Mrs. Robinson’s 6th Grade English

“The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive.” – Shakti Gawain

Adjective game March 5, 2007

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Go to these websites to play adjective games. It will help you review for your test Tuesday!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/interestsentences/adjectives/game.shtml

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/words/activities/adjective_order01.html

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions.cgi?Grade=2&Unit=7&Topic=Adjectives

http://members.aol.com/Ccochran50/games.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/english/spelling/18_act.shtml

 

Adjective test review March 2, 2007

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The adjective test is Tuesday, 3/6. Please study to following units:
1. Adjectives
2. Articles and demonstratives
3. Comparative and superlative
4. Adjectives with more and most
5. Capitalizing proper adjectives

 

Extra noun and pronoun practice January 19, 2007

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Go to www.phschool.com. Enter code: ebk-7002. Click on Ch. 14: Nouns and Pronouns. You can complete:

14.1 Nouns
Identifying Nouns
Identifying Common and Proper Nouns

14.2 Pronouns
Identifying pronouns and antecedents

Complete the exercise and print out the confirmation page that shows you earned 10/10 and turn it in for extra credit!

 

December 6, 2006

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wrinkle2.jpgwrinkle7.jpgwrinkle8.jpgwrinkle3.jpgA Wrinkle in Time

 

Verb Test November 20, 2006

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The verb test will be on Tuesday, 11/21. These are the topics you should study:
Main verbs/ Helping verbs
Transitive and intransitive verbs
Directs and indirect objects
Verb tenses
Subject-verb agreement
Irregular verbs

Please post any questions you might have and I will do my best to respond as soon as possible.

 

Short Story Quiz- Mon. 10/6 November 2, 2006

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Study the following:
1. 8 ways to reveal character
2. Setting
3. Points of view
4. 5 parts of plot
5. Theme- definition and examples
6. Leads
7. Quotation rules
8. Antagonist and protagonist
9. Dead verbs

 

Vocab October 31, 2006

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No spelling words for the week of Oct. 30. Happy Halloween!

 

Short Stories October 5, 2006

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Can you name a short story author and tell me something they’ve written?

 

Welcome! October 5, 2006

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Hi everyone! Welcome to our English class website. Please remember to be respectful to others and only post comments that will enhance our class discussion!