Stories we are reading

Unit 4
"Reflecting on childhood"

How do childhood experiences shape the decisions of others?
How do life experiences, as we grow older, make us who we are?



Anne Frank
http://scope.scholastic.com/resource/uploads_scope/issues/040115/pdfs/SCOPE-040115-Nonfiction.pdf



Becky and the Wheels and Brakes Boys
http://bmsanderson.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/4/3/10433795/becky_and_the_wheels-and-brake_boys.pdf


Eleven
http://my.ccsd.net/userdocs/documents/qP2lEuWcYaAQAtMW.pdf

try these websites instead

theme
http://www.teachertube.com/video/identifying-the-theme-in-literature-310751

Characterization
http://www.teachertube.com/video/characterization-358152

Plot
http://www.teachertube.com/video/elements-of-a-plot-10187

Figurative Language
http://www.teachertube.com/video/flocabulary-figurative-language-335084

This Week!

We are moving on to short stories this week.  I found a few videos to help with your understanding of the elements of a story.

Plot
https://www.flocabulary.com/fivethings/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6I24S72Jps

theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1jy_K7oJ2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTKnoCWK-wc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qME64SkxM

Characterization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK_LCjQQCPk


Figurative Language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QbV81Ilq0I

Tone and Mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mW2VTUOSWs

Back to Normal this week!!

Today is the last day of the field trip so we will be back on a normal schedule.  Students are expected to turn in all work for a grade that we have been working on.  They have had all week to complete this and the weekend.  It is due tomorrow.

Assignments due:
Cornell Notes
Similes and Metaphors
Figurative Language
Poems in Literature Book
Alliteration Sheet

Items Due Before Break
Movie Sheet
Hoot Project
Sherlock Holmes Way


Please make sure you are finished with all of your work!!!!


Sneetches

http://bowmanatbrooks.weebly.com/uploads/8/3/8/3/8383240/the-sneetches.pdf

This Week!

This is our first week back from Spring Break and it is a little crazy because of the wonderful field trip that 6th grade is attending.  However, we will be looking at Poetry and Figurative Language this week.

Flocabulary on Figurative Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPjAiUbdl14


Students, please don't forget to read every night at home and look at your chart to see what books you need to read to meet your goal of 30 books!!