Misc.
Reading Text: https://connected.mcgraw-hill.com/connected/login.do
Best Christmas
https://rcesfrogs.pbworks.com/f/ChristmasVoc.pdf
http://www.storytellingworld.com/Books/BestChPacket.pdf
Veteran's Day Webquest -
https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate_americas_freedoms.asp
Flag folding video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7p6j3NsyQ
SD Pathways
People of Bison - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi9Ice4xkMQ
Headlines and bulletins://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwdnSWk8Fvk&feature=youtu.be&list=PLCvVBOK6lIHuZlZKbHQfjZk8_tmq99ChX
Hatchet
http://mrsbridge.webs.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuo-cZFf29uV9HTpzmADdsQ Girl Reads the book
Reading Series
Mt. St. Helens -
http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/washington/speeches/mount-st-helens-erupts-in-1980
Writing Prompts
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070403182022AA92RAE
Journals- http://k6educators.about.com/od/languageart1/qt/jpromptsx.htm
Wonders Quizlets
http://www.mrferrell.com/vocabulary.html
http://mhawkins6.weebly.com/website-resources.html
http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/Page/82477
http://lms.lps.libguides.com/content.php?pid=241183&sid=4780002
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
http://www.vmi.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Academic_Support/Disabilities_Services/Famous%20People%20with%20Learning%20Disabilities%20-%20updated.pdf
http://techtools.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/iPad+Apps
Skeleton names
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x9PCuuqo3QE
Textbooks
http://websites.pdesas.org/rvisnosky/2011/8/31/327672/page.aspx
Huge download - textbook Yellow - http://nis-egypt.com/asbooks/english/ml_g6.pdf
Title: Spotlight on Literature - 6th - SOR Losers, Banner in the Sky, Titanic, Mummies.....
SOR text
http://www.olgcnj.org/documents/lesson7_001.pdf
http://www.olgcnj.org/documents/lesson1_001.pdf
Titanic -http://grangerland.conroeisd.net/Teachers/jlclark/
Short Story Collections - 7th?-
http://www.mrswatersenglish.com/2014/05/40-excellent-short-stories-for-middle-school/
http://readlifelong.weebly.com/other-resources.html
http://ellensburg.mms.schoolfusion.us/modules/cms/pages.phtml?sessionid=c8a19ea7c99db72cd12f4530b7453f6c&pageid=295108
http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/workbooks/language_arts/reader_gr6AR/la_0078459273_01.pdf
All summer in a day-
http://www.bradford.k12.oh.us/Downloads/All%20Summer%20in%20a%20Day.pdf
A Day's Wait
http://www.nplainfield.org/cms/lib5/NJ01000402/Centricity/Domain/840/A%20Days%20Wait%20by%20Ernest%20Hemingway.pdf
Sleepy Hollow
http://betterlesson.com/community/document/1928608/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-pdf
longer Sleepy Hollow play
http://playsforyoungaudiences.org/wp-content/files_mf/legendsleepyhollow_excerpt.pdf
http://browndigital.bpc.com/publication/?i=265634&p=11#{"page":12,"issue_id":265634}
http://www.k12reader.com/subject/reading-skills/reading-comprehension/6th-grade-reading-comprehension/
Circuit
http://www.cip.education/Portals/5/English/English%206/English%206%20Unit%20%236/Activities/English%206%20Lesson%2072%20Activity%202.doc
Single Shard Video on Ceramic Makers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hWArPOaTTc
http://www.lindasuepark.com/books/singleshard/singleshard.html
vocab workbook glen come
http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/workbooks/language_arts/vp/6vp2.pdf
Terracotta Warriors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQrcjuEZpI
Great Wall of China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlFDnOs8lB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpvCq8GslX8&t=382s
