Grade
6
Standards
August – September
October
- November
Extended
writing assignment
- Choice
of one or more:
- Passion
Project
- Personal
Narrative (focus on leads, point of view, sensory detail, dialogue;
1st person singular account, one event)
- Expository
Essay (thesis statement, topic sentences, supporting details, transitions,
conclusions)
- Reading:
First novel
- Well
developed response to literature; single paragraph
Quarter
2 – Outside Reading Project – fantasy/scifi - Start
November
December – January
- Extended
writing assignment - Choice of one or more:
- Personal
Narrative (focus on leads, point of view, sensory detail, dialogue;
1st person singular account, one event)
- Expository
Essay (thesis statement, topic sentences, supporting details,
transitions, conclusion)
- Research
Report (guiding question, area of study, note-taking, outlining,
pre-writing, table of contents, bibliography)
- Reading:Start
second novel
Quarter
3 – Outside Reading Project – historical fiction
- Start end of January
February
- March
- Extended
writing assignment - Choice of one or more:
- Expository
Essay (thesis statement, topic sentences, supporting details,
transitions, conclusion)
- Research
Report (guiding question, area of study, note-taking, outlining,
pre-writing, table of contents, bibliography)
- Persuasive
Essay (taking a position, backing it up and addressing a counterargument;
research skills, writing process)
- Reading:
Start third novel
- Multi-paragraph
well developed response to lit (cite quotes, examples)
April – May
- Extended
writing assignment - Choice of one or more:
- Research
Report (guiding question, area of study, note-taking, outlining,
pre-writing, table of contents, bibliography)
- Persuasive
Essay (taking a position, backing it up and addressing a counterargument;
research skills, writing process)
- Summary
Writing (chronological order, transitions, relevant data)
Reading:
Third novel
Reading choice:
D’Aulaires’ Myths
The Odyssey
Julius Caesar
Quarter 4 - Outside Reading Project - mystery/suspense – Start
April
June
Wrap up (poetry unit, story writing)
Ongoing
Grammar – Parts of speech (focus on pronouns), complete sentences, capitalization,
subject-verb agreement, tense agreement, punctuation (commas and apostrophes,
end)
Spelling
Vocabulary
Figurative Language
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Grade
7
Standards
Millie
Balsam:
August - September
Short Stories (narrative)
Lit term, fable
Autobio vignette
September - October
Outsiders
(To Kill a Mockingbird)
Expository—
compare/contrast
November - December
Beowulf
(expository)
January - February
The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
Lit response
March - April
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Descriptive
May-June
Lit circles
Persuasive
Kelly
Zalatimo:
August - September
Short Stories
(narrative—short story)-- Coming of Age theme
Literary Terms
September - October
Beowulf
Descriptive--
(unlikely hero)
“ Through the Tunnel”
Expository
November - December
Outsiders
memoir
expository
(compare/contrast)
January - February
The Diary of A Young
Girl by Anne Frank
Lit Response
March - April
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Response to lit
May-June
Lit circles
Persuasive
Renee
Johnson:
August - September
Literary Terms Intro.
Short Stories—Coming of Age theme
Writing Territory
Novel--
The Outsiders
The Outsiders essay
Character Analysis
Independent Reading (summaries)
November - December
Supplemental Core - Homecoming, Holes or Out of the Dust
Persuasive
Independent Reading (summaries)
January - February
The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
Selected Poetry Applying literary terms
Lit. Response
March - April
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
How To Poem (Twain)
Independent Reading (summaries)
May-June
Poetry
Eulogy Project or I-Search Report
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Grade
8
Standards
August-September Novel
#1 & accompanying essay
October - November Novel
#2 & accompanying
essay
December - January Novel
#3 & accompanying
essay
February - March Short
stories:
-
To
build a fire by Jack London
-
Flowers
for Algernon by Keys
-
Lady
or the Tiger by Stockton
- The man without
a country by Hale
April - May Research
report on a topic of their choiceReflection/evaluation
essay of their learning in middle school
Core Novels:
- The Pearl by
John Steinbeck
- The Martian Chronicles by
Ray Bradbury
- Whirligig by
Paul Fleischman
- The Call of the
Wild by Jack London
- The Chosen, Tisha and The
Glory Fields
- Breaking Through by
Francisco Jimenez
- The Circuit by
Francisco Jimenez
- The House on Mango
Street by Sandra Cisneros
Essay Writing:
- Memoir
- Response to Literature
- Persuasive
Other
Readings DramaSelected
Poetry
OngoingGrammarVocabulary
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