May-June+Agendas

Week 21: 05/25/2015 No School

05/26/2015 Narratives are due today! Students will receive their complex sentence and collins formatives back today. They should use these to review and study for their quizzes this week. Finally, students will receive their paper for the zoo trip. They need this paper to complete all work tomorrow and Thursday.

05/27/2015 Philly Zoo Trip

05/28/2015 Collins Summative Class time to finish zoo activity:

Zoo Activity FCAs

Sentence structure/variety: 1 simple (highlighted pink), 1 compound (highlighted green), and 1 complex (highlighted yellow) written and punctuated properly

All details are used to develop indirect characterization. Uses the animal’s thoughts, actions, and/or dialogue to create the character trait of _________________________

05/29/2015 Complex Sentence Summative Reading Time

LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL:

06/01/2015 Team Party

06/02/2015 Review grades for the year Reading Time iPad clean-up and turn in

06/03/2015 Students will use today to write a letter to the incoming seventh graders next year about their experiences, challenges, and successes on Team Jupiter.

06/04/2015 Awards Assembly

06/05/2015 Have a great summer!

Week 20: 05/18/2015-05/22/2015 This whole week will be time for students to work on their narratives and edit them. By the end of the week, we will have peer editing and narratives will be due on Tuesday.

Week 18: 05/04/2015-05/07/2015 Students will have time to present and share their Ted Talk with the class. Ted Talks are due May 4th. No exceptions. Students must present, and there are no retakes. The winners of each class will be posted here by Friday for our team vote.

05/08/2015 Students will be introduced to their final unit and beginning discussing what is a memoir/narrative and how to write one.

05/11/2015 Please use the below link to access today's lesson. Today's lesson

05/12/2015 Students will receive their heart map back with feedback, write a new lead to "Take Your Best Shot", and complete their first Collins practice quiz.

05/13/2015 Field Day! No classes

05/14/2015-05/15/2015 Students will finish and have time to review their work from Tuesday. They will begin writing their first draft of their narrative. First drafts are due for editing on Monday, May 18th, 2015.