6.3.7LA

** Grade 6 Unit: 3 Week: 7 Content: ELA Dates: 1/7-1/11 **

** Theme: ** How can a person’s life story have an impact on those around him or her?    ** Focus Standards: **   ** Ongoing Standards: **
 * Essential Questions: **
 * Why do some people seem “larger than life”?
 * Why are people curious about the lives of others?
 * What are the four kinds of life stories?
 * RL.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
 * RL.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning.
 * RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular stanza fits into the overall structure of a text.
 * RL.6.9 Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">W.6.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,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,helvetica,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,helvetica,sans-serif;">L.6.1e Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others’ writing and speaking, and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L.6.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L.6.3a Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L.6.4a Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position of function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L.6.4b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., //audience, auditory, audible//).
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L.6.4d Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L.6.5b Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L.6.5c Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., //stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty//).
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L.6.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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).

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Objectives **
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">TLW identify examples of figurative language, sound devices, and imagery in poems.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">TLW create a biographical poem about a person from their reading.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">TLW complete a style analysis of a poem.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Assessment **
 * Product **
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The students will write biographical poems about one of the characters they read about in this unit.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In small groups the students will complete a style analysis activity using one (or more) of the poems in this unit.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Key Questions **
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What is figurative language?
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are sound devices?
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What is imagery?
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What is style analysis?
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What elements make up a biographical poem?

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Observable Student Behaviors ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Vocabulary ** Figurative language Hyperbole Imagery Metaphor Meter Onomatopoeia Refrain Rhyme Rhythm Simile ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will use standard norms to participate in class discussions and in small-group discussions and activities.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will complete written assignments and activities.
 * || Alliteration

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Suggested Activities **
 * Read the following poems from the text:
 * “In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles” (HMU, pages 866-868)
 * “For Gwen, 1969” (HMU, pages 869-870)
 * “Losing Face” (HMU, page 579)
 * “Fireworks” (HMU, page 581)
 * “Like Bookends” (HMU, page 583)
 * Place each line from “Fireworks” on a sentence strip and have students work in groups to put the strips in order. Do the same with another poem of your choice.
 * Reprint “Like Bookends” and have students annotate the figurative language.
 * Choose one of the subjects from this unit and create a poem that reflects what you’ve learned about the person. (Marion Anderson, Matthew Henson, Will Steger, Bill Cosby, Helen Keller, Harry Houdini)
 * Read “A Way with Words” (HMU7, page 870).

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Homework ** Students will complete assigned and independent readings. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Terminology for Teachers **



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