Holiday Story Writing

For this assignment, everyone will create a story related to the holiday season. You may choose one of the topics or story starters listed below. With my permission, you can make up your own as well.

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Peer edits will be completed on Monday, February 4th.
Final drafts will be due on Tuesday February 5th.


Story Ideas

Write a persuasive piece to convince a skeptic that Santa Claus really does exist.

Write a personal narrative describing the best Christmas you have ever had.

Write a story that illustrates your favorite parts of the holiday season. 

Rewrite a classic holiday story, like "'Twas the Night."


Holiday Story Starters

(Name) struggled to keep his eyes open as he sat under the night sky watching his father's sheep. Suddenly, a bright light split the night sky. ...

Grandmother pulled the last tray of gingerbread men from the oven. Suddenly ...

"Ho - ho - help me!" came the voice from the chimney ...

Johnny shook the last coin from his piggy bank. $5.67 - that was all the money he had to buy holiday gifts for his mother, father, sister, and grandmother ...

All the elves were hard at work in Santa's workshop ... all but one, that is ...

Grandpa Joe sat all alone in his living room. For the first time in 70 years, he hadn't bothered with a Christmas tree ...

I woke with a start. Something red shone through the window. Why, it looked like a reindeer nose! ...

Off in the distance, I heard the sound of sleigh bells. ...

Class on 11/20/12

Instructions:

• Click on any of the following links about Thanksgiving. 

KidsKonnect.com

History.com

NationalGeographic.com

• Read any of the articles about Thanksgiving. 

• After you have finished reading, please write one paragraph about something you learned, and/or found interesting. I would like you to write your paragraph in the comment section below this post. 
• Make sure you write at least three sentences, and double-check your grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization. Sign your name at the end, and remember to cite your source (copy the url under your post.)
• If you wish, you may choose another educational website to do your Thanksgiving research, but you will need to cite your source.  If you do this, you must be certain that it is a reliable source (i.e. not Wikipedia).

   

Grammar Sites

If you arrive early to class and have all of the daily materials with you, you may use any of the following links to practice grammar with! Once again, some of these may seem juvenile, but they do contain 6th grade Language Arts topics and content.

Caution: If you are disruptive (i.e. your voice or computer volume is too loud) with these, you will not be permitted to use them when I am not present!

• Grammar Tutorial Activity

• Noun Explorer

• Adjective Adventure

• Verbs in Space

• Comma Chameleon

• Magical Capitals

• Sentence Clubhouse

Grading Scale

Mrs. Wright’s Language Arts Grading Scale

Writing Prompts and Projects: 40%

Participation: 20%

Quizzes: 20%

Preparedness: 10%

Classwork: 10%

Daily Oral Language

Daily Oral Language

Use the above link to do our Daily Oral Language writing. You will be expected to do these frequently, and you have the ability to edit the document. Your name will be next to the sentences you need to edit.

Hello Students!

Welcome to our official 6th Grade Language Arts Class Blog!

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http://www.zazzle.com/all_cool_cats_read_poster-228614350593630043

We will use this blog for the following:

• Blog Posting and Commenting

• Daily Oral Language

• Class Assignments

• Quizzes

• And Other Fun Things!