Tuesday Level D Class Page

Drop-in help is available on Mondays from 6:00 – 6:45- pm. Use the class Zoom link.

Please do not resolve any comments made by Ms. Moyano. Instead, you should reply, “Corrected”. If you have an incorrect answer, you will find a RED X next to it. If there is a green +, it is correct. When you see a red X, you are responsible for making the correction within one week.


To join the online Zoom class, please click the button below Tuesdays from 5:00-6:45.

The passcode is: 888626


Topics choices:

How Animals Use Superpowers to Survive (Camouflage, speed, venom, armor, night vision) Research angles: Specific animal adaptations, How each “power” helps survival, Real-world examples

How Inventions Change the Way People Live (bicycles, light bulbs, phones, shoes, etc.)
Research angles: What life was like before the invention, How it works, How it changed daily life

How Kids’ Favorite Toys Are Designed and Made (LEGO, dolls, action figures, board games, etc.) Research angles: Materials used, Design process, Safety testing and manufacturing

Below is a link to the outline format to help you:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q6thKkXMfa11x0a_HmuHwh_1JsRn4-Ly0WLCQWx0Ehs/edit?usp=sharing

Winter Week 10:
  • Warm up
  • Grammar
  • Outline P1-2

NOTE: Homework is due by 7 am on the morning of your class, NOT when you get home from school on the day of class. I will check and correct midday. If the work is not done, additional work will be added as discussed.

Winter Week 9:
  • Finish warm up
  • Vocabulary
  • Fix grammar week 8 (DC)[IC]
  • Finish MIS, 3 categories, and Attention getters (5 of them)
  • Fill in research gaps based on your categories

Winter Week 8:
  • Finish warm up
  • Finish grammar
  • Research and annotate for your expository essay
  • NO CLASS NEXT WEEK 2/17 – PRESIDENTS’ WEEK!

Winter Week 7:
  • Finish warm up
  • Fix grammar if needed
  • Finish vocab
  • Fix poem
  • Finish personal narrative #2 through final

Topic choices:

  • A Moment I Felt Braver Than I Thought I Was
    (First day, trying something new, speaking up, learning a skill)
  • The Time Something Went Wrong—but Turned Out Okay (A mistake, accident, or misunderstanding)
  • A Small Moment That Made Me Feel Proud (Helping someone, finishing something hard, earning trust)

Winter Week 6:
  • Finish warm up
  • Finish grammar
  • Finish poem 1 – minimum of 10 stanzas
  • Finish editing personal narrative
  • Finish any past homework
Winter Week 5:
  • Finish warm up
  • Vocab
  • Fix narrative as needed
  • Finish any past homework
Winter Week 4:
  • Finish warm up
  • Grammar
  • Fix persuasive as needed
  • Write and edit rough draft of personal narrative – 300-500 words (you will read next week). It must include sensory details, follow the 1/5 rule and the 80/20 rule (active vs. passive voice), and include some internal dialogue.
  • Finish any past homework
Winter Week 3:
  • Finish warm up
  • Vocabulary
  • Fix persuasive as needed
  • Blueprint your personal narrative

Let’s wrap this up!


Is your essay the best you are capable of?

Follow the ⅕ rule?

Cite your sources?

Use varied sentence structure?

Use concrete words?

Third person?

Followed your outline?

Flows and is logical?

  • If yes, make a note at the top telling me it is your BEST work.  If you aren’t telling me the whole truth, there will be homework added next week.
  • If no, add this to your homework this week and get it done. Since you are getting an extra week, I am going to be VERY picky.

Winter Week 2:
  • Finish warm up
  • Grammar
  • Outline P2, 3, 4 (Reasons 1, 2, 3) – fix as needed – email me by Friday 12/19 to get it checked
  • Write and edit rough draft of persuasive
  • Fix week 11 & 12 grammar as needed
  • I will see you on January 6th!
Winter Week 1:
  • Finish warm up
  • Vocabulary
  • Outline P2, 3, 4 (Reasons 1, 2, 3)
  • Fix week 11 & 12 grammar as needed
Week 12:
  • Finish warm up if not done
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar week 11 & 12
  • Outline P1
  • Write the rough draft for P1 
Week 10:
  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 10, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary (Week 10)& Grammar (Week 9)
  • Complete LTP- P2 plus color coding your research
  • Any old homework that is undone – remember, the cost to not finishing…

Don’t forget to assign each of your reasons a color, and then, color code your research to make next week much easier.

Focus on things you can use for evidence in your body paragraphs.

Week 9:
  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 9, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
  • Complete your research and main idea statement (At least 10 sources with links and annotations/notes on the research page)

Topic Choices:

-Should recess be longer?

-Should every classroom have a pet?

-Which is better: board games or video games?

Week 8:
  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 8, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
  • Enjoy the super light week! You earned it. 
Week 7:
  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 7, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
  • Edit rough draft for Halloween story & be ready to submit it to the judges next week- There are no extensions this week. If your story is not completed on time, you will be eliminated from the competition.
Week 6:
  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 6, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
  • Finish rough draft for Halloween story

Remember: The three endings that are not allowed are: it was all a dream, they lived happily ever after, and everyone died.

Week 5 Homework:

  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 5, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
  • Make any revisions needed to game after feedback
  • Finish blueprint for Halloween story
Week 4 Homework:
  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 4, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
  • Design your board game and finalize text once you have finished your corrections
  • Select your Halloween story idea
Week 3 Homework:
  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 3, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
  • Finish editing the rough draft of your board game information
  • Finish any past homework & correct past week’s work as needed

Week 2 Homework:
  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 2, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
  • Start the rough drafts of your guide – do a minimum of 50%

Remember the questions that adjectives answer:

  1. What kind?
  2. What color?
  3. Which one?
  4. Whose?

If you ask the question, you will hunt those adjectives down with no problem!



Week 1
  • Finish Writer’s Notebook prompt – Week 1, as well as your observations (Be ready to share next week)
  • Finish Vocabulary & Grammar
  • Finish brainstorming ideas for your board game, and begin planning out some of the areas. Come up with a catchy, clever name for your game. Your planning should be in fragments and bullet points only. NO complete sentences or paragraphs.

A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea. If a word can wear a name tag—or you can point to it, count it, or talk about it—it’s probably a noun.

Quick ways to spot a noun
  • The article test
  • Pronoun swap
  • Counting/amount: Can you count it or measure it?
  • Preposition check: Does it fit after a preposition