WEEK OF JANUARY 31, A GRAMMAR & CONVENTIONS WRAP-UP

AdVENTURE, 6th Grade

AdVENTURE 6th Grade

Monday, January 31

A Review – Spelling

Hockey Received Neither Believe Achievement Equality Referee Pleasant Illegal

Nominee Electricity Frequent Entry Eagerly Pique Easel Abbreviate Tedious

Your Task Today – choose one, both are partner projects

Create a crossword puzzle using all of your spelling words.

OR

Write a story or rap (about the Superbowl) using all of your spelling words (illustrations are optional).

AdVENTURE 6th Grade

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Review – simple sentences

One subject Ipod Computer Engineer Player Car

One predicate Plays Creates Runs Speaks Moves

Review – Compound Sentences (two simple sentences joined by a conjunction and separated by a comma.) The Pittsburgh

Steelers are going to the Superbowl,

I want a new ipod for my birthday,

but, they will need to have great defense if they want to win.

so, I better start saving money now!

FANBOYS

Independent clause, conjunction, independent clause

Review - Conjunctions

Coordinating FANBOYS

Subordinating http://

www.yourdictionary.com/grammar/conjunctions/list-of-subordinating-conjunctions.html

Your task today

Please turn in three simple sentences. Underline the subject once and the predicate twice.

Turn in three compound sentences. Underline the first independent clause once, the second independent clause twice, circle your conjunction (and remember your comma.)

Tic-tac-toe when done.

AdVENTURE, 6th Grade

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Review – Compound-Complex Sentences Two independent and one dependent

clause On Saturday after football practice, I

wanted to visit my friends, but my mom said I needed to help clean the garage.

Your task today

Today we will build compound-complex sentences. Blue people=independent clause Red people=independent clause Green people=dependent clauses.

We will rearrange ourselves into different groups to form compound complex sentences.

AdVENTURE, 6th Grade

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Punctuation Review

Colons: Semicolons;

Your task

Today we will play Jeopardy to review all that we’ve learned in this unit.

Multimedia folks, you can take your test today.

AdVENTURE, 6th Grade

Friday, February 5, 2011

Your task today

Complete our final unit task. When everyone is done, we’ll have

time to work on our tic-tac-toes. Next week, we’ll begin our research

report unit!