Language Arts/6-1 Team/ September 16-25, 2009

Language Arts/6-1 Team/September 16-25,2009/LaBarbera

1. Narrative Composition #1---Students are to check spelling, add detail, and complete the composition by Friday, September 18. Encourage your child to correct his/her composition as it matches the rubric for evaluation.
FINAL DRAFTS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. This applies to class periods 2, 3, 5 and 6/LaBarbera. If there is no computer access, students have been told to write the final draft in black ink on looseleaf paper. If a student uses a flash drive, the document must be converted to a Microsoft doc., able to print on a Mac.
Homework for the week : Type the final draft of narrative composition 1.
Other: To be announced.
2. Language Network/Grammar
We will be covering four kinds of sentences, subjects and predicates, and distinguishing fragments, run-ons, and complete sentences.
Homework will be assigned and posted here as lessons proceed.

3. The Word Study homework will be graded, recorded, and returned to students . We will cover additional prefixes and suffixes in future lessons. We are building our vocabulary in numerous opportunities. After a writing conference, the student will write words correctly that were misspelled in the draft. Creating a " Word Journal" in the spiral is a result.

4. Units One, Two, and Three of the Pilot Text: "Prentice Hall-Literature" will be covered in the first trimester in the coming weeks.This week we are covering the vocabulary and skill of prediction for the story, "Stray." Students will complete this work in class. Vocabulary is written in the language arts spiral notebook. We will have a pilot test on this material in November.

Next writing project: Assessment: Write a short narrative within two class sessions. We will work on the pre-writing activities about an important memory.This writing will be completed in class and brought to final draft. We will use our new textbooks by Prentice Hall for the writing workshop.