6th Grade Language Arts |
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Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
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Themes |
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Roots of Societies, Roots of Stories
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Revolution! |
The Modern Age
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Literature Genres
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Mythology (hero's quests)
Folklore and Fairy Tales
Historical Fiction
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Poetry
Drama
Historical Fiction
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Surrealism
Poetry
Historical Fiction
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Composition |
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Descriptive Essay
Reader Response
Creative Writing
Poetry
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Reader Response
Creative Writing
Poetry
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Literary Analysis
Poetry
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Mechanics
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Over the course of the year, we will study:
-prepositions
-subjects/verbs
-phrases/clauses
-simple, compound, and complex sentences
-conjunctions
-sentence combining
-using apostrophes to show possession
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Skills |
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-The Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing
-Formatting a résumé
-Elements of fiction
-Technology: word processing
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-The Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing
-Performance: Monologues
-Elements of fiction
-Introduction to Shakespeare
-Analyzing Poetry
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-The Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing
-Developing the Paragraph
-Understanding Surrealism
-Figurative language
-Character Analysis
-Identifying Elements of Mysteries
-Analyzing Poetry
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Examples of Portfolio Projects
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-My Utopia
-Super-Myth
-Retelling the Tale
-Crispin map and Venn Diagram
-Tests and Quizzes
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-Renaissance Minds performance
-Jonathan Swift poetry
-Plotting the Plot
-Tests and Quizzes
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-Butterflies of Terezin response poem
-Literary Analysis of Butterfly poem
-Tests and Quizzes
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Examples of Integrated Units |
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SS: Ancient Greece, Middle Ages
Art: Fairy tale art representations
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SS, Art, Math, Science: Renaissance Minds
SS: Industrial Revolution, Russian Revolution, Eastern Europe
Math: Plotting the Russian Revolution
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Art: Surrealism
SS, Art: The Holocaust
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Examples of Field Trips & Speakers |
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The Giver: Children's Theatre of Charlotte
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North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Resources |
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Mythology (various sources)
Favorite Medieval Tales
Crispin: Cross of Lead
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Daily GRAMS: Grade 6
Word Within the Word
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Angel on the Square
Poems by Jonathan Swift, William Blake
Daily GRAMS: Grade 6
Work Within the Word
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Daily GRAMS: Grade 6
Word Within the Word
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