Common Core-Math
http://assets.pearsonschool.com/asset_mgr/current/20136/enVision_CC_to_CCSSM_Grade_6.pdf
Poetry
https://d2ct263enury6r.cloudfront.net/ZKS5KtUdyA2oJkvi4p8Vmzf2g3tJizP2MA2yUlo5hiG2ODtI.pdf
Fireflies
http://gn009.k12.sd.us/Fluency%20Norms%20and%20Fluency%20Passages/3rd%20Grade%20Poetry%20Fluency/Fireflies.pdf
SD History
https://fgis-smfc-ca.schoolloop.com/MediaCenterStateReportProject
http://www.rocklin.k12.ca.us/staff/jmckee/state%20project.pdf
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=29522
smarterbalanced
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/G6_Practice_Test_Scoring_Guide_ELA_PT.pdf
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/G6_Practice_Test_Scoring_Guide_ELA.pdf
pets in class
http://readingandwritingproject.org/resources/assessments/reading-writing-assessments
prompt ideas
http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/elarts/writing/assessment/usingsampleprompts.pdf
501 ideas- Little higher level
http://www.misd.net/languageart/grammarinaction/501writingprompts.pdf
short prompts
http://journalbuddies.com/journal_prompts__journal_topics/37-6th-grade-writing-prompts/
Compare state sizes
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/06/three-ways-for-students-to-compare.html#.V2Sgsxg8KK0
writing prompts
http://smallworldathome.blogspot.com/2014/12/100-not-boring-writing-prompts-for.html?m=1
Grammar WB
http://www.cdsd.k12.pa.us/cms/lib04/PA09000075/Centricity/Domain/718/theme%204%20workbook%20plus%20packet.pdf
http://www.winnpsb.org/view/392.pdf
https://www.mhschool.com/reading/treasure_workbooks/national/g6/grammar_pb.pdf
http://www.createbetterwriters.com/uploads/SBG7_8preview.pdf
Interactive Notebooks:
Lit
http://images.pcmac.org/SiSFiles/Schools/GA/DouglasCounty/YeagerMiddle/Uploads/DocumentsCategories/Documents/TPT_Reading_Literature_Interactive_Notebooks_1.pdf
https://rcesfrogs.pbworks.com/f/ChristmasVoc.pdf
http://www.storytellingworld.com/Books/BestChPacket.pdf
Veteran's Day Webquest -
https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate_americas_freedoms.asp
Flag folding video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7p6j3NsyQ
SD Pathways
People of Bison - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi9Ice4xkMQ
Headlines and bulletins://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwdnSWk8Fvk&feature=youtu.be&list=PLCvVBOK6lIHuZlZKbHQfjZk8_tmq99ChX
Hatchet
http://mrsbridge.webs.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuo-cZFf29uV9HTpzmADdsQ Girl Reads the book
Reading Series
Mt. St. Helens -
http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/washington/speeches/mount-st-helens-erupts-in-1980
Writing Prompts
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070403182022AA92RAE
Journals- http://k6educators.about.com/od/languageart1/qt/jpromptsx.htm
Wonders Quizlets
http://www.mrferrell.com/vocabulary.html
http://mhawkins6.weebly.com/website-resources.html
http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/Page/82477
http://lms.lps.libguides.com/content.php?pid=241183&sid=4780002
http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml
http://www.vmi.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Academic_Support/Disabilities_Services/Famous%20People%20with%20Learning%20Disabilities%20-%20updated.pdf
http://techtools.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/iPad+Apps
Skeleton names
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x9PCuuqo3QE
Textbooks
http://websites.pdesas.org/rvisnosky/2011/8/31/327672/page.aspx
Huge download - textbook Yellow - http://nis-egypt.com/asbooks/english/ml_g6.pdf
Title: Spotlight on Literature - 6th - SOR Losers, Banner in the Sky, Titanic, Mummies.....
