Monday, January 23, 2017

Reminders
- Turn in all late work! 
- No School this Friday 
- Turn in 6th Grade Social permission slip ASAP to your afternoon core teacher (latest by Fri. 2/3) 
 
Language Arts
- in your Lucy Calkins Argument Writing Unit Google Doc, make sure to add the following:

• learning target for Session Five (on slide 2)
• one bullet/three sub-bullets for the "How to Write a Literary Essay about Character" chart (on slide 11)

- to prepare for the essay you are writing in class tomorrow, collect evidence/quotes you are going to use that backs up your claim from the Freak the Mighty book

- read the following chapters in Wonder tonight and make sure you go over the reading questions (audio files are available in case you want to listen and follow along):

• November
• Warning: This Kid is Rated R
• The Egyptian Tomb
• The Call
• Carvel 

- NoRedInk Assignment #17: Choosing the Appropriate Conjunctions Mon. 1/30 
- Newsela article due Mon. 1/30: Donald Trump is sworn in as U.S. president, takes seat in Oval Office

- NoRedInk Quiz #8 this Wed. 1/25!!!
covers: 
Identify Action Verb 3
Form Present Participles
Identify Progressive Tenses
Checkpoint: Progressive Tenses
Form Past Participles
Identify Perfect Tenses
Singular Possessives 1
Others/Each Other's
Plural Possessives 1 


Social Studies
No Homework

- Chapter 11 Quiz this Thurs. 1/26!!! (covers History Alive Chapter 11 as well as TCI 2.4.1: Origins of Judaism - The History of the Ancient Israelites)
 
Math
Corrections
CC3 1.1.4 1-31, 1-32, 1-33, 1-34, 1-36 and 1-37
Assessment #9 Thursday
Test corrections and parent signatures 

Science
None
Presentation/ Project due on Wednesday

Exploratory (Oliveira)
No Homework

Exploratory (Sun)
- bring back permission slips signed for the GENIE Project
No Homework