6th Grade Reading Homework and Daily Assignments Assignments

Final Exam Readings and Questions (see attached)

STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM ON UNIT 8. Review the following:

Note-Taking Unit 8 pages 894-897

Textbook pages 899,909,917

Note-Taking pages 936-941

Textbook pages 943,953,961,967,972,978

Assessment Practice

Level-Up's: Analyzing Arguments, Elements of an Argument, Persuassive Techniques, Evidence,Summarizing  (Be sure to take the Quiz at the end of each Level-Up)

READING CLASSWORK:  Close Reads for the following:

"Start the Dat Right" A-E

"Shine-N-Glow" A-E

"Brain Breeze" A-G

READING CLASSWORK: Corrected last weeks worksheets on Persuasive Techniques and Propaganda Techniques using the readings "Start The Day Right!" and "Shine-N-Glow" and "Brain Breeze" (see attached)

READING HOMEWORK: Read "Should Wild Animals Be Kept As Pets?" and complete Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Took Final STAR Reading! YAY! Also read "Brain Breeze" and complete worksheet (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: READ "START THE DAY RIGHT" AND "SHINE-N-GLOW" AND COMPLETE WORKSHEETS (SEE ATTACHED)

READING CLASSWORK: Read "No Thought of Reward" and complete Text Analysis: Author's Message and Reading Skill: Analyze Persuasion (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Should Wild Animals Be Kept As Pets?" and complete Reading Strategy: Preview, and Text Analysis: Persuasive Techniques (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Complete ALL the Close Reads in the Text Analysis Workshop: Argument and Persuasion pages 936-941.

READING CLASSWORK: Open Book Quiz on SuperCroc

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "The First Emperor" and "Digging Up the Past" and complete worksheets (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Note-Taking Part 1 and Part 2 on Text Analysis Workshop: Argument and Persuasion pages 936-941 (see attached)

 

Also read "What Video Games Can Teach Us" and "The Violent Side of Video Games" and complete worksheets (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Completed Reading Strategy: Summarize and Text Analysis: Text Features on our next reading "SuperCroc" (see attached)

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "SuperCroc" and complete Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Bird Brains" and complete Reading Check and Reading Skill worksheets. (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Assessment Practice pgs 884-888

 

READING HOMEWORK: Study for Unit 7 Test. We will begin Monday and take 3 days.Use the following:

Note-Taking Part 1 and Part 2 pgs 802-806

Pages 809, 833, 851, 865.

Level-Ups: Biographies/Autobiographies, Chronological Order, Main Idea and Details

 

Read "Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini" and complete Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice. Due Thurs. (see attached)

Read "Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini" and complete Text Analysis worksheet and Chronological Order worksheet (see attached worksheets)

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Over the Top of the World" and "Up and Over th Top" pages 822-830 and completed Author's Purpose Chart (see attached). Next, answered Reading Check questions (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Unit 6 Assessment Practice pgs 792-797 (comprehension and Vocabulary)

 

READING HOMEWORK: Study for Unit 6 Test. Here are the pages to review:

Note-Taking Part1 and Part 2 (pgs 676-681), textbook pages 683,693,713,725,737,747,761

Also Level-Ups: Myths, Legends, and Tales, Universal Theme, Cultural Context (Values), Summarizing. Take the Practice questions at the end of each PowerPoint. 

 

We will begin tomorrow and take 2 days to complete.

READING HOMEWORK: Read "Matthew Henson at the Top of the World" in Unit 7. Complete Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice (see attached). Due Wednesday.

READING CLASSWORK:

Take Yeh-Shen and Sootface Quiz (Open Book)

Note-Taking for Unit 7. Take notes while you read "Text Analysis Workshop". (see attached)

READING HOMEWORK: Read "Yeh Shen" and "Sootface" and complete Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice worksheets (see attached). Due Thursday.

READING CLASSWORK: Close Reads for "Yeh-Shen" A-J and also Close Reads for "Sootface" A-G.

READING CLASSWORK: Discuss "Universal Theme". Read "Sootface" together and identified some of the same stylistic elements as Cinderella. Completed some of the attached worksheet.

READING CLASS HOMEWORK: Read "Aunty Misery" and "The Crane Maiden" and complete Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice. (see attached). Due Thursday.

READING CLASSWORK: Close Reads for "Crane Maiden" and "Aunty Misery". Only "Folk Tale" Close Reads letters B,D,F,G,H,I,J,L.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Quiz tomorrow on the two folk tales. Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice on the two folk tales due tomorrow.

