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6th Grade Language Arts

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Sixth Grade Language Arts

 

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Other 6th Grade Maps: Art, Science, Math, Social Studies, Spanish

 

 

 

6th Grade Language Arts   Fall Winter Spring
         
Themes   Roots of Societies, Roots of Stories
Revolution! The Modern Age
Literature Genres
 

Mythology (hero's quests)

Folklore and Fairy Tales

Historical Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Historical Fiction

Surrealism

Poetry

Historical Fiction

Composition  

Descriptive Essay

Reader Response

Creative Writing

Poetry

Reader Response

Creative Writing

Poetry

 

 

Literary Analysis

Poetry

 

Mechanics

 

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

 

 


Skills   -The Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing

-Formatting a résumé

-Elements of fiction

-Technology: word processing

-The Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing

-Performance: Monologues

-Elements of fiction

-Introduction to Shakespeare

-Analyzing Poetry

-The Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing

-Developing the Paragraph

-Understanding Surrealism

-Figurative language

-Character Analysis

-Identifying Elements of Mysteries

-Analyzing Poetry

Examples of Portfolio Projects
 

-My Utopia

-Super-Myth

-Retelling the Tale

-Crispin map and Venn Diagram

-Tests and Quizzes

-Renaissance Minds performance

-Jonathan Swift poetry

-Plotting the Plot

-Tests and Quizzes

-Butterflies of Terezin response poem

-Literary Analysis of Butterfly poem

-Tests and Quizzes

Examples of Integrated Units   SS: Ancient Greece, Middle Ages

Art: Fairy tale art representations

SS, Art, Math, Science: Renaissance Minds

SS: Industrial Revolution, Russian Revolution, Eastern Europe

Math: Plotting the Russian Revolution

Art: Surrealism

SS, Art: The Holocaust

Examples of Field Trips & Speakers  

The Giver: Children's Theatre of Charlotte 

  North Carolina Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Resources  

Mythology (various sources)

Favorite Medieval Tales

Crispin:  Cross of Lead

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Daily GRAMS:  Grade 6

Word Within the Word 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Angel on the Square

Poems by Jonathan Swift, William Blake

Daily GRAMS:  Grade 6

Work Within the Word

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Daily GRAMS:  Grade 6

Word Within the Word

 

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