Pronoun flashcards

Are you a visual or tactile learner? Try viewing and printing these cards from the following website:
http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards/pronouns.php

A few other helpful sites to help you keep all the many pronouns straight:
http://languagearts.pppst.com/pronouns.html

http://www.topenglishteaching.com/english/teaching_resources.asp?teaching=pronouns

http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1566

http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/intermediate/relative%20pronoun.htm

http://www.funbrain.com/funbrain//cgi-bin/gg.cgi?AFUNCT=1&ALEVEL=0&A1=m

Thanks!

Parents: See agenda note for today...

Agenda note went home today with instructions for logging in to the home page, McNeill's Masterminds, and how to get to "Presentations" to review pronouns for our pronoun test tomorrow. Homework tonight: make sure you have chosen a problem (community, U.S., world issue) and think of at least three solutions or ways to help solve that problem. Our next writing will be in class on Friday...introductions for the next essay: Problem/solution essay. You can also read a model example online: home page, staff, McNeill, Links, and then Elements of Literature...from there...choose Writing (at the top) and then under 6th grade- Problem/Solution essay. Printed copies available if needed.

Finished with all the lab assignments? Check out the Urban Legends on McNeill's Masterminds or do some L. Arts Funbrain activities.

Benchmark Make-ups!

If you missed our benchmark today (maybe you were sick or on the field trip) you need to make it up during class on Tuesday when we return. You will then need to check out a Holt Handbook and complete the class work that you will miss on pronouns. If you want to get a head start, go to the MCMS homepage, staff, McNeill, Presentations, Powerpoints, and then choose "Parts of Speech." Review personal and possessive pronouns (also reflexive and demonstrative if you are a go-getter). Our team will be going on the field trip on Wed. and I will be in training on Thursday. You will begin your next writing assignment, a problem-solution essay (more details later). If you want a head start go to the Elements of Literature link on the home page and then choose collection 2 and scroll down...you can read a sample essay that I will give you in class as a model.

For now...just enjoy your 3 day weekend. See you bright and early Tuesday- rested and ready to work. Reminder- it's a blue week.

2nd period reminders: 10-5-10

A few gentle reminders...

1. Go to September archives (on the right towards the bottom) and answer the online response #1 question...thank you those who already did.
2. When you have a few minutes...look to the right under the food writing section and there is a link to epals warm-up. You don't have to have an account (I don't think) to post to this link. It went with our food writing and focus on customs (from "All American Slurp").
3. Find a quote by an author and bring it to class. Make sure you give credit to the author and write it down as a direct quotation. It may be used on the blog.
4. Poetry contest- this disappeared from the site...not sure what happened. If you are interested in submitting see me. I will open this up to all classes and set a new deadline.
5. Get out those Digital Storytelling Project sheets...oh yes...it is almost time! We will work out any problems with recording, sharing devices, etc. No worries...however, I don't think they will approve our correspondence with the school in New Zealand if it is a school account. We will still do the project and have a culminating celebration- hopefully with your parents there. To be continued...

Re-test information- Nouns, Simple subject/simple predicate

I will have these graded by the end of the week. They will be figured into your 9 week average. "La Bamba" writing will carry over into next 9 weeks. *Please note* Monday's notes over common/proper/compound nouns and simple subject/simple predicate are on the school webpage under McNeill and then "Calendar." Additionally there are notes on our next focus: concrete, abstract, and collective nouns. Don't forget that you can also go on the school page under my name, then "Presentations" and "Parts of Speech" Powerpoint. You can review personal pronouns (because they can be the subject of any sentence), prepositions (because they begin prepositional phrases and you need to also know the object of each prepositional phrase), and also begin reviewing helping/linking verbs so you can recognize verb phrases.

Hang in there! You can do it! Small break from grammar tomorrow- we will be doing reader's theater and choral reading as we begin our unit on fluency.