Ms.

Orozco
ELA6thGradeBacktoSchoolNight20162017
Email:sorozco@owncs.org
7182742902ext:113

GRADE BREAKDOWN
o Tests 30%
o Projects 30%
o Quizzes 20%
o Homework 10%
o Class work 5%
o Portfolios 5%

ELA 6th Grade Contract

PROJECTS
o Late projects: 5 points everyday it is late will not be accepted after 7 days.
o Students will be given class time to work on their projects.
TESTS
o Will be given monthly after completion of unit of study.
o They will be announced one week in advance and will be given a review sheet.
o Students will use their notebooks, quizzes and homework/class work to prepare.
QUIZZES
o Vocabulary quizzes will be given every other week (dates may vary).
o Grammar quizzes will be given every other week (dates may vary).
ASSESSMENTS
o Writing on demand at the end of writing units (not graded).
o On going running records (not graded).
o End of quarter writing, reading, vocabulary and grammar assessment (graded as a
test)
HOMEWORK
o Is assigned every night Monday Friday.
o Is worth 2 points (if collected).
o Will always be accepted with parent note.
o If a student is absent, they must complete the work and it must be shown to the
teacher one day after the day(s) they were absent
CLASSWORK
o Students earn points for class work (points will vary)
PORTFOLIOS...
o Each student compiles their best work into a portfolio (quarterly & is graded)
o Portfolio work is grouped by quarter and kept in the classroom

Ms.Orozco
ELA6thGradeBacktoSchoolNight20162017
Email:sorozco@owncs.org
7182742902ext:113

MiddleSchoolReading/WritingCurricularCalendarOverview,20162017

OverviewoftheYearforSixthGradeReaders
6thGradeELACurriculumMap2016/17READING
Month/
Unit Name

Assessments

Learning Activities

Materials
(including individual reading books,
close-reading texts)

SEPTEMBER
Orientation

In book
assessments

Everything Will Be Okay by James

Howe

Turning Every
Kid Into a
Reader

Student/teacher
conferences

Building communities, protocols,

grade expectations/routines, heart
maps, practice using post its, goals
for the year, library expectations,
reading logs and rates, WPM rates

OCTOBER
Characters
Across Series

Q1 assessment

I Ready

Student/teacher
conferences
In book
assessments

NOV/DEC
Non-Fiction
Reading
Across Texts

Q1 assessment
Student/teacher
conferences
In book
assessments

JAN/FEB
Fantasy Book
Clubs Literary
Interpretatio
n

Q2 assessments

FEB/MARCH
REVIEW

Test Review

Student/teacher
conferences,
In book
assessments

I-READY online
READY NY
Workbooks
Student/teacher

Book clubs, book talk strategies,

character traits, identifying story
elements, story arcs,
compare/contrast, themes,
authors purpose/craft/POV,
Various ways on how to use post
its, character timelines

Eleven by Sandra Cisneros

Names/Nombres by Julia Alvarez

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg

Sloan
Excerpts from Little Women by Louisa
May Alcott

Identifying NF features,
annotating a text, analyzing NF
images, DBQs, pair share, NF
reading stamina, socratic seminar
discussions, Various ways on how to
use post its,Reading stamina/rate,
close reading skills, Authors
purpose/craft/POV

Explore various animal/sports/student

interest books as well as Science and
SS texts, test prep passages, excerpts
from Malala biography and The Diary
of Anne Frank, excerpts from well
known speeches

literary devices, plot development,

story lines, themes, Book clubs,
socratic seminar discussions,
Authors purpose/craft/POV,
figuratIve languAge
elements/compare/
contrast, Rikki Tikki reading
packet and discussion questions,

Paperbag Princess, short stories from

Grimms Fairy Tales (Snow Drop), Rikki
Tikki Tavi (mentor text), Poems from
Once Upon a Poem book

