English Language Arts Curriculum

6th Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will examine the topics of self-awareness and identity while citing sources through comparing, contrasting, and presenting through various media sources, fiction, and non-fiction texts. 

Outcomes and Components:

LA.6.3

Students will use mentor texts and peer collaboration in order to create narrative writing.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

 

LA.6.3.1

Read and evaluate instructional books to compare and contrast the experience of what they read to  what they can listen to or watch.

6.RL.7 

6.RL.10

 

LA.6.3.2

Compare and contrast the point of view in texts of different genres and their approaches to similar themes and topics. 

6.RL.6 

6.W.9a

 

LA.6.3.3

Analyze a text structure in order to produce a narrative including  contexts, settings, a narrator, and characters that unfold logically. 

6.W.3a

6.RL.5

 

LA.6.3.4

Collaborate with peers and adults to support and strengthen writing.

6.W.5

 

LA.6.3.5

Describe how a story’s plot unfolds as well as how a character responds.

6.RL.3

 

LA.6.3.6

Determine the relationship between meaning of words and phrases, including figurative language and connotative meanings; analyze meaning and tone at grade level.

6.RL.4

6.L.4d

6.L.5a

6.L.5b

6.L.5c

6.L.6

 

LA.6.3.7

Write routinely over various time frames for a range of specific tasks, purposes, and audiences while spelling correctly

6.W.10

6.L.2b

Academic Vocabulary: thoughtful or thematic statement, sensory details

Content Vocabulary: