Amanda Norton *6th grade * Language Arts http://anorton.edublogs.org Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:34:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en 4th 9 Weeks Book Report / Job Poster/AR test due dates http://anorton.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/4th-9-weeks-book-report-job-posterar-test-due-dates/ http://anorton.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/4th-9-weeks-book-report-job-posterar-test-due-dates/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:34:26 +0000 anorton http://anorton.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/4th-9-weeks-book-report-job-posterar-test-due-dates/ AR test dates:

Enriched: April 25, and May 9

Regular: April 25

Requirements: 2+ points, 3.8 + level   (see me with any individual questions !)

Job Poster (Book Report)
*April 29th- Computer Research Day (in-Class)

Due date: May 8
*Information on paper for this project will be given on April 10th

1. First you will research a job that you might
want to have or find interesting- Find out all
that you can about it.
(* This will be done one day in the computer lab.-
You may research at home as well.)
2. You will divide (into 1/4ths), illustrate,
analyze, and label a poster to demonstrate the
importance of this job to a community.
3. Sections: Be sure to use entire section.
• A= This section you will illustrate yourself
in this particular job. Write the name of
the job at the TOP of this section.
• B= List 5 things that you like about the
job. (make sure that your words are clear
and large)
• C= List 5 things that this job contributes
to a community- 5 ways that it benefits a
community to have this job in it.
• D=List 5 ways a community would suffer
without having this job in it.
4. Create a border around the edge.
5. Place your name/class period on the front -
bottom right hand corner.
6. Use Color in each section.


