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1
Silver Hawks Soar to Success!
  • Teacher Web site http//bvms.tvusd.k12.ca.us/KMc
    donald/index.htm
  • Grades, Assignment Calendar, Models, Rubrics,
    etc.
  • Phone 294-6600x3613
  • BVMS Web site Go to Grades or Staff websites
  • See Grading Scale and Rubrics for Work Habits
    and citizenship.

2
Assessment for Learning
  • Only assessments/tests count for a grade.
  • In LA, Writing Assignments collected receive
  • 3 means received on time, completed.
  • 0 or blank means no work received
  • 2 in LA means writing is received late
  • No late practice work recorded in SS.
  • It takes 1-2 weeks to enter all LA essay
    scores,but you can see immediately if it was
    handed in or not with this number system.

3
Pinnacle Grading
  • See BVMS web site and click on Grades.
  • Put in students ID and M/F for male/female.
  • Screen will show overall grades, but must click
    on left drop-down menu for each class report to
    see progress.
  • Comments by assignments or narratives explaining
    an assignment are important.
  • These comments do not show up in email.

4
Set up Pinnacle E-mail
  • Pinnacle will ask you about emailing grade
    reports to you.
  • Set the filter for whatever you want.
  • Can set for it to email every time a grade drops
    to 70 in any class.
  • Comments will not show in email.

5
Language Arts
  • Grade 6 has more standards than the other middle
    school grades.
  • Areas are reading to include vocabulary,
  • writing, spelling, and grammar.
  • Language Arts has 48 minutes only versus several
    hours in elementary school.
  • Homework is crucial nightly.

6
Language Arts Reading
  • Vocabulary 6th Grade Focus Roots List, shades of
    meaning, and usage activities with context clues
  • 240 Words 6th Grade Kids Need to Know,
  • or word analysis of student monitored words
    from their reading, and class-wide core novel
    words
  • Million Word Log keeps track of reading minutes.
  • Weekly Reading Logs or Novel Packets stress
  • reading standards for Grade 6.
  • See LA Sem1 in my web site for details.

7
Reading Assessments
  • Million Word Log
  • Biography/Autobiography Poster Essay
    Non-fiction
  • Main Idea 6th Grade Mini-Assessment to prepare
    for summarizing
  • Summarizing skills practiced in Cornell Notes for
    SS
  • Reading analysis of literature using Reading Logs
    or
  • Novel Packets covering specific reading
    standards. Examples are
  • Book in a Bag Project exploring Story Elements
    and Theme
  • Reading Logs analyzing effects of setting,
    character conflict and effects

8
Structures and Features of Informational Texts
and Materials
  • Textbooks, reference materials, historical
    documents
  • Biographies, diaries, journals, speeches
  • Magazine and news articles
  • Websites
  • Internet features
  • Brochures
  • Applications
  • How-to-Directions

9
Spelling and GrammarSee LA 1-2 Semester under
Language Skills
  • Spelling Know basic rules. See web.
  • Grammar for Sentence Structure
  • Most Frequently misspelled and confused words.
    (accept, except, effect, affect,
  • their, theyre, there)
  • Sentence Variety
  • Write using simple, compound, and complex
    sentences.

10
Forms of Writing
  • Explanatory explains ideas compares-contrasts,
    relates news story, responds to a piece of
    literature, explains how-to, and more.
  • Summary explains in brief exactly what author
    wrote. No personal views or interpretation.
  • Persuasion/Argument pushes an opinion, ie.,
    Letter to Editor or Business Letter of Complaint
  • Narrative tells a story
  • Johns eyes immediately met the hard, bright
    lights hanging directly above him. He soon
    realized he hurt all over. . .

11
Writing Assessment
  • On-Task Writing in class for all drafts
  • Best Writing is handed in attached to prior
    drafts, rubric, and model.
  • To let you know writing received on time, I will
    show a 3yes, 2late, or 0not recd
  • Actual rubric score and points for grade are
    recorded much later and returned with teacher
    feedback. Revisions encouraged.
  • All graded Writing is returned to Portfolio.

12
Reflecting on Writing
  • Portfolios hold the Best Writings with 5 point
    rubric scoring guides attached.
  • Opportunity to reflect on outcomes by studying
    Proof-reading marks and comments
  • Revision is necessary for any student receiving a
    3 or less when announced.
  • The revision must be attached to original
  • and the rubric.

