Reading+Homework


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== Attention Parents and Students: Mrs. Stelling is out on maternity leave 3/19-5/15. This page will not be updated during this time. Students can access assignments in class using the absent and late work station and the homework board. ==

Blogger:@http://stellingsoutsiders.blogspot.com/ ||= Tuesday ||= Wednesday ||= Thursday ||= Friday || Watching "The Outsiders" movie as a follow up to the book Discussion HW: Reading Record due Tuesday || In Class: Collect Reading Records Watching "The Outsiders" movie as a follow up to the book Discussion HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Finish watching "The Outsiders" movie as a follow up to the book Discussion HW: Read 30 minutes || **__Thursday__** In Class: Revisit Reading Inventory from the beginning of the year.
 * 3/12/12 || In Class:

Homework: Read 30 minutes

Library - book checkout and free Reading time || Blog for Chapter 10 in __The Outsiders__ Read Chapters 11 & 12 No Homework || In Class: Finish Chapter 12 TCAP - Math Punch-out Tools Homework: None || No Class - TCAP || No Class - TCAP || Pass out permission forms to watch the movie "The Outsiders" Read and listen to Chapter 8 Blog post for Ch 8 HW - Reading record due Tuesday Permission form due Wednesday || In Class: Collect Reading Records Chapter 9 and Blog post for Chapter 9 HW - Permission form due Wednesday || In Class: Chapter 10 and Blog post for Chapter 10 HW - Readin 30 minutes || In Class: Chapter 11 and Blog Post HW - Read 30 minutes President's Day || In Class: Finish Blog post from chapter 5 Read Chapter 6 of __The Outsiders__ Reading Record due!! Homework: Read 30 Minutes || In Class: Finish Chapter 6 and Blog Start Chapter 7 of __The Outsiders__ HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Finish reading Chapter 7 Start Chapter 7 blog post for __The Outsiders__ HW: Read 30 Minutes Library - book check out, finish blog post for Chapter 7, and Free Reading Time || Chapter 3 of __The Outsiders__ Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday || In Class: Chapter 3 and 4 of __The Outsiders__ Post on our Blogger Page. See link above. Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Chapter 4 of __The Outsiders__ Post on our Blogger Page (see link above) Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Chapter 5 of __The Outsiders__ Read 30 minutes || Finish Chapter 1 of __The Outsiders__ Complete the portraits and descriptions of the different characters you meet in this chapter. HW: Reading Record due Tuesday || In Class: Start Chapter 2 of __The Outsiders__ Work on starting a class blog site HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Finish Chapter 2 of __The Outsiders__ Continue work on starting class blog site HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: CSAP prep and review in class Homework: Read 30 minutes || Finish CSAP review from Friday TFKs Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class: Finish Information Literacy Start __The Outsiders__ Sign out books and d o a prereading activity about stereotypes and cliques. Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: __The Outsiders__ Pre-reading class discussion on stereotypes and biases HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: __The Outsiders__ Chapter 1 - First impressions of the characters HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Library - book check out CSAP Review in class HW: RR due Tuesday || //Time for Kids// What was the most memorable event from 2011 for you? Answer and illustrate on the back of your paper. Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday || In Class: Collect Reading Records Information literacy: Looking at criteria for evaluating websites Reading URLs HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Computer lab - Information Literacy || In Class: Computer lab - Information Literacy || In Class: CSAP Review and preparation || Honor Roll Assembly Turn in Reading Records TFK - Homework: Read for 30 minutes || In Class: Turn in TFKs and Reading Records Information Literacy: Compile our ideas about what is important in evaluating websites Homework: read for 30 minutes || In Class: Evaluating websites - putting our ideas from yesterday into practice Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Library for book check out Free Read Friday Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday || Finish comparison between movie and book versions of __Freak the Mighty__ Discuss themes and whether Max and Kevin are heroes Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class: Introduce Information Literacy Research DHMO... Should it be banned or not? HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Information Literacy Getting to the bottom of the DHMO controversy... What do you think now? :) HW: Read for 30 minutes ||  ||   || Teacher Planning Day || In Class: Comparing book to film: __Freak the Mighty__ and "The Mighty" Homework: None || In Class: Comparing book to film: __Freak the Mighty__ and "The Mighty" Homework: None || In Class: Comparing book to film: __Freak the Mighty__ and "The Mighty" Homework: Reading Record due on Tuesday! || In Class: Regular reading class cancelled for today Sixth Grade Assembly - Author - Justin Matott || Read Chapters 19, 20, 21 in __Freak the Mighty__ Reading Record due Tuesday My original reading students -- Reading Log (in journals) due Wednesday! || In Class: Collect Reading Records Finish __Freak the Mighty__ Discuss the final chapters Reminder: