Wednesday, November 30

6th grade:
•Listen to "The Polar Express" on Storyline online
•Fill out the Vocabulary 4-square during the 2nd reading

7th grade:
•Listen to scenes 3 and 4 of "A Christmas Carol"
•Vocabulary Skillbuilder

*AR is due December 16th!

Tuesday, November 29

6th grade:
•Begin "The Polar Express" Unit
•Define story vocabulary on the back of the ticket
•Color the ticket and turn it in

7th grade:
•Begin "A Christmas Carol"
•Define story vocabulary
•Listen to Scenes 1 and 2 (audio version)

*AR is due December 16th!

Monday, November 28

6th and 7th grade:
•Unit 15 Spelling Pre-test
•Go to the library

*AR is due December 16th!

6th grade:
impolite
informal
include
involve
individual
improper
inquire
innocent
immediate
immigrant
immovable
indirect
infection
indent
import
incomplete
instrument
inclined
immense
inactive

7th grade:
mystery
literary
treachery
theory
bravery
primary
legendary
forgery
cemetery
elementary
observatory
secretary
nursery
satisfactory
imaginary
vocabulary
ordinary
machinery
boundary
temporary

Monday, November 21

6th grade:
•Change of plans -- Open book/open note test today over "Matthew Henson at the Top of the World"

7th grade:
•Change of plans -- Open book/open note test over "Eleanor Roosevelt"

*AR is due December 16th!

Friday, November 18

6th and 7th grade:
•Unit 14 Spelling Test
•Reading Journals
•AR

*AR is due December 16th!

Thursday, November 17

6th grade:
•Makeup 10 interview questions
•Interview a partner
•Write a short biography over them
•Responding Options:
-from Personal Response to Critical Analysis (#'s 1-3, 5)
-Words to Know

7th grade:
•Think of a world or national problem you think Eleanor Roosevelt would have been concerned with today. Come up with a solution for it
•Responding Options:
-from Personal Response to Critical Analysis (#'s 1-5)
-Words to Know

*AR is due December 16th!

Wednesday, November 15

6th and 7th grade:
•Unit 14 Spelling (study....words can be found on my last Monday post)
•Go to the library
•AR

*AR is due December 16th!

Tuesday, November 15

6th and 7th grade:
•ITBS Testing in homerooms

Monday, November 14

6th and 7th grade:
•ITBS Testing in homerooms

*AR is due December 16th!

Friday, November 11

6th and 7th grade (several classes will not be in session because of the Veterans' Day Program and Faculty/8th grade flag football)
•Reading Journals
•AR
•Makeup work

*NO Spelling test today --we will test over Unit 14 words next week!

Thursday, November 10

6th grade:
•Reading, Vocabulary, and Spelling Skillbuilder over "Matthew Henson at the Top of the World"
•Strategic Reading over "Matthew Henson..."

7th grade:
•Reading, Vocab. and Spelling Skillbuilder over "Eleanor Roosevelt"
•Strategic Reading over "Eleanor Roosevelt"

Wednesday, November 9

6th grade:
•Research other explorers on the laptops
•Choose one and compare/contrast him/her to Matthew Henson in a Venn Diagram
•AR

7th grade:
•Choose a First Lady and research her
•Create a poster comparing/contrasting her to Eleanor Roosevelt

Tuesday, November 8

6th grade:
•Review part of story that was read yesterday
•Finish reading "Matthew Henson at the Top of the World"
•Complete and turn in Main Idea chart
•Main Idea Practice

7th grade:
•Review first part of "Eleanor Roosevelt"
•Finish listening to "Eleanor Roosevelt"
•Complete and turn in Event Chart

Monday, November 7

6th grade:
•Unit 14 Spelling Pre-test
•Begin reading "Matthew Henson at the Top of the World"
•Begin filling out the Main Idea chart as the story is read
•Main Idea Practice

7th grade:
•Unit 14 Spelling Pre-test
•Begin reading "Eleanor Roosevelt" (listen to audiotape)
•Begin filling out Events chart as the story is read
•Main Idea Practice

6th grade:
graceful
divided
advanced
privately
replacement
excitement
adorable
teasing
forgiveness
mileage
barely
forceful
scarcely
blaming
entirely
usable
sincerely
amusement
lifeless
changeable

7th grade:
eruption
spectacular
abrupt
spectator
spectacle
description
specimen
interruption
subscribe
disrupt
inspector
rupture
respect
manuscript
speculate
aspect
transcribe
inscription
suspect
bankrupt

Friday, November 4

6th and 7th grade:
•Unit 13 Spelling Test
•Reading Journals
•AR

Thursday, November 3

6th grade:
•Preview "Matthew Henson at the Top of the World"
•Make a Main Idea chart
•Copy notes off overhead
•Copy down and turn in story vocabulary

7th grade:
•Preview "Eleanor Roosevelt"
•Make an Events chart
•Copy notes off overhead
•Copy down and turn in story vocabulary

*Unit 13 Spelling Test tomorrow!

Wednesday, November 2

6th and 7th grade:
•Access The Joplin Globe online
•Find two articles that interest you and write 5 facts about each
•Read over other articles in today's paper
•AR

Tuesday, November 1

6th and 7th grade:
•Unit 13 Spelling Pre-test (lists below)
•Go to the library for renewal and check-out and also to learn about accessing The Joplin Globe online

6th grade:
mapped
piloting
permitting
beginning
bothered
limited
forgetting
reasoning
preferred
equaled
wondering
slipped
listening
fitting
pardoned
shoveling
favored
knitting
answered
modeling

7th grade:
flame
flammable
ignite
ignition
precise
precision
meter
metric
microscope
microscopic
grave
gravity
grateful
gratitude
revise
revision
athlete
athletic
humane
humanity