Welcome, students and parents to Week 38, the last week of school year 2007/2008. We continue to strive for the best of what we do. This week will be mostly review of Language Arts and Social Studies.
For Language Arts, we will continue to read and review Collection Six: Building Bridges, which is about the play, "The Secret Garden". We plan to view two versions of the play via DVD (animated and regular movie). The students will compare and contrast the two versions of the play, "The Secret Garden".
In Social Studies, the focus will be on continuing to review Chapter 4, The Geography and History of the United States. Students will be given activities that pertain to United States Geography or History.
Week of May 19, 2008
English Language Arts Sixth Grade Team 6-3 2nd and 3rd Blocks
GPS Objectives
Reading and Literature
ELA6R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a variety of literary and informational text.
Writing
ELA6W1 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.
Conventions
ELA6C1 The student demonstrates understanding and control of the rules of the English Language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats.
Listening, Speaking, and Viewing
ElA6LSV1 The Student participates in student-to-teacher, student-to-student, and group verbal interactions.
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MONDAY May 19, 2008
General/Daily Lesson Steps: Elements of Literature, Collection Six: Building Bridges. Review! Review! Review!
Essential Question: What are the four big “bones” of a play?
Warm Up: Students will read silently/independently and respond to questions with appropriate information.
Opening: Continue to review the play, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett and dramatized by Blanche Hanails. Watch the movie version of the play.
Work Period: Students will read and continue to review the play, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett and dramatized by Blanche Hanails. Watch the movie of the play and take notes of the events to compare and contrast the animated and the regular versions of the play.
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what they learned.
Homework Assignment: Read ten pages of a book.
TUESDAY May 20, 2008
General/Daily Lesson Steps: Review! Review! Review!
Essential Question: What reading strategies do you use?
Warm Up: Students will read silently/independently and respond to questions with appropriate information.
Opening: Continue to review the play, “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett and dramatized by Blanche Hanails. Discuss the teleplay terms and characters.
Work Period: Students will continue to read and the play, “The Secret Garden,”
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what was learned.
Homework Assignment: Students will continue to read books.
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WEDNESDAY May 21, 2008
General/Daily Lesson Steps: Review! Review! Review!
Essential Questions: What is an irregular verb?
Warm Up: Students will read silently/independently and respond to questions with appropriate information.
Opening: Continue to review the play and characters.
Work Period: Students will continue to review the play.
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what they learned.
Homework Assignment: Students will continue to read.
THURSDAY May 22, 2008
General/Daily Lesson Steps:
Warm Up: Students will read silently/independently and respond to questions with appropriate information.
Opening: Continue to review the play, “The Secret Garden.”
Work Period: Students will continue to read the play, “The Secret Garden.
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what they learned.
Homework Assignment: Continue to read books.
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FRIDAY May 23, 2008
General/Daily Lesson Steps: Elements of Literature, Collection Six: Building Bridges.
Review! Review! Review!
Warm Up: Students will read silently/independently and respond to questions with appropriate information.
Opening: Introduce the four parts of a play on a Graphic Organizer.
Work Period: Students will conclude reviewing the play, “The Secret Garden, on pages
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what they learned.
Homework Assignment: No homework. Last day of this school year.
Social Studies Sixth Grade Team 6-3 4th and 5th Blocks
GPS Objectives: Unit 1 An Introduction to World Geography and Cultures Chapter 4 The Geography and History of the United States (People, Places, and Change, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2005)
Historical Understandings
SS6H2 The student will describe the importance of slavery on the development of the Americas.
SS6H4 The student will describe the important developments in Europe between 1400 CE and 1800 CE.
Geographic Understandings
SS6G1 The student will be able to describe and locate the important physical and human characteristics of Latin America and the Caribbean and Canada.
Government/Civic Understandings
SS6CG2 The Student will explain the parliamentary system of the United Kingdom and compare it with a presidential system such as the U.S., and the dual system of France.
Economic Understandings
SS6E6 The student will define types of trade barriers, both physical and economic, and how they influence the development of trade within Europe (e.g., extensive trade by rivers, different currencies in each European country).
SS6H8 The student will explain the impact of World War II on Australia and Oceania.
Reading Across the Curriculum
SS6RC1 The student will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by: (a) reading in all curriculum areas (a minimum of 25-grade-level books), (b) discussing books, (c) building vocabulary knowledge, and (d) establishing context.
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MONDAY May 19, 2008 Unit 1 Chapter 4 United States Becomes a World Power General/Daily Lesson Steps:
Essential Question: Who took part in westward expansion and explain what drew these people west?
Warm Up: Students will read and answer questions appropriately.
Opening: Review Section 1 Physical Geography.
Work Period: Students will review Section Physical Geography on pages 80 through 85.
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what they learned.
Homework Assignment: Writing: Describe the land and climate of Columbus, Georgia.
TUESDAY May 20, 2008 Read and Review Chapter 4, Section 2 Early Peoples of North America
General/Daily Lesson Steps: Review! Review! Review!
Warm Up: Students will read and answer questions appropriately.
Opening: Review Section 2 Early Peoples of North America, vocabulary and people.
Work Period: Students will discuss the why the people first came to America. Also discuss the vocabulary and the people on page 86 to 89.
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what they learned.
Homework Assignment: Students will read online information about how the first Americans adapted to the their environments..
WEDNESDAY May 21, 2008 Chapter 4, Section 3 From Colonies to an Independent Country, page 90 through 95. Review! Review! Review!
General/Daily Lesson Steps:
Essential Question: What are the factors that lead to the outbreak of the American Revolution?
Warm Up: Students will read and answer questions appropriately.
Opening: Introduce the outbreak of American Revolution, graphic organizer, on page 92.
Work Period: Students will draw a graphic organizer and list five factors that led to the outbreak of the American Revolution.
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what they learned.
Homework Assignment: Find an article in an encyclopedia or online and write two paragraphs about the American Revolution.
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THURSDAY May 22, 2008 Chapter 4 Section 4 The United States Becomes a World Power. Review! Review! Review!
General/Daily Lesson Steps:
Warm Up: Students will read and answer questions appropriately.
Opening: Introduce cause and effect chart for westward expansion before the civil War.
Work Period: Students will create a cause and effect chart for westward expansion before the Civil War, page 97.
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what they learned.
Homework Assignment: Students will create an advertisement for each of the causes of western expansion. Include one or more images in the advertisements. Share the ads with class.
FRIDAY May 23, 2008 Chapter 4 Review and Practice. Review! Review! Review!
Watch a movie (scheduled for end of year activity).
General/Daily Lesson Steps:
Essential Question: How did some early peoples adapt to their environments in North America?
Warm Up: Students will read and answer questions appropriately.
Opening: Discuss Review and Practice questions.
Work Period: Students will answer Review and Practice questions on page 106 and 107.
Closing: Students will answer questions to convey what they learned.
Homework Assignment: No homework. Enjoy the summer .
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