HMS B. Herbert 6th ELA S.C.O.R.E. bherbert@shelbyed.org

PLEASE send in $5.75 for The Watsons Go to Birmingham if you have not done so yet.  Also, please send in your field trip money as soon as possible. I am trying to guage the availability of bus seats for parents who wish to go.    Reading: Complete reading and/or  do a second reading of […]

Reading:  Students will be tested on vocabulary from what should have been            this this week’s readings: “What Kids Say About Bullying”, “Let the Bullies Beware”, and “Priscilla and the Wimps”.  The test will be fairly simple.  Students will be given definition and they will then choose which of three words matches that definition.  NEXT WEEK We […]

Reading: Next week we begin a unit on conflict.  We will be viewing 2 short videos and  reading,  analyzing and responding to  two  magazine articles, one short story, and a  play.  All deal with the topic of bullying in schools. Academic terms for next week include: fiction and non-fiction, textual features Plot and the parts of […]

The students are all feeling really good about the reading portion of the ARMT and I know in checking with other teachers that they worked hard and we should be seeing our usual high scores.  Most students did not take the full amount of time given–80 minutes and some were finished in as little as […]

Reading logs are due on Tuesday, April 23. Homework for Monday, April 22 1. If you have not already completed the graph begun in class, complete the characterization graph started in  class with at least 2 examples for each rectangle. 2. read and answer all questions from pages 1078, 1079, 1080 and 1081. Homework for Tuesday, […]

Thanks to the parents who let me know this week’s blog did not post.  I was so excited to print the contest results I hit publish too soon. Our next blog is due on 4-24.  All books are due in the library by 5-8 and our  last log will be due on 5-6. This week’s […]

3rd 9 weeks Highest Class Average   1st period 83.94 8th  period 83.25 3rd period 82.61 7th period 82.47 2nd period 82.22       A  averages  1st    per. Carleton Bodkin Andrew Elliott Megan Fortson Bailee Grissom Maggie Hamilton Chase Hare###highest Hunter Henderson Gianna Miller Chase Segars Ella Henderson Anna Kate Simmons Hannah Grace Smith […]

 The Hollywood Producer project is due  Tuesday, April 2 and I am very excited to review them. Projects handed in late for any reason other than excused absence will be worth 50% or less.        My Book Would Make A Blockbuster Movie!!!      A Herbert Book Project Due April 2 Let’s pretend!!   Here is the scenario:  I (Mrs. […]

Our next test is Friday March 30.  The words are not new and the definitions are very short.  In addition we have been using our 12 powerful words  all year.  Even so, students may  still do the extra credit with this week’s words. The Hollywood Producer project is due next Tuesday, April 2 and I am very excited to […]

Students will take their 3rd 9 week exam on Wednesday.  It will cover poetry, novels and historical fiction.  Reading logs are due on the 12th. All OOps tests and make-up tests must be completed by 3pm on Monday.   

We will be finishing up reading Daniel’s Story andwill take a quiz on Daniel’s Story p3 and 4 on Friday, along with our therm and socio words. This week we are studying words with the roots socio and therm.  Students were given a list of words along with their definition.  They are only responsible for those words […]

Daniel’s Story Part 2 test and the Vocabulary Power Builder  lesson test originally scheduled for Friday will take place on Monday.

Carryover assignments: Reading Practice log Picture Sparked Memory    Herbert assignment Every picture tells a story.  Some picture sparked memories are of past joyous family events and some are of tragedies families have endured.  Pictures speak of milestones both individual and familial.  In a narrative personal essay, or memoir, tell your friends, families and school community […]

All students present today were given the opportunity to turn in the projects that were due today.  In addition all students were given a written copy of the “Picture Sparked Memory” assignment due next week. Copy of assignment: Picture Sparked Memory    Herbert assignment Every picture tells a story.  Some picture sparked memories are of past […]

The Greeting Card Book report featuring the Protagonist-Antagonist poem on the back page is due on Wednesday at the beginning of class. In vocabulary this week we are studying prefixes and suffixes for big and small.  Concentrating on Lesson 24 in the Vocabulary Builder, we will study booklet, leaflet, megabyte, megalith, megaphone, microorganism, microwave, novelette, […]

There is no school on Monday.  On Thursday students were given lesson  sheets for next week’s vocabulary test.  They all contain the roots naut, naus, nav+ relating to sea, ships, travels and terr, terra,geo= land; earth  The test will be on Friday along with the test for Part One of Daniel’s Story    by Carol Matas. All students […]

We will begin our study of the historical novel,  Daniel’s Story by         Carol Matas this week.  Students may bring a personal copy or use the classroom copy,.  In the past I have found it beneficial for the student to have their own copy but it is not required.  Test on 1-17     -Fables, Novels, vis, vid […]

We will be using the Vocabulary Builder workbook that is on our  Glencoeliterature book’s web site.  We will be using 20 of the lessons.  It is not necessary for students to have a hard copy but, if as a caretaker you would like your child to have a personal copy,  they are available for purchase […]

Welcome 6th graders and their caregivers to the second half of the first year of your middleschool experience.  Thursday is the first day to focus on your target goals that you set in August.  Perhaps you would like to set new goals after experiencing your first semester of middleschool.  My classroom will remain open Monday, […]