6 Grade Distance Learning Menu Week 5: 20Apr 24Apr Reading

[Pages:1]6th Grade Distance Learning Menu ? Week 5: 20Apr ? 24Apr

Reading

Read 30 minutes a day. You can use any book you have at home, an online article or book, or an article from StudySync ****The assignment in purple below is the one that will be graded and will receive feedback from

the teacher. We encourage parents to utilize the other menu options for at home TEKS enrichment only. Choose and complete ONE (1) of the following additional activities for reading at home enrichment.

Genre Focus: Biography/Autobiography

For online students: Log onto StudySync and complete the TEKS aligned autobiography passage.

Look for an excerpt from Thomas Ponce's autobiography ("The Day I Saved A Life") in your

"Assignments" page. Read the story, do the vocabulary assignment, and take the quiz for this

autobiography.

For Offline Students: Open the pdf attached titled: "The Girl Who Lived Forever". Read the

passage and complete the attached pdf assignment The Girl Who Lived Forever - Close

Reading.

Writing and Grammar

Choose and complete ONE (1) of the following additional activities from the writing column and ONE (1) from the grammar column for at home writing and grammar enrichment.

Writing

Grammar

For online students: After reading the drama "The Day I Saved A Life", watch the StudySync TV. Then answer the writing prompt: Why do you think the author chose this story to tell? What was the primary purpose for telling it, and how does he use specific arguments to support this purpose?

Complete the Correlative Conjunction exercise activity.

See the Grammar Bytes as a reference.

For offline students: Write a story about a time in your life when you showed courage.

Write about the specific emotions you experienced describing the details that make

up your story.

Complete the correlative conjunctions Studysync exercise activity.

See the Grammar Bytes as a reference.

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