Ms. Cumbee's 6th Grade English Language Arts (ELA) Class
Welcome to 6th Grade!
Hello, my name is Amy Cumbee and this will be my twenty-second year of teaching in this district. I taught fourth grade for 16 years at Chelsea and I have been teaching ELA at Hickory Creek for six years. I have a son & daughter who have also gone through the 157-C schools and I am proud to be a part of such an amazing community. I also coordinate the Best Buddies program here at Hickory Creek.
As a sixth grade, ELA teacher, I expect my students to come to class prepared and ready to learn. There will be daily homework assigned Monday-Thursday, however, ample class time is given for students to complete the work. Below you will see what items I expect my students to have with them daily. I will use this webpage to communicate homework and any test dates, so be sure to check this weekly. I know we will have a FANTASTIC year!!
School Supplies Needed for Class each day:
- folder/binder (student choice) looseleaf notebook paper
- spiral notebook
- pencils
- highlighters
- blue or black pens (2)
- red pen (2)
- Assignment Notebook
Quarter 4 Essential Question: What if your world changed in a day?
Novels
Honors: Shooting Kabul
Core: Surviving Hitler
Week of April 22nd:
-Poetry Analysis
-Figurative Language
-Key Ideas & Details
-Novel study
-Vocabulary Acquisition
SCOPE & UPFRONT Classroom Password: HCMS2020
Reading Expectation:
All of my students are required to read three Rebecca Caudill books by mid-February. After a student finished reading a book, then he or she will talk to Ms. Cumbee about scheduling a "book talk".
In an effort to build passionate readers, we continue to build classroom libraries in which students have choice over the texts they select. There may be books in libraries that are identified by publishers as “young adult” due to the fact that our students are young adults. With that being said, “young adult” books are considered appropriate for up to 18 years of age. Please discuss with your children any parameters that you would like for them to follow as they choose texts from our classrooms.
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