_______ TW_________%

28. 6 th Grade Assignments T3 W11 Due Thurs. May 28 (8:30-12) Name______ TW____%  PE  ______TW  ______Grade  (4 Day Week)  Tutor time cancelled due to Holiday  Math Course 1  ____ _Ch. 11 Study Guide Review Pgs. 592- 594  ____Ch. 11 Practice Test Pg. 595  ____Quiz Pg. 588  ____Geometry Review Packet  Study for Chapter 11 Test!  Benchmark June 11  Grade____ TW____%

29. Integrated Language Pg. 662  Refers to person, place, thing in a general way  Somebody, nobody, everybody  Everyone passed the test.  The principal gave prizes to several people. Indefinite PronounExamples