whitsonitms
Indian Trail Middle School Language Arts Teacher
http://www.jcschools.org/itms/
 
Quia question for the week of Feb.6: How can I identify figurative language in text?
60% Club is Feb.10th. Congratulations to all readers!.
Great job to all Writer's Guild members. Your Adventures of Rosa are very impressive!
This 9 weeks we will concentrate on friendly and business letters, adjectives,speech writing, genre, elements of fiction, speeches, adverbs, prepositions, and figurative language. These skills will help you to become a more mature reader.
We will continue Poem of the Week Feb. 8th.
The Writer's Guild is meeting once a week. The Adventures of Rosa are exciting.
Our 3rd 9 weeks novel will begin soon. Can you guess the title????
Be sure to use your time tracker each day, so that parents will be aware of what's happening at school.
Also remember to wear your ID badge everyday.
Remember success comes in CANS, not CANNOTS!

Please come to school everyday. It's really a challenge to catch up when we are not at school for the instruction.

Here are your EVERYDAY MATERIALS for my class:
library/lunch card
time tracker
pencil/red pen
paper
red folder
highlighter
colored pencils
lit-log(This is a hard back composition book.) and LA spiral
purple HOMEWORK folder

AR BOOK
reading strategies flip book
AHHA word list and ring.

Reading requirement for 3rd 9 weeks is:
1 Newbery or honor
1 Biography or Autobiography
1 realistic fiction
1 book of your choice
1 book of poetry
Remember to wear your library/lunch card everyday!
You will need it for checking out books and the lunch line.



Remember, to become a mature reader, you must read, read, read!








Remember: We will be working hard and learning everyday. Please come to school ready to achieve high expectations from your teacher.

Click here for a great tutoring program from HoughtonMifflin.


My Quia activities and quizzes
AH-HA Unit 8 Roots/Affixes - (copy) - (copy)
http://www.quia.com/jg/518758.html
AH- HA Unit 9 - Roots/Affixes - Meaning - (copy) - (copy)
http://www.quia.com/cm/65280.html
AH-HA - Unit 10 Root/Affix Meaning - (copy) - (copy)
http://www.quia.com/cm/65282.html
AH - HA Unit 11 Word Meanings
http://www.quia.com/cm/121605.html
Figurative Language
http://www.quia.com/jg/687172.html
Figurative Language Quiz
http://www.quia.com/quiz/3498977.html
Parts of speech and examples.
http://www.quia.com/jg/2068927.html
Figurative Language
http://www.quia.com/rr/868530.html
Nouns verbs adjectives adverbs
http://www.quia.com/jg/1732111.html
Figurative Language Review
http://www.quia.com/rr/868531.html
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE JEOPARDY
http://www.quia.com/cb/792761.html
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE JEOPARDY
http://www.quia.com/cb/792762.html
Poetic Terms Game I
http://www.quia.com/cb/792763.html
Literary Elements
http://www.quia.com/jg/2386940.html
Figurative Language Test 2
http://www.quia.com/quiz/3498975.html
Literary Elements and Figurative Language
http://www.quia.com/hm/798185.html
Story Literary Elements
http://www.quia.com/cm/564099.html
Literary Terms
http://www.quia.com/quiz/3498998.html
Literary Elements
http://www.quia.com/rr/868532.html
Genre Hangman - 6th Grade
http://www.quia.com/hm/798167.html
Genre Review
http://www.quia.com/jg/2386924.html
Genre - Battleship!!!
http://www.quia.com/ba/526330.html
Genre Columns
http://www.quia.com/cm/564100.html
Do You Know Your Reading Genres?
http://www.quia.com/hm/798186.html
AH-HA Unit 8 Word Meaning - (copy) - (copy)
http://www.quia.com/ba/33890.html
Useful links
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