**6th Graders are required to read two hours per week** They will write a paragraph response to their reading in class each day Notebooks are due on Mondays
Date Lesson Assignment Due Date
8/22 Newberry books and project sheet Newberry project End of quarter--make arrangements to present Reading Survey In class 8/22 8/23 "Clown" Short Story Response In clasas 8/23 8/24 Reading requirements and responses 8/25 STAR Reading Test 8/26 Close Reading Activity 9/2 SSR day and notebooks due 9/6-9/9 Human Rights discussion and in class notes 9/12-13 Continue close reading and notes Notebooks due 9/19 Notebooks Due 9/20 Human Rights Intro analysis 9/26 Finish notes on Human Rights Articles Notebooks Due 9/27 Turn in notes 9/28-29 Nepalese Education story--annotating and analyzing for Human Rights article examples 10/3 Notebooks Due 10/4 Human Rights Assessment 10/5 SSR 10/11 Esperanza Rising--Read ch. 2 and use flags to mark evidence for questions 10/12 Discussion of ch. 2 10/13 Text questions for ch. 2 10/17 Read Esperanza Rising Ch. 3 as a class 10/18 Chapter 3 questions 11/7 Information on California, immigration, and the Great Depression. Homework--10 sentence summary 11/14 Chapter 7 questions due 11/21 Finish ch. 8 and questions 11/28 Chapter 9 and questions Esperanza Rising 11/29 Turn in Chapter 9 and start chapter 10 12/2 Esperanza Rising Chapter 10 12/6 Esperanza Chapter 11 1/3 Esperanza Peaches Chapter--Cornell Notes 1/11 Finish Esperanza Rising and questions 1/17-18 Metaphors in Esperanza group activity 1/19 SNOW DAY--Read, read and read some more. AR points due tomorrow (you got a bonus day). 2/6 Finish Esperanza Essay 2/7-9 Book Talks 2/14 . List Poem 2/15 Extended Cinquain--Cinquain (syllables--2,4,6,8,2) write a poem that includes a minimum of 3 cinquains 2/16 Haiku write a 3 haiku poem about nature and turn it into an art piece (see Japanese Haiku examples) 2/24-2/28 Poem with Two Voices--write a personification animal poem with a partner. Poems will be performed on 3/2 3/6 Ugly Poem DUE tomorrow. One nice typed version and one destroyed version.