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Ms. Raven Burton
6th GRADE ELA
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MS. BURTON-SIXTH GRADE
May 2-6, 2022
Spelling Words
confident, confidence, fragrant, fragrance,
excellent, excellence, decent, decency,
truant, truancy, brilliant, brilliance, resident,
residence, evident, evidence, occupant,
occupancy, reluctant, reluctance
Vocabulary Workshop
NONE
Reading Story:
ELA Skills: Comprehension
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Interjections, and Possessive Nouns
Writing:
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule: (May Change)
Tuesday, May 3, 2022: Interjection Assignment
Wednesday, May 4, 2022: MATH STATE TEST
Thursday, May 5, 2022: Possessive Nouns Assignment
Friday, May 6, 2022: Spelling, Classroom Practice, and Reading Comprehension Assignment
April 25-29, 2022
Spelling Words
confident, confidence, fragrant, fragrance,
excellent, excellence, decent, decency, truant,
truancy, brilliant, brilliance, resident, residence,
evident, evidence, occupant, occupancy,
reluctant, reluctance
Vocabulary Workshop
NONE
Reading Story: Adventures of Pinocchio
ELA Skills: Test Prep (Multiple Reading Skills)
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Contractions, and Homonyms/Homographs
Writing:
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule: (May Change)
Tuesday, April 26, 2022: ELA STATE TEST
Thursday, April 28, 2022: WRITING STATE TEST
Friday, April 29, 2022: Spelling, Classroom Practice, and Reading Skill Assignment
April 11-22, 2022
Spelling Words
happening, limited, forgetting, equaled,
fitting, reasoning, labored, permitting,
scrapped, tutoring, admitted, honored,
skidding, pardoned, modeling, preferred,
scarred, favored, glistening, shuddered
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 15
beacon, berserk, celestial, chasten,
confiscate, data, detract, encounter,
epic, pantomime, pessimist, precaution,
prosecute, puncture, retaliate, sham,
uncouth, underscore, wholesome, wistful
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: Adventures of Pinocchio
ELA Skills: Test Prep (Multiple Reading Skills)/Figures of Speech/Figurative Language
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Quotations/Dialogue, Split Quotations, Contractions, and Homonyms/Homographs
Writing:
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule: (May Change)
Wednesday, April 6, 2022: Shurley English Classroom Practice
Thursday, April 14, 2022: Spelling and Reading Comprehension
March 29- April 1, 2022
Spelling Words
contrast, contact, compound, concentrate,
combine, comment, conference, compete,
community, convert, conversation, commute,
constitution, conduct, consumer,
continent, composition, communicate, compliment, condition
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 14
abstain, accommodate, allegiance,
amalgamate, append, commemorate, enumerate,
exalt, extort, far-fetched, glum, replica,
responsive, sanctuary, self-seeking,
submissive, tally, taskmaster, transform, upheaval
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: Adventures of Pinocchio
ELA Skills: Analyzing Text Structures/Figures of Speech/Figurative Language
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Natural and Inverted Word Order, The “not” Adverb, Quotations/Dialogue
Writing:
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule: (May Change)
Wednesday, March 30, 2022: Shurley English Classroom Practice
Thursday, March 31, 2022: Synonyms and Antonyms and Figurative Language
Friday, April 1, 2022: Dictation, Analyzing Text Structure, and Reading Comprehension
March 21-March 25, 2022
Spelling Words
contrast, contact, compound, concentrate,