Permission slip due Wednesday! My original reading students -- Reading Log (in journals) due Wednesday! || In Class: Collect Permission slips Final Reading Log activity in computer lab Homework: NONE || In Class: Locker and binder clean out. Homework: None || Have a wonderful winter break!! See you in 2012!! || //Time for Kids// Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class: Read aloud chapter 15 in __Freak the Mighty__ Write and answer one application question for this chapter Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Read Chapter 16 Permission slips for watching "The Mighty" Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Read Chapter 17 & 18 Synthesis level questioning Homework: Get permission slip signed and returned, read 30 minutes || In Class: Silent Reading Hot Cocoa party Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || Read Chapter 10 in __Freak the Mighty__ Discuss "Application" level questions. "How might the events of this chapter be changed by today's technology?" Discuss in small groups. Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class: Reading Record due! Read Chapter 11 & 12 in __Freak the Mighty__ Application level questioning Come up with more examples and discuss answers. Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Read Chapter 13 in __Freak the Mighty__ Application level questioning Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Read Chapter 14 in __Freak the Mighty__ Application level questioning Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Library - Book Checkout - must return books by 12/9/11 for library system conversion!! Free Reading Homework: RR due Tuesday! || Read Chapter 5 in __Freak the Mighty__ Comprehension level questioning Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class: Reading Record due! //Time for Kids// Read and complete the comprehension quiz HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Read Chapter 6 & 7 in __Freak the Mighty__ Comprehension level questioning HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Read Chapters 8 & 9 in __Freak the Mighty__ Comprehension level questioning HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: //Time for Kids// Read and complete the comprehension quiz Homework: Read for your reading record! Enjoy your break! || New Seats Check out __Freak the Mighty__ books Journals - Glue different levels of questioning into journals - Bloom's Taxonomy Predict: What will the book be about? Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class: Collect Reading Records Read the first chapter of __Freak the Mighty__ Write knowledge level questions Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Chapter 2 of __Freak the Mighty__ Knowledge level questions Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Chapters 3 & 4 of __Freak the Mighty__ Knowledge level questions Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Library book checkout and free reading time Reminder to all of my students: Reading Logs (in your Journals) should be nearing completion. You should have completed 4-5 books by now!! || Read and infer: "Bud, Not Buddy" "Time for Kids" Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! TFK - due in class || In Class: TFK - Trade and Grade Collect Reading Records Collect TFKs "Night" Inference activity Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Pre-test - Elements of Fiction Read the story and complete the list to the best of your ability Free Reading Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Elements of Fiction - discuss your answers from yesterday with your group Notes to add to your journal on Elements of Fiction Homework: Read 30 minutes || In class: Elements of Fiction - Plot Mountains Read "Sneetches" with your group and discuss different elements of fiction in the story Homework: RR due Tuesday! || Finish "The Bracelet" Predictions "Time For Kids" Read and complete comprehension quizzes for 2 copies of the news magazine. Finish TFKs for homework. Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class: Inference - Introduction Game and Cartoons Homework: Read for 30 minutes || In Class: More examples of inference with two short readings and questions to follow Vocabulary with a partner - using context clues to define new/unfamiliar words. Homework: Read for 30 minutes || In Class: Finish going over vocabulary inferences from Wednesday. "All Summer In A Day" Inference Activity Homework: Read for 30 minutes || In Class: Finish "All Summer In A Day" inference activity. Library for book checkout. Free reading time. Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday!! || Listen to "The Gold Cadillac" and predict along the way Homework: RR due Tuesday! || In Class: Prediction Finish "The Gold Cadillac" Turn in Reading Records HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Prediction activity related to "The Bracelet" using word association HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class:Prediction Video on Japanese Americans during WWII to connect to "The Bracelet" HW: Read 30 Minutes || No Class today We are on an adjusted schedule for Powell's 30th Anniversary Dance Party Remember Reading Records are due Tuesday! || Turn in TFK magazine quiz Figurative Language - Read and listen for examples __Dave the Potter__ Hand out booklets for Figurative Language - write a story about a member of your family or a pet to apply figurative language Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday || In Class: Turn in Reading Records Figurative Language Rap What is an oxymoron? Work