Melissa Sweeney-6th grade ELA Lesson Plans
7:55: Students arrive, sharpen pencils, turn in HW, lunch money, attendance, etc.
Quarter 2, Week 11 October 24-October 28
Bell Ringer
Journal Writing / Monday: You don’t know me…
Tuesday: This is the real story…
Wednesday: It all started when…
Thursday: If you would only listen…
Friday: Courage is when…
EQ /
  • In what ways do people express themselves and their ideas?
  • How do successful writers state and support a claim in an argumentative essay using details from several sources?
  • How are acts of courage revealed in literature and informational text?

Standards
I can… /
  • Interpret themes and identify internal and external conflict in the context of a short story
  • Interpret figures of speech in context
  • Improve expression when reading
  • Cite evidence to support analysis
  • Determine a theme or central idea
  • Compare/Contrast texts

Common Planning / Monday10/24 / Tuesday10/25 / Wednesday10/26 / Thursday10/27 / Friday10/28
ELA BLOCK
90 min.
Period 1/2
8:00 -9:49
Wed. 8:00-9:28
Fri. 8:00-9:48
Lunch A
Lunch Duty
Friday
11:32-12:02
Period 5/6
12:06-1:45
Wed. 10:59-11:32 (lunch 11:32-12:06)12:06-12:50
Fri. 12:05-1:48
Period 7/8
1:49-3:30
Wed. 12:54-2:30
Fri. 1:51-3:3:30 / Collection 4: Making Your Voice Heard
Text: My Wonder Horse
Reading Skill: Determine Theme & Interpret figures of speech in Context
Vocabulary Strategy: Figures of speech in context (appropriate, authority, consequence, justify, legal, lethargy, vigil, mandate, recoil, indignity, indomitable)
1st Read-Teacher Read Aloud
Stations:
1-2nd Read Use collections online to annotate My Wonder Horse
2-Analyze the text page 220 with a partner
3-Teacher- Introduce Lit Circle jobs and Novel “The House on Mango Street” / Collection 4: Making Your Voice Heard
Whole Group 20 minutes:
  • Discuss conflict, internal conflict, & external conflict using PowerPoint and ISN
  • Reread lines 19-34 and identify the external conflict that the narrator tells about. How do you know this will be a challenge? (page 212)
  • Reread lines 79-85 Sometime conflict is both internal and external. How does the narrator show that his quest is an internal conflict as well as an external one?
Assessment:
Watch video clips and decide what type of conflict it displays. / Finish whole group lesson on conflict.
Review ISN notes and practice using My Wonder Horse
  • Reread lines 112-124 Explain how the narrator’s external conflict, his desire to capture the wonder Hors, causes an internal conflict
  • Reread lines 144-161
Describe how the narrator’s response to leading the Wonder Horse through the town causes a surprising shift in the story
  • Reread lines 158-161 and tell if you think the narrator feels that resolving this external conflict of capturing the horse has been worth it.
/ Collection 4: Making Your Voice Heard
  • 30 minute stations
See station sheet / Collection 4: Making Your Voice Heard
Stations:
  • 30 minute stations
See station sheet
Homework / Unfinished classwork / Unfinished classwork / Unfinished classwork / Unfinished classwork / Unfinished classwork
Assessments
  • Teacher Observation
  • ISN
  • Teacher made tests/quizzes
  • Selections Tests
  • Student Writing
  • District Tests
/ Gifted/ESE/504
Gifted/ESE
-Think Cerca applied writing lessons and reading practice will be leveled based on baseline reading & writing assessments, as well as FSA data.
-Higher level thinking questions
-Responses to literature & media / ESE/504
-Graphic organizers/notes
-Group discussions -Partner work
-Checks for understanding
-Small group (with testing)
-Peer model
-Extra time
-Preferential seating
-Chunked assignments
-Repeated, clarified, & summarized directions