Course: 6th Grade Fiction

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4 lessons Brain Breakfasts
- Lessons
- September 1-4
- September 8-11
- September 14-18
- September 21-25
0 lessons TRIMESTER EXAMS
8 lessons Unit 1- Introduction to Fiction/Al Capone
- Lessons
- Day 1: Intro to 6th English
  SWBAT...1) demonstrate completion of summer reading 2) read and discuss classroom procedures and syllabus
- Day 2: Trilingualism
  SWBAT...1) Define Trilingualism, 2) Read about Trilingualism and 3) Practice "Turn and Talk" to discuss Trilingualism
- Day 3: Discussion Guidelines
  SWBAT: 1) Prepare for a "college discussion" by reviewing sentence starters and 2)Practice using discussion guidelines by discussing a series of controversial topics
- Day 4: Discussion, Al Capone Does My Shirts
  SWBAT...Participate in a "college discussion" of questions from ACDMS using a Discussion Cube
- Day 5: Double Entry Journal
  Review Questioning on a fiction text and learn how to journal questions in a double entry journal.
- Day 6: Activating Prior Knowledge, Apply to Fiction Text
  1) Review Activating Prior Knowledge and apply it to a fiction text
- Day 7: Journaling Visualizations
  Organize binders (pass back papers) and review Visualizing and how to journal visualizations.
- Day 8: Fix-It Strategies
  Binder Quiz and review Fix-It strategies.
20 lessons Unit 2- Short Story
- Lessons
- Day 9: Intro to Short Stories
  1)Define vocab words using a logograph and 2) Discuss what it means to be American in preparation for our short story unit.
- Day 10: Plot, "The All American Slurp"
  1)Define Plot
  2)Actively read “The All American Slurp” while tracking plot
  3)Define and practice “Summarizing”
- Day 11: Plot Pyramid, "The All American Slurp"
  1) Unit 1 Quiz
  2) Actively read "The All American Slurp" with the lens of making connections to Al Capone Does My Shirts
  3) Place events of "The All American Slurp" on a Plot Pyramid
- Day 12: 9/17/09
- Day 13: 9/18/09
- Day 14: Setting, 'Raymond's Run'
- Day 15: Identify scenes of discomfort, 'The Wrong Lunch Line'
- Day 16: Compare and Contrast, 'The Wrong Lunch Line'
- Day 18: 9/25/09
- Day 19: Theme, 'Thank You, M'am'
- Day 20: Setting, 'The Sixth Grade'
- Day 21: Setting, 'The Sixth Grade'
- Day 22: Developing Character, 'The Sixth Grade'
- Day 23: Tracking Plot
- Day 24: Wrap up 'The Sixth Grade'
- Day 25: 10/6/09
  SWBAT...
  1)Define the W of EmPOWER
  2)Identify the parts of the EmPOWER template
  3)Create Fact/Opinion statements using completed brain frames
- Day 26: Short Story Review
- Day 27: Fact/Opinion Sentences and So What's
- Day 28: emPOW Paragraph and Short Story Review
- Short Story Unit Test
4 lessons Unit 3- The Circuit
- Lessons
- Day 30: The Circuit, Francisco Jimenez
  SWBAT... 1) Read about Francisco Jimenez and infer what The Circuit might be about. 2) Begin reading "Under the Wire"
- Day 31: Under the Wire, Soledad
  SWBAT...1) Learn how to write a "Tasty Bit" 2) Apply Tasty Bits to "Soledad" 3) Ask questions and make inferences about "Under the Wire"
- Day 32: Inside Out
  SWBAT... 1) Make inferences about life as a migrant worker by looking at pictures and 2) Begin actively reading "Inside Out"
- Day 33: Choosing a Reading Partner
  SWBAT...Choose reading partners
17 lessons Unit 4- The Giver
- Lessons
- Day 1: 11/ 23/09
  SWBAT...
  1) Define "Utopia"
  2) Discuss why utopias are such a popular topic in writing and in politics
  3) View an example of a Utopian society
- Day 2: 11/30/09
  SWBAT...
  1) Receive unit materials
  2) Preview the Text
  3) Begin reading Chapter 1
- Day 3: 12/1/09
  SWBAT...
  1) Define week 1 vocab words
  2) Practice reading comp. passages for ANET test
  3) Begin reading Chapter 2
- Day 4: 12/2/09
  SWBAT...
  1) Review Week 1 Vocabulary
  2) Answer Study Guide questions
  3) Begin reading Chapter. 3
- Day 5: 12/3/09
  SWBAT...
  1) Preview Study Questions Ch. 3-5
  2) Review Vocabulary
  3) Begin reading Ch. 4
- Day 6: 12/4/09
  SWBAT...
  1) Rock a vocab quiz
  2) Rock a reading quiz
  3) Begin reading Chapter 5
- Day 7: 12/7/09
  SWBAT...
  Define Ch. 6-10 Vocab
  Answer study guide questions ch. 3-5
  Preview and read ch. 6
- Day 8: 12/8/09
  SWBAT...
  1)Answer Chapter 6 study guide questions
  2)Discuss Setting and Mood of The Giver
  3) Actively read Ch. 7
- Day 9: 12/9/09
  SWBAT...
  1) Review Week 2 Vocabulary
  2) Write about the Decemeber Ceremonies
  3) Preview and Actively read Chapter 8
- Week 2 : 12/7- 12/11
- Day 10: 12/11/09
- Week 3: 12/14- 12/18
- Week 4: 12/21-12/23
- Week 5: 1/4-1/8
- Week 6: 1/11-1/15
- Week 7: 1/19- 1/22
- Week 8: 1/25-1/27
1 lessons Unit 5- Science Fiction/Westing Game?
- Lessons
- Week 1: 1/28-1/29
0 lessons Unit 6- Poetry
1 lessons Unit 7- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lessons
- Week 1