SOR text
http://www.olgcnj.org/documents/lesson7_001.pdf
http://www.olgcnj.org/documents/lesson1_001.pdf
Titanic -http://grangerland.conroeisd.net/Teachers/jlclark/
Short Story Collections - 7th?-
http://www.mrswatersenglish.com/2014/05/40-excellent-short-stories-for-middle-school/
http://readlifelong.weebly.com/other-resources.html
http://ellensburg.mms.schoolfusion.us/modules/cms/pages.phtml?sessionid=c8a19ea7c99db72cd12f4530b7453f6c&pageid=295108
http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/workbooks/language_arts/reader_gr6AR/la_0078459273_01.pdf
All summer in a day-
http://www.bradford.k12.oh.us/Downloads/All%20Summer%20in%20a%20Day.pdf
A Day's Wait
http://www.nplainfield.org/cms/lib5/NJ01000402/Centricity/Domain/840/A%20Days%20Wait%20by%20Ernest%20Hemingway.pdf
Sleepy Hollow
http://betterlesson.com/community/document/1928608/the-legend-of-sleepy-hollow-pdf
longer Sleepy Hollow play
http://playsforyoungaudiences.org/wp-content/files_mf/legendsleepyhollow_excerpt.pdf
http://browndigital.bpc.com/publication/?i=265634&p=11#{"page":12,"issue_id":265634}
http://www.k12reader.com/subject/reading-skills/reading-comprehension/6th-grade-reading-comprehension/
Circuit
http://www.cip.education/Portals/5/English/English%206/English%206%20Unit%20%236/Activities/English%206%20Lesson%2072%20Activity%202.doc
Single Shard Video on Ceramic Makers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hWArPOaTTc
http://www.lindasuepark.com/books/singleshard/singleshard.html
vocab workbook glen come
http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/workbooks/language_arts/vp/6vp2.pdf
Terracotta Warriors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQrcjuEZpI
Great Wall of China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlFDnOs8lB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpvCq8GslX8&t=382s
Common Core-Math
http://assets.pearsonschool.com/asset_mgr/current/20136/enVision_CC_to_CCSSM_Grade_6.pdf
Poetry
https://d2ct263enury6r.cloudfront.net/ZKS5KtUdyA2oJkvi4p8Vmzf2g3tJizP2MA2yUlo5hiG2ODtI.pdf
Fireflies
http://gn009.k12.sd.us/Fluency%20Norms%20and%20Fluency%20Passages/3rd%20Grade%20Poetry%20Fluency/Fireflies.pdf
SD History
https://fgis-smfc-ca.schoolloop.com/MediaCenterStateReportProject
http://www.rocklin.k12.ca.us/staff/jmckee/state%20project.pdf
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=29522
smarterbalanced
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/G6_Practice_Test_Scoring_Guide_ELA_PT.pdf
http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/G6_Practice_Test_Scoring_Guide_ELA.pdf
pets in class
http://readingandwritingproject.org/resources/assessments/reading-writing-assessments
prompt ideas
http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/elarts/writing/assessment/usingsampleprompts.pdf
501 ideas- Little higher level
http://www.misd.net/languageart/grammarinaction/501writingprompts.pdf
short prompts
http://journalbuddies.com/journal_prompts__journal_topics/37-6th-grade-writing-prompts/
Compare state sizes
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/06/three-ways-for-students-to-compare.html#.V2Sgsxg8KK0
writing prompts
http://smallworldathome.blogspot.com/2014/12/100-not-boring-writing-prompts-for.html?m=1
Grammar WB
http://www.cdsd.k12.pa.us/cms/lib04/PA09000075/Centricity/Domain/718/theme%204%20workbook%20plus%20packet.pdf
http://www.winnpsb.org/view/392.pdf
https://www.mhschool.com/reading/treasure_workbooks/national/g6/grammar_pb.pdf
http://www.createbetterwriters.com/uploads/SBG7_8preview.pdf
Interactive Notebooks:
Lit
http://images.pcmac.org/SiSFiles/Schools/GA/DouglasCounty/YeagerMiddle/Uploads/DocumentsCategories/Documents/TPT_Reading_Literature_Interactive_Notebooks_1.pdf
6th Projects:
Dust Bowl:Timeline from American ExperienceDrought from American ExperienceBlack Sunday from American ExperienceMass Exodus from American ExperienceDust Bowl from Kansas State UniversityDust Bowl Migration from the Library of Congress
Veteran’s Day Webquest Name:
|| Using the web sites given, answer the questions given under each site. The links to the sites are on Mrs. Smith’s Language Arts homepage.
**Celebrate America's Freedoms--Veterans Day**
1. Find the celebrated ending of World War I. (hour, day, month)
2. When did Armistice Day become a national holiday? _
3. Why does The Old Guard keep day and night vigils at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
**Origins of Flag Day** **United States Flag**
1. When was the official flag established?
2. When was the first time the Stars and Stripes flew in a Flag Day celebration?
3. When was Flag Day voted to be a permanent holiday?
**Guidelines for Display of the Flag**
1. During what types of weather should a flag not be flown? Why?
2. How should a flag be placed over a casket?
**Old Glory**
1. Who was the first person to use the name "Old Glory"?
2. Where did Captain Driver hide his flag?
3. Where is this flag today?
**Flying the American Flag at Half Staff**
1. What is an easy way to remember when to fly the flag at half-staff?
2. How long should a flag be flown at half-staff after the President of the
United States dies?
