6th Grade Language Arts Nine (9) Week Plan
Quarter 1
Week
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Reading Objectives
Launch Reading Workshop
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3/4
Story Elements (Character,
Setting, Plot, theme
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5/6
“Just Right
Books”(library?)
Reading Inventory
Genre Review
Book Pass
I know/I Wonder with
Picture Book “Journey”
(6.5b)
Fiction vs. Nonfiction
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Characterization (6.5g)
*Character Traits
*Conflict (Internal /
external)
Setting (6.5a) (What
kind of place is
this…time period, place
on planet,
circumstance?)
Narrative Structure
(Plot) (6.5a)
*Plot Diagram/Vocab.
-Exposition
-Initiating Event
-Rising Action
-Climax
Mini-lessons/Activity
 Genre Review (through book
pass)
 Introduce
I know, I wonder
Reading Mini-Lessons:
**Mentor Text – A
Monster Calls**
-Character: physical,
personality, motivation
and relationships
-Conflict
Character vs. Self
Character vs. Character
Character vs. Society
Character vs. Nature
Using picture book
text-each table group
will identify the
Memoir Narrative
Structure Parts (PLOT)
Writing Objectives
Launch Writing
Workshop
-Review the writing
process & the purpose
of writing (6.7a)
-Audience (6.7a)
- Prewriting : Create
Emotional Time
Line/Heart Map (6.7b)
-Narrative Text
Structure (6.7c)
- Paragraph Structure
(6.7d, 6.7e, 6.7f)
-Begin Drafting Memoir
(Write with purpose
6.7g)
Mini-lessons/Activity
 Review the
writing process
 Review
importance of
prewriting &
Audience
Reading/Writing
Assessments
1)Prewriting:
Formative:
Summative: The
completed Emotional
time line
2) Character/Setting
Formative: explain the
setting and character
traits from IR book.
Summative: Using a
chapter from Malala
Writing Mini-Lessons
for Slice of Life:
-LINK *STRUCTURE*
-paragraph structure
-Dialogue (6.8f)
-Good Leads (6.7e)
-Good Titles
-Show don’t tell (6.8g)
Picture books to intro.
Slice of Life:
-Bedhead
-Wilfred Gordon
-Knucklehead
-Marshfield Dreams
(Ralph Fletcher)
3) Purpose of writing
Formative:
Summative: Why is your
memory important?
4) Paragraph Structure
Formative:
Summative: Lead and
Organization
5) Narrative Structure
(Story Elements)
READING/WRITING
grade
Formative: Using a
picture book
Summative: A passage
that will have them
-Falling Action
-Resolution
-Malala (1-2 chapters)
-Soup
*How Character/plot
development supports
the main conflict (6.5g)
*Describe cause and
effect relationships
that impact the plot
(6.5 d)
* Drawing conclusions
& Making inferences
(6.5f)
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Theme (6.5a)
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Figurative Language (6.4d)
*Simile
*Metaphor
*Personification
*Onomatopoeia
*Hyperbole
*Alliteration
Imagery & Word Choice (6.5c)
identify plot parts and
rewrite/create a climax
6) Making
inferences/Drawing
Conclusions
Formative:
Summative: Using
picture book for
I Know/I Wonder
-Use of descriptive
language during revision
(6.7h, 6.7i)
-Publish the Memoir
(6.7j)
7) Figurative Language:
Formative: Identify the
types and what they
mean
Summative: Revise your
Slice of Life and add two
types of fig. lang.