 

READING CLASSWORK: Complete Text Analysis and Reading Strategy on "The Crane Maiden" and "Aunty Misery" (see attached)

READING CLASS HOMEWORK: Read "The Chenoo" and complete the Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice (see attached) 

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Damon and Pythias" and complete the worksheets.(see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Read "The Chenoo" and complete "Make Inferences" and "Characteristics of Legends" (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Reading for Information: Spider Webs" and complete worksheets.(see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Level-Up on Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales. Read "Uncle Septemus's Beard" and as a table responded to Close Reads.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "Apollo's Tree" and "Arachne" and complete Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice. (see attached). Due Thursday.

 

Be sure to be finishing your 2nd trimester Jr. High Reads book and taking the quiz!

READING CLASSWORK: Close Reads A-H for "Apollo's Tree" and "Arachne". Also Close Reads for "Uncle Septimus's Beard" A-G

READING CLASSWORK: Listened to "Apollo's Tree" and "Arachne" and completed chart on Cultural Values (see attached).

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Ceres and Proserphina" and complete the Text Analysis and Reading Skill worksheets (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Orion" pgs 680-681 and answer Close Reads.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "Ceres and Proserphina" and complete the Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice. Due Friday.

READING CLASSWORK: Read pgs 677-679 and complete Close Reads for all the 5 readings (How Day and Night Came to Be, Sal Fink, The Beggar in the Basket, Baucis and Philemon, and Robin Hood.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read your chosen Jr. High Reads book for 2nd trimester.

READING CLASSWORK:  Unit 6 Text Analysis Workshop- Note-Taking Part 1 and Part 2 pgs 676-678 (see attached)

Also Finish Unit 4 Test

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read your Jr. High Reads book for 2nd trimester.

READING CLASS HOMEWORK: Review for Unit 4 Test. Here are the things to review:

Note-Taking Part 1 and Part 2, pgs 436-441, 443, 459, 469, 499, 509, 525, 535 (know what "personification" is and know what a "pun" is. Review Level-Ups on Imagery, Tone, Author's Purpose, Author's Style, Figurative Language. Take the 5 practice questions at the end of each Level-Up. Test will begin next Monday and Tuesday.

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Skateboard Science" and complete Reading Check (see attached). Close Reads A-G for  "The First Skateboard in the History of the World" 

 

READING HOMEWORK: Homework due tomorrow. Quiz on Friday.

READING CLASSWORK: STAR TESTING.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "The First Skateboard in the History of the World" and complete worksheets. Due Thursday

READING CLASSWORK: Read "The Morning Walk" and "There Is No Word for Goodbye" and complete the worksheets (see attached)

READING CLASSWORK: Read "The Problem with Bullies" and completed the worksheets (see attached).

 

READING HOMEWORK: Study for Thursday quiz on "The Jacket".

READING CLASSWORK: Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice for "The Jacket" (see attached).

Also Similes and Metaphors and Summarizing worksheet for "The Jacket" (see attached).

 

READING HOMEWORK: Quiz tomorrow on "The Jacket".

READING CLASSWORK: Read "The Jacket" and completed worksheets. See attached.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Study for quiz on Thursday on the reading "The Jacket". Be sure to look at vocabulary too.

READING CLASSWORK: Go over Unit test. Go over last week's homework.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "Tuesday of the Other June" and complete Reading Check and Text Analysis worksheets. (see attached) Due THURSDAY

READING CLASSWORK: Read page 459 and talked about the "Rule of Three". Also about Cause and Effect Relationships. Next we read "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" and completed the attached worksheets.

READING CLASSWORK: Begin taking Unit 3

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "All American Slurp (Unit 4) and complete Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice worksheets (see attached). Due Friday.

READING CLASSWORK: Finish Unit 3 Test. Also complete the Close Reads on the selections in the Text Analysis Workshop for Unit 4- pages 439-441. They include: Treasure Island #'s 1,2, Daffy's Jacket #'s 1,2, Tuck Everlasting #'s 1,2,3 and Block Party #'s 1,2,3,4

READING CLASSWORK: Unit 3 Assessment Practice pgs 426-430.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Study for Unit 3 Test. Here are the pages in your textbook to review:

Note-Taking Part1 and Part 2 pgs 318-323

325, 349,361,383401,407

The following Level-Ups (which have 5 practice questions at the end):

Level-Up:Theme

Level-Up: Making Inferences

READING CLASSWORK: Review Topic vs Theme. Reread "Same Song" and "Without Commercials" and complete Question Support and Reading Skill worksheets. (see attached)

 

READING HOMEWORK: Get back into a routine! Go to bed early! 