Authored by anorton. Hosted by Edublogs.]]> http://anorton.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/4th-9-weeks-book-report-job-posterar-test-due-dates/feed/ Vocabulary Words and Questions for Each chapter of THE GIVER http://anorton.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/vocabulary-words-and-questions-for-each-chapter-of-the-giver/ http://anorton.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/vocabulary-words-and-questions-for-each-chapter-of-the-giver/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:12:26 +0000 anorton http://anorton.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/vocabulary-words-and-questions-for-each-chapter-of-the-giver/ Name: _______________________________________
Chapter 1- Vocabulary
rasping
palpable
distraught
distracted
wheedle
eager
nurturer
apprehensive
defiant
resolve
disposition
Chapter 1
1. How does the author get the reader into the book?
2. From whose point of view is the story told?
3. What have you learned about the society in which Jonas lives?
4. How is Jonas’ family like your family (compare) and different (contrast) from
your family?
5. What do you know so far about “release” in the book’s society? What is your
feeling about release?
6. How is the care of children different in Jonas’ world from in your world?
Chapter 2
imaginary
aptitude
Chapter 2
1. What is the private conversation about that Jonas and his parents have in
chapter 2?
2. Identify these items -as used in the book.
a. ceremony of one
b. naming
c. bicycles
d. ceremony of nine
e. comfort object
3. What rules does Jonas’ father disobey?
4. How do the people receive their assignments?
5. Why do you think the author is building up Jonas’ Ceremony of Twelve? What will
Jonas’ assignment be?
Chapter 3
chastise
rarity
petulantly
bewilderment
nondescript
labor
Chapter 3
1. What about the society is revealed by the reaction to eye color?
2. What is a Birthmother?
3. Why is Mother so appalled when Lily suggests she’d like to be a Birthmother?
4. How was Jonas disciplined for taking an apple home?
5. Why had the apple intrigued Jonas?
6. What does the nondescript shade of the tunics and the apple tell you about the
people and society in the book?
Chapter 4
gravitating
chortled
rehabilitate
exposed
Chapter 4
1. What seems to be the purpose of the volunteer hours?
2. Why doesn’t Jonas seem to have a niche?
3. What is the nakedness rule?
4. What is the releasing Room and the releasing ceremony?
Chapter 5
vividly
chastise
tidy
infraction
dosage
Chapter 5
1. What is the morning ritual?
2. Why must Jonas start taking a pill every day?
3. How are you feeling about the society in the book?
4. What have you found so far that the society represses?
Chapter 6
interdependence
indulgently
independence
exuberant
somber
adequate
discard
buoyancy
meticulously
Chapter 6
1. What values does the book’s society embrace and encourage?
2. What is the interdependence?-Give an example.
3. What is the difference in the book between loss and release?
4. How does the author build the interest in Jonas’ Ceremony of Twelve?
5. Who makes the important decisions in the book’s society?
Chapter 7
exasperated
retroactive
acquisition
standardized
ruefully
wielded
Chapter 7
1. How does the Ceremony of the Twelve start?
2. What do the numbers mean for each person?
3. Why is number nineteen skipped in the assignments?
4. What do you think Jonas’ assignment will be?
Chapter 8
crescendo
humiliation
anguish
piecemeal
benign
meticulously-not on test
Chapter 8
1. Why do Jonas and the audience feel ill at ease at the start of Chapter 8?
2. What is announced as Jonas’ assignment?
3. What qualities does the Chief Elder explain that Jonas will need?
4. How will Jonas’ life change as he trains to be Receiver of Memory?
Chapter 9
dwelling
receive
prohibited
awkwardness
unnerving
precise
requisition
excruciating
reeled
Chapter 9
1. What is it like to feel different? Why is it a new sensation for Jonas at the
start of Ch. 9? How do others treat Jonas?
2. What happened to the Receiver selection that failed?
3. What are Jonas’ instructions for his Receiver training?
4. What is the puzzle about lying which Jonas ponders at the end of Chapter 9?
5. What puzzles do expect in the rest of the book?
Chapter 10
exhilarating
deftly
designated
unremarkable
acknowledge
presence
concentration
relocated
upholstered
transmit
Chapter 10
1. What does Jonas’ notice about the Receiver of Memory’s dwelling?
2. What will Jonas’ position as Receiver of Memory involve?
3. Whis is it important to save the memories?
4. Why does The Receiver have books but no one else has more than three
(dictionary, community volume, and the Book of Rules)?
5. How will the old Receiver transmit the memory of snow to Jonas?
Chapter 11
conveyance
disgrace
frigid
descent
sensation
weary
Chapter 11
1. Once Jonas receives the snow and sledding, how does he feel?
2. Just how does the Receiver of Memories’ training proceed?
3. How are The Giver’s burdens lessened in working with Jonas?
4. What other memories are transmitted on this first day of training?
5. Why did the book’s world eliminate sunshine and hills?
Chapter 12
admonition
significant
apology
indescribable
capacity
consciousness
dumbfounded
Chapter 12
1. What is Jonas’ first lie?
2. Why doesn’t Jonas tell his friends about his training?
3. What is Jonas seeing in Fiona’s hair and the apple and the sled?
4. Why don’t the people in the book perceive colors?
5. What is Jonas’ opinion of giving up colors?
Chapter 13
perception
mutilated
predictable
sinuous
electrode
Chapter 13
1. What new meaning do these words have for Jonas? ordinary, color, and choice
2. How would the elders react to the same three words?
3. What does safety mean- to the book’s society, to you, to adults, to those in
cities, to those in rural areas?
4. What does The Giver share of his personal family life?
5. How does the book’s society deal with adults with grown children?
6. What are you feelings about the book’s way of life?
Chapter 14
skittered
acceleration
writhing
anguish-already had in another chapter- not on test
assuage
distended
placidly
lingered
wry
ominous
acquired
Chapter 14
1. How does Jonas react when The Giver gives him the memory of breaking a leg
sledding? How does Jonas’ understanding and growing wisdom increase after he
experiences that pain?
2. What wisdom does the hunger provide?
3. Reread the conversation between Jonas and The Giver on page 113. What is the
mood at the end of the tal?
4. How does Jonas calm Gabriel?
5. Why does Jonas decide not to confess giving a memory away?
6. Why does Mother shake her head about the release of the twin and Father’s
responsibility for it?
Chapter 15
contorted
carnage
grotesque
crimson
immobilized
warfare
Chapter 15
1.Why do you think this chapter is so short?
2. Why does The Giver say “Forgive me”?
Chapter 16
ecstatic
solitude
pervade
tentatively
obsolete
Chapter 16
1. How does Jonas learn of love?
2. Why are grandparents a new idea for Jonas?
3. What does the book’s society lose without grandparents?
4. What provokes Jonas’ first lie to his parents?
Chapter 17
exempted
permeated
impatience
exasperation
expertise
Chapter 17
1. How is the day in Chapter 17 a study in contrasts?
2. Why does Jonas stop taking his daily pills?
3. How is Gabe proceeding?
Chapter 18
dejected
excruciating
faltered
luminous
imploringly
Chapter 18
1. What was the story of Rosemary?
2. What happened to the memories transferred to Rosemary?
3. Why does The Giver advise jonas to stay away from the river?
Chapter 19
syringe
sympathetic
wretched
Chapter 19
1. What does Jonas learn about rule 3 from his training rules?
2. How does The Giver feel about Rosemary’s release?
3. How does Lois Lowry describe Jonas’ feeling at the end of Chapter 19?
Chapter 20
burden
inconsiderate
empowered
rueful
Chapter 20
1. Why does Jonas refuse to go home?
2. How does The Giver comfort Jonas?
3. What is the plan Jonas and The Giver hatch?
4. How did The Giver first experience his sensing beyond?
5. What are the specifics of the escape plan? Will Jonas succeed in his escape?
6. What is the surprising revelation at the end of Chapter 20?
Chapter 21
transgression
habitation
vigilant
stealthily
frazzled
Chapter 21
1. What makes Jonas’ escape plan fall apart?
2. How does the first part of the escape proceed?
3. How has the mood changed by the end of Chapter 21?
4. Is Jonas justified in his escape?
Chapter 22
tantalizing
diminished
exquisite
meager
makeshift
Chapter 22
1. What new dangers does Jonas encounter in Chapter 22?
2. In which different ways does Jonas think about starvation?
3. Only one chapter of the book remains. How do you think it will end?
Chapter 23
imperceptibly
agonizingly
trudged
feebly
lethargy
resign
treacherous
Chapter 23
1. What weather condition impede Jonas’ progress toward Elsewhere?
2. How do Jonas and Gabe finally get to safety?
3. What is the sensory image at the end of the book?


