6th
Grade
Reading
Lesson plans for remainder of year:
*Students, please put your full name at the top of each assignment that you email so that you can receive credit for having completed it.
My office hours will be 9:00-10:00 A.M. on Mondays and Wednesday's. The zoom meetings will occur at this time.
(The assignments are due by 4:00 P.M. on each Friday, but you can email them before that deadline if you have them completed.)
Listed below are the lesson plans for the next few weeks. Remember, you are selecting only ONE of the three options I provide for each week’s reading. You will email those assignments to plightfoot@wpsok.org by the Friday of each week’s reading. Don’t hesitate to email me if you have any questions. My main goal is for you to enjoy the novel and to provide you with choice and stress-free options. I look forward to learning from each of you in the weeks ahead! Mrs. Brewer’s students will email their assignments to ebrewer@wpsok.org.
In the side margin, you will notice that I have scheduled zoom meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:00-10:00 A.M. (my office hours) These are opportunities for us to get together and share questions/perspectives/insights about the novel. You are not required to participate in these meetings, and I want you to know that you can also share with me via email.
April 6-10:
Read chapters 1-5 (pages 1-32)
Choose ONE of the options below to complete as your assignment:
April 13-17:
Read chapters 6-11 (pages 33-75)
Choose ONE of the options below to complete as your assignment:
April 20-24:
Read chapters 12-17 (pages 76-119)
Choose ONE of the options below to complete as your assignment:
April 27-May 1 :
Read chapters 18-23 (pages 120-171)
Choose ONE of the options below to complete as your assignment:
May 4-8:
Read chapters 24-29 and author’s note (pages 172-224)
Choose ONE of the options below to complete as your assignment:
3. Write an acrostic poem using CODE TALKER as your subject. Print the letters vertically down the page, and share summarizing thoughts/insights about the novel.
*Offline students have the same reading chunks of material for each week. They will select 2 of the discussion questions contained within each section and develop a written response over those. These discussion questions are listed below:
(Discussion questions are copyrighted by Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.)
April 6-10
Prologue-chapter 5
April 13-17
Chapters 6-11
April 20-24
Chapters 12-17
April 27-May 1
Chapters 18-23
May 4-8
Chapters 24-29 and author’s note
March 23-27, 2020
Monday: Begin Code Talker pg. 1-18 /quiz
Tuesday: Read pages 19-37 (5 Q&A)
Wednesday: Read pgs. 38-49 (reading guide)
Thursday: Read pages 50-67 (Two sentence summaries for each chapter)
Friday: Read pgs. 68-75 (reading guide)
March 9-13, 2020
Monday: Read “The Emperor’s New Clothes” pg. 246/quiz
complete practice 2 pg. 148 over idioms
Tuesday: Read Ta-Na-E-Ka pg. 135/quiz
Wednesday: DAY OF AWESOMENESS
Thursday: Students will each receive an idiom to illustrate/explain
Friday: No School (Have a beautiful Spring Break!)
March 2-6, 2020
Monday: voc. #12: myth, fable, folk tale, legend, biography, autobiography
roots: fide = faith/trust fin = end
Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head pg. 360
Tuesday: Read the myths: Midas and the Golden Touch, Persephone and Hades, Perseus and Medusa, and the Trojoan Horse
Assign mythology groups and scripts for each of the above selections
Wednesday: practice mythology skits/scripts
Thursday: present skits...study for voc. test #12
Friday: voc. test #12, spiral evaluation #3
Read Aesop’s Fables pg. 371-374
Feb. 24-28, 2020
Monday: Read “Baucis & Philemon”. pg. 257/quiz
Read “Icarus & Daedlus”
Tuesday: Read ACT Aspire Classroom test #8
Go over answers together in class...discuss test strategies
Wednesday: ACT Aspire Interim IV reading test/ computer lab
Thursday: Read “Arachne” pg. 642 (Pearson text)/ quiz
Friday: Read “Medusa’s Head” pg. 352 (Reading summary check pg.364)
Feb. 17-21, 2020
Monday: No School (Staff development)
Tuesday: Read “Eleven” pg. 573/ prewriting for clothing narrative
Wednesday: In composition notebooks, write first person narratives attached to positive or negative clothing memories
Thursday: Read “What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?” pg. 556
Friday: Complete collection 5 skills review pgs. 524-533
Feb. 10-14, 2020
Monday: vocab. list #11: new roots...Corp = body, Derm = skin
caress, compassion,condescending, crescendo, despicable, grimace, muffle, premature, resigned, vulnerability
Read pages 184-194/reading guide
Tuesday: Read pages 194-204/sequencing
Wednesday: Read pages 205-217/quiz
Thursday: Read pages 218-235
Friday: voc. test #11/AR test over novel
“Separate but Never Equal” pg. 332
Feb. 3-7, 2020
Monday: No School (Professional development)
Tuesday: Read pages 145-159 (reading guide)
Wednesday: Read pages 160-174 (4Q&A)
Thursday: Read pages 174-183 (3 character quotes) . Students will select three different speakers, record a sentence they speak, and explain what is significant about the quote or what it reveals about the person who speaks it.