13
Writing Projects
  • Argument/Persuasion District Writing Prompt by
    late November.
  • -Biography project with essay reading
    non-fiction
  • Explanatory/expository essays as needed in LA
    and SS
  • Literary Response District Writing Prompt in 2nd
    Semester
  • Poetry with theme and tone (An ode)
  • Explanatory Essay required
  • Research techniques stressed in Social Studies
    Small project
  • note taking skills, cited sources using
    bibliography format
  • Technology Standards format word docs., note
    taking
  • research databases, use electronic text
    Used in SS research

14
LA District Assessments
  • First Semester
  • Argument/Persuasive Writing in late November.
    (not sure)
  • District Language Arts Assessment in December
    before the Semester 1 ends.
  • Second Semester
  • Explanatory Writing Prompt in April?
  • District Language Arts Assessment in May

15
Social Studies
  • Ancient Civilizations
  • Focus Understand what makes up a
    civilization Acquire knowledge of ancient
    civilizations and analyze the effects of
    geography on how they lived.
  • Knowledge of terms essential as a foundation
  • Comprehension through outlines, Cornell notes,
    summing up
  • Critical Thinking Questions
  • Analysis of Cause and Effect, decisions,
    leadership
  • Evaluation of Problems and Solutions
  • Synthesize understanding by writing a
    Research PaperAcquire skills for researching in
    a library using computer databases, books,
    references, and their textbook.

16
What is Ancient History?
  • It concerns the distant past, from the earliest
    humans through the first great civilizations.
  • Prehistory (Before written records)


  • B.C. / A.D.

Prehistoric time Paleo and Neolithic
Ancient History civilizations
17
Chapter Terms
  • Students define all the red, blue, and italic
    terms for a chapter on a Hide-and-Study Paper.
  • archeologist artifact
  • historian prehistoric
  • geographer ritual
  • social scientists Ancient History

18
Define civilization? on a Hide and Study Paper
  • Civilizations have a stable food supply to feed a
    large population. Organized systems of managing
    food distribution became necessary. This led to
    systems of counting, writing to keep records,
    laws, social levels, job specialization, and
    more.
  • Ex. cities, trading, technology

19
Cornell Notes
  • Reading strategies practiced
  • Summing up paragraphs
  • Total Chapter summary

Main Ideas Supporting Details
20
Headings and Bullets Notes
  • Students will learn how to do these notes as the
    year progresses, and learn to create their own
    notes. Resulthigher quiz scores
  • Heading Difficulties of Environment of
    Mesopotamia
  • Food shortages in hills
  • Uncontrolled water supply
  • Must maintain irrigation systems
  • Attacks from neighbors

21
Keep it together! Use Folder
  • Questions of the Day
  • Hide-and Study Paper with defined terms and a
    quick-draw icon for each
  • Chapter Notes
  • Geography Challenges/Maps
  • ISN-Interactive Student Notebook
  • All are organized in a paper folder with
    fasteners and handed in on Chapter Test day for
    credit
  • 3 all completed
  • 1 incomplete- affects understanding
  • No late work for practice recorded

22
Time Periods and Civilizationsfor First Semester
  • Earliest hominids to 70,000 BCE hunters and
    gatherers Hominids to Homo Sapiens
  • 12,000-9000 BCE Last Ice Age Neolithic Age
    and beginning of Agriculture
  • 3500-2000 BCE Start civilizations with writing
    Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush
  • Permanent sheltersCharacteristics of
    civilizations
  • 2500-1700 BCE Indus River Valley

23
Go Beyond
  • Differentiation/enrichment in place of the usual
  • Chapter work. Must Achieve A 3 times on SS
    tests to do. Must come to beginning meeting at
    start of a unit. Cannot come into mid-Unit.
  • Deeper exploration encouraged through the GO
    Beyond Club that meets at lunch as announced.
  • Independent approach to SS Standards
  • Open to all students
  • Some Go Beyond assignments explained and
    offered to all students. Will be posted on
    calendar and in Planners under Saturday.

24
Projects and ResearchMust use research process
for Grade 6 in Semester 2
Sparta Athens


25
History Alive!
  • Purpose to create historical memory.
  • Active learning involving the seven multiple
    intelligences visual-spatial, linguistic,
    deductive reasoning, body-kinesthetic, musical,
    inter and intrapersonal.
  • Cooperative partnering and grouping for
    discussion and investigating ideas.
  • Spiraling curriculum leading students through a
    process of discovery from knowledge to analysis
    to synthesis and
  • evaluation.

