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

    Highest Class Average Contest: 86.0%—3rd 85.6–   2nd, 1st, 7th, Students with  A’s by period 8thPeriod A’s Jacqueline Canales Mac Costa Reese Davis Bryan Hernandez McKinley Maxwell AnnaGrace McDonald Madison Montgomery Kaylie Moss****Highest Avg. Lexie Murray Alexa Olivi Abby Rowland   1st Period A’s Carleton Bodkin Carley Crowe Megan Fortson Chase Hare****Highest Avg Hunter […]

 The next project is a simple top fold “greeting card” and is due on January 30th-a Wednesday One top fold 4 page greeting style card made from single side of 8.5 x 11 sheet instruction sheet and model given to each student  Front of card Title, Author Illustration for front cover Student full  name and […]

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The Reading Exam for the second nine week period will be on Friday, December 14.  It will consist of term definition recognition and reading comprehension. Students were given a study guide today and we will have 5 days of review in the classroom. 2nd nine week study guide   Herbert   6th grade  Exam date 12-14 graphic […]

It’s that Time    Your test is on Thursday, December 6 tempus and chronos are roots that mean time   chronic constant, habitual, marked by long duration of time chronicle a usually historic continupus account ; to list or describe chronological time order contemporary modern; existing in the same time period; one of the same age […]

The vocabulary list is too confusing for more than 50% of my students.  Therefore I am shortening the list and moving the the test to Friday.  Students are responsible for the following words: beneficial, benefactor, benign, bon voyage, benediction, beneficiary, benevolent, malnourished, dismal, malodorous, malaria, malfeasance, malevolent In addition to shortening the list, I gave […]

There is no vocabulary list this week.  We will have a short reading comprehension quiz on Thursday on “A Mason Dixon Memory”. The final date to hand in the ” Things I learned from my non-fiction book” is November 19. New reading logs were given out Friday and are not due until 11-30.

Students were given a  list of this week’s vocabulary sheets.  The list of those I will test on is on the board in the class.  The test is on Friday 11-9. The extra credit is the same.  It is now 5th period and 95 students have taken the quiz.  Only 1 student has done the extra […]

Prefixes Suffixes Root Words Reference Sheet

New reading logs were distributed in class as well as new vocabulary sheets, index cards and grade sheets.  Next reading log is due 11-9. Next vocabulary test is on November 2—I dare not test 6th graders the day after Holloween. Our next Independent reading project is due on 11-19.  We are working on them in […]

Reading log due Friday,  October 26       Test date  Oct. 25    Madam C.J. Walker and Satchel Paige   Homework: Due 10-23 Write one sentence for each selection word. Highlight the word.  Write a good “hint” sentence that will help you remember the words definition. Academic vocabulary   narrative   Non-fiction   biography   autobiography   Selection […]

New reading logs were distributed today.  They are due on October 26.  Students are allowed 2 blank dates. Logs should be easy “A’s”.  Please note that reading logs are not just busy work or gimme grades.  It is extremely important that students read for a sustained 20 minutes each night.  I allow them to read whatever […]

Week of 10-8 No reading log this week as we are reviewing this week and taking a 9 week review test next Thursday. The exam reviews academic vocabulary including literature elements, reading strategies and textual features. The exam does not include selection vocabulary or questions about the selections. The exam consists of identification questions and […]

SELECTION Voc.The Smallest Dragon Boy  Project due WEDNo written homework Test on Friday, Oct 5 Logs due on Friday Oct 5  confrontation  face-to-face meeting between opposing sides  alleviate  relieve or reduce  goaded  pushed into or strongly influenced  perturbed  disturbed or troubled  imminent  about to happen  plot  see text  exposition  see text  complications/rising action     […]

Your first reading log is due 9-21.  You may have 2 blank or unread nights and still get all of your points. “Priscilla and the Wimps”   & “Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite”  Test  on Sept. 20     Homework  Due 9-19 Write 1 good sentence that will help you remember what the word means for each […]

Friday homework: read p. 508,509, 510 if you did not complete in class Mon. work on vocabulary, read 20 Tues. work on vocab worksheet due Wed.  Remember heading and looseleaf Wed,. Review for vocab and comprehension strategies test tomorrow. Thurs: read 20 work on Independent Reading project ( see pages)  Sequencing  activity  Independent Reading activity […]

I am not sure why the definition for affect went to conflict. Correct definition for conflict is:  conflict a struggle between opposing forces in a story or drama.  Conflict can be internal ( within the character’s mind) or external

On this week’s vocabulary list you have 2 words, affect and effect, which are not the same word. Affect is used as only a verb in general vocabularywhereas effect is most commonly used as a noun.In formal English effect can also be used as a verb. In that case, the object of the verb is […]

Don’t read the selection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Test on Thursday Vocabulary Tuesday of the Other June   cause why something happens effect what happens as a result of a cause affect have an effect on characterize to give characters or persons traits or to describe traits emerald a deep green color recited repeated from memory rigid hard and […]

Don’t forget! Your first test is tomorrow.  If you paid attention in class and fully participated in homework, discussions and games you will find the test easy.  If you didn’t better buckle down.