Friday: Read pages 184-194 (reading guide)
Jan. 27-31, 2020
Monday: Read pages 67-86
Tuesday: Read pages 87-98/ complete page 16 of novel study guide
voc. test #10
Wednesday: Read pages 99-110 /reading guide
Thursday: Read pages 110-127/ illustration blocks
Friday: Read pages 127-144 (ch. 7 quiz)
Jan. 20-24, 2020
Monday: No school/Staff development day
Tuesday: voc. #10 Roots: cord/cardi- heart
aloofness, audible, awestruck, candidly, condone, denote, disclose, dumbfounded, falter, feign
Read pages 36-48 (4 Q&A)
Wednesday: Read pages 49-58/ ch. 3 quiz
Thursday: read pages 59-67/ reading guide
Friday: AR reading day
(make-up work day)
Jan. 13-17, 2020
Monday: voc. #9 = Root: astr/aster = star
amiably, caravan, formidable, indignant, oblivious, offensive, precariously, radical, resiliency, skittish
Read “The Gold Cadillac” pg. 316/answer text questions throughout
Tuesday: AR test over “The Gold Cadillac”
complete extending interpretations pg. 329 (half a page for each question)/vocab. sentences
Wednesday: Begin novel study of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Read pages 3-16, fill out character chart
Thursday: Read pages 17-27 (continue adding details to character chart)
Friday: voc. test #9, read pages 28-35 (reading guide)
Jan. 6-10, 2020
Monday: AR Reading Day
plot diagram vocabulary: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
Tuesday: Read “The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln” pg. 545
“Lincoln’s Humor” pg. 553
Wednesday: Read “A Glory Over Everything” pg. 468/quiz
Thursday: Read “All Aboard with Thomas Garrett” pg. 483
Friday: voc. test /plot diagram
Harriet Tubman series, pg. 489
Dec. 16-20
Monday: Benchmark review
Tuesday: Benchmark reading test
Wednesday: Benchmark reading test
Thursday: Go over benchmark results/address poems/create foldable for final drafts
Friday: final drafts of address poems/decorate house foldables
Dec. 9-13, 2019
Monday: Practice in library
Tuesday: POETRY FESTIVAL!
Wednesday: Collection 2 & Collection 6 Skills Review: pgs. 212-215, pgs. 612-616
Thursday: ACT ASPIRE READING TEST
Friday: Begin benchmark review
Dec. 2-6, 2019
(THIS WEEK STUDENTS WILL BE PREPARING FOR THE POETRY FESTIVAL. THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THIS EVENT WILL COUNT AS 50% OF THEIR SEMESTER BENCHMARK TEST GRADE.)
Monday: Practice in classroom
Tuesday: Practice in classroom
Wednesday: Practice in library
Thursday: Practice in library
Friday: No School (WHS Eagles State Championship Game)
Nov. 18-22
Monday: Send parent letters home explaining poetry festival
work on group novel project
Tuesday: Work on group novel project
Wednesday: Present projects
Thursday: Complete novel projects (if needed)
Students will take pics for the festival and they will be assigned their class poem/line
Friday: Students will share which of the three poems in their collection they intend to share/ they will sign up for refreshments, and complete paper chain for tree decoration in library by signing a strip of green construction paper. Students will practice reciting their poem of choice with an elbow partner.
Nov. 11-15, 2018
Monday: Veterans’ Day Assembly (AM classes)
Team character quotes: (Partners will search through the pages we have read to find “Telling” quotes that reveal something significant about the character they have selected. Each index card will contain the quote, the page number where the quote is found, and on the flip side of the card, they will reveal what the attached quote reveals about the personality of the character.