combine, comment, conference, compete,
community, convert, conversation, commute,
constitution, conduct, consumer, continent,
composition, communicate, compliment, condition
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 13
adhere, affirm, atrocity, cope, deter,
disquieting, empower, fluent, lag,
mangle, misapprehension, optimist,
prowl, recitation, stupefy, sulky,
supplement, surge, trait, unscrupulous
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: Adventures of Pinocchio
ELA Skills: Citing Evidence to Make Inferences/Figures of Speech/Figurative Language
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Helping Verbs, Natural and Inverted Word Order/ The “not” Adverb/ Quotations
Writing: Narrative Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule: (May Change)
Wednesday, March 23, 2022: Context Clues Activity
Thursday, March 24, 2022: Completing the Sentences
Friday, March 25, 2022: Spelling Quiz and Vocabulary Workshop Test
March 8-11, 2022
Spelling Words
NONE
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 13
adhere, affirm, atrocity, cope, deter,
disquieting, empower, fluent, lag, mangle,
misapprehension, optimist, prowl, recitation,
stupefy, sulky, supplement, surge, trait,
unscrupulous
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story:
Reading Skills: Citing Evidence to Make Inferences/Using Context Clues
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Helping Verbs, Natural and Inverted Word Order
Writing: Narrative Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Wednesday, March 9, 2022: Helping Verbs Activity
Thursday, March 10, 2022: Classroom Practice 31
Friday, March 11, 2022: Synonyms and Antonyms (Minor)
February 21-March 4, 2022
SPELLING WORDS
EXISTENCE, REFRESHMENT, CONVENTION,
INTERMISSION, UNEVENTFUL, PERFECTLY,
COMPLETION, IMPROVEMENT, INFORMATION,
ATTENDANCE, REVERSIBLE, INVENTION,
DEVELOPMENT, RESPECTFUL, UNHAPPINESS,
PREPARATION, IRRIGATE, DISAGREEMENT,
UNBELIEVABLE, CONCENTRATION
VOCABULARY WORKSHOP
UNIT 12
ABDUCT, AMBIGUOUS, BALK, COMPACT,
CONFER, EARMARK, FRIGID, IMPLEMENT,
INCALCULABLE, INDISPUTABLE, INTENSIVE,
MANEUVER, SABOTAGE, SCANT, STEALTHY,
STRAPPING, STRIDENT, THRIVE, TITANIC, VALIANT
*YOUR DEFINITIONS PAGE SHOULD BE IN YOUR READING FOLDER.
READING STORY: RUBY BRIDGES: GET TO KNOW THE GIRL WHO TOOK A STAND FOR EDUCATION
READING SKILLS: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING TEXT
SHURLEY ENGLISH: SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION/QUESTION AND ANSWER FLOW, TYPES OF SENTENCES, VERBS, AND POINT OF VIEW
WRITING: NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
EMAIL: RBURTON@CLEVELAND.K12.MS.US
TEST SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2022: SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS (MINOR)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022: LANGUAGE TEST (TYPES OF SENTENCES), READING SKILL (MINOR), AND SPELLING
WEDNESDAY, March 2, 2022: COMPLETING THE SENTENCES (MINOR)
THURSDAY, March 3, 2022: COMPREHENSION TEST (GET TO KNOW THE STATESMAN WHO MARCHED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS) READING SKILL (MAJOR)
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2022: VOCABULARY WORKSHOP (MAJOR), Shurley English Test, and DICTATION
-Black History Project-
Students will complete a resume for an assigned famous/influential African American. Students’ assigned person will be determined by them pulling a name from a jar. We will work on this assignment entirely in class. Students will receive a MAJOR GRADE for this assignment on Feb. 23, 2022. This is not a lengthy project and will only take a few days. Students will receive 50 points for presenting, 25 points for accuracy, and 25 points for completion.
