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LANGUAGE ARTS & LITERATURE
WELCOME TEAM 6-2! WELCOME TO VMMS -- WHERE OUR CORE BUSINESS IS STUDENT LEARNING!
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WEEK 10-12 TO 10-16 ELA6C1 - a. Identifies and uses the eight basic parts of speech and demonstrates that words can be different parts of speech within a sentence. ii. Identifies and uses pronouns – personal, possessive, interrogative, demonstrative, reflexive, and indefinite. LAST WEEK, WE WORKED ON PERSONAL PRONOUNS -- SUBJECT, OBJECT, AND POSSESSIVE FORMS FOR FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD PERSON, BOTH SINGULAR AND PLURAL. THIS WEEK, WE WILL MOVE FORWARD AND CONTINUE OUR STUDY OF PRONOUNS, BEGINNING WITH THE REFLEXIVE, INTENSIVE, AND CONTINUING INTO NEXT WEEK WITH THE DEMONSTRATIVE, INTERROGATIVE, INDEFINITE, AND RELATIVE TYPES.
ELA6W - The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and provides a satisfying closure. The student Elements:
THIS WEEK, WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON ESSAY STRUCTURE, AND RE-WORK OUR ROUGH DRAFTS. WE ARE JOURNALING IN CLASS, ALSO. ELA6R1 - h. Responds to and explains the effects of sound, figurative language, and graphics in order to uncover meaning in literature:
THIS WEEK WE WILL BEGIN OUR STUDY OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. THIS WILL INCLUDE: METAPHOR, SIMILE, OXYMORONS, IDIOMS, SYMBOLS, PERSONIFICATION, HYPERBOLE, AND IMAGERY. HOW CAN YOU HELP YOUR CHILD THIS WEEK?
*What are the rules of the classroom? *What is your plan for organizing this week? *What do you believe will be your biggest challenge? *What is your plan for attacking the challenge? *What are main verbs and how do you recognize them in a sentence? *What are Action Verbs? *What determines the type of verb? *What are the State of Being Verbs? *What are Helping Verbs and how do they function? *How do you find the Simple Subject in a sentence? *What are the only parts of speech that can serve as the subject of of a sentence? *What is a Setting, and what are some of the things included as part of a Setting? *What is a Subject? *How do you make a subject compound? *What is a Coordinating Conjunction? Can you list them? *What is a Noun? What are the noun categories? How do you differentiate between them? *What is a Pronoun? What are the types of Pronouns? *What makes a Simple Sentence? What are the formulas? *How do you create the other forms of Personal Pronouns? *How do you differentiate between a Reflexive and an Intensive Pronoun?
Mrs. Jones
CHECKPOINT FOR READING: Students have received the requirements for the Second Quarter Book Project. The first Reading Log is Due: November 4, 2009 and the Project and second Reading Log are Due: December 11, 2009! This time, the required genre is Science Fiction or Fantasy. The project must be completed using a book from one of these genres. The deadline is right around the corner! Please be sure you are reading and logging your pages every night!
MRS. JONES 6TH GRADE VETERANS MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL 2008 Old Guard Road ~ Columbus, GA 31909 (706) 748 - 3203
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