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Unit Overview
Unit Overview
This unit will focus on teaching students close reading skills so they can find the details that illuminate great understandings about character. They will explore the depth of characters, exploring the motivations and desires of characters in tandem with learning the skills and moves writers make to write a literary essay that is effective. Students will develop a claim and a plan for their essay and will learn to gather and use effective evidence that supports their thinking
This unit will focus on teaching students close reading skills so they can find the details that illuminate great understandings about character. They will explore the depth of characters, exploring the motivations and desires of characters in tandem with learning the skills and moves writers make to write a literary essay that is effective. Students will develop a claim and a plan for their essay and will learn to gather and use effective evidence that supports their thinking
Unit Vocabulary
Unit Vocabulary
essay
argument
claim
conclusion
introduction
transition
evidence
reason
exemplifies
compare
contrast
summarizing
run-ons, sentence fragments
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
Why are reading, writing, and storytelling essential components of the human experience?
How does English Language Arts expand our perspective?
How does where we come from shape our identity?
Unit Standards
Unit Standards
All ELA standards can be found listed in the updated 2017 Massachusetts State ELA Grade 6 Frameworks:
Students will learn...
Writing
Text Types and Purposes
How to write arguments (e.g., essays, letters to the editor, advocacy speeches) to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
a. How to introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically in paragraphs and sections.
b. How to support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
c. How to use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
d. How to establish and maintain a style appropriate to audience and purpose (e.g., formal for academic writing).
e. How to provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
Production and Distribution of Writing
How to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. For example, students studying the genre of mystery stories write narratives in which they introduce a variety of characters with distinctive traits, create plausible yet mysterious events, use vivid descriptions to create mood, use foreshadowing clues that point to the solution of the mystery, and resolve the mystery with an explanation by one of the characters.
How to develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
a. How to demonstrate command of standard English conventions
b. How to demonstrate the ability to select accurate vocabulary appropriate for audience and purpose
How to use technology, including current web-based communication platforms, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
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