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 2A Overview (Text lists in here)
Grade 6, Module 2A Assessments
Grade 6, Module 2A Performance Task
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 2A Overview (Text lists in here)
Grade 6, Module 2A Assessments
Grade 6, Module 2A Performance Task
Unit 1: This unit begins with a launch of the novel Bud, Not Buddy, with a focus on character development and the author's use of language. Students will analyze Bud's "Rules to Live By". They will read exerpts from the novel to closely interpret figurative language as well as similies. The second half of the unit continues the exploration of the idea of "rules to live by" through close reading of real-world examples. Students will read speeches by Steve Jobs and Barack Obama and analyze how structure and word choice add meaning. Finally, students use a focusing question and important details to form an evidence based claim about Job's speech and apply those skills to Obama's speech in the end of unit assessment.
Unit 2: Students continue to explore the topic of "rules to live by" as they closely read the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. They compare and contrast approaches to them between the poem and the novel. Students write a literary argument essay in which they establish a claim about how Bud uses his rules: to survive or to thrive. This unit also launches an independent reading routine once students have completed reading Bud, Not Buddy.
Unit 3:
Unit 2: Students continue to explore the topic of "rules to live by" as they closely read the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. They compare and contrast approaches to them between the poem and the novel. Students write a literary argument essay in which they establish a claim about how Bud uses his rules: to survive or to thrive. This unit also launches an independent reading routine once students have completed reading Bud, Not Buddy.
Unit 3: