Lesson Plans
Common Core Standards for grade six English/Language Arts will be taught during this course. Please refer to the Georgia Standards website for the detailed listing of our standards. (http://www.georgiastandards.org/Common-Core)
Unit 1: Change
Unit Overview: Sixth grade is an extremely important year in an adolescent’s life. It is a time when many students are developing the skills sets necessary to persevere through difficult circumstances and experiences. As a sixth grader, many students are experiencing social hardships and demanding academic expectations for the first time in middle school. Students must persevere through these adverse experiences while developing a sense of self-worth.
This unit introduces the theme of “perseverance” and reveals how individuals develop the mentality to guide themselves through adversity. Students will compose an informative/explanatory essay that addresses the essential question of how an individual perseveres through hardship.
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Unit 2: Changes in my World
This unit focuses on “determined and courageous people in both informational texts and literature” and how setting plays a role in their development. Students will read, study, and discuss fictional characters compared to real characters. The reading selections are geared toward across the curriculum opportunities drawing from history and current events relating to courage and survival to personal narratives.
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Unit 3: Making Sense of Your World
Although students read from different genres, writing and class discussions focus on how literature can help us make sense of our world. In particular, students will examine “point of view”, analyzing how authors develop all the reading, writing, speaking, and listening strategies and skills they have learned up to this point in the year. Students will also become familiar with the genre of drama with all of the associated vocabulary terms and concepts.
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Unit 4: Poetry and Writing
Students will engage with Shakespeare's Julius Caesar & Harlem Renaissance Poetry and writing concepts blended together to create an awareness of basic poetry terms paired with writing about literature.
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