Full Description
This book, from the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary, provides gifted and advanced learners challenging activities to master and engage with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts through four mini units. Each mini unit is packed with activities that enrich and extend grade-level ELA content for grade 6. Included texts have messages and characters that are developmentally suitable for students. Through higher order reasoning questions, resulting discussions, and student-created products associated with these texts, gifted and advanced students' needs are met while still maintaining messages and characters to which students can relate. Students will be exposed to themes such as learning from life experiences, community, cultural identity and history, and adversity. Each theme was chosen with advanced sixth-grade students in mind and their emerging need to learn more about themselves, their world, and how to work through adversity to accomplish their goals.Grade 6
Contents
INTRODUCTION 1 Unit ILesson 1.2: Character Clues Lesson 1.3: Life Lessons Lesson 1.4: Literacy Map Lesson 1.5: Telling Stories Unit I: Culminating Essay Prompt Unit II: This My City Lesson 2.1: My City Poem Lesson 2.2: Sights and Sounds of a Memoir Lesson 2.3: Novel Ideas Lesson 2.4: Community Advocates Lesson 2.5: Picking Sides Unit II: Culminating Essay Prompt 7 Unit III: I, Too, Am America Lesson 3.1: Songs of America Lesson 3.2: Staging History Lesson 3.3: An Archive of Literary Elements Lesson 3.4: Biographical Timelines Lesson 3.5: Historical Heroes Unit III: Culminating Essay Prompt Unit IV: Beware the Jabberwock Lesson 4.1: A Word to the Wise Lesson 4.2: Fight or Flight Lesson 4.3: Conflict Builds Character Lesson 4.4: My Character Story Unit IV: Culminating Essay Prompt 170 ANSWER KEY REFERENCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS ALIGNMENT
