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6th Grade ELA Teacher Guide
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This resource accompanies our Rethink 6th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Curriculum
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Kelly Rawlston
Letoria Lewis
Date Added:
10/12/2022
Amelia Earhart: First Lady of Flight
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In 1937, pilot Amelia Earhart planned to be the first to succeed in a dangerous flight. However, her journey was plagued with many obstacles, and controversy continues to surround the theories that attempt to explain her mysterious disappearance. In this CCSS lesson students will explore her life through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments. Included are sample writing tasks.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Achieve the Core
Author:
Achieve to the Core
Date Added:
02/26/2019
American Icons: Walt Whitman | Journalist and Poet
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In this video resource from American Icons, students will learn how Walt Whitman was a progressive voice and innovative writer during a critical period of change in the United States. In the midst of the Civil War, his poetic and journalistic works, spanning topics from the personal to the political, marked the start of a new era for American literature. Through an examination of primary sources and watching a short video, students will learn about Whitman’s love for and criticism of the United States.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Demonstration
Provider:
PBS
Date Added:
05/17/2017
American Icons: Walt Whitman | Journalist and Poet: Lesson Plan
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In this lesson plan from American Icons, students will learn about Walt Whitman’s brave actions and highly regarded writings. After viewing a video about his life, students will examine the frontispiece and title page of an early edition of Leaves and Grass and will analyze one of its most famous poems. The lesson concludes with students writing an updated version of “I Hear America Singing” reflecting what they have learned about Whitman’s beliefs about our country.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
PBS
Date Added:
05/17/2017
Analyzing the School Holiday Calendar
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In this middle school lesson from Teaching Tolerance, students will explore the calendar to determine why different religions celebrate different holidays and establish what factors school and government leaders should consider when deciding whether public schools should be closed for religious holidays. Students will work in groups to create solutions for school calendars that respect all students and beliefs.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Southern Poverty Law Center
Date Added:
06/15/2017
Becky and the Wheels and Brake Boys: Anthology
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The short story, titled “Becky and the Wheel-and-Brake Boys,” is about how Becky desperately wants to own a bike despite the resistance she is met with from her mother and Granny-Liz. In this CCSS lesson students will explore this short story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Achieve the Core
Author:
Achieve to the Core
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
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The media has a huge effect on popular culture. Television programs underscore stereotypes of various groups of people.This lesson provides a platform in which students can critically analyze popular television programs. By looking at the media critically, students develop an awareness of the messages that are portrayed through the media.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Author:
Laurie A. Henry Ph. D
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Discover the Solar Eclipse of 1900 in Historic Wadesboro, NC: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places
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In this lesson, students explore the total solar eclipse of 1900 and how Wadesboro, NC was chosen as a place of study for the eclipse. Through several reading and hands-on activities, students will learn more about eclipses, what causes them, and their paths.

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English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
U.S. Department of the Interior
Author:
National Park Service
Date Added:
04/23/2019
Grade 6 ELA Module 3A, Unit 2, Lesson 1 - Understanding Perspectives - Comparing Varying Points of View
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This lesson introduces students to the performance task, which they will complete at the end of Unit 3. The reason this is being introduced so soon is to serve as a bridge between Unit 1 and Unit 2.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
EngageNY
Author:
Expeditionary Learning
Date Added:
04/04/2014
Grade 6 ELA Module 3A, Unit 3, Lesson 4 - Understanding Perspectives - How 1906 Earthquake and Fire Affected San Francisco
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This lesson is the Mid-Unit 3 Assessment Part 1: Researching the Destruction Caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fires

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
EngageNY
Author:
Expeditionary Learning
Date Added:
04/04/2014
Grade 6 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 11 - Insecticides: Costs vs. Benefits - Frightful's Mountain and DDT
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This lesson builds on Lesson 10. Students will interpret charts, graphs, tables, and diagrams and add to their DDT Cascading Consequences charts.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
EngageNY
Author:
Expeditionary Learning
Date Added:
04/04/2014
Grade 6 ELA Module 4, Unit 1, Lesson 12 - Insecticides: Costs vs. Benefits - Frightful's Mountain and DDT
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This lesson continues the series of lessons scaffolding students toward using arguments, claims, and evidence found in different resources to develop Cascading Consequences charts and sharing their knowledge in a Fishbowl discussion.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
EngageNY
Author:
Expeditionary Learning
Date Added:
04/04/2014