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GRADE 6 ENGLISH AND SOCIAL STUDIES
Mr Tim Benford
Ms. Kristen Feren
Ms. Rena O’Regan
Ms. Meg Parry
A BIT ABOUT ME…
WHO IS IN THE ENGLISH SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM?
Rena O’Regan Myra Lepp
Ms Kat
GRADE LEVEL CONCEPTS
Quarter 1Structures• Social Studies: Society,
Government Systems, Mapping
• English: Book Clubs, Writing; 6 traits, paragraph, sentence structures
Quarter 2Relationships• Social Studies:
Sustainable Economic Development
• English: Research, Expository Writing
Quarter 3Cause and Effect• Social Studies:
Development of Cities• English: Research, Novel
study
Quarter 4Discovery• Social Studies: Human
Evolution and Development
• English: Short Stories, Narrative writing
HOMEWORK
•Reading•Work completion/ preparation for class activity (approx 80 minutes per week)•Current Events (1 presentation each semester)•Talk with your child, open questions, deep discussions (model thinking)
GRADES
Grades are calculated according to TOTAL POINTS earned Homework for completion only will earn between 1 and 5
points Tests, quizzes and other medium sized assessments in
which a student must demonstrate understanding will earn approximately 15 to 30 points
Performance Tasks will earn approximately 50 to 60 points To calculate: divide number of points earned by the
number of possible points Grades are calculated at the end of semester
SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD
Blogs: http://oreganr.ism-online.org/ http://grade6.ism-online.org/
Go through the planner with your child frequently PowerSchool Email:
Conferences through MS Office
Smile and laugh every day!
THANK YOU!
I look forward to getting to know all of you this year.
I feel very lucky to teach your wonderful children!