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Mrs. Clark 6th grade ILA |
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Homework 6th grade ILA
Week of November 16-20
Any Changes to homework will be posted in class. Students contiue to be responsible for writing down homework in agenda. The website is simply a back up reference for students and parents.
Homework: Scholastic Book Orders due On Monday. Monday November 16
· Read for 30 minutes and record on log –complete home link page 27-3 examples of cause and effect from independent reading. · Word Work- Speed sort to increase speed of sorting words. Star 5 words you do not know the definitions for and write the definitions and write a synonym for it. · Tuesday November 17
· Read for 30 minutes and record on log. Complete Link page 29- Describe the dynamic character in your book and explain why. · Vocabulary Word Wall- Use a thesaurus or an online thesaurus to find three synonyms for the word suggest Use an index card and write the old word and your new words on one side. On the opposite side, write the definition of the new words and use all the new words in sentences that clearly show the words meaning. · Writing: Tonight choose one of the short stories I have enclosed. Study it, and look at two things especially. First, let the short story help you answer the question- How do these kinds of texts tend to go? Write about that in your writer’s notebook- rehearsal section- and second, think about how the story you read may have grown from the writer’s life? What story idea might the writer have recorded in her notebook? The look at the story ideas you write in school today, and revise one of them in the wake of what you have just read.
Wednesday November 18 · Read for 30 minutes and record on log. Home link page 31 · Word work-: Write sentences for 10 of your words · Writing- reread a published short story you’ve read before, but this time, read it like a writer. Ask “How does this story go?” Turn it inside out in your mind and notice how it’s put together. Is one section of it a small moment story? What else is there other than that? What glues these scenes together? Write a page about what you notice when you look at the story with a writer’s eye. · Brainstorm- use strategies we’ve already explored to brainstorm more story ideas. Or try a new one. Have you heard of bird watching? You know how some people tramp through meadows with binoculars around their necks, at the ready for a whir of color? “I see it,” they say after finding a scarlet tanager. Writers live in a similar way, but we’re watching and listening for story ideas. Robert McCloskey was driving though
· Read for 30 minutes and record on log. · Word work: Study for test tomorrow
· Read for 30 minutes each night and record on log. · Word work: Prepare next weeks word sorts- Highlight bold words, color back, cut out and place in baggie in Word Work book. · Writing: We’ve spent the last few days getting to know our main characters. We’ve made T-charts, compiled lists, and practiced writing scenes in order to bring our main characters to life. Yet we all know that there are other characters in our stories. They are important characters and deserve our attention because they really help to make our stories believable. It’s not enough for us to have a great main character if all the other characters in our story seem like we rushed through them. Over the weekend, take a look at the other characters in your story idea. Try some of the same work with a secondary character that you did with your main character.
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