Post date: May 5, 2020 8:34:10 PM
Welcome back to our distance learning. All students were sent home with their Springboard books but also all hard copies will be attached to lessons to either print off, fill out online, or do on your own paper. Below we always list previous assignments in a check list to either keep until we return to hand in, take a picture of it and email or send via remind, or just email or share it to me. Please keep in mind that when sharing from your One Drive always have your name, date, and period at the top of the document so we can see to whom it belongs when we open it up or print it off.
In order to keep your Lexile and reading comprehension sharp make sure you are doing 30 mins of Reading Plus five days a week. We will be checking that lessons are being completed. Site Code = rpgriff1 & User name and password are your student number.
It is really important that students attempt to keep up with their Reading Plus and writing from this ELA class. If your student has not been keeping up please contact us as soon as possible so we can make sure he/she doesn't get behind.
How to access your One Drive from home:
Session B
Warm Up: Journal
Remember at the beginning of the year we made graduation hats? You are only six short years away now Class of 2026 and this advice from the commencement speakers seemed very necessary to share. What is your favorite advice you have received so far?
Listen at the end to the graduate’s spoken word Poem and two of our featured poems are quoted by famous people.
Work Period: 6th Grade Spoken Word
The topic of the Free Verse poem from Session A was Describe your life in quarantine. Click on the link below and follow the directions to record your free verse poem. Then click on some of the other poems and leave a comment. Please keep your comments as positive as possible. This Flipgrid page is being moderated by all the 6th grade ELA teachers. Leave a comment on at least five other poems.
Featured poems for Inspiration:
1. “O Captain! My Captain!”
By Walt Whitman (Written upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)
Read by Tom O’Bedlam
2. “Mother to Son”
By Langston Hughes
Read by Viola Davis
3. “I, Too, Sing America”
By Langston Hughes (Read by as well)
This was an answering poem to Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing”
Closer: TED Talks to Think about
Watch the video and do a quick write about what you learned in the talk. During the summers, I often spend some time trying to find TED talks that make me think about my world and challenge me in how I look at the world and approach problems. In this time, we have time to reflect so when we leave our isolation, and we will, perhaps these talks will help you go back out into the world with new perspectives.
As you move closer to 7th grade here is an amazing true story you might encounter from Africa that was recently made into a movie on Netflix.
TED talk
A teen who built a machine to harness the wind:
Movie Trailer:
Completed Work Checklist:
Week of 3/16 Session A
1. Vocabulary Lesson 1 packet letters A -D exercises
2. 10 of the 15 word blocks with one word per box (All blocks must be completely filled out and we challenge you to make a PowerPoint with one word per slide making sure to include all the four sections of the word block in each slide)
Week of 3/16 Session B
1. Answer questions 5 & 6 on pg 162
2. RACES paragraph on question "How did animals help Temple Grandin deal with the challenges of autism?"
Week of 3/16 Session C
1. Graphic Organizer Introduction paragraph
2. Introduction paragraph with thesis underlined
Week of 3/23 Session A
1. Graphic Organizer Body paragraph 1
2. Body paragraph 1 with topic sentence underlined
Week of 3/23 Session B
1. Graphic Organizer Body paragraph 2
2. Body paragraph 2 with topic sentence underlined
Week of 3/23 Session C
1. Graphic Organizer Conclusion
2. Conclusion paragraph with restated thesis underlined
3. Completed Warm Up
Week of 3/30 Session A
1. Springboard page 265 - 266 numbers 1-4.
2. RACES short answer response paragraph to the question "What are three important points about Shakespeare's life?"
Week of 3/30 Session B
1. Eight poetry blocks 1- 8 with an example lyric from your favorite music and an explanation.
Week of 3/30 Session C
1. Seven poetry blocks 9 - 15 with an example lyric from your favorite music and an explanation.
Week of 4/13 Session A
Have mastered the three quizlets
Sound Devices & Poetry Mechanics: https://quizlet.com/_898u02?x=1qqt&i=26dvyd
Figurative Language: https://quizlet.com/_898t94?x=1qqt&i=26dvyd
Types of Poems: https://quizlet.com/_898s56?x=1qqt&i=26dvyd
Week of 4/13 Session B
Poetry Flip Book Page 1: Write a test with an answer key of your 15 Poetry Terms
Week of 4/20 Session A
Poetry Flip Book Page 2: Write an Ode
Week of 4/20 Session B
Poetry Flip Book Page 3: Write two Haikus
Week of 4/27 Session A
Poetry Flip Book Page 4: Write a Sonnet
Week of 4/27 Session B
Poetry Flip Book Page 5: Write a Song
Week of 5/4 Session A
Poetry Flip Book Page 6: Write a Free Verse
Week of 5/4 Session B
Record your Free Verse on the Flipgrid Link and comment on five other students' poems