January 31-February 10, 2022
Spelling Words
prescribe, contract, manufacture, progression,
vocal, manual, audience, eject, impose, management,
Congress, expose, inject, audition, manuscript,
vocabulary, objection, manicure, proposal, extract
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 11
alias, amble, burly, distort, dogged,
dumbfounded, extinct, grit, inevitable, ingrained,
meteoric, parody, prevail, relic, rend,
replenish, rummage, skimp, sleuth, vandalism
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: John Lewis Get to Know the Statesman Who Marched for Civil Rights
Reading Skills: Analyzing the Structure of Stories and Evaluating an Argument
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Conjunctions and Compound Parts, Clauses, Simple Sentences, Combining Sentences, Compound Sentences, Fragments, Run-On Sentences, and Comma Splices
Writing: Narrative and Descriptive Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Thursday, February 3, 2022: Synonyms and Antonyms (Minor)
Friday, February 4, 2022: Language Test (Types of Sentences), Reading Skill (Minor), and Spelling
Wednesday, February 9, 2022: Completing the Sentences (Minor)
Thursday, February 10, 2022: Comprehension Test (Get to Know the Statesman Who Marched for Civil Rights) Reading Skill (Major), Vocabulary Workshop (Major), and Dictation
January 18-28, 2022
Spelling Words
aisle align
island crumbs
gnaw design
knotty bustle
shepherd soften
sword thistle
knock wrestle
column autumn
knowledge debt
numb raspberry
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 10
abominable, bumbling, consequence,
delude, dole, engulf, foil, formulate, initiate,
memento, nonconformist, null and void,
panorama, posterity, pry, refurbish,
resourceful, rigorous, subsequent, unerring
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
Reading Skills: Analyzing the Structure of Stories
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Conjunctions and Compound Parts, Clauses and Simple Sentences, Combining Sentences
Writing: Narrative and Descriptive Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Thursday, January 20, 2022: Synonyms and Antonyms (Minor)
Friday, January 21, 2022: Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere Comprehension Test (Major) and Reading Skill (Minor)
Wednesday, January 26, 2022: Completing the Sentences (Minor)
Thursday, January 27, 2022: Reading Skill (Major) and Vocabulary Workshop (Major)
Friday, January 28, 2022: Reading Skill/Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere Comprehension Test and Spelling Dictation
January 4-14, 2022
Spelling Words
section crucial
shallow official
direction emotion
musician bashful
rash delicious
position establish
astonish ancient
pressure situation
attention suspicion
impression permission
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 8
avenge, cede, deluge, discretion,
giddy, impact, intimidate, liberate, logical,
misrepresent, optional, outright, rendezvous,
rotund, saunter, sluggish, subordinate,
tint, variable, verge
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
Reading Skills: Analyzing the Structure of a Poem
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Conjunctions and Compound Parts, Clauses and Simple Sentences, Combining Sentences
Writing: Narrative and Descriptive Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Thursday, Jan 6, 2022: Synonyms and Antonyms (Minor)
Friday, January 7, 2022: Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere Comprehension Test (Major) and Reading Skill (Minor)
Wednesday, January 12, 2022: Completing the Sentences (Minor)
Thursday, January 13, 2022: Reading Skill (Major) and Vocabulary Workshop (Major)
Friday, Jan 14, 2022: Reading Skill/Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere Comprehension Test and Spelling Dictation
December 13th-17th
This week we will focus mostly on the study of Christmas in Italy. This is 6th grade’s place of study for the school’s “Christmas Around the World Project”.
We will continue reading our novel, Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere. Students will have a test on the chapters read on Wednesday, December 15th.
Students will have a Shurley English test on Tuesday, December 14th.
We will not have homework, Vocabulary Workshop words, or spelling words this week.
On Friday, December 17th, our dismissal time will be 12:30. Parties will start at 11:00. Students are allowed to wear Christmas colors/attire (following CSD dress code).
We will spend the week of November 15- November 19, 2021 reviewing previously studied reading skills and completing standards mastery. Students will recieve their words for 11/29-12/10 this week, but assignments won't be given until after the break.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! GOBBLE! GOBBLE!
