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Grade 6 English
Grade 6 English
The syllabus is an outline of what we will be learning. It also helps to give you and overview of the years and our schedule. The specific dates will depend our our students however grading and reporting will not be changed.
The curriculum map provides a detailed overview of the overarching standards and learning objectives during the academic year. It only includes the major learning objectives and standards for the course. However, we will be covering more including grammar, vocabulary, and learning skills that are embedded into each lesson.
Reading
Reading
This series builds on decades of teaching and research in literally tens of thousands of schools. It provides Grade 6 students with extraordinary power, not only as readers, but also as thinkers. When adolescents are explicitly taught the skills and strategies of proficient reading and are invited to live as richly literate people do, carrying books everywhere, bringing reading into every nook and corner of their lives, the results are dramatic.
Unit 1
Unit 1
Building a Nonfiction Reading Life: Focusing on reading stamina, fluency, and engagement while reading.
AUGUST - OCTOBER
Unit 2
Unit 2
Deep Study of Character: Consider the ways writers reveal complex character traits, investigate how setting can shape characters, and analyze how characters are vehicles for themes.
OCTOBER - DECEMBER
Unit 3
Unit 3
Tapping the Power of Nonfiction: Envisioning, predicting, and inferring; building theories and gathering evidence.
DECEMBER - MARCH
Unit 4
Unit 4
Social Issues Book Clubs: Reading for empathy and advocacy.
MARCH - JUNE
Writing
Writing
Sixth-grade writing begins with Unit 1 - Personal Narrative: Crafting Powerful Life Stories. This unit helps students draw on their lives, learning strategies to generate meaningful story ideas, manage pace, elaborate on important scenes, and deepen insights. This unit especially emphasizes the importance of setting goals, practicing strategically, and aiming for high productivity. In Unit 2, The Literary Essay: From Character to Compare/Contrast, sixth graders learn ways to generate ideas based on close readings of a text and learning strategies essayists use to gather, analyze, and explain evidence from the text to support their claims. In Unit 3, Research-Based Information Writing: Books, Websites, and Presentations, students begin by exploring the broad topic of teen activism in order to teach their readers about a topic, using increasingly sophisticated ways to draw on and structure information to explain a position or make a call to action.
Unit 1
Unit 1
Narrative Writing: Writing personal narratives. Learning the techniques, strategies and approaches to craft engaging, powerful narratives.
AUGUST - NOVEMBER
Unit 2
Unit 2
Argument/Opinion Writing: Learning how to produce persuasive, well-crafted arguments and produce effective persuasive speeches.
NOVEMBER - FEBRUARY
Unit 3
Unit 3
Writing information Essays: Learning the techniques, strategies and approaches to research and produce effective information texts.
MARCH - JUNE
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