Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts — Grade 6

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Goal 1

The learner will use language to express individual perspectives drawn from personal or related experience.

Objective 1.01

Narrate an expressive account (e.g., fictional or autobiographical) which:

uses a coherent organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
tells a story or establishes the significance of an event or events.
uses remembered feelings and specific details.
uses a range of appropriate strategies (e.g., dialogue, suspense, movement, gestures, expressions).

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Creating character: Citizenship: In this lesson from the Shoah Foundation Institute, students explore the concept of citizenship while listening to the perspectives of Holocaust survivors. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts, Guidance, and Social Studies); Provided by: USC Shoah Foundation Institute

Choose your own adventure: A Hypertext writing experience: In this lesson students create original “Choose Your Own Adventure” stories and using web-authoring software, develop their own Internet sites with the parts of the story hyperlinked to each other. After a review of setting, character development,... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts); Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Childhood Remembrances: Life and Art Intersect in Nikki Giovanni's "Nikki-Rosa": Adapted from Carol Jago's Nikki Giovanni in the Classroom, this ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to explore what Jago calls the place "where life and art intersect." Students complete a close reading of Giovanni's poem "Nikki-Rosa" and then... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Beyond the story: A Dickens of a party: In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students are invited to attend a 19th Century party as a character from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. To play their roles, students must understand the values and customs that Dickens' characters represented... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: ReadWriteThink

Alphabiography project: Totally you: In this lesson, students are engaged in a narrative writing project after reading James Howe's Totally Joe, a young adult novel about a boy named Joe who deals with many adolescent issues—friendships, school, and coming... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: ReadWriteThink

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