November 29-December 10, 2021
Spelling Words
echoes sheriffs
halves calves
solos tomatoes
leaves cellos
heroes wolves
cliffs ratios
scarves stereos
potatoes yourselves
pianos studios
volcanoes bookshelves
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 8
affluence, arrears, cascade,
cringe, crotchety, immobile,
impassable, innovation, jovial,
manacle, martial, minimum,
nimble, onset, partition,
perishable, retrieve, sinister, taut, template
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
Reading Skills: Explaining and Determining Point of View and Summarizing Literary Text
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Noun Jobs, Parts of Speech, Pronouns, Conjunctions
Writing: Narrative and Descriptive Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Thursday, December 1, 2021: Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere Comprehension Test (Major), Reading Skill (Minor), and Synonyms and Antonyms (Minor)
Wednesday, December 8, 2021: Completing the Sentences (Minor)
Thursday, December 9, 2021: Reading Skill/Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere Comprehension Test, Spelling Dictation, and Vocabulary Workshop (Major)
Spelling Words
reserved unlikely
purposeful adorable
amazement gentleness
sparkling homeless
excitement mileage
graceful sincerely
advanced usable
amusement entirely
wireless excluding
scarcely changeable
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 7
authorize memorandum
culprit pathetic
dawdle persevere
dissect prevaricate
expend quash
fatality relish
gullible reminisce
illicit scour
immerse testimonial
inflammatory writhe
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: The Cay
Reading Skills: Explaining and Determining Point of View
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Noun Jobs, Parts of Speech, Pronouns, Base Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes, and Figures of Speech
Writing: Narrative and Descriptive Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Thursday, November 4, 2021: The Cay Comprehension Test (Major) and Synonyms and Antonyms (Minor)
Wednesday, November 10, 2021: Completing the Sentences (Minor)
Thursday, November 11, 2021: Reading Skill/The Cay Comprehension Test, Spelling Dictation, and Vocabulary Workshop (Major)
October 19-29, 2021
Spelling Words
triangle mental
error panel
litter pollen
gallon cancel
abandon rival
soldier recycle
salmon counsel
rural vehicle
citizen monitor
physical oxygen
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 6
agenda gross
amiable induce
befuddle leeway
blight limber
boisterous maze
clarity oracle
conserve complaint
debut partissan
gory reimburse
vacate vagabond
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: The Cay
Reading Skills: Explaining Point of View
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Noun Jobs, Parts of Speech, Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases, Base Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes, and Figures of Speech
Writing: Narrative Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Thursday, October 21, 2021: The Cay Comprehension Test (Major) and Synonyms and Antonyms (Minor)
Wednesday, October 27, 2021: Completing the Sentences (Minor)
Thursday, October 28, 2021: Reading Skill/The Cay Comprehension Test, Spelling Dictation, and Vocabulary Workshop (Major)
The Cay comprehension tests will only cover the chapters that we’ve read in class.
October 4-14, 2021
Spelling Words
waist principle
waste summary
patience summery
patients sight
rite cite
right site
write stationary
muscle stationery
mussell coward
principal cowered
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 5
acute bluster
bungle commentary
duration eerie
facet fidelity
fray headstrong
inhabitant numb
pacify ravenous
refute remorse
setback smug
synopsis tarry
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: The Cay
Reading Skills: Analyzing the Structure of Stories
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Noun Jobs, Parts of Speech, Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases, and Base Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes.
Writing: Narrative Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Thursday, October 7, 2021: The Cay Comprehension Test and Synonyms and Antonyms (Minor)
Wednesday, October 13, 2021: Completing the Sentences (Minor)
Thursday, October 14, 2021: Reading Skill/The Cay Comprehension Test, Spelling Dictation, and Vocabulary Workshop (Major)
The Cay comprehension tests will only cover the chapters that we’ve read in class.
September 20-31, 2021
Spelling Words
source circuit
hurdle parka
frontier forward
radar earnest
afford urban
discard smirk
rehearse mourn
surface parcel
yearn fierce
starch formula
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 4
acquit deem
devastate discredit
elusive generate
idolize ingratitude
keepsake mortal
ovation petty
plight repent
reverie revocation
scan strand
strife topple
*Your definitions page should be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: The Cay
Reading Skills: Determining Theme or Central Ideas of Text
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Noun Jobs, Parts of Speech, and Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases.
