Awesome Essay (6th grade core)

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This Week in Room 103: November 25-29

6th Grade Core
Monday: Intro the "Awesome Essay"
Tuesday: Top 20 List and Figurative Language, Current Events
Wednesday: Top 20 List and Figurative Language Due, Reading Response Due

6th grade Reading
Monday: Ugly Duckling small group work
Wednesday: Ugly Duckling large group

8th grade Reading
Tuesday: Poetry Analysis

Wildcat Pride
Monday: Yearbook and Com101 deadlines
Tuesday: Leadership traits: notes
Wednesday: BB

Personal Narrative Paragraph #3

One last paragraph assignment before we start our narrative essay next week.

Guidelines:

1. Write a paragraph about something that happened to you --It must be true
2. Pick one of the following topics, or choose your own

• time you learned a lesson
• time you were afraid
• embarrassing moment
• proudest moment
• scariest moment
• memorable day with a relative
• time you conquered a fear

3. Topic should be meaningful, and have some significance to you

Tuesday: Pre-write
Wednesday: Draft
Thursday: Revise
Friday: Publish

This Week in Room 103: November 18-22

Language Arts
Monday: WW#7
Tuesday: NP#3 Prewrite
Wednesday: NP#3 Draft
Thursday: NP#3 Revise and edit
Friday: WW#7 Due and Test, NP#3 Final draft (library to type)

Social Studies
Monday: Chapter 2 Section 2 Notes
Tuesday: Chapter 2 Section 2 Notes
Wednesday: Chapter 2 Section 2 Review
Thursday: Chapter 2 Section 2 Quiz
Friday: Current Event Activity

Reading 6
Tuesday:
Wednesday:

Reading 8
Monday: Legacies
Wednesday: Poem analysis
Friday: Reading Circuit

Wildcat Pride
Monday: Yearbook Advertising
Tuesday: Community 101 mission statement
Wednesday: Com 101 Research
Thursday: Com 101 Research
Friday: BB

Social Studies Quiz: Moved

Heads up! Our Civilization Quiz will now be on Thursday, November 21st.

Mysteries of Catalhoyuk Webquest

Please use THIS link to complete the "Mysteries of Catalhoyuk" webquest

Chapter 2 Notes

This Week in Room 103: November 12 - 15

Language Arts
Tuesday: AP Pre-write, Spelling packet "Tall Tale Heroes"
Wednesday: AP Draft
Thursday: AP Revision and Editing
Friday: Library to type AP, due at the end of the day, Spelling Test

Social Studies
Tuesday: Chapter 2 Notes
Wednesday: Catlhoyuk Webquest
Thursday: 8 Features of Civilization
Friday: Civilization Quiz

Reading 6
Wednesday & Friday: American Slurp

Reading 8
Tuesday & Thursday: Hour with Abuelo (quiz Thursday)

Wildcat Pride
Tuesday & Wednesday: Theme Presentations
Thursday: Theme vote and decision, cover design
Friday: Boundary Breaking

Chapter 1 Test: Essay Prep

Here are the essay questions that will be on the test on Thursday. You will need to answer one:

Which method that scientists use to date fossils and artifacts do you think would be the most accurate? Explain your answer. 
                                   
Why do you think that having a spoken language and the ability to pass knowledge and skills to their children was an important ability for Homo sapiens? 

Modern archaeologists make use of both hand tools and advanced scientific equipment. Why do you think both types of technology are necessary? 

What technology helped people adapt to the last Ice Age? What other skills and tools would have helped Ice Age people survive?

Wildcat Pride: Theme Project

Chapter 1 Notes

This Week in Room 103

Core
Monday: WW#6 (due Friday), narrative paragraph (WS page 94), Ch1Sect3 outline
Tuesday: NP draft (due Wednesday), Ch1Sect3 activity
Wednesday: NP revision and editing, Chapter 1 Review
Thursday: NP final draft, Chapter 1 (Early People) TEST
Friday: NP due and share, WW#6 due and Test

Reading 6
Monday: Reading for details packet (due Wednesday)
Wednesday: Reading for details due (correct and collect), close reading #2
Friday: Close reading #2 finish and assess

Reading 8
Tuesday: Close Reading #4
Thursday: Finish and assess Close Reading #4, warm up packet DUE

Wildcat Pride
Monday: Theme brainstorming and development
Tuesday: Community 101 Volunteer Hours for October Due
Tuesday - Friday: Theme presentation work time (due Monday)
Friday: Community 101 mission statement due