Welcome to Pflugerville Middle School and Mrs. Schneider's 6th grade language arts class! I am looking forward to a wonderful year.
Please check back here often for daily work and ongoing assignments.
Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns: charla.schneider@pflugervilleisd.net
** All students should be reading a novel that will be used for a 1st six weeks novel project. Reading logs have been passed out and students need to be reading every day!
Week Eleven (Nov. 3-6)
Monday: Warm-Up: Fragments & Run-on sentences
Adjectives assessment
Work on rough draft of narrative
Homework: Reading log due tomorrow; finish r. draft
Tuesday: Warm-Up: Brain Pop/ Quiz- Run-on sentences
Edit/Revise Narrative: adjectives, thoughts &
feelings, word choice, spelling, simile/ metaphor
Homework: None
Wednesday: CBA
Thursday: CBA Short Answer
Finish editing rough draft
Friday: Warm-Up: Journal
Main Idea
Rewrite Draft of narrative
Week Ten (Oct.26-30)
Monday: Warm-Up: Adjectives
Adjectives Practice
Homework: Read 20 minutes
Tuesday: Warm-Up: Journal
Personal Narrative Tips
Narrative Leads- Discuss and take notes
Write narrative lead for personal narrative
Homework: finish lead
Wednesday: Warm-Up:
Its, It's assessment
Work on rough draft of personal narrative
Thursday: Warm-Up:Simile/Metaphor Warm-Up
Show, Not Tell
Homework: read 20 minutes
Friday: Warm-Up:
Highlight and add adjectives to narrative
Add simile or metaphor to narrative
Superb words- discuss; replace "dead" words
Week Nine (Oct. 19-23)
Monday: Warm-Up: Compound Sentences
Discuss Compound Sentences
Share Writing Territories
Book Fair
Go over returned papers; progress reports
Homework: Read; work on any missing work
Tuesday: Warm-Up: Prefix: trans; root: tract
Compound Sentences Practice
Writing Territories Free Write: Pick 1 topic and
write at least 1/2 page
Read Novels
Homework: vocabulary cards; read novels
Wednesday: Warm-Up: It's, Its
Review Compound Sentences Practice
Personal Narrative- discuss
Personal Narrative Topic Boxes: Choose 3 topics
and fill in information
Choose 1 topic and freewrite
Thursday: Warm-Up: Respond to an art transparency
Share Topics for narratives in groups
Choose 1 topic and fill out Personal Narrative
Organizer
Homework: Vocab. Assessment/ Conjunctions tom.
Friday: Warm-Up: Journal
Vocabulary Assessment
FANBOYS assessment
SSR- Read novels & work on missing work
Week Eight (Oct. 13-16)
Tuesday: Warm-Up: Suffix ance
Know, No Assessment
Read "Those are the Brakes"
--> Complete Fiction Elements for narrative
Homework: vocabulary card; read 20 minutes; reading
logs due tomorrow
Wednesday: Warm-Up: Homophones review
Review simile/metaphor assessment
Review Fiction Elements
Subject/Verb Review
Homework: Subject/Verb Assessment Friday; helping
verbs tomorrow!
Thursday: Warm-Up:
Go over Subject/Verb Review
Helping Verbs Assessment
What is Writing?
Writing Territories
Friday: Homophones Assessment
S/V Assessment
Reading Time
week Seven (Oct.5-9)
Monday: Warm-Up: Prefixes Pre, in
Linking Verbs: Complete side one of paper
Library- get new novels
Homework: Vocabulary cards; read 20 minutes
Tuesday
Warm-Up: Would you like to be famous? Why or why
not? What would you want to be famous for?
Review simple predicates paper and Linking verbs
Complete Side 2 of linking verbs paper for an
Assessment grade
Homework: helping/linking verbs assessment on
Friday
Wednesday: Warm-Up: Know, no sentences
Review Similes from “Eleven”
Discuss metaphors
Create metaphors
Homework: Know helping/linking verbs on Friday!
Thursday: Warm-Up: Respond to poem
Review helping/ linking verbs
Continue with metaphors/ review similes
Homework: simile/metaphor assessment tomorrow;
helping/linking verbs assessment tomorrow
Friday: Simile/Metaphor assessment
Verbs assessment
Reading Time
Week Six (Sept.28-Oct.2)
Monday: Warm-Up: Lone Star Journal]
Book Talks!
They're, there, their assessment
Work on novel projects
Homework: Novel Projects due Thursday! Reading
logs due tomorrow
Tuesday: Warm-Up: Write a paragraph about the
best or worst birthday you've ever had
Review S/V exercise & vocab. assessment
Read "Eleven" p.488
Discuss story
Wednesday: Computer Lab: Helping & Linking Verbs
Thursday: Warm-Up:
Complete chart for "Eleven"
Friday: Warm-Up: Journal
Identify similes & metaphors
Find similes & metaphors in "Eleven"
Create metaphors
Week Five (Sept. 21-25)
Monday: No School
Tuesday: Warm-Up: Suffixes: less, ness
Create vocabulary cards for less, ness
Subjects/ Predicates--> Brain Pop Video
Subjects/Predicates quiz after video
To, Two, Too assessment
Read novels
Homework: Reading logs and vocabulary cards due
Wednesday
Wednesday: Warm-Up: journal
Review s/v assessment- make corrections
Review to, two, too assessment
Reading log and vocabulary card check
Test Corrections for literary elements test
Read novels; work on novel projects
Thursday: Warm-Up: they're, their, there
Subjects/ Verbs- Review as a class
Regular: Complete Ex. 23, p.324
PreAP: Discuss Ex. 23 & Ex. 20 (p.390) as a class
-Complete Ex. 21, p.391
-Create 5 original sentences with compound s/v
Friday: Warm-Up:
Underline subjects/verbs in warm-up
Vocabulary quiz: use vocabulary cards to help
determine word meanings
Reading time/ Project time
Week Four (Sept. 1-18)
Monday: Warm-Up: Prefixes- Re, Un
Create a literary elements map for Indiana Jones
Homework: Vocabulary cards; Reading logs due tom.
Tuesday: Warm-Up: Journal
Read the short story "Dragon, Dragon" (p.461)
Work on comprehension Questions for story
Homework: Read novel
Wednesday: Warm-Up: Vocabulary- determine meaning
through context
Literary Elements questions for "Dragon, Dragon"
Begin literary elements map for "Dragon, Dragon"
Thursday: Warm-Up: to, two, too
Work on literary elements map for "Dragon, Dragon"
Homework: Literary Elements test tomorrow!
Friday: Warm-Up: Journal
Literary Elements Test
Reading time
Homework: Reading logs due Tuesday; any incomplete
literary elements maps due Tuesday
Week Two (Aug. 31-Sept. 4):
Monday: Warm-Up: Prefixes--> con, com
Brain-Pop: Prefixes, Suffixes, & Roots
Create vocabulary cards for prefixes
Share "Are You Like Me?" Poems
Tuesday: Library Orientation: check out novels
Wednesday: Warm-Up: Social Contract questions
Develop Social Contracts
Homework: Read 10 minutes; fill in reading log
Thursday: Warm-Up: Genres of literature
Literary Elements- Introduction; copy definitions
Friday: Warm-Up: Journal question
SSR Time
Novel Journal 1 Questions
Homework: Novel Journal 1 Questions due Tueasday
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