Conway School District

     Mr. Larsen and Mrs. Riches 6^th Grade

         Students may create a country report for extra credit in Social Studies.

           The report will be four pages with size twelve font. 

Any pictures will be on the fifth page.

The report will raise one test grade one standard deviation.

Maniac Magee (Spinelli)
Wringer (Spinelli)
The Cay (Taylor)
Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis)
The Boggart (Cooper)
Going Through the Gate (Anderson)
Dogsong (Paulson)
Skellig (Almond)
Redwall (series)(Jacques)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell)
Black Pearl (O'Dell)
Ella Enchanted (Levine)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (entire Chronicles of Narnia series)(Lewis)
The Harry Potter Series (Rawling)
The Sword and the Stone (White)
Shiloh (Naylor)
The Pushcart War (Morrill)
Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (Lester)
The Shakespeare Stealer (Blackwood)
The Door in the Wall (De Angeli)
The Whipping Boy (Fleishman)
Caeser's Story, 1759 (Nixon)
My Brother Sam Is Dead (Collier)
Johnny Tremain (Forbes)
Jeremy Hatcher, Dragon Hatcher (Colvile)
My Side of the Mountain (George)
House of Dies Drear (Hamilton)
Esperanza Rising (Ryan)
Titanic Crossing (Williams)
Number the Stars (Lowry)
Missing May (Rylant)
Walk Two Moons (Creech)
Chasing Redbird (Creech)
Herstory: Women Who Changed the World (Asby)
Our Only May Amelia (Holm)
A Year Down Yonder (Peck)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Speare)

Conventions

Unit 1:

1.   Kinds of Sentences

2.   Complete Subjects and Complete Predicates

3.   Simple Subjects and Simple Predicates

4.   Compound Subjects

5.   Compound Predicates

6.   Compound Sentences

7.   Conjunctions

8.   Correcting Fragments and Run-ons

Unit 3

1.   Recognizing Nouns

2.   Common and Proper Nouns

3.   Singular and Plural Nouns

4.   Possessive Nouns

5.   Plural and Possessive Nouns

6.   Combining Sentences with Appositives

7.   Combining Sentences with Possessive Nouns

Unit 5

1.   Action Verbs

2.   Main Verbs and Auxiliaries

3.   Direct Objects

4.   Being Verbs and Linking Verbs

5.   Verb Tenses

6.   Principal Parts of Verbs

7.   Subject-Verb Agreement

8.   Contractions

Unit 7

1.   Adjectives

2.   Articles and Demonstratives

3.   Comparing with Adjectives

4.   Comparing with more and most

5.   Proper Adjectives

6.   Adverbs That Modify Verbs

7.   Adverbs That Modify Adjectives and Adverbs

8.   Comparing with Adverbs

9.   Negatives

10.  Adjective or Adverb

Unit 9

1.   Reviewing End Punctuation

2.   Proper Nouns and Proper Adjectives

3.   Interjections

4.   Commas in a Series

5.   More Uses for Commas

6.   Abbreviations

7.   Punctuating Dialogue

8.   Titles

Unit 11

1.   Pronouns and Antecedents

2.   Pronouns as Subjects and Objects

3.   Possessive Pronouns

4.   Pronouns After Linking Verbs

5.   Pronouns in Compound Subjects and Objects

6.   Using who, whom, and whose

7.   Indefinite Pronouns

Unit 13

1.   Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

2.   Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives

3.   Prepositional Phrases as Adverbs

4.   Preposition or Adverb

5.   Expanding Sentences with Prepositional Phrases

6.   Using Prepositions Correctly

7.   Combining Sentences with Prepositional Phrases