English Language Arts Curriculum
6th Grade
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Course Purpose: |
Students will examine self-awareness, and identity while citing sources through accountability, comparing, contrasting and presenting through various media sources and fiction/non-fiction text. |
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Students will evaluate differing claims in order to create a media presentation. |
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Students will analyze textual evidence in order to produce an argumentative claim on theme in a work of literature. |
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Students will use mentor texts and peer collaboration in order to create narrative writing. |
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Students will write an informative/explanatory essay expressing the main idea and defining key words and phrases found in literary nonfiction. |
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Students will use instructional level books or articles in order to determine how point of view is conveyed, presenting their own view to peers through an argumentative text using technology. |
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Students will produce a real or imagined narrative by analyzing the text structure of previously read texts. |
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Students will determine the main idea of nonfiction texts by analyzing text evidence and structure. |
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Students will compare and contrast the point of view in texts of different genres and their approaches to similar themes and topics. |