6th Grade English Language Arts (Period 1) Assignments

Final AR Test Due

Canyons by Gary Paulsen may be used for this test.

Lesson 12: Doubling the Final Consonant
Word Bank
shipment, flatly, admits, omits, expels,
shipper, flatten, admittance, omitting, expelled

Vocabulary Lesson 11: HW pp. 25-26
amass, hover, meager, retreat, camouflage, intrigue, procession, treacherous, conquest, jargon

Minimum five paragraphs on one of the following topics:

Should students wear school uniforms?

Is it fair to keep animals in zoos?

Should pit bulls be outlawed as pets?

Do sixth grade students have too much homework?

escort, ordinary, courtyard, hoarse, quarrel,
ornamental, mourn, concourse, uproar, quarantine

Vocabulary Lesson 10 Word List
aptitude, laughingstock, reflective, sulk, forlorn, limelight, squabble, superb,
impudent, mingle.

 

Spelling Power Lesson 9: (HW pp. 21-22)

beautiful, ignorant, compliment, museum, desperate, personal, error, stirrup, hibernate, temporary

Homework Packet pp. 11 - 14

AR Quiz #4: Due 2/26.

technique, chorus, frantic, architect, focus,
character, dramatic, career, reckless, bouquet,

genuine, justify, surgery, journal, energy,
urge, legend, gigantic, majority, jealous.

 

Speech: Prompt - What Music Means to Me

Vocabulary Quiz D: alarm, cope, mortified, resent, anticipation, defiance, pang, unique, bewilderment, hostile

 

Spelling Words:

fantasy, consent, citizen, recent, vicinity, privacy, concise, incident, license, bicycle

Research based informational essay on ancient Chinese history and culture.

Spelling Test Due 1/22.

Spelling Words:

admit, admission, permit, permission, explain, explanation,

exclaim, exclamation, include, inclusion, explode, explosion, divide,

division, decide, decision, omit, omission, collide, collision

Vocabulary Quiz D:

alignment, calamity, eclipse, generated, inconvenience, periodic, prolonged, tenacity

advocates, commonplace, designate, initial, insulation, invasive, irrational, optimal

actor, platter, mirror, calendar, observer, stroller, customer, vinegar, waiter, wander, scatter, ancestor, bachelor, singular, traitor, daughter, flavor, behavior, maneuver, janitor

abundant, impoverished, ingenuity, productivity, sharecropper, solitude, unearthed, windswept

recoiled, feebly, skewed, roused, vastness, summoned, persistent, dilemma

Second Accelerated Reading (AR) Book Test Due.

(Two AR tests are required per trimester.)

First Trimester Book Report Due.

Student may select first or second AR book for this report.

The book report form is attached to this posting.

artifact, communal, derived, inscription, millennium, stationery, utilize, yields

 

Narrative Essay Due

Students will work on this in-class and will create a Google docs file in the computer lab.

 

echoes, photos, data, scarves, volcanoes, shelves, media, bacteria, wolves, dominoes, solos, thieves, wives, cuffs, staffs, buffaloes, sheriffs, tornadoes, sopranos, loaves

 

 

cascaded, documentation, dynamic, exerts, plummeting, pulverize, scalding, shards

 

accuse, affect, beautiful, bought, busy, caught, different, done, effect, embarrass, especially, except, excuse, library, minute, nickel, probably, their, there, they're

Pages 26,27,28. Due Friday.

Compound Sentences. Due Thursday.

Wonders "Your Turn" packet. Pages 21 -  25.

(Not 22 - Done in class)

Accelerated Reading (AR) Book #1 Test Due

Link to test in on Magnolia website under "Student Links."

Unit One: Pages 11 - 15.

Due date extended to 9/18.

Your Turn Workbook. Pages 2-5. (Not Part B on bottom of p. 5)

Wonders: Your Turn Practice Book

Vocabulary Sentences, p. 1

Parent signature on course syllabus.

Please bring a writing journal (comp. book) to class.