6M Language Arts Assignments

On the Google Slides are both the Reading Must Do and the Writing Must Do #1. Please carefully read the directions on the first slide.

Please read the directions at the top of the page.

Don't forget to type in your name at the top of the form (first question).

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Attached are Writing Choice #1 and #3.
#2 is assigned on Quill.

Don't forget to tell me which assignment you completed in the Private Comments and to turn in your work when you are finished.

Don't forget to turn in your work when you are done.

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Please include a private comment in the assignment letting me know which worksheet you completed. Don't forget to turn it in when you are done.

Please don't forget to turn in your doc when you are done.

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

Follow the link to complete your Flocabulary assignment

I thought this would be a fun way to explore the tone and mood of Chapters 7-9. Be sure to complete the Flocabulary lesson on Tone and Mood before you complete this AND before you read the chapters, as it will help you understand how to identify the tone and mood. I will be posting a video on Monday morning with a more detailed explanation of this assignment.

After reading Chapters five and Six, choose one of the attached activities. Please remember to turn in your work when you are done, or it will not count as completed.

Each student has a copy. Please read the directions carefully and be sure to turn it in for grading and feedback.

Please choose only ONE to complete and turn in for a grade.

MUST DO:
Guided Journal
The two prompts for the whole week are posted in the Doc that you are to turn in. Please either: a) Copy and paste the slide on to the Doc, or b) Copy and paste only your writing on to the Doc. You must turn it in to receive credit. Look for Guided Journal Directions posted on March 30th if you need help.

MAY DO (CHOOSE ONE AND TURN IT IN TO RECEIVE CREDIT):
Quickwrite #1
Quickwrite #2

MUST DO:
1. Watch Dystopia Video
2. Read Genre Focus
3. Read The Giver Chapters 1 and 2
4. Complete Chapters 1 and 2 Questions - THIS MUST BE TURNED IN TO RECEIVE CREDIT!

MAY DO (CHOOSE ONLY ONE AND TURN IT IN TO RECEIVE CREDIT):
1. Anticipation Guide
2. The Giver Foreshadowing
3. Designing a Utopian Middle School Project

Copy and paste your Guided Journal Slides on the attached handout/doc. Please watch the video if you need help.

Prompt #1 - What are the Greatest Lessons You Have Learned So Far?

Writing Prompt is: Tell a story about an event that shaped who you are today.

Here are the steps for you to take:

1. Gather your pre-planning materials that we worked on a couple weeks ago. This includes the packet where you brainstormed, created a timeline and narrative arc, and took notes about your characters and theme. I'm attaching it in case you lost it or don't have it.

2. Utilize the skills you learned in the ThinkCERCA lessons. This includes introductions, organizing, developing events, and descriptions and details. PS - Three of those lessons are due today, so please complete them if you haven't yet.

3. Read the examples I've attached below. Please read all four. They do not have the exact same prompt, but they are good models of what your writing should sound and look like.

4. Start writing! Your personal narrative should be:
* typed in any font you'd like but may be no bigger than 14 point font
* include a creative title
*double-spaced
* at least one page long

5. When you are done, you are to proofread it TWICE. Then have one other person proofread it ONCE. You can even share it with a classmate for them to peer edit it. It is also a good idea to use Grammarly.com to do the final proofread.

7. Turn it in. It is due Sunday night.

Write a diary entry about what is going on in our country in the world right now, your feelings about everything, and whatever is going on in your life that you want to share.

Include today's date (Monday, March 16, 2020), start with "Dear Mimmy", and close with your name the same way Zlata does ("Ciao!" or "Love" and your name).

You may use whatever font you'd like, but your entry must be no more than 12 point font, double-spaced, and it must be at least 3/4 of a page long.

DO NOT FORGET TO TURN IN YOUR WORK!

Writing Prompt:

In a well-organized three paragraph essay, explain how fandom is affecting the world in both positive and negative ways. Use details from both articles to support your ideas.

Your writing will be graded based on:

1. introduction to the the issue including the names of each article (highlight yellow)
2. claim/thesis statement in the introduction (highlight pink)
3. topic sentences in each body paragraph (highlight green)
4. organization
5. evidence from the text - You should include at least one quote from the text in each paragraph (one for positive and one for negative) (highlight blue)

CREATE a new doc and begin writing your extended response.

REQUIREMENTS:
- double-spaced
- proper Garvy heading
- 11-12 pt. font
- Arial, Times, Calibri only
- at least seven to nine sentences long
- TURNED IN IF YOU WANT A GRADE

Remember that this is a Writing Assessment grade worth 50% of your final grade. It is due NO LATER than Friday. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Scholastic Code: runking3006

IF YOU DO NOT TURN IN THIS ASSIGNMENT, I WILL NOT COUNT IT! IT WILL BE LATE/MISSING. It is due by tomorrow morning at 8:30am if you don't finish it in class. NO EXCEPTIONS!

Describe how Sae Young’s attitude towards her community and being around other people changes by the end of the chapter. Include at least two details from the text that shows how the author develops Sae Young’s point of view.

printed
double-spaced
12 pt font
Arial, Times, Calibri only
proper Garvy heading
INCLUDE TRANSITION WORDS (for organization)

Restate the prompt in the first sentence. Use a transition word, and give your first example from the text. Explain how that example backs up your claim. Use another transition, and give your second example from the text with an explanation of how it supports your claim. Use a final transition to give one last example. Explain how that example backs up your claim. Wrap the paragraph up in the last sentence.

Answer questions 1-9 using your book. Use the prompts below to answer #10.

Exploring Theme
Directions: Roll a die and answer the corresponding question from the list below.
1 – Roll Again
2 – Choose one of the following topics: friendship, prejudice, hope, survival, family. What is the author’s message about this topic? What is your own opinion about that same topic?
3 – You are the story’s author and have been invited onto the “Good Morning America” show. Michael Strahan asks you, “So do you think people are basically good or basically selfish?” Based on the characters in the story, write your response.
4 –The local newspaper is interviewing students about issues they have seen around the community. First, create a list of 5+ issues, and then explain how one of these issues is addressed in the story.
5 – Create a new title for this story. Thinking about the novel’s characters, problems, settings, and themes, explain why your new title reflects the book’s main ideas so well.
6 – WILD!!! Answer the question of your choice from above.

With a partner or on your own, create your own scary story using the Scary Photo Prompts that start on page three.

Your story may be AT LEAST one page long but NO MORE than two pages long double-spaced and in 12 point font (you may choose any font you'd like).

In addition, you must follow the plot diagram of a short story (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution).

Be sure to make it interesting and fun to read by including dialogue between characters and vivid descriptions! You will be sharing your story with another student/group on Monday.

Complete the following analysis questions based on the short story "Raymond's Run". Don't forget to click on TURN IN when you are finished!

Attached are the short story and the POV writing assignment. I have also included an example.

In a well-organized paragraph, explain one challenge that refugees face and how that challenge can be overcome.

To be completed in your SS composition notebook:

Have a conversation/interview with someone who was alive and remembers September 11, 2001. Where were they? How did they feel? Did they know anyone who was in the Twin Towers or The Pentagon? How do they think their lives have changed since that day? Do they feel that the country has changed since that day? What other questions do you think you can ask?

Your assignment is to write down your conversation. This can be as a paragraph (reflection or summary) or actual interview questions and answers.

After reading the short story, complete the Internal Conflicts and Making Meanings assignments. Both are to be done in your composition notebook and will be checked on Monday.