Roots and Persuasion

This week has been one full of lots of new learning. We started our week by learning about the stations that we will begin next week. We also learned some about Greek and Latin roots and also began our Persuasive Unit. Here are just a few pictures of some of the things we did this week.



We have been working on our note taking skills together. Usually I will create a large anchor chart like the one above, and then the students are responsible for copying the notes into their Reading and Writing Notebooks. I always ask the question first, and then have the students think about it. Together we share ideas to answer each question that is asked.



After we completed our notes on Greek and Latin roots, each student was responsbile for completing a graphic organizer with one of the 12 roots that we learned about. They turned out great. Some of them are posted below. In each box, students had to write teh definition in a complete sentence, come with 5 examples of their root being used in a word, illustrate the root, and also take three of the words that they came up and use them in a contextual sentence. They all worked so hard on them!



This is what our notes looked like that we wrote in our notebooks.

I hope that you and your family have a great weekend! I am looking forward to another great week in 6th grade!