Miss Perris' 6th Grade ELA, Reading, and Social Studies

3/13/19

Happy Wednesday,
For all the latest Rolling Hills news, you can go to https://rollinghills.campbellusd.org.

RHMS PTA FunRaiser for March

Super Duper Burger
Westgate West (New Location!)

Thursday, March 14
5 - 9 pm

Take your family, and tell your friends & neighbors.
Super Duper will donate 20% of the profit back to RHMS PTA for our programs!

Just tell the cashier you're with Rolling Hills' FunRaiser

RHMS Sport-A-Thon Fundraiser:
 
Friday, March 29 during 3rd & 4th period (10:45 - 12:41) - 6th grade only

Parent support needed in the following areas:

●    Come to RHMS and supervise a sport area during the Sport-A-Thon times listed above. Sport areas:  Soccer, Basketball, Pickleball, Volleyball, Game Room, Crab Soccer, Ping Pong, Capture the Flag, and more options to come

●    Donation of bottled water for the athletes during their activity time

●    Donation of $5.00 gift cards as prizes for the participants of the Sport-A-Thon

●    Help with T-shirt distribution before school 8:00 - 8:30 in the gym.

●    Come to RHMS and help organize donations at 11:00  or  1:30

RHMS Athletics looks forward to working with you and your athletes in making this a successful fundraiser for 2019.  If you can commit early or have any questions please feel free to contact Carmon Allen at callen [at] campbellusd.org.  Thanks as always for your support.

Our librarian really needs your help!
Our Spring Book Fair will be held April 1 – 4, 2019.
 
I am looking for volunteers for the following times:

Monday/Tuesday/Thursday

Break - 10:25 - 10:45

Lunch - 12:35 - 1:20 

Wednesday

Break - 10:05 - 10:25 

Lunch - 11:55 - 12:40 

I will be open for one half hour after school on TuesdayWednesday & Thursday. 

If you are available to help at our Book Fair please contact me via email @ gpanus [at] campbellusd.org or call 1-408-364-4235 x 5188.

Homework for 3/13/19: 
 
Reading/Literature:  READ 30 minutes every night including weekends!  
Language Arts:  More feedback given today on the argumentative essay.  Students need to continue working on it tonight.  Students NEED to use the argumentative packet (4 pages), along with the green Performance Assessment book, in order to write this 4 paragraph essay.  PLEASE BRING THE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT BOOK TO CLASS EVERY DAY!
 
Briefly:  Framework for an argumentative essay:
 
Intro. paragraph:  *Attention getter
           *Thesis statement (That’s it!!)
Body paragraphs:  *Start with a topic sentence (Split thesis statement in half — i.e. People should not be allowed to keep pit bulls as pets because they are unsafe.) — Or, create your own topic sentence.
                               *Give evidence to support your topic sentence (use the evidence sheet)
                               *Explain the evidence!! This is the part that many students are forgetting.  How does this evidence prove their position??  It’s the so what??  You cannot arbitrarily throw in a quote from    the text and say that it proves your point.  Say, “This proves. . .  or This shows. . ."
*Give more evidence
*Explain the evidence Say, “This proves. . .  or This shows. . ."
                                *Write a concluding sentence (you can “flip” the topic sentence around for your concluding sentence — i.e. Because pit bulls are unsafe, people should not be allowed to own them as pets.)
Conclusion:    *Start with “In conclusion, “ and restate the claim or position (people should not be required to keep pit bulls as pets.)
      *Restate each reason (make them strong statements)
                      *Explain what would happen if your argument goes unnoticed.
                                  
Math:  Finish math worksheet
 
Science:  No homework
Social Studies:  No homework
 
Have a great night.
Ms. Perris/Ms. Harrington