Grammar Book Work 2nd Nine Weeks

Page 175: Exercise 1, 1-6; Exercise 2, All
Page 177: Exercise 1, All (please do triple underline); Exercise 2, Odds

Page 178: Exercise 1, 1-10

Page 179: Exercise 1, 1-5

2nd Nine Week Important Dates

10/19 - "Classics Revamp" should be read, in class assessment, quiz grade
10/26 - Membean Quiz
11/1 - Land of My Fathers essay - First draft due B.O.C. - revising and editing in class, final copy is a quiz grade
11/2 - Test over literary elements and devices
11/14 - Secret of the Andes Test
11/16 - Membean Quiz
11/30 - Grammar Quiz  12/5
12/7 - Choice Write Final Draft Due, BOC, major grade  -- let's see what happens
12/14 - Membean  and Greek Roots Quiz


Reminders:

• There shouldn't be as much need to move dates around as the first Nine Weeks, but if anything changes, I will note it on here.
• All three Membean quizzes and the Greek Roots quiz will be averaged together and go in to the gradebook as one grade.
• The Membean minutes for a daily grade will run from 10/9-10/29, 10/30-11/19, and 11/27-12-14 (notice this one is a little shorter).  There will be no Membean expected over the Thanksgiving break.

End of First Nine Weeks Important Dates

We are playing it a little by ear here at the end.  I want to make sure we have at least two grades in the quiz and test categories, but I won't give assessments they are not ready for.

The first Membean quiz would be the ONLY vocabulary quiz grade, so it will go into the average for the second nine weeks. Normally, they would have a vocab quiz grade, a dictionary and capitalization quiz grade, and a literary elements quiz grade.

I may make the dictionary quiz just dictionary skills and not capitalization - depending on how they do with practices early in the week.

So, doing Membean and Dictionary Quiz today, 10/5 - making dictionary quiz open note. 

I'd like to push the lit. quiz back to Friday - but that is not our regular quiz and test day, so I am checking with the other classes to see if there are already two assessments that day.

Other tests and quizzes are scheduled for Friday, so our Story Elements and Literary Devices Quiz will be on Thursday, Oct. 12.

Classically Inspired Book

This semester you will read a “classically inspired” book.  This means the book was inspired by a classical and/or traditional story like a myth, legend or fairy tale. I want you to read something you have NEVER read – something new and interesting! 

• ·         MOST of the books on this list are the first book in a series, or one of a collection of books with a similar theme by the same author.  You are welcome to read ANY book from these series/collections if you have already started the series.
• ·         You MAY be able to read something off the list if you get it approved by me.
• ·         All books on this list are recommended for 6^th grade, 10-12 year olds, but I always encourage kids and parents to check out books on Amazon and Common Sense Media to get more detailed reviews to make sure it’s a good book for YOU.  See footnotes below.
• ·         I have copies of many of these, and our library has even more!  You will need a copy in class on Thursday, Sept. 28. (I can be a little flexible on this date if you are not getting from me or the library.)  You will need to bring the book to class each day.  You will need to finish reading the book by Thursday, October 19.
• ·         I will get assignments to you soon.  Right now, just procure a book!

Anything by Rick Riordan ! ^

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles) by Marrisa Meyer + ! ^

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine * 

The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman ^

Just Ella  by Margaret Haddix ^

Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School)  by Jen Calonita +

Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer + ! !

Red Rider’s Hood (Dark Fusion Series #2) by Neil Schusterman *

A Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy +

A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz *

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (or Jack or Red) by Liesl Shurtliff *

The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer +

Breadcrumbs   by Anne Ursu and Erin McGuire

Cronus Chronicles by Anne Ursu +

The Tail of Emily Windsnap by L Kessler + (in second book ^)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey + ! !

Loki’s Wolves by  K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr  +

Middle World (The Jaguar Stones Series) by J & P Voelkel +

Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs ^ +

Book of the Dead (TombQuest, Book 1) by  Michael Northrop +

+ first in a series

*part of a set of related books that don’t necessarily need to be read in order

! violent

^ smoochies alert

Membean

Starting today 9/18/17

Each week you are expected to do at least 30 minutes of Membean practice.  Ideally, this will be in two-15 minute practice sessions. You will usually have opportunity to do this in class over the course of the week.

 A week runs from Monday at 12:01 a.m. to midnight Sunday.  Although, I sincerely hope no one is doing Membean any where near midnight!

Weekly Practice will be a daily grade - based on time and at least 70% accuracy during that practice time.

We will have a 15 question, multiple choice quiz approximately every 3 weeks. These quizzes are averaged each 9 weeks and the average goes into the gradebook.  Most nine weeks there will also be a root words quiz averaged in as well.

Quiz dates for the first semester:  10/5, 10/26, 11/16, 12/14.

Welcome and Back to School Information

You're my ONLY LA class this year.  That means you get all the reading and writing goodness! I hope you like fairy tales and myths, because we're going to build our year around cultural texts to support the learning you will do in Social Studies (which you also have me for.)

More information to come!