The Yearly Plan

Homework

• Read 25 books (30 minutes/ day) RL6.10, RI6.10
• Occasionally- finish class work

Reading Fiction (about 5 weeks)

1. Introduction to 6th Grade ELA: Introduce your partner, What to bring to class, expectations, ...
2. Write me a letter- Who are you as a reader and a writer? What about homework? Vocabulary?
3. What do good readers do?
4. Plot- Summary or Retell? RL 6.3 and 6.5
5. Setting RL 6.5
6. Visualizing
7. Write a letter about your book- Plot and setting
8. Predicting
9. Making Connections
10. Inferring RL 6.1 Practice 1 , 2 , 3 ,
11. Context Clues (video) RL 6.1, 6.4, L 6.4 Practice 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
12. Character S.T.E.A.L.
13. Vocabulary Test (use Quizlet)

Writing a Narrative (about 5 weeks)

1. Gathering Story Ideas
2. Examples of Personal Narratives: Owl Moon, Fireflies, Thunder Cake, Enemy Pie, A Day's Work
3. What must a Personal Narrative have? (Checklist)
4. How is a Personal Narrative different from a list of events?
5. Choose your story from your notebook brainstorm and outline your story using this form. (video)
6. Leads/ Beginnings (Video)
7. Dialogue Slide Show Rules Video
8. Description: Senses, Similes/ Metaphors, Better Words
9. Transition Words (Page 4) and Precise Phrases
10. Endings
11. Revising and editing
12. Checklist/ Grading/ I Can...
13. Celebrate! (Due October 12, 2018)

Week 1: September 17

Gathering Story Ideas/ Reading Examples/ What must a personal narrative have?/ Choose a story

Week 2: September 24

Leads- Beginnings/ Dialogue/ Description

Week 3: October 1

Transition words/ Closing

Week 4: October 15

Revising/ Editing/ Celebrating

Reading Non- Fiction (about 5 weeks)

1. Theme: Zen, Zen, Jumping Mouse, Great Kapok
2. Main Idea or Theme?
3. Non-Fiction Text Features video
4. Main Idea and Details RI 6.2 (video 1) (video 2)
5. Author's Purpose (Article) (Video)
6. Inferring in Non-Fiction: NF1 NF2 NF3
7. Context Clues: NFCC1 NFCC2 RL6.4
8. Cause and Effect: Try it W6.2
9. Fact or Opinion? W6.2
10. Compare and Contrast RL6.9

Writing Non-Fiction (about 5 weeks)

Thesis/ Support Paper: What makes it good?

1. Claim, Evidence and Analysis
2. Hook/ Lead
3. Transition Words
4. Character Thesis/ Support W6.2
5. Precise Words
6. Theme Thesis/ Support W6.2
7. Compare and Contrast Thesis/ Support W6.2
8. Revise/ Edit
9. Celebrate!

October 22

• A Theme: Zen Video, Slides
• B Theme: Great Kapok Tree
• C Main Idea or Theme? JM

October 29

• A Non-Fiction Text Features
• B November 1: No School
• C Main Idea and Details (MI & D)

November 5 (Vocab Test # 2 this week)

• A Author's Purpose (PIE) (MI & D)
• B Inferring (MI & D)
• C Context Clues (MI & D)

November 12

• A Inferring and Context Clues (MI & D)
• B Cause and Effect (MI & D)
• C Fact or Opinion (MI & D)

November 19

• A Compare and Contrast (MI & D)
• B Begin Amazing Essays! (AE)
  • My weekend was... My vacation will be...

November 26

• A AE: Claim/ Evidence/ Analysis
• B AE: Transition Words and Phrases
• C AE: Character Essay

December 4 (Vocab Test # 3 this week)

• A AE: Character Essay
• B AE: Theme Essay
• C December 8 No School

December 11

• A AE: Theme Essay
• B AE: Choose an Essay- Revise and Edit
• C AE: Celebrate our Essays

December 18

• A AE: Compare and Contrast Essay
• B AE: Compare and Contrast Essay
• C Flex Day

Reading Opinion (about 4 weeks)

1. Reading Fair Preparation
2. Prefix and Suffix (Worksheet)
3. Greek and Latin Root Words (GWS) (LWS)
4. Fact or Opinion? W6.2
5. Thesis Introduced, Illustrated, Elaborated
6. Citing evidence
7. Sentences
8. Non-Fiction Text Features
9. Main Idea and Details 1, 2, 3, RI 6.2
10. Inferring in Non-Fiction: NF1 NF2 NF3
11. Context Clues in Non-Fiction

Writing a Feature Article (~5 weeks)

1. What do you think?
2. Article Examples: At Home in the Arctic , Elephants Never Forget, Aquila, Climate Change
3. Lead into your opinion
4. Thesis and Defense: Data, Logic, Experience,
5. Types of Evidence/ Citing Evidence
6. Sentences
7. Rubric
8. Revising
9. Editing
10. Formatting: Non-Fiction Text Features
11. Celebrating

Examples: 2017, C on Issuu, D On Issuu, H on Issuu

Creator's Collective

February 25

• A Welcome Back! Book Fair
• B Choose Books, Prosody
• C Write about a character

March 4

• A Prosody/ Record
• B Prosody/ Record
• C Prosody/ Record/ Upload to YouTube

March 11

• A QR Code Sticker onto Book/ Return Book
• B Prefix/ Suffix/ Root Words Opinions with evidence- Introduce
• C Read Captain Marvel analyze using chart

March 18

• A Review Captain Marvel begin group work with 4 articles
• B Finish group work of 1 article, Jigsaw
• C Jigsaw the articles; Prefix Test

Captain Marvel

Salt

Breakfast

Zoos

Video Gaming

Reality TV is Bad

Sea the Problem

School Uniforms

Fairness in Children

Sentence stems (too many)

March 25

• A Finish Jigsaw of articles; begin suffixes
• B Your opinions; types of evidence
• C Group writing of opinion article

April 1

• A Finish group writing
• B Choose your opinion; begin organizing
• C Find your evidence; Suffix Test

April 8

• A Leads
• B Evidence and Analysis
• C Link/ Conclusion

April 15

• A Work
• B Work
• C Work

April 22

• A Feature Article Due today
• B Share?
• C Celebrate? and Greek Root Words Test

Poetry! (about 5 weeks)

1. Poetry Exploration
2. Topic/ Theme/ Feeling
3. List poems
4. Haiku
5. Alliteration
6. Repetition/ Rhythm
7. Line Breaks
8. Imagery
9. Metaphor/ Simile
10. Onomatopoeia
11. Rhyme
12. Revise/ Edit/ Publish

Reading & Writing (about 2 weeks)

1. The Year in Review!

May 13

• A Poetry Begins- Explore
• B Topic/ Theme and Alliteration
• C List Poems and Latin Root Words Test

May 20

• A Haiku
• B Consonance and Assonance
• C Repetition and Rhythm- Limericks

May 27

• A Line Breaks and Blank Space- Blackout Poetry
• B Simile and Metaphor- Acrostics
• C Rhyme- Couplets

Love That Dog

Poems from Love That Dog

Poetry Period B

Poetry Period E

Poetry Period G

June 3

• A Rhyme Scheme- Sonnets
• B Imagery
• C Senses

June 10

• A Revising
• B Publishing
• C Poems Due: Checklist for Grading

June 17

• A Read and Write
• B Read and Write
• C Read and Write

June 24

• A Read and Write
• B Celebrate
• C ?