Study Guide 2nd Bimester

6tH GRADE
2ND BIMESTER STUDY GUIDE
SCHOOL YEAR 2009 – 2010
Miss: Gina Villafuerte & Miss: Claudia Stone




Reading

1.- Poetry. What`s a Poem?, Oranges
Identify elements in a poem.
Reading book

2.- Amelia Earhart, First Lady of Flight.
Reading book 142-157 and notebook
Practice book4112, 113, 109, 110

3.- The girl who married the moon
Reading book p 168 to p181 and notebook
Practice Book4133

4.- Dinosaurs Ghosts
Reading book 188-206 and notebook
Practice Book-147-148








Vocabulary

Poetry-" rhyme, repetition, rhythm, stanza, lines, figurative language, sensory language,
Practice book p.93 and notebook

Amelia Earhart- accomplish, accounting, aviation, disappearance, inspiration, journal, navigator, runway, taxied, transmission, morse code, reasoned, estate, bearing, analize, homing signals, course, ecuator
Quiz, Practice book 111

The girl who married the moon- common room, hearth, kayak, mainland, phases, sod, sparking, suspicious, village, veil, lapping, brimming, jaguar, tranwuil, scything,crook
Quiz, Practice book, 131Notebook

Dinosaurs Ghosts- erosion, evidence, excavation, extinct, fossils, geologists, hypothesis, paleontologists, specimens, theory,hypotheses, trecherous, channel, churning, ligaments.drought, burrowing.
Quiz, Practice book p-146, 155




Spelling
1.-Consonant changes
Practice book 99-101 and notebook
2.-Frequently misspeled words
Practice book 128 to 130 and notebook
3.-Homophones
Practice book. 137 to 140 and notebook
4.-Final sounds.
Practice book 152 to 154 and notebook

Grammar
1.- Compund- Complex sentences
P. book p103-104
1.- Singular/ plural possessives
P. book- 121-122,123
2.-Action verb/direct object
P. book 141142

3.-Main and auxiliary verbs
P. book- 174-175

4.-Transitive/intransitive
P. book-156

5.-Being/linking verbs
P.book-157-158

6.-Grammar skills review
P.book 174-175


Science
1.-How do earthquakes affect earth’s surface?
2.-How did Plate Movement Shape California ?
3.-What are Weathering and Erosion ?

Science book Lesson 4 to 6
Notebook


Writing
Adding details Practice book pages 125
Write a journal Practice book pages 144
Write business letter Practice letter pages 159