3. Who issued the proclamation stating when to fly the flag at half-staff?
When did this happen?
**The Pledge of Allegiance**
1. How many words are there in "The Pledge of Allegiance"?
2. What was "The Pledge of Allegiance" written for?
3. When did school children first recite "The Pledge of Allegiance"?
4. What does "One Nation indivisible" refer to?
**American Bald Eagle**
1. How long has the bald eagle been our national bird?
2. Name the four gold coins in which the eagle appears on the reverse side.
3. Why has the eagle declined in recent times?
**The Star Spangled Banner**
1. When did "The Star Spangled Banner" officially become the national anthem?
2. Name two other songs that were considered for use as the national anthem.
3. How many verses does "The Star Spangled Banner" have and what is the last line of each verse.
**The Story of Taps**
1. When was the song given the name "taps"?
2. By what date was it regulation to play taps at military funerals?
3. When is taps now played?
**Gun Salute**
1. In 1841, the gun salute was standardized to how many guns?
2. When was the 21-gun salute formally adopted?
3. Why is it believed that gun salutes are set off in odd numbers?
**Arlington National Cemetery**
1. How many people visit Arlington National Cemetery every year?
2. When was the first soldier buried in Arlington?
3. Who can be buried here?
4. Name 4 prominent Americans buried in Arlington.
Dust Bowl:Timeline from American ExperienceDrought from American ExperienceBlack Sunday from American ExperienceMass Exodus from American ExperienceDust Bowl from Kansas State UniversityDust Bowl Migration from the Library of Congress
Veteran’s Day Webquest Name:
|| Using the web sites given, answer the questions given under each site. The links to the sites are on Mrs. Smith’s Language Arts homepage.
**Celebrate America's Freedoms--Veterans Day**
1. Find the celebrated ending of World War I. (hour, day, month)
2. When did Armistice Day become a national holiday? _
3. Why does The Old Guard keep day and night vigils at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
**Origins of Flag Day** **United States Flag**
1. When was the official flag established?
2. When was the first time the Stars and Stripes flew in a Flag Day celebration?
3. When was Flag Day voted to be a permanent holiday?
**Guidelines for Display of the Flag**
1. During what types of weather should a flag not be flown? Why?
2. How should a flag be placed over a casket?
**Old Glory**
1. Who was the first person to use the name "Old Glory"?
2. Where did Captain Driver hide his flag?
3. Where is this flag today?
**Flying the American Flag at Half Staff**
1. What is an easy way to remember when to fly the flag at half-staff?
2. How long should a flag be flown at half-staff after the President of the
United States dies?
3. Who issued the proclamation stating when to fly the flag at half-staff?
When did this happen?
**The Pledge of Allegiance**
1. How many words are there in "The Pledge of Allegiance"?
2. What was "The Pledge of Allegiance" written for?
3. When did school children first recite "The Pledge of Allegiance"?
4. What does "One Nation indivisible" refer to?
**American Bald Eagle**
1. How long has the bald eagle been our national bird?
2. Name the four gold coins in which the eagle appears on the reverse side.
3. Why has the eagle declined in recent times?
**The Star Spangled Banner**
1. When did "The Star Spangled Banner" officially become the national anthem?
2. Name two other songs that were considered for use as the national anthem.
3. How many verses does "The Star Spangled Banner" have and what is the last line of each verse.
**The Story of Taps**
1. When was the song given the name "taps"?
2. By what date was it regulation to play taps at military funerals?
3. When is taps now played?
**Gun Salute**
1. In 1841, the gun salute was standardized to how many guns?
2. When was the 21-gun salute formally adopted?
3. Why is it believed that gun salutes are set off in odd numbers?
**Arlington National Cemetery**
1. How many people visit Arlington National Cemetery every year?
2. When was the first soldier buried in Arlington?
3. Who can be buried here?
4. Name 4 prominent Americans buried in Arlington.