Independent Study Assignments
Due June 10
Trimester 3 Week 13
Instructor: Mrs. Darci Syfert-Busk
Objectives
 Apply 6th grade Math to real life situations
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REAL Life Math
 Pick a career
 Describe what education is
needed for this career
 Describe what math skills
from this year are needed
for this career/job
6th Grade Independent Study
T3 Week 13
Due: June 10
Total Work Completed=_______% Name_______________
Math
P.E.
 ____Real Life Math Assignment
Class 9-11 next week!
_____PE Log
 Grade__________
 Total Work____________
 Grade_________
 Total Work_________
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www.mrssyfert.wikispaces.com
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dbusk@psusd.us
Housekeeping
Take Books Back
Monday!
 5 PE Credits due
 PE Research/Question
 Tutoring Time change!
 Grade Work
 Assignment Sheet
 PE
 Stamped work
 Math
 Science
 Social Studies
 Languages Arts
Language Arts
 Main Objectives This Week:
 (Lang. Objective) Read a story and be able to tell what the
“theme” of the story was
 Combine sentences appropriately
 Use vocabulary words in the story to understand the theme
New Story….The Stone
 Pg. 495-Prereading
 Pg. 505-Story
 Standards
 Theme
 Combining Sentences
Theme Paragraph Frame
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In the story _________________________, the
author’s theme was _____________________________
_______________________________. He expresses
this theme through what happens to ____________. In
the story ______________ learns this lesson when wishes
for ____________________________________. This
causes problems because ________________________
___________________________________________.
Finally he ___________________________________
_____________. After that _____________________
___________________________________________
___________________________________________.
Practice Guide-Teacher Edit today
 Topic
 R1 R2
 R3
 Conclusion
 Address Opposing View
too!
Your Book
 Share…
 Why did you pick it!
 Set weekly goals
 Finish by June 1
Language Arts
Assignments:
 _____Theme Compare/Contrast Double Bubble
T3W13
 ______Oiled Seabirds Article and questions Pgs. 490-
493.
 ______Brainpop-they’re, there, their
 ______Book Final Project (See Handout)
 Study for Benchmark
Grade_________
Work Completed:
______________
Objectives for this week…
-(Language Objective) Write an essay about
Paul’s life and death
History
T3W13
Assignments:
_____
Apostle Paul ReportResearch Paul. Write a3/4-1 page
typed essay about the following:
 Who he was
 Where he traveled
 His epistles
 His death
 _____Brainpop-Rise of Roman Empire
 Grade_____
 TW______
Science
Main Objectives This Week:
-(Language Objective) Describe the effects of an
oil spill on a marine environment
-Understand how members of an ecosystem
depend on one another
Food Web Poster
Food Web
Cause Effect Essay
 Use the Gulf Oil Spill to
 Write an 8-10 sentence
track the effects on the
animals within the Gulf of
Mexico Ecosystem. Track
how the disappearance of 1
animal effects others.
 Must have…
 Pictures of each animal
 Web
essay summarizing the
effect the oil spill will have
on the Gulf Ecosystem
 Glue on to poster
Gulf Animals
 Alligator
 Michael parr (bird)
 Pelican
 Dolphin
 Shrimp
 Killer whale
 Baby shrimp
 Hermit crabs
 Plankton
 Lobster
 Whale
 Fish?
 Blue Crab
 Northern Gannet
 Star Fish
 Rainbow Trout
 Algae
 Horseshoe crab
 seaweed
 Sting Ray
 Shark
Project
 Due June 10
 Rainforest
 Temperate Forest
 Explain how Global
Warming is effecting one
of these Ecosystems
 Tundra
 Taiga
 Desert
 Grasslands
 Rivers and Streams
 Ponds and Lakes
 Temperate Oceans
 Tropical Oceans
Global Warming Project Ideas
 Topic….How Global
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Warming Has Effect the
_________ Biome
Ideas…
Powerpoint/Speech
Video
Mural (Timeline?)
Research Paper
Brochure
Science
 ____2 Brainpops-Our Fragile
Environment/Ecology and
Behavior
 ____Global Warming Project
Due
 Grade_______
 TW_________
Testing Today
 English Benchmark
Spelling
Ex-Means out or away
from
-We excluded him
from our club.
-I exhaled after
holding my breathe.
Writing-Compound and Complex
Sentences
 148, 153
 Compoud Sentences
 Use coordinating
conjunction (and, but,
or…)
 Each part can stand on its
own
 Complex Sentence
 has 1 independent clause
(CAN stand alone) and one
or more subordinate
clauses(can’t stand alone)