Writing: Narrative Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Wednesday, September 22, 2021: Shurley English Test
Thursday, September 23, 2021: The Cay Chapters 1-7 Comprehension Test and Synonyms and Antonyms
Wednesday, September 29, 2021: Completing the Sentences
Thursday, September 30, 2021: Reading Skill/The Cay Chapters 8-16 Comprehension Test, Spelling Dictation, and Vocabulary Workshop
September 7-17, 2021
Spelling Words
mound gloomy
caution annoy
dawdle counter
haughty rejoice
devour thoughtful
flawless maroon
droop doubt
bamboo hoist
oyster exhausted
scoundrel boundary
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 3
barrage bigot
designate diversit
enigma gloat
global illusion
infuriate motivate
pacifist queue
restrict sage
slake terrain
vocation vow
waylay wither
*Your definitions page should
be in your reading folder.
Reading Story: The Fruit Bowl Project
Reading Skills: Making Inferences, Understanding/ Analyzing Character Development, Describing Plot, and Using Context Clues
Shurley English: Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow, Article Adjectives, Using A and An, and Types of Sentences
Writing: Narrative Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Thursday, September 9, 2021: Spelling
Thursday, September 16, 2021: Reading Skill/Comprehension and Vocabulary Workshop
Friday, September 17, 2021: Spelling Dictation
August 23-September 3, 2021
Spelling Words
Long Vowels
scene bracelet
mute strive
faithful devote
rhyme succeed
coax rely
conceal forgave
lonesome delete
confine exceed
terrain reproach
defeat abuse
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 2
adverse arid
assailant billow
confront constrain
contemporary depict
disinterested encompass
groundless hypocrite
incomprehensible manipulate
maximum mimic
ruffle serene
sheepish stamina
Reading Story: Knots in My Yo-yo String
Reading Skills: Making Inferences, Understanding/ Analyzing Character Development, Describing Plot, and Using Context Clues
Shurley English: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Sentence Classification/Question and Answer Flow
Writing: Narrative Writing
Email: rburton@cleveland.k12.ms.us
Test Schedule:
Thursday, August 26, 2021: Spelling and Nouns/Verbs
Friday, September 3, 2021: Reading Skill/Comprehension, Spelling Dictation, and Vocabulary Workshop
August 9-20, 2021
Spelling Words
Short Vowels
batch text
reject mystery
vanish expand
sloppy bluff
rhythm promptly
blunder initials
strict statue
meadow polish
recover somehow
cleanse dreadful
Vocabulary Workshop
Unit 1
apparel besiege
compress denounce
dispatch douse
expressly famished
forsake gainful
immense inept
ingenious instantaneous
irk libel
misgiving oaf
recede repast
Reading Skills:
Week One: Making Inferences and Citing Textual Evidence
Week Two: Describing Plot and Understanding Characters
Shurley English: Synonyms and Antonyms, Word Analogies, Capitalization and Punctuation Rules
Writing: Narrative Writing
Test Schedule:
Thursday, Aug 19, 2021: Spelling
Friday, August 20, 2021: Reading Comprehension, Spelling Dictation, Shurley English, and Vocabulary Workshop
-School begins each morning at 7:45 a.m. If your child is tardy, a parent must come inside and sign them in at the front office. The security doors will not allow late/tardy students to come down the hallway. Three tardies in a nine-week period will result in a detention for the student.
-If your child eats breakfast at school, they must go DIRECTLY into the cafeteria from the bus/car. Breakfast is served from 7:20 a.m.-7:35 a.m. unless there is a late bus.
-If your child is going home a different way than normal, you must send a note or call the office letting us know how your child will get home BEFORE 12:00 noon. If we do not have proper notification, we will send them home by the means that they would normally take.
-PLEASE DISCOURAGE your child to bring unnecessary things to school such as toys, excess money, etc. Any money sent to school for the cafeteria, field trips, etc., should be placed in a sealed envelope with your child’s name and an explanation on the outside.
-If a child is absent from school, the school must receive an excuse from a doctor or a written excuse from a parent in order for the absence to be excused. Refer to the school handbook or district webpage for any questions you may have about attendance.
-Please refer to the Hayes Cooper Center Handbook and/or website for questions concerning uniforms and other information. Dress code regulations must be met each school day. Dress code violations require that parents be called and students must change to return to school.