Please see the S.S. TCI Parent Letter on website.
26
Caring Classroom 613
  • Care for the Code of Conduct
  • -Respect for Self
  • Do my best
  • Positive Participation
  • -Respect for Others
  • Concern for all
  • -Respect for School
  • Care to follow rules

27
Goal for LA and SS
  • To prepare your student for success in Grade 7
    through mastery of 6th Grade Standards.
  • To build responsibility and confidence in
  • by increasing their ability to communicate.

28
Class Theme Go Beyond
  • Class Mission ABC
  • Achieve strong academic skills.
  • Study for assessments.
  • Build self responsibility.
  • Planner/Notebook.
  • Care to contribute as a citizen using the Code of
    Conduct
  • Class Rule Be a
  • Brain
  • Be ready to learn.
  • Respect everyones right
  • to learn.
  • Area cleaned. All materials returned.
  • Independent learner follow directions/start!
  • Never end noisy. Need
  • class closing to know
  • what was learned.

29
End of Presentation for LA/SS
  • Please follow grades on Pinnacle.
  • See teacher comments
  • Be sure student comes for tutoring and/or make
    ups during DEAR in timely manner when absent.
  • Communication is key. Please email or phone if
    any problems occur that I must know.
  • Thank you!
  • Kathie McDonald

30
Writing Skills Elective-Gd.7
  • Purpose to take students through the writing
    process in order to produce clear coherent
    writing using powerful vocabulary and
    description.
  • To give students an appreciation for writing in
    all areas of life.
  • To encourage editing and revisions

31
Writing Warm-Ups
  • Designed to practice Language Skills.
  • See LA web pages for these skills with
  • practice we use throughout the year.
  • Practice with Quick writes using different forms
    of writing narrative, explanatory, argument,
    descriptive, summary
  • Quick writes count and Mini-quizzes

32
Models
  • Imitating Grammar of the Greats!
  • A light kindled in the sky, a blaze of
  • yellow fire behind dark barriers.
  • J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
  • Application Combine the sentence to create one
    in the same order of sentence parts as the model
  • A noise erupted
  • The noise erupted in the forest.
  • The noise was a screech.
  • The screech was of angry ravens.
  • The ravens were in decaying trees.

33
Imitation
  • A noise erupted from the forest, a screech of
    angry ravens in decaying trees.
  • Model There, his black robes rippling in a cold
    breeze, stood Severus Snapes.
  • J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of
    Secrets
  • Ex. Upside down, his loose change falling from
    his pants pocket, dangled Devon.

34
Sharing
  • Students share their writing pieces, help each
    other learn, and become more confident in their
    approach to writing.
  • Only words of encouragement
  • Only constructive criticism
  • Read-alouds
  • Word Processing stressed for revision

35
Reading leads to Writing
  • Choose a song and point out poetic elements and
    figurative language
  • Famous lines from the sublime!
  • Beginning famous story lines and continue
    writing to describe setting and conflict
  • Ad Analysis for Persuasive techniques
  • literary devices

36
Advice for young people!
  • The most important thing is to read as much as
    you can, like I did. It will give you an
    understanding of what makes a good writing, and
    it will enlarge your vocabulary. And its a lot
    of fun! J.K. Rowling
  • When it comes to language, nothing is more
    satisfying than to write a good sentence.
    Barbara Tuchman

37
Testimonials
  • This class helped me in my test scores and in my
    Language Arts class.
  • I never knew there was so much to writing and it
    was in so many places.
  • When I entered this class, I thought it would be
    boring, then I started learning new ideas and
    views from everyone. Mrs. McDonald is the bomb.

38
Forms of Writing
  • Narrative 5 Paragraph EssayAutobiographical
    account of one event
  • District Writing Prompt in early December
  • Persuasive Essay
  • Poetry
  • Descriptive Paragraph

39
Be a Winner!
  • Write down assignments in class.
  • Internet check Pinnacle for grades.
  • Need to check Planner/HW Calendar
  • Need to set email for automatic info. on grade
  • Explain to your parents what you are doing
  • in school.
  • Review daily work for tests and due dates.
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