ELA Framework Grade __6___

Module/
Essential Question
UBD/Model
Curriculum
Unit
Reading Complex
Texts


Reading Complex
Texts


Writing About Texts

Routine Writing
Writing About Texts



Research Project


Narrative Writing
1
st
Quarter
Getting Started
The Role of a
Reader in Middle
School
Why do we read?
How do we read?
How do we read to
learn?
Habits of mind


SUSPENSE
What is suspense?
TEQ
How does an
author create
suspense? ELA EQ


TSI
Transitional
Instruction
Strategies
Reading
Instruction
Unit created
by Melanie P.



UBD unit
Subject to
revision lead
by Melanie P.

Those Three Wishes
short story
*Gaston JGB short
story
*Through the Tunnel
JGB short story
*Old Man of the Sea
JGB short story


Most Dangerous
Game short story
(setting; pace)
The Raven poem
(mood, tone,
character vs. self)
The Tell-Tale Heart
short story
(foreshadowing)

The Monkeys Paw
short story (setting,
irony)
The Signalman
short story
(characterization,
foreshadowing)
Contents of a
Deadmans Pockets
(pace, conflict)

Sound of Thunder

*The Veldt JGB
short story






The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow extended text
(symbolism, setting,
imagery,
characterization)


The Man Who would be
Poe Read aloud





Gaston Why does
the father and
daughter shake
hands?

Through the Tunnel
Why does Jerry swim
through the tunnel?

Old Man of the Sea
According to the
story, which character
suffers more, the Old
Man or Mrs. Brennan?

The Veldt
Why do Peter and
Wendy choose the
nursery over their
parents?










Legend of Sleepy
Hollow
Explain what causes
Ichabod Cranes
downfall at the end of
the story.
Why is food important
in the story?





Suspense
How does the author
create a feeling of
suspense in a chosen
story? Show/explain
evidence.

Research project could
be covered by science
or social studies
curriculum with work in
ELA classes.








Suspense
Perfect Poe

Building a suspenseful
scene through imagery
and slow pace
2
nd
Quarter
Justice ELA
Component








The Parsley Garden
JGB short story



***Nothing but the
Truth*** Justice
Extended text

Numerous routine
writing experiences to
determine
comprehension and
analysis
The Parsley Garden
Why does Al refuse the
job after it is offered to
him?

Science project usually
in place during this
quarter Dust Bowl

What is Fair?

Who judges?










Poetry













MCAS PREP
JUSTICE connection

Mending Wall JGB
poem

Road Not Taken - JGB
Poem

Table JGB Poem

Im Nobody! Who are
You? JGB poem

Mushrooms JGB
poem

Gumbie Cat poem

Henry Davids House
nonfiction

Clay Soldiers
nonfiction

Dorothea Lange -
nonfiction

Rattlesnakes JGB
nonfiction

On the Day I Died
read aloud to go
along with narrative


Mending Wall Why
does the speaker help
rebuild the wall each
spring?

Road Not Taken-
Do you agree with the
speaker that taking a
road less traveled
made all the
difference?


What is Justice?
Writing





























Scenes from a Quiet
Cemetery
narrative/short story
3
rd
Quarter

Seedfolks
Extended Text

WORDS TO
FREEDOM
What is a trickster
character? ELA
EQ
Why are trickster
characters
important in
literature?
What messages
were told through





UBD unit
In My Mothers
Kitchen Poem stand
alone


READ magazines
Courage; Roots to
Freedom

Collection of short
trickster character
stories from around
the world Ananse,
Jabuti, Coyote, Raven

Brer Rabbit stories


***Seedfolks***
Extended Text












In My Mothers
Kitchen
How does the author
tell the audience that
the kitchen is
important to him?










Seedfolks
Why is the garden a
metaphor?




















Research Project
Plantations; Black
soldiers in Civil War;
Formation of Ku Klux
Klan; Life after
Emancipation




Seedfolks 14
th
chapter

MAKI Writing
competition Dorothea
Lange photo


Personal narrative to
with 1
st
portion of The
Glory Field



characters in
American slave
literature?







America Grows
and Struggles

What was life like
during the Harlem
Renaissance?

How were issues
of race addressed?

What
contributions
were made to
American Art and
Culture?


And the People Flew

The Emancipation
Proclamation &
Gettysburg Address

Lincolns Ghost Walks
at Midnight - poem

Quilting Freedom
Article MCAS

Colored Soldiers
poem Poem to
enrich Glory Field


How It Feels to be
Colored Me Essay
JGB

Bop Essay
1920s poem to go
with Glory Field

Dreams poem





***The Glory Field***
Extended Text



We Were There, Too:
Young People in
American History
1860s, 1920s, 1930s










Langston Hughes
nonfiction

You Wouldnt Want to
be a Woman Suffragist!
nonfiction

Elizabeth Cody Stanton
and Susan B. Anthony: A
Friendship that Changed
the World nonfiction

The United States vs.
Susan B. Anthony -
nonfiction






Compare and Contrast
the language and
voice of Lincolns
works



According to the
article, what have
people learned about
slave quilts?

















What was the Harlem
Renaissance? - writing


4
th
Quarter
America Grows
and Struggles
continued






Afternoon in Linen
JGB short story
-Stand alone

















Afternoon in Linen
Why does Harriet
refuse to play the piano
or recite her poetry?












Strong emphasis on free reading according to ideas in The Book Whisperer.
Students are to be challenged to read 40 books of their own choice over the school year.
SOCIAL STUDIES Ancient Civilizations
1
st
Term - Early Man Mesopotamia - Egypt
Epic of Gilgamesh Demonstrate understanding of traditional literature myths and epics MA.3.A
Code of Hammurabi
You Wouldnt Want to be an Assyrian Soldier (non-fiction) You Wouldnt Want to be a Sumerian Slave (non-fiction)
2
nd
Term JUSTICE UNIT And Justice For All Integrated SS/ELA UNIT Based on Junior Great Books Literature Unit
What is fair? TEQ
Who judges? TEQ
Mercy vs. Punishment TEQ
What is justice?-TEQ
Israel Greece
Tales from Mt. Olympus Junior Great Books Press - Greek Mythology as indicator of values in a society role of gods in daily life
You Wouldnt Want to be a Slave in Ancient Greece (non-fiction), You Wouldnt Want to be a Greek Athlete (non-fiction)
Extended Texts Tales of Ancient Egypt (mythology), Pyramid (non-fiction), You Wouldnt Want to be an Egyptian Pyramid Builder (non-fiction), You Wouldnt Want to be Cleopatra (non-fiction),
You Wouldnt Want to be King Tut (non-fiction)
3
rd
Term Greece Rome
4
th
Term Exploration of American culture/government based on influences of Greece and Rome
a. Republic vs. Democracy
b. Representative Democracy
c. Law Code
d. Constitution & Bill of Rights
e. Census