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Parents- PLEASE make sure you are signing your child’s agenda daily. Homework along with teacher notes are here daily. Thank you for your support! Important Dates: Nov. 30th Book Review Due & Preposition Test Dec. 6th First Payment for Jekyll field trip due Dec. 7th Newspaper Day! More will come about this towards the end of the week Grammar: This week we will review the unit on Prepositional Phrases. Prior to Thanksgiving break, we reviewed prepositions from 4th grade, and we learned about prepositional phrases and objects of a preposition, identifying what questions prepositional phrases answer, as well as expand sentences by adding prepositional phrases. Additionally, in this unit, 6th graders will learn the difference between an adverb and preposition and about adverbial/adjective phrases. The test will be this Friday, Nov. 30th! Students will have notes in their grammar notebooks and they will be posted to the class website. Writing: This week we will continue our informational genre. This week we’ll continue working on the Jekyll Island Field Trip writing. They will finish this prior to Wednesday by reviewing prior skills: adding transitions, adding voice, how to write a citation/evidence, and how to write a well-developed informational conclusion. Students will be conferencing with me to review these as well. Reading: We continue to work on nonfiction unit in reading that will include text structure. This week we will focus on comparing and contrasting two different passages based on their text structure. Students will take notes on the various types of text structures, these notes will be posted to the class website. We will practice reading passages and determining the text structure used by looking for key words. In this unit, students will also be analyzing a biography on either Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie, Candy Bombers, or Thomas Edison. We will use these books, along with graphic novels, newspapers, and nonfiction articles, to study all the different types of text structures and compare/contrast these text structures. Students have already started their newspaper project. This project will be done in class and is not be worked on at home. Students will be using information from the books read to write articles using specific text structures. Once completed, we will have Newspaper Day, Dec. 7. Sixth graders have learned how to analyze a text to determine if it is biased or unbiased. If you would like extra practice for your child at home, on the Launchpad website https://launchpad.classlink.com/fcs there is a link for i-Ready, your child may use this link for i-Ready for additional reading at home. Please monitor your child’s monthly Book Log. Students are required to read two, 150 page books in November. Students may use the Lunch Bunch book if they would like and/or the biography from class if they didn’t use it for their October book review. The Book Log should be signed by a parent, and it, along with the completed book review, are due Friday, November 30. It will only be accepted if signed by parent so we can make sure the book was read and finished at home.
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