Grade 6

❔Essential Question: What drives people to explore?

🔍Focus Standards

6.R.2 Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

6.RI.3 Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

6.RI.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.

6.R.9 Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).

6.W.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

📖Novel Study Suggestions

🔗 ELA Supplemental Book List

• Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad | Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee | 1240L

• The House of Dies Drear | Virginia Hamilton | 670L

• Maniac McGee | Jerry Spinelli | 820L

• Walk Two Moon | Sharon Creech | 770L

📰Newsela Supplementary Resources

🔉Listenwise (Podcast) Supplementary Resources