Unit 1: Embracing Heritage
Essential Question: How can we learn to appreciate our similarities and differences through literature?
Focus Standards:
RL.6.6: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator in a text.
RI.6.3: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
RI.6.9: Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
W.6.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
W.6.5: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
SL.6.3: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
L.6.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.6.4 (c): Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
L.6.4 (d): Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Student Objectives:
Define the word "heritage" and review the word "culture".
Read a variety of historical fiction and nonfiction about immigrant experiences.
Analyze multiple accounts of immigration and describe important similarities and differences in the details they provide.
Interview family members.
Conduct research on countries from which family members immigrated.
Write opinion papers on America as the "land of opportunity."
Write and perform poetry or songs for classmates.
Begin defining relationships between words (e.g., migrate, immigrate, emigrate, etc.).
Participate in group discussions.
Focus Standards:
RL.6.6: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator in a text.
RI.6.3: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
RI.6.9: Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
W.6.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
W.6.5: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
SL.6.3: Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
L.6.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.6.4 (c): Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
L.6.4 (d): Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
Student Objectives:
Define the word "heritage" and review the word "culture".
Read a variety of historical fiction and nonfiction about immigrant experiences.
Analyze multiple accounts of immigration and describe important similarities and differences in the details they provide.
Interview family members.
Conduct research on countries from which family members immigrated.
Write opinion papers on America as the "land of opportunity."
Write and perform poetry or songs for classmates.
Begin defining relationships between words (e.g., migrate, immigrate, emigrate, etc.).
Participate in group discussions.