Unit 1: Who am I?
Essential Questions:
1. Who am I?
2. How do I define who I am?
3. What is my story?
4. How do stories help us understand our world?
5. How do an author's choices impact mood and meaning?
6. How do authors develop experiences, events, and characters?
Essential Vocabulary:
Characterization
Conflict
Dialogue
Mood
Narrative
Pacing
Plot
Point of View
Setting
Theme
Common Assessments (All 6th grade Language Arts):
Genre Quiz
Independent Book Project
Quarter 1 Benchmark
Writing Focus:
Memoirs
Grammar Focus:
Parts of Speech Reveiw
Capitalization and Punctuation Review
Run-ons and Fragments
Texts:
"Books Fall Open" by David McCord
"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
"Stray" by Cynthia Rylant
"The Jacket" by Gary Soto
"I am Nobody" by Emily Dickinson
Selected Information Texts
Novels (individual choice)
Essential Questions:
1. Who am I?
2. How do I define who I am?
3. What is my story?
4. How do stories help us understand our world?
5. How do an author's choices impact mood and meaning?
6. How do authors develop experiences, events, and characters?
Essential Vocabulary:
Characterization
Conflict
Dialogue
Mood
Narrative
Pacing
Plot
Point of View
Setting
Theme
Common Assessments (All 6th grade Language Arts):
Genre Quiz
Independent Book Project
Quarter 1 Benchmark
Writing Focus:
Memoirs
Grammar Focus:
Parts of Speech Reveiw
Capitalization and Punctuation Review
Run-ons and Fragments
Texts:
"Books Fall Open" by David McCord
"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
"Stray" by Cynthia Rylant
"The Jacket" by Gary Soto
"I am Nobody" by Emily Dickinson
Selected Information Texts
Novels (individual choice)