Incredible Words
6th Grade ELA
3rd Quarter is almost complete!
Yes, it is hard to believe but we are coming down to the last two weeks of the quarter. The quarter ends on March 15. Please have your students check to see if they have any missing assignments. I have several missing Article of the Week grades. Let me explain in more detail about this assignment.
The Article of the Week's purpose is to have students engage with more non-fiction literature and respond to it. Students are to annotate the article (highlight, underline, and make notes) and write 2-3 paragraphs as a response. The paragraphs are to include a brief summary of the article and a connection or opinion about what they read. I have attached the one for this week, which will be handed out on Tuesday and be due Tuesday, March 12.
I hope your students have been excited about Book Clubs that we started this last week. Students chose a book out of several and now are part of a book club with other 6th grade students in the other blocks. They are doing video discussion on a program called Flipgrid. This week part of their vocabulary assignment will be to come up with their own 5 vocab words from their book. They will need to find the definition of those 5 words and place them on the back of the Week 19 Greek/Latin worksheet.
Lastly, we are starting our argument writing unit. Students last week chose 3 topics that they might be interested in writing about. They really came up with some great topics! Please ask them to tell you about them!