6th+English

=Reading Course Objectives:= 1. Incorporate and learn active reading strategies for better comprehension 2. Understand literary elements for fiction, non-fiction, drama and poetry readings 3. Increase independent reading of novels not assigned as part of the course 4. Develop reports, analysis, and reviews of reading materials 5. Discuss literature and reading materials in peer groups

**Themes**

 * Summarizing
 * Active Reading Strategies
 * Character Analysis
 * Plot Analysis
 * Non-fiction Active Reading Strategies
 * Annotated Reading
 * Reading Critically
 * Poetry Analysis
 * Independent Reading
 * Author's Purpose
 * Main Idea

=**Summer**= //Hatchet// by Gary Paulsen (Puffin Books, 1988) 1. Written summaries of chapters due first week of school 2. Classroom exercises based upon reading 3. Lecture on Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs 4. Connection to students' lives

=**Quarter 1**= Active Reading Strategies Fiction
 * __The Language of Literature__ (McDougal Littell, 2002)

A. Active Reading Strategies and Reading for Information Strategies "The All-American Slurp" by Lesley Namioka

B. Recognizing Cause and Effect, Foreshadowing "Lob's Girl" by Joan Aiken

C. Plot Analysis "Zlateh, the Goat" by Isaac Bashevis Singer "President Cleveland, Where Are You?" by Robert Cormier

D. Character Analysis "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros

E. Setting Analysis "Scout's Honor" by Avî

G. Drama-Inferential Thinking; Author's Purpose "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

Independent Reading Fiction = = =**Quarter 2**= Active Reading Strategies Fiction
 * Weekly library day (every block Friday) for students to read newspapers, magazines, books, etc.
 * Free choice independent reading assignment
 * Reading log
 * __The Language of Literature__ (McDougal Littell, 2002)

A. Character Analysis "Aaron's Gift" by Myron Levoy

B. Figurative Language "The Circuit" by Francisco Jimenez

C. Evaluating Literature "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury

D. Predictions "Cricket in the Road" by Michael Anthony

E. Recognizing Cause and Effect "Nadia the Willful" by Sue Alexander

Novel: Character/Plot Analysis
 * // Kira Kira // by Cynthia Kadohata (Aladdin Paperbacks, 2004)

Independent Reading Fiction = = =**Quarter 3**= Active Reading Strategies Non-Fiction
 * Weekly library day (every block Friday) for students to read newspapers, magazines, books, etc.
 * Free choice independent reading assignment
 * Reading log
 * __The Language of Literature__ (McDougal Littell, 2002)
 * "The Dog of Pompeii" by Louis Untermeyer (Fiction)

Novel: Facts vs Non-facts
 * //Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet// by Robert Kwiklik (Kipling Press, 1989)

Independent Reading Non-Fiction = = =**Quarter 4**= Active Reading Strategies Poetry
 * Weekly library day (every block Friday) for students to read newspapers, magazines, books, etc.
 * Free choice independent reading assignment
 * Reading log
 * __The Language of Literature__ (McDougal Littell, 2002)
 * //How to Eat a Poem: A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers// (Dover Publications, 2006)

Novel: Author's Purpose
 * // Walk Two Moons // by Cynthia Kadohata (Scholastic, Inc., 1994)

Independent Reading Articles
 * Weekly library day (every block Friday) for students to read newspapers, magazines, books, etc.
 * Free choice independent reading assignment
 * Reading log

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