Teacher:
Rainville / Grade & Subject:
6th Grade Language Arts Honors / Week of:
January 12- 16, 2015 / Unit & Essential Questions:
- How can authors create meaning through stylistic elements?
- How does dialect and conversational voice shape a character?
- What kind of connections can be made between different texts?
TEKS/Learning Objectives: 6.2A- Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes. 6.3C- Compare and contrast the historical and cultural settings of two literary works.6.6B- Recognize dialect and conversational voice and explain how authors use dialect to convey character. 6.6C- Describe different forms of point-of-view, including first- and third-person.6.8A- Explain how authors create meaning through stylistic elements and figurative language emphasizing the use of personification, hyperbole, and refrains. 6.Fig19D- Make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding. 6.Fig19F- Make connections (e.g., thematic links, author analysis) between and across multiple texts of various genres, and provide textual evidence. 6.Fig19E- Summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts. / Learning Objectives:
- We will determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words.
- We will make connections between two different texts.
- We will find the dialect and conversational voice of different characters in a text.
- We will summarize text in a way that maintains meaning and logical order.
Academic Vocabulary of Instruction:First person point-of-view, third person point-of-view, dialect, conflict, conversational voice, setting, theme, figurative language, stylistic elements, bandwagon, scare tactics, / Customized Learning:
AI: Culture Shock Phase II
A
Engage / Explore / Explain / Elaborate/Extend / Evaluate/Assess
Essential Question(s) & Hook / Instruction and Mini-Lesson / Guided Practice: / Independent Practice
(I do, we do, you do)
MONDAY / DEAR Time
Read first half of NovemberWednesday Wars / Daily Language Review Week 18 / Review Academic Vocabulary and add persuasive techniques
TUESDAY / DEAR Time
Read Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Read second half of NovemberWednesday Wars / Daily Language Review Week 18
Discuss characters, dialect, conversational voice, Point-of-view, and conflict. / Make a chart to identify elements of setting, topic, and theme. / Students will complete their charts based on the reading.
WEDNESDAY / DEAR Time
Read The Butterfly
Read first half of DecemberWednesday Wars / Daily Language Review Week 18 / Students make a Venn Diagram comparing the two stories. / Students will complete their charts based on the reading.
THURSDAY / DEAR Time
Read second half of December Wednesday Wars / Daily Language Review Week 18 / Complete Venn Diagrams.
FRIDAY / DEAR Time / Daily Language Review Week 18 / Word Study Quiz
Grammar Quiz
Customized Learning:Extra time for completing assignments: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 Emphasis on major points: 1, 3. Shorten instructions to one or two steps:1, 2, 3. Opportunity to repeat and explain instructions: 3.Extra time for written response:1, 2, 3. Oral exams:1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10. Frequent feedback: 1, 2, 3. Encouragement for classroom participation: 1. Peer tutoring/ paired working arrangement:5, 6, 7. Teacher check for understanding: 1, 2, 3. Directions in simple vocabulary: 3, 7. Study aids/manipulatives/graphic organizers:3, 5. Reteach difficult concepts: 6, 7, 9. Spell check: 3. Whisper phone 5, 6. Chuck instruction: 6. Preferential seating: 4, 5, 7, 8, 10. Color transparencies: 10. Follow BIP: 1, 10.
ELL Visual aids: 11. Modeling: 11. ESL materials: 11.