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Arts
melissa.loneman@indianola.k12.ia.us
Students continued their introduction into argumentative writing this week as they practiced
writing topic sentences that stated their claim and presented the issue. They also looked at
examples of arguments that used logical reasoning and relevant and accurate evidence to
support the claims being made. Practice writing argumentative paragraphs will continue
next week.
Lesson 18 tests were this week and those scores have been entered into Infinite Campus.
Next week will be the beginning of our first fictional main selection in quite a while.
Therefore, we will spend some time reviewing fictional elements and story mapping prior to
diving into the target strategies of inferring and predicting.
Lesson 18:
Main selection: The Hero and the Minotaur
Big Idea: The past is full of amazing stories.
Essential Question: How can a mythic hero defeat a monster?
Target Skill: Story Structure Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Fluency: Expression
Vocabulary Strategies: Suffixes ful, -less, -ly, -ness, -ment, -ship
Target vocabulary: steadfast, somber, labyrinth, rash, unravels, fury, bitterly, massive,
embrace, abandon
Important Note: The latest STAR assessment results were sent home with your child today.
Please check your childs folder for those results and sign your childs planner on todays
date (Friday, 1/23) to indicate that you have seen the results. I will be checking for the
signed planners on Tuesday, January 27th. Also, any work that has received a grade or
feedback from me can be kept at home. Some students folders are becoming quite full, and
taking out those papers that belong at home will help to alleviate that problem.
As always, please contact me at any time with comments, questions, or concerns.
Email: melissa.loneman@indianola.k12.ia.us
Phone: 961-9530 ext. 3134
Twitter: @msloneman (twitter.com/msloneman)
Website: msloneman.weebly.com
Have a great weekend!
Library News-Mrs.Wanamaker
Karma.Wanamaker@indianola.k12.ia.us
In Computers students will be reflecting on their Silk Road report and sharing it with
classmates. They will also be pretesting for the TRAILS test with Mrs. Wannamaker.
It will cover works cited and vocabulary previously learned. Then students will
finish the week with a lesson in key word searching.
Math-Mrs. Vetter
alisha.vetter@indianola.k12.ia.us
Lesson 18:
Main Selection: The Hero and The Minotaur
Big Idea: The past is full of amazing stories
Essential Question: How can a mythic hero defeat a monster?
Target Skill: Story Structure
Target Strategy: Infer/Predict
Fluency: Expression
Vocabulary Strategies: suffixes ful, -less, -ly, -ness, -ment, -ship
Target vocabulary: steadfast, somber, labyrinth, rash, unravels, fury, bitterly,
massive, embrace, abandon
This lesson will take approximately 3 weeks to complete. The pacing of each activity and
assessment may vary, depending on our daily progress.
Further Notes:
Book orders will now be recurring throughout the year. If you are interested in purchasing a book
online, please use this class activation code: NW4XW. Otherwise, I will gladly accept cash or check for
payment.
Please feel free to use this link of our text book to have your students our main selection outside of
class:
http://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/content/hsp/reading/journeys/na/gr6/ese_9780547360300_/launch.html#
As always, please feel free to contact me if you have questions or concerns.
Jonathan.kotz@indianola.k12.ia.us
515-961-9530 ext. 3118
In Science the students have been reading from the textbook and working on their
reading comprehension skills. Students have been asked to complete a graphic
organizer to help them focus on the main points from the lesson. We have now
completed Lesson 4 which is all about pure substances and mixtures.
This weeks Learning Targets:
I can name the basic building block of all matter and define the 3 ways
matter can be classified.
I can list the 3 ways a mixture can be classified and give 3 examples of each.
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