COMMUNICATION Articulate and understand thoughts and ideas effectively by oral, written, and nonverbal means. Convey thoughts and ideas for a variety of purposes.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP Embrace personal, civic, local, and global responsibilities for making the world a better place. Understand that addressing societal challenges often requires comprehending complex issues, varying perspectives, and compromise.
COLLABORATION Understand that broader and, ultimately, personal interests are often better served by addressing challenges as a team. In pursuit of solutions, leverage the strengths and perspectives of others.
How do secrets affect the trust between individuals in personal relationships?
What are the psychological consequences of keeping secrets for the individual who holds them?
In literature, how are secrets used to develop plot or character, and what lessons can we learn from these portrayals?
Students will analyze plot and character development and what causes those changes to occur.
Students will be able to tell the difference between a main/central idea and detail.
Students will identify unknown words in a text.
Students will reread, use word parts, and clues in surrounding sentences to make sensible guesses at the definitions of unknown words.
Students will use appropriate and fitting pieces of evidence to support a claim.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3: Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Context clues, main idea, central idea, details, claim, cite
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