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English Language Arts 1-Grade 6

Duration

10 Months

Prerequisites

Student Must Have Completed Grade 5

Requirements

None

Course Summary

In Grade 6 English Language Arts, students study classical and contemporary texts, developing reading, writing, language, and speaking skills. They analyze authors' rhetoric and purpose and improve narrative, informational, and argumentative writing through planning, drafting, revising, and editing.

MAJOR TOPICS AND CONCEPTS

Semester One:

  • Developing an idea
  • Identifying theme
  • Recognizing plot pattern
  • Comparing and contrasting mediums
  • Using context clues
  • Developing thesaurus and dictionary skills
  • Identifying implicit and explicit meaning
  • Finding the main idea
  • Writing an effective summary
  • Assessing internet sources
  • Reading informational texts
  • Researching and organizing information
  • Avoiding plagiarism and citing sources
  • Writing an introduction
  • Connecting and supporting ideas
  • Writing a conclusion
  • Revising and reflecting
  • Using formal language in writing
  • Writing effective transitions
  • Using signal phrases
  • Writing a strong introduction
  • Correcting dangling modifiers
  • Using transitions and signal phrases
  • Maintaining formal style
  • Writing a solid conclusion
  • Revising and reflecting
  • Proofreading and editing
  • Selecting effective digital media
  • Using spelling rules
  • Paraphrasing a text
  • Determining relevant information
  • Identifying figurative language
  • Understanding rhetorical appeals
  • Analyzing universal themes across time

Semester Two:

  • Recognizing logical fallacies
  • Identifying elements of an effective claim
  • Effectively supporting a claim
  • Identifying reliable sources
  • Organizing an argument
  • Determining the central/main idea
  • Using elaborative details
  • Writing a summary
  • Understanding how figurative language affects meaning and tone
  • Interpreting figurative language
  • Finding literal and figurative meaning
  • Comparing and contrasting texts
  • Using context clues
  • Interpreting implicit and explicit meaning
  • Identifying characteristics of poetic forms
  • Looking for connotative meanings
  • Analyzing plot pattern
  • Identifying the protagonist and antagonist
  • Classifying direct and indirect characterization
  • Determining point of view
  • Defining types of conflict
  • Determining the theme in a text
  • Using pronouns correctly
  • Correcting errors with hyphens
  • Identifying verbals
  • Using correct pronoun/antecedent agreement
  • Creating a commercial
  • Using diverse media formats
  • Recognizing point of view
  • Identifying the narrator
  • Planning narrative writing
  • Writing the exposition to a narrative
  • Using narrative techniques
  • Discovering a writer’s craft
  • Writing dialogue effectively
  • Revising and editing for impact
  • Reflecting on the writing process
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