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•     Last day for competition AR points
•    TEST on good/well, commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks

•    1:15-2:15 NASA/Honeywell Science Program

Tuesday

•    Propaganda Notes
•    HMWK: watch commercials- write down one example of each type of propaganda to share in class

Wednesday

•    AR Reward day-announced on Monday
•    Share examples of Propaganda
•    Finish notes

Thursday

•    Watch previous commercials
•    Get into groups
•    Begin commercial /posters work

•    Parent Conference Night
•     (3:15-6:15 by appointment ONLY)
Friday

•    Guidance
•    Work on commercials

•    NEXT WEEK
•    March 17-21 is SPRING BREAK—No school!


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1st/ 2nd periods- 2nd AR tests due

Tuesday- Notes and Practice with Commas/Interrupters

Wednesday- Notes and Practice with Quotation marks

Thursday- Finish Quotation Marks

International “Turkey” activity!

International Night

*****MAKE SURE ANY MISSING/ABSENT/ MAKE-UP work is done and turned in by TODAY!!!!****** CHECK POWERSCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!************************************

Friday- TEST on using Good/Well, semicolons, colons, commas, interrupters, and quotation marks


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Newspaper Project

Book Requirements:
*Any genre *Must be an AR book
*2+ points
*grade level no lower than 3.8
Book Report Due Date: February 22, 08
AR test due dates:
Regular: Feb. 4
Enriched: Feb. 4, March 3

Assignment:
You will create a 1 page newspaper (FRONT ONLY).  It will contain at least 6 sections.  All 6 sections will pertain to the book, its characters, and its plot.
4 of the sections will contain the following:
1. Description of all main characters (physical. emotional, etc)
2. Description of the setting throughout the book.
3. Summary of the story.
4. Write a 2 paragraph review (your opinion) of the book.
The other 2 sections can contain any of the following:
weather reports, editorials, cartoons, ads, etc.  The title of the newspaper should be named appropriately from some part of the book.  Your name, class period, AR points, Title and author of the book should be placed somewhere toward the top.
**You may type it or write it, but it MUST BE LEGIBLE! 
**It may be in color, or black and white (NOT left in pencil).
*I will be checking for spelling, mechanics, usage, and effort spent in creating the newspaper.  I do not expect this to be a one-night project.
*Please be neat and decorative.
**Late projects will have 50 points taken off the earned grade.


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4 principal parts of verbs notes

hand out

charts- finish for homework

Give out book report/ar info

*REPORT CARDS Go home today!

*Skating Party 5:30-7:30  at Funquest in Collierville

Tuesday

Vocabulary Quiz -Week 16 (enriched has a word due)

Make Posters of Charts to share

*Magazine Drive Kick-off

Wednesday

10 new vocab words assigned -week 17

handouts/practice

Thursday

6 verb tenses notes

handout

chart-finish for homework

Friday —***SPIRIT DAY!****

Guidance

Turn in 6 tenses verb chart

Verb review

Verb TEST on TUESDAY Jan. 22.

***NO SCHOOL MONDAY JAN. 21~~~  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!


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Enriched = word due on Jan. 15

Week 16 Words

1. collapse

2. hospitable

3. unwieldy

4. probe

5. graph

6. income

7. extremity

8. tirade

9. compatible

10. gall


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Enriched students- Turn in 1 vocab. word Dec. 11

1. vex

2. miniscule

3. waddle

4. detest

5. refrain

6. windfall

7. frugral

8. throttle

9. impale

10. garble


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They may be typed or written in black ink.  **Do NOT leave anything in pencil!

1. Summary (summarize the story- 3+ paragraphs)

2. Excerpt (pick your favorite 5+ sentences- found in one paragraph within the novel)

Copy them in paragraph form on the poster- (”" around speech)

3. Review ( your opinion of the book- 2 paragraphs including explanation)

4. Location in library  (where can it be found in school library)

5. Characters (pictured and labeled)

6. Title and Author (IN large letters  at the top)

7. Setting (main story setting- described in 4+ sentences and drawn)

8. In Color!  May be in collage form or layout form.

9. Full name and class period in bottom right hand corner!


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