6.5.3LA


 * Grade: 6 Unit: 5 Week: 3 Content: ELA Dates:3/25-3/28 **


 * Theme: How can research help e find answers to my questions? **


 * Essential Questions: **
 * How do I take notes?
 * How do I organize the information from my notes for my research paper?
 * How do I avoid plagiarism?
 * How do I create an outline?
 * How do I prepare a Works Cited page?


 * Focus Standards: **
 * W.6.2aIntroduce a topic; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
 * W.6.2b Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
 * W.6.2cUse appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
 * W.6.2dUse precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
 * W.6.2eEstablish and maintain a formal style.
 * W.6.2fProvide a concluding statement of section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
 * 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.
 * W.6.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.


 * Ongoing Standards: **
 * L.6.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
 * L.6.3a Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
 * L.6.3b Maintain consistency in style and tone
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">RI.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SL.6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SL.6.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">W.6.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">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.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">W.6.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">W.6.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">W.6.9bApply grade 6 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Trace and evaluation the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.”).


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Objectives: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">TLW find sources for their topics.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">TLW Works Cited pages.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">TLW create outlines for their research papers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">TLW take notes from their research papers’ sources.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Assessment: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Product **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Works Cited page
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Notes from sources
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Outlines


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Key Questions **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What is the format for a Works Cited page?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What is the format for an outline?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How do I take notes from sources?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Observable Student Behaviors **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students will work in pairs to finalize their outlines.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students will complete note taking.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students will create outlines for the papers.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Vocabulary: **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Note taking <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Outline <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Works Cited page


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Suggested Activities: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Read pages 1028-1035 (HMU9) and have students complete activities suggested by the text and the online Resource Manager.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide sample outlines with errors for students to correct.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Provide sample passages from web sites and/or print sources from which students can take notes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Have students create Works Cited pages for their papers.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Homework: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Read nightly for 30 minutes.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Terminology for Teachers **

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Ethnicity/Culture | Immigration/Migration | Intercultural Competence | Socialization | Racism/Discrimination ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">High Yield Strategies ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Similarities/Differences | Summarizing/Notetaking | Reinforcing/Recognition | Homework/Practice | ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Non-Linguistic representation | Cooperative Learning | Objectives/Feedback | ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Generating-Testing Hypothesis | Cues, Questions, Organizers ** || Lesson Plan in Word Format (Click Cancel if asked to Log In)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Multicultural Concepts **


 * RESOURCES**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Literary Texts **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Informational Texts **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Art, music, and media **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Manipulatives **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Games **
 * @http://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Videos **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Sight words **

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">This lesson activity presents how to plan a compare and contrast composition with an emphasis <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">on comparing two topic sentences using transition words such as but, yet, and however. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Using Thinking Maps models how to create an expository writing piece to explain how. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">Use Thinking Maps as a critical thinking tool to guide students through: brainstorming, <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">sequencing writing, creating paragraphs and adding rich details, adding transition words, and <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">using peer to evaluate writing piece. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">This lesson is to be used in a Writers' Workshop. This lesson helps students plan for writing a <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';">short story. Planning pages are included.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">SMART Board lessons, Promethean lessons **
 * W6.2 /6.2a Compare and Contrast Writing
 * W6.2b Expository Writing Explaining How
 * W6.2f Expository Writing Explaining Why
 * W6.5 Planning a Short Story
 * @http://freedownload.is/ppt/cornell-notes-powerpoint-694072.html


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Other activities, etc. **
 * www.thinkcentral.com
 * @http://www.howell.k12.nj.us/files/general/302/research_handbook.pdf
 * @http://www.bibme.org/
 * @http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help/writing_note_taking_language_arts_sixth_6th_grade.htm
 * @http://www.schools.manatee.k12.fl.us/3160MARZANO/3160marzano/summarize___note_taking.html
 * @http://educatoral.com/outline_format.html
 * @http://www.reedlibrary.com/WORKS%20CITED%20%20for%205th%20&%206th.pdf
 * @http://www.hobbyhorsebooks.com/bibliography6.html
 * @http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/106009/chapters/Summarizing-and-Note-Taking.aspx
 * http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/research-building-blocks-notes-148.html?tab=3#tabs
 * @http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
 * @http://www.asolomonknox.com/cornell-notetaking-method.html
 * @http://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html?q=%22note%20taking%22
 * @http://websites.nylearns.org/jdonoughe/2008/3/20/247138/page.aspx
 * @http://www.ehow.com/how_4696116_outline-research-paper.html
 * @http://www.ehow.com/how_7893749_write-sixth-grade-works-cited.html
 * @http://intranet.potomacschool.org/arundel/research/6th%20grade%20Research%20Projects.pdf
 * @http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/links/studentwork.html
 * @http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/56sites.htm
 * @http://www.infobarrel.com/How_to_Teach_6th_Grade_Research_Papers
 * @http://nb.wsd.wednet.edu/big6/big6_resources.htm
 * http://foster-language-arts.wikispaces.com/6th+Grade
 * @http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson126.shtml
 * @http://www.mpsaz.org/redbird/classes_more/academic_links/sixth_links/
 * @http://schools.birdvilleschools.net/Page/3189
 * @http://www.sisd.net/page/19656
 * @http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html

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