READING CLASSWORK: Complete Close Reads A-G on "Nadia the Willful. Begin reading the story for this week "Scout's Honor". 

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "Scout's Honor" and complete worksheets. Due Thurs.

READING CLASSWORK: Identifying Theme in Poetry. Read "Words Like Freedom" and "Dreams" and complete worksheets.

READING; Read "Nadia the Willful" and complete worksheet. Due Friday. Also begin reading your 2nd trimester JR. HIgh Reads book. 2nd trimester ends March 9th!

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Ant and Grasshopper" and "The Richer, The Poorer" and complete worksheets.

READING CLASSWORK: Unit 3 Note-Taking Part 1 and Part 2 (see attached). 

 

REAING HOMEWORK: Read "The Dog of Pompeii" and complete worksheet (see attached). Due Thursday. 

Friday is Library Day!

READING CLASSWORK: Theme Versus Topic worksheet and Reading Historical Fiction worksheet. (see attached).

READING HOMEWORK: Study for "The Dog of Pompeii" quiz tomorrow. Homework is due tomorrow. Library on Friday.

Junior High Reads: See attached for instructions and selection.

JR. HIGH READS- BE SURE YOU ARE READING YOUR 1ST TRIMESTER BOOK! ASK MRS. SLATTERY FOR THE PRINTED QUIZ WHEN YOU ARE READY!

READING CLASS: Study for Unit 2 test. Review Note-Taking Part 1 and 2. Review pages 192-194,199,207,221,235,265,275,289. You should also view Level Up's: Methods of Characterization, First-Person Point of View, Third-Person Point of View, Author's Purpose. There are 5 practice questions for each of these Level Ups. 

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Jeremiah's Song" and worked on Close Reads A-J and Reading Check and Vocabulary Practice.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "The Red Guards" and complete worksheet. Due Thurs.

READING CLASSWORK: Close Reads for "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" and "On Turning Ten"

READING HOMEWORK: Be ready to take Jr. High Reads Quiz on Friday during Library if you have finished the book! 

READING CLASSWORK: Read the two poems "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" and "On Turning Ten" and complete the worksheet (both sides)

 

READING CLASS: Read "Ghost of the Lagoon" and complete worksheet (both sides). Due Thursday.

 

READING CLASSWORK: Unit 2 Note-Taking Part 1 and Part 2 (see attached)

 

READING CLASS HOMEWORK: Read "Eleven" in Unit 2. Complete worksheet(both sides- attached here). Due Wednesday.

READING HOMEWORK: Study for Unit 1 Test. We will begin on Wednesday and finish on Thursday. Please use your Note-Taking to help study for test. Also review the following pages in your electronic textbook: 28-33, 35, 47, 67, 87, 102, 115, 127. Also view the following Level-Ups:

Plot Stages, Conflict, Setting, Suspense and Foreshadowing, Figurative Meanings,  Chronological Order, Using Context Clues. These can be found under "On-Line Extras" for each of the stories we read in the Unit. There are also "Practice Questions" at the end of each Level- Up where you can practice the skill. 

Read "The Horse Snake" and complete worksheets. Due Thursday.

 

READING CLASSWORK: Read "Le Mat Village" and complete worksheet.

READING CLASSWORK: Literal and Figurative Meanings Worksheet:

 

   READING CLASS: Your first visit to the Library will be on 9/29. 

READING: Read "Lob's Girl and complete worksheet (both sides). Due Thursday.

READING CLASSWORK: Worked on identifying foreshadowing events for what happened to Lob. Also Sequencing of events. See attached woksheets

 

READING CLASSWORK: Powernotes Presentation and time to silently read story.

 

READING HOMEWORK: Read "All Summer in a Day" and complete worksheet. Due Thurs.

 

READING CLASSWORK: Read all three articles in "Reading for Information- Settling in Space" pages 78-84 in electronic textbook. Complete both sides of worksheet.

READING CLASSWORK: We discussed Plot and Setting and Making Inferences and completed the two attached worksheets.

Read "The Good Deed" and complete the worksheet (both sides). Due Thurs.

 9/11-9/15 Read "The School Play" and complete the 4 attached worksheets.

Read "The School Play" and complete both sides of the worksheeet handed out in class. One side is the Reading Check and the other is the Vocabulary Practice. Due Thurs.

 READING CLASS: Supplies List

 Parents please read Reading Class Important Information with your child(ren).