6^th Grade Language Arts Assignments

Week 25 – March 31, 2008

Dear Parents and Students: Though we will complete nearly all the grammar sections of the Language C book this year, we have skipped the early chapters on capitalization and punctuation. Through testing and composition, about half of the students in the class demonstrate mastery of these important concepts. The others still are uncertain of when and where to capitalize and punctuate. I would like to assign a second, optional set of grammar pages to cover those areas during these last few weeks of school. These are highly recommended if your student still needs to have you or me correct many of these mistakes on his/her compositions. I will not cover these in class nor test them (unless you request it), and leave it to your choice whether your student would profit from a thorough review of these grammar rules. Please require the optional assignments of your student if you believe it would help advance his/her composition skills and confidence.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

LC	Be sure you are caught up (and corrected) through p. 242. If you never did pp. 238-239, please do those pages today. They are important foundational material. Bring this book to class tomorrow to review! (Optional) Read the rules on pp. 32-33 and do Think A and B on pp. 32-34.
Writing	Spend another 20 minutes taking notes for your research paper. You should be able to take at least 4-5 note cards’ worth of notes in this time. Try to find information that fills in the blanks on your preliminary outline.
Treasure Island	Read chapters 25-27 today to complete Part V. Do pp. 13 and 14 in your vocab. packet and use them to review the vocab. words from Parts IV and V (see pp. 9 and 12 of your vocab. packet) for a quiz tomorrow.
Bible Memory	Memorize John 14:6 today and recite it to a parent. Have him/her sign it off on your memory work check sheet.
CS3	Begin the Review Lesson on pp. 67-69 and bring this book and any questions to class tomorrow to review.
Poetry	Memorize lines 21-24 of your poem this week.

Friday, April 4, 2008

LC	· Read the blue box on the top of p. 243 and do Think A and B on pp. 243-244. Have it corrected. · (Opt.) Do pp. 35 and 36, Think A, B, C, and D. Have a parent correct your work and review it with you.
Writing	Finish taking your notes for your research paper! (or come close) As discussed in class, you should now have 20-30 note cards (unless you started taking notes another way). This is only a guideline – you may have more or less. Of course you can still take more the next week or so if you feel you do not have enough.
Treasure Island	Read chapters 28-30 today. Read over p. 15 in your Vocabulary packet to get familiar with these words. If you like, do p. 16. Yes, I will collect and grade these packets at the end!
Bible Memory	Memorize John 15:26 today and recite it to your parents. Have them sign it off on your check sheet.
CS3	Read through Lessons 16-20 and the Review Lesson we covered in class yesterday to review for your Bible Test on Monday. On the Review lesson map (pp. 73-74) know the locations of the cities but not the locations in Jerusalem. On the Pentecost Travelers map, know only the major areas (Asia, Crete, Cyrene, Egypt, Judea, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Cappadocia and Pontus.) Don’t worry about the areas in smaller print (Phrygia, Pamphylia, Elam, Susa, Media, Eobatana).
Poetry	Review all of your chosen poem (lines 1-24) today. Try to say it all from memory to a family member.

Monday, April 7, 2008

LC	· Do Think A on p. 245 and all of p. 246 (Think A and B). Have it corrected. · (Opt.) Read the blue box at the top of p. 37 and do Think A, B, and C on pp. 37-38. Have a parent check your work.
Writing	· Revise your preliminary outline of your research paper into a final outline. If I checked off your preliminary outline last week in class, you do not need to keep the preliminary version. · If you did not finish last week, work on finishing taking notes.
Treasure Island	Read chapters 31-32 today. Begin planning what you would like to do for a final project – draw a map of Treasure Island, make a Book Jacket illustrated on the front and containing an overview on its flaps, or another project. We will talk about this in class tomorrow.
Bible Memory	Begin memorizing Romans 5:8-9 today.
CS3	Complete your review, and take the Bible Test sent home on Thursday. Bring it back to class tomorrow to turn in.
Poetry	This is the week to recite your poem in class if you have not done so! Keep reviewing the whole thing, and come to class on Thursday prepared to recite.