Grade+6+English+&+Humanities

November 8:
Today, we discussed the main elements of fiction: 1. Characters 2. Setting (when and where) 3. Plot (what happens) 4. Point of view (who is telling the story) 5. Theme (the moral or message the author is trying to give us)

October 25, 2010: Words you should know related to our new unit, "How do we get there?"
  Symbol: a design or object that stands for something else

 Legend:  the words written beneath or beside a map to explain it; legends are also called keys

 Scale: the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground; we use a scale bar to measure distance on a map

 Longitude imaginary north-south lines on a globe or map, used to find locations on earth

 Latitude imaginary east-west lines on a globe or map, used to find locations on earth; also called ‘parallels’

 Equator the imaginary line halfway between the North and South Poles; it is 0

 Compass rose shows us where north is located on a map; usually north is at the top of a map

 North South East West known as the cardinal directions

 East the direction from which the sun rises

 West the direction in which the sun sets

 North if you are facing east, north is to your left

 South if you are facing east, south is to your right 

October 14, 2010:
<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Cooking Dialogue:

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">A: Do you remember Mrs. Tweedy’s pie maker in “Chicken Run”?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">B: Yes, I have always wondered what a chicken pie tastes like!

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">A: Shall we make one?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">B: Sure, that sounds great! What do we need to do?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">A: Well, I have a recipe. We just need to get all of the ingredients.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">B: What do we need?

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">A: We need two pie crusts, chicken, milk, flour, and vegetables.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">B: Okay, let’s go to the store.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Ingredients**
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cubed
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1 cup sliced carrots
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1 cup frozen green peas
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/2 cup sliced celery
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/3 cup butter
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/3 cup chopped onion
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/3 cup all-purpose flour
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/2 teaspoon salt
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/4 teaspoon black pepper
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/4 teaspoon celery seed
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1 3/4 cups chicken broth
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2/3 cup milk
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/2 teaspoon salt
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/4 teaspoon black pepper
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1/4 teaspoon celery seed
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1 3/4 cups chicken broth
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2/3 cup milk
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">1 3/4 cups chicken broth
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2/3 cup milk
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2/3 cup milk
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts
 * <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">2 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">**Directions**
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;">Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C.)
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;">In a saucepan, combine chicken, carrots, peas, and celery. Add water to cover and boil for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, drain and set aside.
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;">In the saucepan over medium heat, cook onions in butter until soft and translucent. Stir in flour, salt, pepper, and celery seed. Slowly stir in chicken broth and milk. Simmer over medium-low heat until thick. Remove from heat and set aside.
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;">Place the chicken mixture in bottom pie crust. Pour hot liquid mixture over. Cover with top crust, seal edges, and cut away excess dough. Make several small slits in the top to allow steam to escape.
 * 5) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;">Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;">Place the chicken mixture in bottom pie crust. Pour hot liquid mixture over. Cover with top crust, seal edges, and cut away excess dough. Make several small slits in the top to allow steam to escape.
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;">Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;">Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; letter-spacing: 0px;">Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.

October 13, 2010: Here is the link to the movie: []

September 29, 2010:
Verbs in "Chicken Run" 1. to try 2. to escape 3. to say 4. to be 5. to go over 6. to smile 7. to count 8. to start 9. to make 10. to like 11. to have 12. to fly 13. to shout 14. to get up 15. to teach 16. to ask 17. to give 18. to watch 19. to work 20. to come down 21. to throw a party 22. to dance 23. to laugh 24. to hear 25. to put 26. to jump 27. to turn into 28. to see 29. to save 30. to show 31. to know

September 29, 2010:
Verbs about baseball: 1. to choose 2. to step up to the plate 3. to toss 4. to swing the bat 5. to strike the ball 6. to fly 7. to land 8. to run 9. to scream 10. to slide 11. to cheer 12. to smile

September 27, 2010:
Here are the verbs from our ABC book, "Animal Action ABC", notice I have written the infinitive form: 1. to arch 2. to balance 3. to charge 4. to drink 5. to eat 6. to flap 7. to growl 8. to howl 9. to inflate 10. to jump 11. to kick 12. to leap 13. to march 14. to nap 15. to open 16. to peek 17. to quack 18. to ride 19. to stretch 20. to trumpet 21. to unfold 22. to vault 23. to wrestle 24. to boX 25. to yawn 26. to zap

September 11, 2010:
Here is a link to a vocabulary visualizing site. Just paste in your words/text and you can see images to help you improve your vocabulary!

[]

September 10, 2010:
Today during class we worked on categorizing vocabulary words with a partner. After we had shared our lists, we uploaded our ten events to Dragon Net. Then we read a current event together. The news article was about a wildfire near Boulder, Colorado. There is no new homework over the weekend, students should familiarize themselves with Dragon Net and read in English. Next week, we will complete our timeline assessment and then enjoy camp with the grade 11 students on Wednesday-Friday.

Sept. 6:
Today we worked on logging into DragonNet. If you had trouble, you need to visit Mr. Derry during lunch in the MS office. After we had a look at DragonNet, we wrote journal entries via email about our weekends. The goal was to use correct grammar and the proper tense. We then read a picture book ('My Mama had a Dancing Heart') aloud and discussed it. We did not have time to assign homework :(

Sept. 2:
Check out this website for news stories! []

August 24, 2010:

Today we worked on using past tenses and writing sentences for timelines. We also practiced speaking and listening.

Remember, when a specific date is included in a sentence, the preposition used is 'on'. When there is only a month, the preposition used is 'in'. //I was born on June 30th, 1964.// //I was born in June.//

Homework:
Write five sentences about detailed events from your past. Remember to use the rule above to help guide your sentences.