Read 180: Grade 6
Unit 1 – Making Your Voice Heard/Justice for All
Focus:
Writing to Inform
Literary Text
Read 180 Unit(s)
Literary Text
Stretch Text
Workshop 3:
**Mother to Son by
Identity Crisis
Langston Hughes
Stretch Text:
Born on a Blue Day T&L 4.1
Afterthoughts
Workshop 8:
Turning Points
T&L 6.1
Stretch Text: A First Chameloon
Grader at 70
Schlemeileon
Informational Text
Writing Tasks
T&L S16
Watch your driving
kids. The parents
are watching.
Daily routine writing
tasks to develop and
convey
understanding of
texts
4-6 short response
analyses that focus
on arguments
Standards:
RL.3 RL.6
W.2 W.7
Research Projects
Other
1 research project to
integrate knowledge
from
sources/culminating
writing analysis
essay (using multiple
texts from unit)
1-2 extended
narratives to convey
experiences, events,
and/or procedures
Unit 2 – Decisions That Matter
Focus:
Argument Writing
Informational Text
Read 180 Unit(s)
Literary Text
Stretch Text
Workshop 5:
T&L 6.5
Under Pressure
Untitled image By
Stretch Text:
Jean Henry Moser
The Bullying
(p.121-124)
Conundrum
Workshop 1: The
New Americans
Informational Text
** “Speaking
Bonobo” text
Live the Moment
PAIR
Why the Little
Things Matter Most
by David Lee
Gale
Writing Tasks
Daily routine writing
tasks to develop and
convey
understanding of
texts
4-6 short response
analyses to inform
and explain
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 (using multiple
texts from unit)
Other
Stretch Text: An
Interview with Junot
Diaz
T&L S3
If dress code doesn’t
suit teens, school
district will
T&L S6
Video-game
addiction a real
problem
Unit 3 – Mythology
Focus:
Writing to Inform
Informational Text
Read 180 Unit(s)
Literary Text
Stretch Text
Workshop 2: When L&T 9.2
Disaster Strikes
Persephone and
Demeter
Stretch Text: The
Fake Scarecrow: A
Dinorella
Chinese Fable by
Holt 1st Addition
Thomas Cleveland
Pg.612
Lane
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Stretch Text: Bye to
Aten by Angela
Murock Hussein
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Ashpet
Holt 1st Addition
Pg.621
Informational Text
T&L S16
Watch Your Driving
Kids-The Parents Are
Watching
T&L Text Set
Country X
Writing Tasks
Daily routine writing
tasks to develop and
convey
understanding of
texts
4-6 short response
analyses to inform
and explain
Standards:
RI.6 RL/RI.7 RL/RI.9
W.2 W.6 W.8
Research Projects
1 research project to
integrate knowledge
from
sources/culminating
writing analysis
essay (using multiple
texts from unit)
Other
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Unit 4 – Mystery and Horror
Focus:
Argument/Opinion Writing
Literary Text
Read 180 Unit(s)
Literary Text
Informational Text
Stretch Text
Workshop 6: Poe:
T&L 3.4
National
The Master of
Untitled
Geographic
Horror
Mystery of the 1918
Stretch Text: Letters T&L 6.2
Flu
Wanderer in the
R180 Stretch Text:
Storm image
T&L S10
The Pit and the
Well Off Kids Not
Pendulum at the
T&L 7.1
the Best Off
Palace
The Horror
T&L S12
Vampire bat debate:
to kill or not to kill
*Core Connections Lessons
*T&L= Text and Lessons resource books
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
1 research project to
integrate knowledge
from
sources/culminating
writing analysis
essay (using multiple
texts from unit)