Daybook: Grade 6
Unit 1 – Making Your Voice Heard/Justice for All
Focus:
Writing to Inform
Literary Text
Literary Text
** “Mother to Son”
by Langston Hughes
Daybook
A: Paired Text
Excerpts from:
“Before We Were
Free” by Julia Alvarez T&L 4.1
(pp. 10-12, 13-15, 18- Afterthoughts
19, 20, 22-24)
T&L 6.1
Chameloon
B: Paired Text
Short Story: “All
Schlemeileon
Summer in a Day” by
Ray Bradbury (pp. 26- T&L 8.2
32)
Little Brother
Excerpts from:
“Danny the Champion
of the World” by
Roald Dahl (pp. 4445, 47-48)
Excerpt from:
“Abuela Invents the
Zero” by Judith Ortiz
Cofer (pp. 51-54)
Unit 6 – excerpts from
Lois Lowry texts (“A
Summer to Die”, “The
Silent Boy”, “The
Informational Text
T&L S16
Watch your driving
kids. The parents
are watching.
A: Don’t Speak Out
B: President: Just Say
No to Bullying
Writing Tasks
Daily routine writing
tasks to develop and
convey understanding
of texts
4-6 short response
analyses that focus on
arguments
1-2 extended
narratives to convey
experiences, events,
and/or procedures
Standards:
RL.3 RL.6
W.2 W.7
Research Projects
1 research project to
integrate knowledge
from
sources/culminating
writing analysis essay
(using multiple texts
from unit)
Other
www.newsela.com
(set up class account)
More Julia Alvarez,
Ray Bradbury, &
Roald Dahl
*Paired text have
lesson support- see
additional resources
Giver”, & “Gathering
Blue”)**
Excerpts from
“Project Mulberry” by
Linda Sue Park (pp.
156-159, 160-161)
Excerpt from: “All I
Really Need to Know
I Learned in
Kindergarten” by
Robert Fulghum (p.
164)
Unit 2 – Decisions That Matter
Focus:
Argument Writing
Informational Text
Daybook
Literary Text
Unit 6 – Titanic (pp.
L&T 6.5
58-70)
Untitled image
Unit 8 –
Indifference/Race (pp.
118-130)
Informational Text
** “Speaking
Bonobo” text
Live the Moment
PAIR
Why the Little
Things Matter Most
by David Lee
Gale
T&L S3
If dress code doesn’t
suit teens, school
district will
Writing Tasks
Daily routine writing
tasks to develop and
convey understanding
of texts
Standards:
RI.3 RI.5 RI.8
W.1 W.7
Research Projects
1 research project to
integrate knowledge
from
sources/culminating
writing analysis essay
4-6 short response
(using multiple texts
analyses to inform and from unit)
explain
Other
www.newsela.com
Find additional
excerpts from “The
Perils of
Indifference”,
“Farewell to
Manzanar”, & “The
Gold Cadillac”
More Wiesel, Taylor,
& Hughes
T&L S4
Empathy for one’s
fellow chimp
T&L S6
Video-game
addiction a real
problem
T&L S23
Koreans Worlds
First Clone Dogs
PAIR
Scientist
Successfully Clone
Cats
Unit 3 – Mythology
Focus:
Writing to Inform
Informational Text
Daybook
Literary Text
“Eagle Boy” by
L&T 9.2
Joseph Bruchac (pp.
Persephone and
102-105)
Demeter
“Salmon Boy” by
Joseph Bruchac (pp.
108-109)
Dinorella
Holt 1st Addition
Pg.612
Informational Text
T&L S16
Watch Your Driving
Kids-The Parents Are
Watching
T&L Text Set
Country X
Standards:
RI.6 RL/RI.7 RL/RI.9
W.2 W.6 W.8
Writing Tasks
Research Projects
Other
www.newsela.com
Daily routine writing
1 research project to
tasks to develop and
integrate knowledge
Aesop’s Fables
convey understanding from
of texts
sources/culminating
writing analysis essay
4-6 short response
(using multiple texts
analyses to inform and from unit)
explain
Ashpet
Holt 1st Addition
Pg.621
Unit 4 – Mystery and Horror
Focus:
Argument/Opinion Writing
Literary Text
Daybook
Literary Text
Informational Text
Unit 9 – Egyptian
T&L 3.4
National
Pyramids (pp. 132Untitled
Geographic:
144)
Mystery of the 1918
T&L 6.2
Flu
Excerpts from: “The
Wanderer in the
Egypt Game” by
Storm image
Zilpha Keatley Snyder T&L 7.1
Achieve3000: Ancient
(pp. 148-154)
The Horror
Middle East: King Tut
Questions Answered
Poem: “Fire and Ice”
by Robert Frost (p.
T&L S10
182)
Well Off Kids Not
the Best Off
Excerpt from: “The
Greatest: Muhammad
Ali” by Walter Dean
Myers (p. 171)
Writing Tasks
Daily routine writing
tasks to develop and
convey understanding
of texts
4-6 short response
analyses that focus on
arguments and
opinions
Standards:
RL.3 RL.5 RI/RL.7 RI/RL.9
W.1 W.3 W.6 W.8
Research Projects
Other
www.newsela.com
1 research project to
integrate knowledge
Explore Ancient
from
Egypt
sources/culminating
writing analysis essay http://www.pbs.org/w
(using multiple texts
gbh/nova/ancient/expl
from unit)
ore-ancientegypt.html
T&L S12
Vampire bat debate:
to kill or not to kill
*Core Connections Lessons
*T&L= Text and Lessons resource books; additional resources available in Focus under “Resources”
More on Muhammad
Ali; more Walter
Dean Myers