Tuesday: Read page 234-247 (reading guide)
Wednesday: Read pages 247-262 (complete author’s note exercise)
Thursday: AR test over novel/ Esperanza Crossword
Friday: Introduce novel project/assign groups
Nov. 4-8, 2019
Monday: vocab #7: roots: cide= to kill, cise = to cut
makeshift, tinged, propelled, immunized, taut, regal suspetible, encrusted, deportation, devoutly
Read pages 139-157 (reading guide)
Tuesday: Read pages 158-178 (illus. blocks)
Wednesday: Read pages 179-198 quiz
Thursday: Read pages 199-213 (reading guide)
Friday: voc. test #7
Read pages 214-233 (discuss/identify static/dynamic characters and supply text evidence for support)
Oct. 28-Nov. 1, 2019
Monday: voc. #6: roots: auto=self, chrom=color, chron=time
arbors, tendril, reaping, premonition, serenaded, massive, capricious, forlorn, anguish, methodically
Read pages 58-72 (reading guide)
Tuesday: read pages 73-80/ Write a letter from Esperanza to Marisol...a letter from Mama to Abuelita...or a diary entry from Miguel which explores his feelings about recent events
Wednesday: read pages 81-99/quiz
Thursday: read pages 100-120 (5Q&A)
Friday: voc. test #6, read pages 121-138
Oct. 21-25, 2019
Monday: voc. list #5: antagonist, flat character, round character, dynamic character, static character, dialogue, foreshadowing, protagonist, suspense, symbol
spiral evaluation #1
Students will study voc. words, while I prepare the poetry packets for shipping
Tuesday: spiral evaluation
anticipation guide/quotes
Wed: Begin Esperanza Rising: read pgs. 1-22 quiz
Thurs.: read pages 23-38 (reading guide)
Fri.: voc. test #5
read pages 39-57
Oct. 14-18, 2019
Monday: Final draft day
Tuesday: Final draft day
Wednesday: Final draft day
Thursday & Friday: NO SCHOOL (FALL BREAK)
Oct. 7-11, 2019
Monday: Final draft day
Tuesday: Read Billy Collins’ “On Turning Ten”
Write Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow poem
Wednesday: Write prep phrase poems
Thursday: Write If You Really Knew Me poem
Friday: Final draft day
Sept. 30-Oct 4, 2019
Monday: NO SCHOOL (Parent-teacher conferences 12:00-7:00)
Tuesday: Write odes (poems of praise to a person/place)
Wednesday: Write “There’s a ______________ Inside Me poem
Thursday: Write memory poems “What I Remember About That Day”
Friday: Write Author Acrostics using students’ first and last names
Sept. 23-27, 2019
Monday: voc. #4 ROOTS: ali=other, alt=height, anni, enni, annu = year
poetry, alliteration, assonance, personification, alien, alibi, altitude, anniversary, centennial, annual
write limericks
Tuesday: brainstorm contrasting subjects in nature
Write two haiku
Wednesday: Write color poems using imagery
Thursday: Write place poems (The best/worst place to write a poem)
Friday: voc. test #4, final draft day
Sept. 16-20, 2019
Monday: Complete Aspire classroom tests 1, 2, 3
Students will not write on test packet, but will use the answer sheet provided to document answers
Tuesday: Any students who did not complete Aspire classroom tests 1,2,3 will complete that first. In Holt textbook, students will complete collection 1 skills review pgs. 114-118. They will document answer sheets on sheet provided.
Wednesday: Go over test results
voc. #3: simile, metaphor
Begin poetry unit...students will write original definitions of poetry. After examining samples of descriptive sentences, students will compose three descriptive sentences using figurative language.
Thursday: Read “Poetry Rides the Bus” . Identify examples of personification. Students will brainstorm positive and negative
abstract nouns. They will select one as the subject of a personification poem. (Minimum 12 lines)
Friday: voc. test #3
Write a season cinquain using all 5 senses and figurative language
Sept. 9-13, 2019
Monday: pyramid exercise
AR test over Freak the Mighty
Tuesday: Begin movie : In section #2, note 5 similarities between the novel and film
Wednesday: Continue movie: In section #2, note 5 differences between the novel and film
Thursday: Complete film...take notes over themes found within the novel
in composition notebook select the one theme you found most important. Write about how this theme was revealed in the novel and how you could apply it to your own life.
Friday: ACT Aspire Reading test
Sept. 2-6, 2019
Monday: NO SCHOOL (Labor Day)
Tuesday: read pgs. 100-114 (reading guide)
Wed.: read pgs. 115-127 (illus. blocks & summary sentences)
Thurs.: read pgs. 128-140 (reading guide)
Friday: read pages 141-160 (quiz)
Aug. 26-30, 2019
Monday: voc. #2: steed, tenement, optimum, injustice, urgency, deprived, divulged, sought, smirk, redeemed
read pgs. 28-40 (take notes over rules for Q&A: 1. questions must be complete sentences, 2. answers must be provided, 3. provide page numbers where answers are found, 4. capitalize and punctuate, 5. no vague pronouns, 6. only one fill-in-the-blank, 7. no yes/no or true/false questions
Tuesday: read pgs. 41-62
5 Q&A
Wednesday: read pgs. 63-71 (reading guide)
Thursday: read pgs. 72-87 (list 5 key events in the novel thus far using chronological order)
Friday: voc. test #2
read pages 88-99: List 3 stellar sentences and provide reasons for your choice
August 19-23, 2019
Monday: Go over results of scavenger hunt
label supplies
voc. #1: connotation, denotation, direct and indirect methods of characterization (ASATOD ...appearance, speech, actions, thoughts, other’s opinions, direct characterization)
Tuesday:
Freak anticipation guide/ themes/composition notebook entries
Wednesday: Begin Freak the Mighty chapters 1-3 quiz
Thursday: pgs. 15-27 reading guide
Friday: voc. test #1, ten unique traits
August 12-16, 2019
Monday: Teacher work day
Tuesday: First day of classes
*rules
*drills
*label supplies
Wednesday: Goal letters (Using the friendly letter format, students will write letters to themselves outliing their persoal and academic goals for this school year
Thursday: Twenty questions: (textbook scavenger hunt using the Holt textbook)
Friday: Ten unique traits (rotation exercise...getting to know each other)