Book Reviews!!

Book review slides

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Links to view!

Students, if you have free time in the computer lab (during LA) OR at home, check these links out!

Grammar practice:

http://www.englishmedialab.com/grammar_games.html

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/grammar/

http://www.grammar-cat.com/

http://www.funbrain.com/plurals/index.html

http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/gg.cgi?A1=m&A2=0&A3=0&AFUNCT=1&ALEVEL=1

http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lmc/nvaap1mmm.htm


OR, if you'd rather read some great book reviews (and maybe write another for fun), see these sites:


http://library.thinkquest.org/4155/

http://flamingnet.com/

http://www.tempe.gov/youthlibrary/middleschool/msbkreviews.htm

http://middleschoolbookreviews.wordpress.com/

Persuasive Essays...Final drafts

Hi all!

As I've been reading students' persuasive essays (rough drafts), I've noticed some common mistakes...

Check out these slides and see if they're mistakes you've been making!

Persuasive essays common mistakes

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News from this week!

Hi everybody! Thanks for working so hard this week!


First order of business, many of you were wondering how team points are working out this month. Here are the current totals:

Cobras...346 points
Tsunamis...412 points
Iron Kids...415 points

Wow, it's a close one! Can't wait to see who wins the ice cream party!!

Here are some important slides from things we've learned recently, namely voice in writing and finding the subject in sentences.

La notes on voice and grammar sept.24

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If you want to learn more about using strong voice in your writing, check out these websites:

http://www.edina.k12.mn.us/concord/teacherlinks/sixtraits/voice.htm

http://www.creativity-portal.com/howto/writing/features/write4kids/original.voice.html


Have a great weekend; see you Monday!!
Miss Holly

Vocabulary from Project Mulberry, Ch. 13-14

This week we only have six vocabulary words. Here they are:

Vocabulary words proj. m 13-14

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Behavior/Participation!!

Here are the students who earned ALL of their behavior/participation points in class this last rotation (Sept. 14-20):

Iron Kids:
Bill
Dhvani
Esther
Fay
Gud
Mil
Nina
Paula
Trevor

Tsunamis:
Alycia
Andrew
Anna
Anvi
Jimmy
Lilly
Molly
Sarah
Tae
View
Yohan

Cobras
Daniel
Eric
Inhye
Jason
Jean
Lila
Lyon
Mew
Michelle
New
Sam
Sarah
Pun Pun
Trin

Aaaaand, the class with the highest average points is...

...
...
...

6H again! Well done, Cobras!

Persuasive Writing: Great Beginnings and Fantastic Finishers

Here are the slides for the "Great Beginnings" and "Fantastic Finishers" that we talked about this week, including my examples (in case you were absent OR if you needed to see them again). Make sure the start of your essays captures people's attention and makes them want to read more!! And make sure the ending leaves people wanting to make a change!

Remember that by Day 1, you should have an edited draft of your five paragraph essay ready for me to read over. I will help you make any other corrections before we make it into a final draft.

Please remember to...SKIP LINES!!!!

Great beginnings, fantastic finishers pp

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Linking Verbs

Wow, linking verbs are very confusing! I even had some trouble with them this week! Here is a GREAT website that explains when a verb is linking, and when it is action.

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/linkingverb.htm

And check out this online quiz about linking verbs, if you need some extra practice.

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/linking_verbs/quiz522.html


Remember, action verbs tell what the subject does.
Linking verbs tell what a subject is or is like (is, were, will be, am, etc.). Linking verbs can always be replaced by a form of is (or they already are a form of is).

New vocabulary and some other things!

Hello fantastic 6th graders!! Here is some helpful info:

• If you enjoyed this week's listening comprehension story about Jesse Billauer, check out these websites about his story and the foundation he started:
  
  
  http://www.liferollson.org/site/pp.asp?c=egLLKTNJE&b=242310
  http://www.liferollson.org/site/pp.asp?c=egLLKTNJE&b=79342

• The winning homeroom this week for behavior points is...The Cobras!!!
  
  
  

And now for this week's vocabulary:

Project m vocab ch.11 12

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This week's vocabulary!

Vocabulary for the week of September 6th.
Project Mulberry, Chapters 9-10

Project mulberry vocab ch. 9 10

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Superb Behavior/Participation!!

The following students earned ALL of their behavior/participation points this week. Way to go!!

6T Tsunamis
Andrew
Alycia
Anna
Jimmy
Lilly
Pow
Shyam
Yohan

6M Iron Kids
Bill
Dhvani
Gud
Ji Woo
Mil
Nina
Paula
Pete
Su Jin

6H Cobras
Bekah
Eric
Jean
Sam
Michelle


And the homeroom with the best overall behavior/participation this week is...

The Iron Kids!!

Congrats on receiving 20 bonus points in this month's homeroom competition.

September Reading Log...if you lose yours!

Here is a link to the September Reading Log if at any time it is lost...


https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1qPmJmkNm1sUDFIuEROc23ly52NrnFGDB4pMk48mIXhY


Students will receive one copy in class next week.

Grammar Re-Test

Many students had trouble with our Parts of Speech grammar test this week. It is very important that students understand the parts of speech well, so that the new content in grammar does not get confusing.

Here are some online games/activities to helps students practice with adverbs vs. adjectives:

http://www.slidermath.com/literacy/Adverb.shtml

http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/quizzes/grammar/GammaExer/adjoradv.htm

This is a fantastic site with fun, online games for parts of speech review. Check out the other game options on the right side as well (under related activities)!

http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Nouns.html

The grammar re-test will be this coming Monday (6T and 6M)/ Tuesday (6H)!

Happy studying!!

Persuasive Writing!?

This week, we started a unit on persuasive writing! Remember, persuasive writing is all about convincing or persuading people to think or do something.

Here is an example of a persuasive essay, written by a middle schooler:

http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/ws2k-summer.htm

More to come next week!