6th grade: 1/25/12

STANDARD: ELA6LSV1; ELA6W2
DEBATE/RESEARCH
EQ: How can I use facts and emotional appeal to support my position statement and help me construct support?
Warm up: Get in small debate groups based on student survey
Lesson: Constructing support- work with your group (those on the SAME side of the issue) and find facts, statistics, or examples to back up your argument; Complete CONSTRUCTING SUPPORT sheet from last week.
Time allowing- Work on projects
HOMEWORK: Project due FRIDAY 1/27

THURSDAY: 1/26/12- COMPUTER LAB- upstairs
Type your "mock" writing about cameras in the classroom; EDIT/revise and PRINT a copy

Welcome Back!!!

Are you ready to R.U.M.B.L.E.? We will be beginning a new unit on persuasive writing this nine weeks. We will review your final and conventions that you still need to master for your next CDA (end of the month) and the CRCT (begins in April the Tuesday you return from Spring Break). You will have a writing assessment on January 18th that will be given in homeroom, but I will be scoring those using the rubric we have been using all year (ideas, organization, style, conventions). I will be showing you some sample essays and also posting new ones in the hall to show you what a 2,3,4, and 5 essay look like. Also, we will be having our class spelling bee on Tuesday with the winner representing our class going to the school bee next Friday, so brush up on your spelling rules!  For some sample word lists you might try the following websites: http://www.npusc.k12.in.us/Spelling%20Bee/index.html
http://www.spellingbee.com/
http://www.myspellit.com/
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/spelling-and-word-lists/misspelled.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_8253546_prepare-6th-grade-spelling-bee.html
http://www.spellingcity.com/taking-a-spelling-test.html?listId=5383834
GOOD LUCK!!!

Monday January 9, 2012
STANDARD: ELA6W2 (Writing- persuasive genre)
EQ: What are the main types of propaganda? How is propaganda persuasive?
Warm up: notes on propanda (assessment prompt 1)
Lesson: propaganda types
Summary: compare/contrast types of propaganda using commercials and print ads as examples
Homework: bring in a magazine, newspaper, or online ad to class