Grade 6 ELA Curriculum Modules
The Grade 6 curriculum modules are designed to address CCLS ELA outcomes during a 45-50 minute English Language Arts class. The overarching focus for all modules is building students’ literacy skills as they develop knowledge about the world.
Each MODULE provides 8 eight weeks of instruction, broken into three shorter units. Each module includes one end-of-module performance task as well as mid-unit and end-of-unit assessments for all three units
Taken as a whole, these modules are designed to give teachers concrete strategies to address the “shifts” required by the CCLS.
Grade 6, Module 3a Overview
Grade 6, Module 3a Assessments
Grade 6, Module 3a Performance Task
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Unit One: Students will begin reading Laurence Yep's Dragonwings (870L) a story of a young Chinese boy to emigrates to San Francisco, joining his father in the early 1900's. Students will pair this text with Yep's biography, The Lost Garden to determine how Yep drew on his personal experience to tell the story of Moon Shadow. To finalize this unit students will write a literary analysis explaining how being brought up in a Chinese family affected the author's perspective of Chinese immigrants living in San Fransisco, supported by evidence from the text.
Unit Two: As students continue reading Dragonwings, they will investigate primary sources from survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Students will compare and contrast each authors point of view. students will write an essay explaining how the authtor's purpose affects point of view by closely examining the information text with the main character, Moon Shadow's point of view.
Unit Three: Through intense research of both primary and secondary texts, students analyze newspaper articles on the San Fransisco earthquake and subsequent fire. Students examine the structure and purpose of the newspaper accounts of the tragedy to write their own article on the topic.
The Grade 6 curriculum modules are designed to address CCLS ELA outcomes during a 45-50 minute English Language Arts class. The overarching focus for all modules is building students’ literacy skills as they develop knowledge about the world.
Each MODULE provides 8 eight weeks of instruction, broken into three shorter units. Each module includes one end-of-module performance task as well as mid-unit and end-of-unit assessments for all three units
Taken as a whole, these modules are designed to give teachers concrete strategies to address the “shifts” required by the CCLS.
Grade 6, Module 3a Overview
Grade 6, Module 3a Assessments
Grade 6, Module 3a Performance Task
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Unit One: Students will begin reading Laurence Yep's Dragonwings (870L) a story of a young Chinese boy to emigrates to San Francisco, joining his father in the early 1900's. Students will pair this text with Yep's biography, The Lost Garden to determine how Yep drew on his personal experience to tell the story of Moon Shadow. To finalize this unit students will write a literary analysis explaining how being brought up in a Chinese family affected the author's perspective of Chinese immigrants living in San Fransisco, supported by evidence from the text.
Unit Two: As students continue reading Dragonwings, they will investigate primary sources from survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Students will compare and contrast each authors point of view. students will write an essay explaining how the authtor's purpose affects point of view by closely examining the information text with the main character, Moon Shadow's point of view.
Unit Three: Through intense research of both primary and secondary texts, students analyze newspaper articles on the San Fransisco earthquake and subsequent fire. Students examine the structure and purpose of the newspaper accounts of the tragedy to write their own article on the topic.