Sunday, November 30, 2008

Language Arts Dec.1- Dec.8

Monday
All grades will review sentence structure by completing various sentence structure activities

Tuesday - Monday, December 8, 2008 Performance Assessment

In-Class Project Objective: For students to apply and demonstrate their understanding of parts of speech and sentence sentence through written and visual expression

All grades will have in-class projects based on parts of speech and sentence structure. All homework this week will be related to completing the in class project. Students will be given a homework form to turn in to Ms. Byron; the form will state what students plan to work on at home as it relates to their project. Students will be given project information on Tuesday and all projects will be due for presentation on Monday, December 8, 2008.

PLEASE NOTE-only BASIC supplies will be provided such as - construction paper (limit 2), markers, crayons, glue, scissors, and rulers. Students are encouraged to be creative and use unique supplies of their own.

Tuesday
All grades will be given project assignments, criteria, and grading rubric. Students will use the class time to plan and draft project

5th Grade - Scrapbook page for a word growing into a sentence
6th Grade - Sentence Structure Magazine Cover and article OR create a sentence superhero comic book
7th Grade - Create a PAPER blog page for a form of sentence structure and part of speech

Wednesday
All grades will work on project

Thursday
Project Conference day
Students will meet with Ms. Byron. I will check project status and give guidance, to prepare students for Monday's presentation.

Friday
All grades will work on project

Monday, December 8, 2008
Performance Assessment Presentation
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Attention Fifth Grade Parents

Our writing unit will begin December 8, 2008. For this unit, students will need to have a new composition notebook. We will use the composition notebook to create a writer's notebooks as a part of the unit. All students will need to have their notebook by December 8. If your are unable to obtain a notebook by the due date please let me know.
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Sentence Structure Unit

Sentence Structure Unit November - December

Our new Language Arts unit is sentence structure. Students will explore the various forms of sentence structure such as simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and compund-complex sentences. The unit will begin with understanding subject and predicate and writing simple sentences, then progress to compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.

Our Georgia Standards Focus
5th grade ELA5C1
6th grade ELA6C1
7th grade ELAC1

Sentence Structure Definitions

  • Complex Sentence - is a sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate(dependent) clauses.
  • Compound Sentence - contains two independent clauses
  • Sentence - word or group of words that have a subject and a predicate and express a complete thought
  • Simple Sentence - contains one independent clause
  • Complete Subject - ALL the words that tell who or what the sentence is about
  • Simple Subject - the main word or words that tell who or what the sentence is about
  • Complete Predicate - the verb and ALL the words that describe the verb and complete the sentence meaning
  • Simple Predicate - the word or words that tell what the subject is doing. The simple predicate is the VERB

Don't be fooled by a Subordinate (dependent clause)

Subordinate (dependent) Clause

A subordinate clause does not express a complete though and cannot stand alone as a sentence.

Subordinate clauses DEPEND on an independent clause to make a sentence and express a complete thought.

BE CAREFUL subordinate clauses can contain a subject and predicate.

Parts of Speech Unit

Parts of Speech Unit September - November
Since the beginning of school we have been working on parts of speech. This is a lengthy skill, where each grade level has a different aspect of the eight parts of speech to focus on. The depth and complexity of the skill depends on the grade. Please follow our journey through parts of speech at http://www.georgiastandards.org/ The website will give you a description of the standard and the topics covered. We are are projected to complete parts of speech by November. The unit will end with a parts of speech performance assessment.
Our current Georgia Standard focus
5th grade ELA5C1
6th grade ELA6C1
7th grade ELA7C1
The next unit for all grades will be Sentence Structure

End of Year Project

Students have the option of making a powerpoint of their end of the year project. All powerpoints must be mailed to jada.byron@imagineschools.com

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