Author: Conrow Natalie

6th Graders:

Bring instant mashed potatoes for the food drive through Friday.

6A:

Crash Vocabulary Quiz Friday, November 16 (Crash Vocabulary List)

Crash Quiz chapters 19-30 Monday, November 19

A few students did not finish answering today’s questions on chapters 24-27:

1. How do Jane and Penn end up dancing? How does Crash respond?
2. Why do Jane and Penn get kicked off the cheerleading team?
3. What do Abby and her mother fight about?

6B:

Crash Vocabulary Quiz Monday, November 19 (Crash Vocabulary List)

Crash Quiz chapters 19-30 Tuesday, November 20

8th Grade:

My Brother Sam is Dead quiz on chapters 1-5 Tuesday, November 20

Bibliography and Outline due via Google Classroom by the end of the double class period on Friday.

6th Graders: 

Please bring in instant mashed potatoes for the Thanksgiving food drive.

8th Grade:

Finish website research for all three claims by Tuesday. There will be time in class on Tuesday for researching from books. (Declaration of Independence Research Paper)

Root Quiz Wednesday (Roots Week 7)

Use a proper paragraph (Proper Paragraphs) to answer the following questions from chapter 4. Be sure to write a minimum of four sentences and include at least two pieces of specific information from the novel as evidence to support your claims:

1. What was Tim’s problem as the chapter opens? How does his problem change?
2. How does Tim convince Sam to come home?
3. What problem does Sam face in this chapter? How does he handle it?

All 6th Graders: Please bring in instant mashed potatoes for the Thanksgiving food drive by November 16.

6th ELA:

Spelling test tomorrow. Spelling colors assignment: just put the letters duc in a fun color (Spelling Lesson 8)

8th History and ELA:

Finish researching from websites for all three claims by Tuesday.  There will be time in class on Tuesday to research from books. Keep track of sources for a citation lesson next week. (Declaration of Independence Research Paper)

8th ELA:

Root Quiz Wednesday (Roots Week 7)

Finish reading chapter 4 and taking notes

 

All 6th Graders: 

Please bring instant mashed potatoes for the Thanksgiving food drive. They can be delivered to the table outside the front office.

6th ELA: 

Write the words you missed on the spelling pretest five times each. Write the words on the same paper as the pretest or staple your five time each to the pretest. If you got 100%, turn your pretest back in for full credit on this assignment.

8th History:

Finish researching all three claims for your paper by Tuesday. (Declaration of Independence Research Paper)

8th ELA:

Vocabulary Card (write the definition, write a sentence using the word, and draw/color a picture on the front, write your name on the back)

All 6th Graders need to practice their speaking part for Friday’s assembly. Read it out loud to an adult more than once each evening!

6B Religion:

Many students need to revise their Saint paragraphs to meet the assignment: How was their Saint a role model for a virtuous life? It will be accepted tomorrow for full credit.

Thanksgiving food drive! Bring instant mashed potatoes by November 16

6th ELA:

Spelling Stair Step (Spelling Lesson 8)

Read chapters 21-23 in Crash

8th History:

8th ELA:

Finish paragraph responses to questions from chapter three:

1. Why does Tim think it is better to be the son of a tavern keeper than the son of a farmer?
2. What makes Betsy Read a significant character in this chapter?
3. Make a prediction about what will happen in chapter 4.

6B Religion:

Typed Saint paragraph with picture due tomorrow

6th ELA:

Finish reading chapter 20 (from the top of page 73) and add bullet points in your spiral notebook.

8th History:

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8th ELA:

Finish writing proper paragraph responses () () to the chapter two response questions:

1. Why is Tim confused about the arguments for and against staying loyal to the King?
2. What do Sam and Betsy ask Tim to do? How does this make Tim feel?

6B Religion:

Kindness Art due Monday

Saint Paragraph typed, with picture due Tuesday

6th ELA:

Next week’s spelling list will be on the Latin root duc

Fictional journal entry from Jane Forbes’ point of view due Monday. Write a minimum of 4 sentences about each boy and include specific details from the novel to support how she feels.

8th History:

Choose an issue and a position for it. Make sure your issue is related to the Declaration of Independence, and there is researchable evidence from credible sources to support the position you decide to take.

8th ELA:

Finish reading and taking notes on chapter two in My Brother Sam is Dead.

 

6B Religion:

Saint paragraphs with images due Monday.

6th ELA:

Spelling Test tomorrow.

Crash vocabulary worksheet due tomorrow.

8th ELA:

Proper paragraph responses due tomorrow:

Cumulative root quiz Wednesday (Roots Week 6)

8th U.S. History:

Write one of each kind of statement (conceptual, factual, debatable) for an issue of your choosing regarding the Declaration of Independence

 

6B Religion:

Bulleted list of notes answering the question How is your Saint a role model for virtuous life?

6th ELA:

Crash quiz tomorrow on chapters 9-18. Continue filling in chapter titles and character analysis worksheets.

Vocabulary worksheet for chapters 9-18 due Friday; Spelling test (Spelling Lesson 6) (#11-20 only) on Friday.

8th History:

Take a peek at what some online resources say about the Declaration. Are they credible sources? The more you know about the document and the men who wrote it, the better equipped  you will be for next week.

8th ELA:

Finish taking notes on chapter one of My Brother Sam is Dead in ELA spiral

 

6B Religion:

By Thursday write a bulleted list of ways your Saint was a role model for virtuous living (in your religion spiral).

6th ELA:

Quiz on Crash chapters 9-18 Thursday

Finish writing paragraph responses (5 point paragraph scoring) (Proper Paragraphs) to the following questions:

1. How do Crash and Mike prepare for football practice? Why
2. How do Crash, Mike, and Abby all respond differently to the rodent in the kitchen?
3. What makes the painting of Crash described at the end of chapter 17 significant enough to become cover art for the book?

Spelling 5x each due tomorrow (turn pretest back in if you got 100%)

8th History:

Sketching the Declaration worksheet due tomorrow

8th ELA:

Root Quiz #3 tomorrow

Reread the first chapter of My Brother Sam is Dead as necessary.  List three character traits for Tim and three for Sam. Cite specific evidence from the chapter for each trait.  Also, sketch the Meeker home and tavern. Use details from the book in your illustration.