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Skills (Fundations, Spelling) |
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Literacy Learning (Domains/Modules) |
THE BIG QUESTION: "How do we decide what is true?" FICTION AND NONFICTION Literary and Informational Skills:
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Focus: Reading Closely and Writing To Learn Module Title: Myths: Not Just Long Ago Central Text: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS: WEEK 1: Inferring about the Main Character in The Lightning Thief (RL.6.1 and RL.6.3) WEEK 2: Read informational text article "The Hero's Journey" Analyze the stages of the hero's journey. WEEK 3: Evaluate Percy as an archetypal hero. WEEK 4: Read myths to understand their purpose and elements
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WEEK 1: Read key myths alluded to The Lightning Thief WEEK 2: Work in groups to read and identify the elements and interpret the theme of a single myth |
MODULE 2 FOCUS: Working With Evidence MODULE TITLE: Rules To Live By CENTRAL TEXT: Bud, Not Buddy WEEK 2: UNIT 1: Launching Bud, Not Buddy; Analyzing word choice and figurative language. WEEK 3: Analyze structure and word choice in Steve Jobs speech; Determine word meaning in Steve Jobs speech; Determine themes in Steve Jobs speech.
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WEEK 1: Continue to analyze structure and word choice, word meaning, and themes in Steve Jobs speech. WEEK 2: Analyze structure and language in "If by Rudyard Kipling; Determine theme in "If"; Compare and contrast experience of hearing and listening a poem. WEEK 3: Continue to analyze language, word choice, and theme in "If"; Compare and contrast how theme is communicated between poem and novel.
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Writing |
Orgaznize and set-up Reader's Writer's Notebook- Students will log and record responses to questions daily to independent reading. Fall Benchmarks Writing Autobiographical Narrative
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WEEK 1 AND 2: Written Analysis of How Percy’s Experiences Align with “The Hero’s Journey” ( W.6.9, and W.6.9b)Using graphic organizer andshort constructed response WEEK 3 AND 4: Analytical Mini-Essay Elements and Theme of the Myth of Prometheus (RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RI.6.1, W.6.2 and W.6.9) Scaffolded essay |
Week 2: Write a literary essay analyzing how understanding a classic myth deepens understanding of The Lightning Thief Week 3: Plan a hero's journey story based on the archetypal story line.
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WEEK 1: Module 1: Plan a Hero's Journey story based on the archetypal story line. Critique and revise hero's journey story. |
WEEK 4: Writing an argument related to the novel: How does Bud use his rules: to survive or to thrive? |
Vocabulary-ELA |
Lesson 1-Personal Narrative crescendo, abyss, retract, disillusioned, buffet, turbulence, conspire, imprudent, intrepid, clandestine Lesson 2-Fable realm, plod, disdainful, tawdry, glut, deride, copious, eclipse, appraise, ironic
MATH VOCABULARY: coordinate plane, equivalent ratio, graph, greatest common factor, least common multiple, ordered pair, origin, prime factorization, rate, ratio, ratio table, scaling, unit price, unit rate, x-axis, y-axis, x-coordinate y-coordinate
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Lesson 3-Nonfiction Article entice. acute, trigger, revive, impending, devastation, anecdote, erratic, inconclusive, portent Lesson 4-Novel Excerpt peripheral, submerge, maw, deluge, brunt, looming, wallow, ponderous, ecstatic, intact MATH VOCABULARY: origin, unit price, unit rate, ratio table, rate, ratio, coordinate plane, least common denominator, proportion, percent, percent proportion, rational number |
Lesson 5-Essay concoct, solemnly, conform, discreet, grace, dictate, snide, emblazon, aversion, unconventional Lesson 6 (Days 1-5)-Nonfiction Article and Speech impose, debilitate, slighted, incorporate, devise, appalling, adroit, meritorious, fortitude, impede MATH VOCABULARY: compatible numbers |
Lesson 6 (Days 6-10)-Nonfiction Article and Speech impose, debilitate, slighted, incorporate, devise, appalling, adroit, meritorious, fortitude, impede Lesson 7-Short Story-Science Fiction stout, disperse, consent, discard, inaugurate, reverie, irrevocable, interminable, noxios, ramification
MATH VOCABULARY: Communative Property, reciprocals, dimensional analysis, unit ratio
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Unit 8-Poem harness, waver, eternal, shun, musty, stench, deviate, prerogative, unfetter, flourish Unit 9-Myth rashly, incur, insolent, guise, incensed, obstinate, remorse, condemn, adept, arrogant MATH VOCABULARY: absolute value, positive integer, bar notation, quadrants, integer, rational number, negative integer, repeating decimal, opposites, terminating decimal
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Grammar |
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Science |
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Social Studies |
The Eastern Hemisphere: Present Day Eastern Hemisphere Geography
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The First Humans Through the Neolithic Revolution in the Eastern Hemisphere:
Early River Valley Civilizations in the Eastern Hemisphere (ca. 3500 B.C.E. - ca. 500 B.C.E.)
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Comparative World Religions (ca. 2000B.CE-ca. 630 C.E.): Major religions and belief systems developed in the Eastern Hemisphere. There were important similarities and differences between these belief systems.
Comparative Classical Civilizations in the Eastern Hemisphere (ca. 600 B.C.E.-ca. 500 C.E.)
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Religions (Continue)
Civilizations in the Eastern Hemisphere:
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Begin Mediterranean World: Feudal Western Europe, The Byzantine Empire, and The Islamic Caliphates (ca. 600 B.C.E.- ca. 1450) |
Mathematics |
Numerical Expressions & Factors (Big Ideas Book- Chapter 1)
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Chapter 1: Ratios and Rates (Chapter 1: Glencoe)
Begin Chapter 2: Fractions, Decimals, & Percents
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Chapter 2: Fractions, Decimals, and Fractions
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Chapter 3: Compare with Multi-Digit Numbers
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Chapter 4: Multiply and Divide Fractions
Begin Chapter 5: Integers and the Coordinate Plane
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Mentor Texts |