What a great Literacy Day! We appreciate those who were able to send us a Flipgrid video. Have a wonderful winter break and we will see you in 2019.

Today we looked at conclusions for our Literary Essays and are now in the process of editing and revising with both peers and teachers. As part of our reading time, we have read through some short stories from our Family Matters book. Today we continue to practice citing textual evidence using the short story Growing Up by Gary Soto.

Homework: 

ELA: Literary Essay due 12/21/18

Reading: Stem Quiz and extra credit and Reading Log due 1/7/19

Science: T & R Model

Mr K Math: R & P 4.2.1 #47-51 pg 188

Today we continued our conversation about theme within our short stories and co-wrote new claims that reflected theme. Students are not required to change their character trait claim to a theme-based claim, though some students did reflect on the language in their claim and made adjustments.

Homework:

Reading: Latin Stem Quiz AND extra credit AND reading log check due 12/17/18

We will present out group projects in Social Studies tomorrow in class (see above for an example). In ELA, we switched gears to focus on reading our short stories looking for theme instead of protagonist's character traits. We also signed an all-6th grade Social Contract!
Homework:

Reading: Latin Stem Quiz and extra credit 12/17/18
Science: Finish T & R 1.5
R & P 4.1.1 #7-11 pg 170

Homework:

Reading: Stem Quiz and Extra Credit due 12/11/18

Homework:
Reading: Stem Quiz and Extra Credit due 12/11/18 AND Reading log check on 12/11/18
Mr K Math HOUR 2- CLOSURE #133-140
Mr K Math HOUR 3- R & P 3.2.4 #128-132 pg 155

We are focusing on literary essay writing in ELA. Students need to write a claim for their protagonist and annotate the story based on their claim. Students have noticed that claims change. You may reread the text and notice your claim does not speak to what you are really trying to say. You may reread the text and not find enough evidence to support your claim.

In SS, students are creating a claim to answer the question: "Were West Africans successful at adapting to their physical and natural environments?"

Homework: 
Reading: Extra Credit and Latin Stem Quiz and Reading Log check 12/11/18
Science: Annotations for Surprising Spider Silk
Mr K Math: R & P 3.2.4 #128-132 pg 155

It took us a bit to wake our brains up this morning so we played a round of moose! Above is the new Velma Hamilton Behavior Matrix that we went over extensively in Advisory today.

Homework:
Reading: Stem Quiz and Extra Credit
Math: R & P 3.2.3 #118-122 pg 150-151