on Figurative Language Booklets - due Wed. Fig. Lang. quiz in class tomorrow HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Figurative Language Quiz Free reading and individual book checkout in the library Homework: Enjoy the long weekend and read for your reading record! See you Monday || ===**No School** - Teachers Conferencing with Parents=== || ===No School - Teacher Compensation Day=== || Introduce Figurative Language and copy notes into journals Visualize- "Storm" Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class: Reading Record due Figurative Language __Hoops__ Listen and answer the questions HW: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Definitions of different types of figurative language - glue them into journals __The Tortilla Factory__ Listen and answer the questions __HW: Read 30 Minutes__ || In Class: Play Figurative Language game "La Bamba" Watch music video Read the story of "La Bamba" from our text, p. 336. Look for examples of figurative language throughout. HW: read 30 minutes || In Class: Figurative Language Onomatopeia and Poems to Solve (Metaphors) Finish "La Bamba" in class TFK - Monarch Butterflies HW: Finish TFKs for homework || Connections - Making text to text connections between fiction and nonfiction __Fly Away Home__ by Eve Bunting and a newspaper article about homeless people living in airports Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class: Reading record due Theme - reading p. 219 in our text book Discuss nursery rhyme themes Looking back at Venn diagrams - Theme Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Theme - "Midas" Jigsaw "Emperor's New Clothes" "Baucis and Philemon" "Rapunzel" Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Theme - Children's books Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Library Book Check Out TFKs in class Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday || Metacognition: "Salvador Late or Early" "Slower Than the Rest" Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday || In Class: Reading Record - Free Write in Journals - make a connection Finish discussion "Salvador Late or Early" Go over advanced and proficient 6th grade connection Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Poem "Inside We Are All the Same" - make a proficient or advanced connection to this poem (T-S, T-T, or T-W) Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Read and Listen to "All- American Slurp" p. 227 in Elements of Literature books Read 30 minutes || In Class: Venn Diagram to compare and contrast "6", "My Name", and "All-American Slurp" Come up with unique qualities and similar themes about each story Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday! || In Class : Reading Record Due! "Time for Kids" Magazine and Comprehension Quiz Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Finish "My Name" discussion Read and use metacognition for "The House on Mango Street" Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Coding for Metacognition Read "6" and use codes. Look back at "The House on Mango Street" and code HW - Read 30 minutes || In Class: Coding "Salvador Late or Early" Library for book check out HW - Reading Record due Tuesday || Catch up on Book Logs Reading Journal Quickwrite about character or event Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Metacognition discussion Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: "Everybody's Different But the Same Too" discuss and think about questions as we read Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: "My Name" Journal Entry and reading passage Library visit for book check out Reading Record is due on Tuesday!! || Finish Salad Bowl Quickwrite from "Just Once" Homework: Reading Record due tomorrow || In Class: Reading Record due Reading Quickwrite in journals and discuss reading book with classmate Introduce First Semester Book Log - glue into journal Homework: Read for 30 min. || In Class: Genre Notes - in reading journal Homework: Read 30 minutes || In Class: Genre Game Homework: Read 30 minutes Study for Genre quiz Who wants to be a Genre-naire? || In Class: Genre Quiz Reminder: Reading Record due Tuesday... No school Monday - Labor Day Holiday! Enjoy your long weekend! || Interview Articles - present in class, introduce your partner Homework: Reading Record due Tuesday || Classwork: Finish presenting interview articles and turn them in Reading Record discussion circles Homework: Read 30 minutes || Classwork: Set up Reading Journals Reading Inventory Homework: Read 30 minutes || Classwork: "Just Once" Read/Listen in class Homework: Read 30 minutes || Classwork: Class discussion - What's alike? What's different? Class Salad Bowl vs. Melting Pot Homework: RR due Tuesday! || book to class Bring "Return Slip" from Ed-venture packet by Fri. Bring $5 for TFK by Fri. || Bring a silent reading book to class Bring "Return Slip" from Ed-venture packet by Fri. Bring $5 for TFK by Fri. || In Class: Assign Reading Record Questions about reading Homework: Work on TFK article Bring $5 for TFK by Fri. Bring "Return Slip" from Ed-venture packet by Fri. || TFK interview - Interview a classmate Write an article about them Draw a picture to illustrate the article Due MONDAY!! Homework: Work on TFK article Bring $5 for TFK by Fri. Bring "Return Slip" from Ed-venture packet by Fri. || In Class: Go to library for orientation and book check out Work on TFK article and picture Homework: TFK article and Picture - due Monday Reading Record due Tuesday! ||
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