Kettner - Science - 11/14/2016

What We Did Today

We were investigating whether the density of an object would change if you changed the mass of the object. Students practiced more measurements today. Daily Science quiz 3 and 4 are tomorrow - make sure Daily science is complete up through # 38.

Homework

8th hour: Complete the "Graduated Cylinder worksheet".

Math 6 Plus

What We Did Today:

Students continued to work on Problem 1.1. Students further analyzed and compared name lengths of Chinese names and US names using their frequency tables. Students then made line plots of the data. The notes are available at http://norupstein.weebly.com/math-6-plus-homework-and-answers.

 

Focus Question:

 What are "data"? How do you represent data using a frequency table or a line plot? How can you compare two distributions of data?

 

Homework:

None.

 

LaFramboise - Individuals & Societies - 11/14/2016

What We Did Today
We continued exploring maps to investigate natural hazards/disasters, and to attempt to answer the question of how the basketball got from Japan to Alaska.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
Tsunami.

Rossiter/Werber - 11/14/2016

What We Did Today

What's happening in Language & Literature 6 this week:

Monday -

Reading:  Share Tuck Everlasting projects (due today)

Writing: Essay Bootcamp - The Three Little Pigs, using the four square organizer to write a literary essay

                

Tuesday -   

Reading:  Begin read aloud, Hour of the Bees

Writing: Literary essay - Growing big ideas about characters from details

Wednesday -

Reading:  Looking at character actions & meaning in Hour of the Bees

Writing: Literary essay - What a character wants

                   

Thursday -

Reading:  Read aloud Hour of the Bees and thinking about claims

Writing: Creating claims about Winnie and creating a four square

Friday -

Reading:  Hour of the Bees - Deepening an existing claim by citing evidence

Writing: Summarizing, Storytelling, and Quoting - evidence and using transitions

Homework

Read (spend at least 15 min a night)

Next AR book due Monday 11/28 (In order to write an essay about your character)

Discussion Starters

What is a literary essay? How do you organize a literary essay?

How is the new read aloud, Hour of the Bees? What is it about?

Re: Howell - ELA/Math - 11/14/2016

What We Did Today

ELA: Narrative Writing. Using the photo of the large polar bear coming off of a city bus, plan a story telling how this came to be.

Spelling: Find words that fit your categories, using a book from the classroom.

Reading Group: review of proper/common nouns, synonyms/antonyms, dialog

Math: Averages- review of Mean, Mode, Median & Range

Homework

ELA: Speed Sort from Weekend page, Blind Sort for Monday night

Math: Moby Max-Math 20 minutes

Discussion Starters

What are your ideas for your story of how the polar bear came to be on a city bus? What interesting events led up to this?

Math 6

In Class

2.3 Rate Tables

Homework

WS Rate Creator both sides

Inv. 2 Quiz Tues.

Quiz corrections signed Tues.

 

Dixon LRC

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