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WELCOME TEAM 6-2!

WELCOME TO VMMS -- WHERE OUR CORE BUSINESS IS STUDENT LEARNING!

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WEEK 11-16 TO 11-20

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.

iii. Identifies and uses adjectives – common, proper, and demonstrative.

vi. Identifies and uses adverbs.

LAST WEEK, WE WORKED ON MODIFIERS -- THOSE THAT MODIFY NOUNS AND PRONOUNS (ADJECTIVES), AND THOSE THAT MODIFY VERBS, ADJECTIVES, AND OTHER ADVERBS (ADVERBS).  NEXT WEEK, WE WILL CONTINUE OUR WORK WITH MODIFIERS AND CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD BY WORKING ON PREPOSITIONS AND PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES AND LEARNING HOW THEY (THE PHRASES) WORK AS MODIFIERS.

 

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:
a. Selects a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose, genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.
 
NEXT WEEK, WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON SENTENCE STRUCTURE, BY LEARNING THE REMAINING SENTENCE TYPES AND THEIR FORMULAS. 
 
 
 
ELA6R1 - h. Responds to and explains the effects of sound, figurative language, and graphics in order to uncover meaning in literature:

Elements:

i. Sound (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme)
ii. Figurative language (i.e., simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification)

 
THIS WEEK WE CONTINUED OUR STUDY OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.  THIS INCLUDES: METAPHOR, SIMILE, OXYMORONS, IDIOMS, SYMBOLS, PERSONIFICATION, HYPERBOLE, AND IMAGERY.
 

HOW CAN YOU HELP YOUR CHILD THIS WEEK?

  • Ask leading questions like:

            *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?      

  • Continue to review terms and definitions. 
  • Use the STUDY PLAN!!!

Mrs. Jones

 

CHECKPOINT FOR READING:  

Students have received the requirements for the Second Quarter Book Project.  The first Reading Log was 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! 



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