The School Year in Review
The end of the year is always a time when people look back on major events that changed lives and made lasting impressions in history. What are some of the major events that took place over the 208-2009 school year that made a lasting impression on you and/or your generation? Using the chart below think of a major historical event that took place in each category and tell why its significance or why it made a lasting impression on you and/or your generation.
Requirements
· For each event you MUST have at least two pictures. (you can have more)
· For each event you will write a summary: that gives details about the event, why you chose the event and its significance to you and/or your generation.
· The category summaries need to have an example of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
· You must have a sentence key in which you give each sentence form a color; all sentences must be identified and represented in each event summary. Sentences will be identified by underlining the sentence based on the assigned color.
How you will put it all together
You will put your pictures and captions together in a collage. The pictures must have category headings and summary captions. In the lower right hand corner MUST be your sentence color key
Grading
Each event category has a specific due date. If the required category (event, summary, and pictures) is not turned in the day that it is due you will receive a zero for that category. You earn two grades for this project, an overall grade based on the rubric and an average grade based on each event summary.
Category
World News
Due 05/01
Sports
Due 05/08 Due to testing
Entertainment
Due 05/11
An event of choice
Due 05/14
Monday, May 4, 2009
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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
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.
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
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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