1. AdVENTURE, 6 th Grade

2. AdVENTURE 6 th Grade Monday, January 31

3. A Review – Spelling  Hockey  Received  Neither  Believe  Achievement  Equality  Referee  Pleasant  Illegal  Nominee  Electricity  Frequent  Entry  Eagerly  Pique  Easel  Abbreviate  Tedious

4. Your Task Today – choose one, both are partner projects  Create a crossword puzzle using all of your spelling words. OR  Write a story or rap (about the Superbowl) using all of your spelling words (illustrations are optional).

5. AdVENTURE 6 th Grade Tuesday, February 1, 2011

6. Review – simple sentences  One subject  Ipod  Computer  Engineer  Player  Car  One predicate  Plays  Creates  Runs  Speaks  Moves

7. Review – Compound Sentences (two simple sentences joined by a conjunction and separated by a comma.)  The Pittsburgh Steelers are going to the Superbowl,  I want a new ipod for my birthday,  but, they will need to have great defense if they want to win.  so, I better start saving money now! FANBOYSFANBOYS Independent clause, conjunction, independent clause

8. Review - Conjunctions  Coordinating  FANBOYS  Subordinating  http://www.yourdictiona ry.com/grammar/conjun ctions/list-of- subordinating- conjunctions.html

9. Your task today  Please turn in three simple sentences. Underline the subject once and the predicate twice.  Turn in three compound sentences. Underline the first independent clause once, the second independent clause twice, circle your conjunction (and remember your comma.)  Tic-tac-toe when done.

10. AdVENTURE, 6 th Grade Wednesday, February 2, 2011

11. Review – Compound-Complex Sentences  Two independent and one dependent clause  On Saturday after football practice, I wanted to visit my friends, but my mom said I needed to help clean the garage.

12. Your task today  Today we will build compound-complex sentences.  Blue people=independent clause  Red people=independent clause  Green people=dependent clauses.  We will rearrange ourselves into different groups to form compound complex sentences.

13. AdVENTURE, 6 th Grade Thursday, February 3, 2011

14. Punctuation Review  Colons:  Semicolons;

15. Your task  Today we will play Jeopardy to review all that we’ve learned in this unit.  Multimedia folks, you can take your test today.

16. AdVENTURE, 6 th Grade Friday, February 5, 2011

17. Your task today  Complete our final unit task.  When everyone is done, we’ll have time to work on our tic-tac-toes.  Next week, we’ll begin our research report unit!