ELA6W2 Students will demonstrate their knowledge of plot, setting, audience, character, conflict, dialogue, and closure in composing a superhero comic book. Students will create a superhero complete with a creative costume and symbol: the superhero will possess strengths and weaknesses.
ELA6W2 Using the writing process, the student will produce a writing project that responds to a short story. The student must engage the reader, demonstrate understanding of the literary work, advance and support a judgment, and provide a sense of closure. A completed checklist will be required to ensure students have an organized paper with sensory adjectives and peer editing proofreading.
ELA6R1 a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h--Students will demonstrate comprehension and understanding of literary elements by creating a test for a novel read and studied in class. The test will consist of student composed questions of five types and will require the student to answer all questions. An essential part of the grade will be the student's answer to his or her own essay question. There will also be an assigned checklist to insure that students complete the test and answers correctly.
ELA6W2: Students will state a clear position in a persuasive writing piece using the writing process. Students will develop an argument with organized and relevant evidence and provide a sense of closure to the writing.
Students have read a biography from our media center and will write in class about why the person they studied should be a person of the year for a specific year. This essay will be written in class and students will complete a checklist as well as peer editing to perfect this piece. This persuasive writing piece will be submitted in ink or typed and due Friday, January 18.
ELA6R1 and ELA6W2.c Students will choose a book from our media center on December 6 that is a biography or an autobiography of an admirable person. Over the next several weeks including the holiday break, students will read the book and find other information about their chosen subject. In January students will return to school ready to write a persuasive paper about why this person should be chosen as essential for the times.
ELA6R1 and ELA6RC1 Beginning the week of December 3, students will be demonstrating complete comprehension of a novel. All students will identify and analyze sensory details, figurative language, dialogue, description, theme, setting, plot, characterization, conflict, point of view, and tone. Using prereading techniques, The Incredible Journey will be read, summarized, and discussed during class time, and writing assignments will be given.
ELA6LSV2 Beginning the week of November 26, students will be learning all aspects of research from classroom instruction and instruction from Mr. Wofford in the media center. We will be covering notetaking, paraphrasing, and summarizing skills. We will discuss how to not plagiarize and how to construct a works cited page.
ELA6RC1 When visiting the media center on October 25, students chose a fiction novel. After reading the novel, they will be completing a compare/contrast visual organizer during the week of November 12. Students will also be preparing a formal paper where they pretend one of the characters from their novel is visiting them for a dinner at the student's home. Students will be writing this paper using sensory details and vivid verbs to describe what this dinner would be like. This paper will be due on November 14, and it should be in ink or typed.
ELA6R1.i and j standards are about mythology from different cultures. Students will be studying a whole range of myths, folktales and fairy tales; they will even pick from a large number of books which stories they want to study further. Students will need to identify characters, plot, and theme from their chosen tales. We will be discussing storytellers and methods of storytelling. Students in AC classes will be presenting oral stories using changes in voice and body movement on November 12. The standards for this activity are ELA6LS2.a, ELA6SV2.b, and ELA6LSV2.c.
ELA6R1 Students have begun reading some narratives in our literature book and working with plots, characters and settings.
ELA6W2 Students will use these examples to begin writing an autobiographical narrative. With all steps in the writing process, students will be using the general topic of "Celebrations" to prewrite and compose a narrative piece with an emphasis on creating plot, characterization, and setting in their writing. A packet of information for the students will include a proofreading checklist, a narrative writing assessment, a plot diagram, a sensory details chart, transition words, and a rubric. The writing will be mostly completed in class with a peer editing session. The final piece will be finished at home either in ink or typed with proofreading a must.
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