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Grade 6
Contents
Tothestudent................................... .................................................ix California Common Core and English Language Development standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Unit 1
Activities
1.1 Previewing the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
introducing the strategy: QHT
1.2 What Makes a Narrative? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 introducing the strategy: Close Reading and marking the Text
Short Story: “The Circuit,” by Francisco Jiménez
1.3 Planning for Independent Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.4 PersonalNarrative:Incident-Response-Reflection .............................................. 14
Personal Narrative: “My Superpowers,” by Dan Greenburg
1.5 He Said, She Said: Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Novel: Excerpt from Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
1.6 AnalyzingNarratives ....................................................................... 28
Personal Narrative: “The Jacket,” by Gary Soto
1.7 Creating a Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.8 Creating a Narrative: Prewriting and Drafting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
1.9 Creating a Narrative: Revising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 introducing the strategy: Adding
Embedded Assessment 1: writing a Personal narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
1.10 Previewing Embedded Assessment 2 and Preparing to Write a Short Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
1.11 What’s in a Short Story?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Short Story: “Thank You, M’am,” by Langston Hughes
1.12 PlotElements.............................................................................. 55
1.13 In the Beginning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 58
Myth: “Daedalus and Icarus,” from Greek Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean
1.14 A Day of Change: Developing the Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 64
Short Story: “Eleven,” from Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros
1.15 In the End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 70
Short Story: “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” by Walter Dean Myers
1.16 Analyzing a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 80
Short Story: “The Fun They Had,” by Isaac Asimov
1.17 Sparking Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 85
*Picture Books: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick or other picture books by Chris Van Allsburg
Embedded Assessment 2: writing a short story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 87
stories of Change
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