This Week in Language Arts:

 

October 6-10

 

Week of School: 7

RAH week: 7

Grade RAH week: 6

 
Text Box: 6th grade Language Arts with Mrs. Garetson

Grapevine-Colleyville ISD

Regular Language Arts

 

Monday:

· New six weeks review

· RICH read

· Newspaper articles—discuss parts, format

 

Tuesday: 

· Warm-up:  summarize a newspaper article (5W’s)

· Discuss types of articles in the newspaper

· RICH

· Informative nonfiction:  Women Inventors

 

Wednesday:

· RICH/Response

· Essay—”All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”

· Work with partner on Women Inventors presentation

 

Thursday:

· RICH / Response

· Present Women Inventors

· Spelling review

· Assign newspaper articles

 

Friday: 

· Biography and Interview:  Lois Lowry

· RICH

· Spelling test

· Journal—write about a favorite childhood memory

Heritage Middle School

5300 Heritage Avenue

Colleyville, TX  76034

Phone: 817-305-4790

Fax: 817-267-9929

emily.garetson@gcisd.net

How to spell  POTATO

 

If GH can stand for P as in Hiccough
If OUGH can stand for O as in Dough
If PHTH can stand for T as in Phthisis
If EIGH can stand for A as in Neighbor
If TTE can stand for T as in Gazette
If EAU can stand for O as in Plateau

Then the right way to spell POTATO should be:
GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU

- author unknown

Pre-AP Language Arts

 

Monday:

· Finish movie

· Essay—”All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”

 

Tuesday:

· New six weeks review

· RICH

· Newspaper articles—discuss parts, format

· Summarize newspaper article (5 W’s and how)

 

Wednesday:

· RICH

· Share newspaper article summaries

· Newspaper article plans (brainstorm)

· Read aloud: The Teacher’s Funeral

 

Thursday:

· RICH

· Vocabulary Workshop p. 159 (Analogies)

· Newspaper articles—assign and plan

· Read aloud: The Teacher’s Funeral

 

Friday:

· Biography and Interview:  Lois Lowry or Gary Paulsen

· RICH

· Root word quiz

· Journal—write about a favorite childhood memory

In Class this week, this is what we’re doing…

(Please see “Assignments” page for homework.)

Mrs. Garetson’s Conference:

6th period (12:59-1:49pm)

 

Stampede Tutorials:

Every Monday (1:53-2:16pm)