REVIEW, Reading calendar/rate,

NEWS ELA articles, Frayer Model,
Bingo, I-READY

Test REVIEW

Ms.Orozco
ELA6thGradeBacktoSchoolNight20162017
Email:sorozco@owncs.org
7182742902ext:113
conferences
In book
assessments
APRIL/MAY
Poetry

Test review
ELA State Test
Student/teacher
conferences

Where Im From poetry project

(read student samples), identifying
poetic devices, timelines, choral
reading, annotating poems for
meaning, heart maps, youtube
videos, common themes in songs,

Maya Angelou poems, Langston Hughes

poems, personal written poems,
student poems, Poetry Matters by
Fletcher

Read alouds, vision boards, film

clips, HF word walls, building
timelines(character/setting/timeli
nes), Authors purpose/craft/POV,
perspective

Middle Ages
Joint Project with SS

In book
assessments
MAY/JUNE
Historical
Fiction

Q4 assessment
Student/teacher
conferences
In book
assessments

Journal Writing
Mentor texts include:
Castle Diary
The Making of a Knight
A Medieval Fest
The Kitchen Knight

Ms.Orozco
ELA6thGradeBacktoSchoolNight20162017
Email:sorozco@owncs.org
7182742902ext:113

MiddleSchoolReading/WritingCurricularCalendarOverview,20162017

OverviewoftheYearforSixthGradeWriters
6thGradeELACurriculumMap2016/17WRITING
Month/
Unit Name

Assessments

Learning Activities

Materials
(including individual reading books,
close-reading texts, book club books)

SEPTEMBER
Personal
Narrative

~On-Demand
~Rubrics
~Checklist
~Writing Goals

~Write a beginning for your

story
~Use transition words to tell
what happened in order
~Elaborate to help readers
picture your story
~Show what your story is really
about
~ Write an ending to your story

Everything Will Be Okay by James

Howe

OCTOBER
Realistic
Fiction

**Q1 assessment
~On-Demand
~Rubrics
~Checklist
~Writing Goals
~Portfolios

~Work through writing process

~Assist students in being able to
generate ideas for writing
~Teach important individual
elements of a realistic fiction
story

BIG BOOK:
Owl Moon
Thundercake
Bully By Patricia Polacco (mentor text)
Wonder
The Lemonade War
Hatchet
(Peeled - By: Joan Bauer)
The Boy in the Striped Pajama

NOV/DEC
Persuasive
Essay

~On-Demand
~Rubrics
~Checklist
~Writing Goals

MODEL: Guided Writing

Practice
~Developing a Plan for
Persuasive Essay
* to introduce a topic clearly
* Write concluding statements
* Counter arguments
* Evidence that connects to
ideas
~Drafting and Revising a
Persuasive Essay
* Reading for meaning and
understanding. Whats missing?

Film Clips:
~The Great Debaters
~Pep Talk video by Kid President and
speeches
~ eleven-year-old Birke Baehrs TEDx
video called Whats Wrong with Our
Food System.
~It Gets Better videos
Speeches made BY
significant persuasive historical
figures:
*President John F. Kennedy
*Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. *Patrick
Henry
*Sojourner Truth

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* Using persuasive words
* Using appropriate punctuation
~Research
* How to research for what we
need
*Citing evidence

Text Support for research:

Community:
http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/
benefits/publications/carelink/tipshee
ts/community.pdf (short article on
importance of community and how to
be a part of itaimed at adults)
Leadership
http://www.cafanet.com/LinkClick.asp
x?fileticket=qwswE8roe74%3D&tabid=
96 (chapter about the importance of
leadership)
http://www.aboutleaders.com/bid/169
732/Kids-Leadership-and-a-Community
-Experience (article for kids on
components of leadership)
Weather Storm related articles and
speeches. Weather Storm
informational videos

JAN/FEB
Literary
Essay
(FANTASY)

Q2 assessment
~On-Demand
~Rubrics
~Checklist
~Writing Goals
~Portfolios

Write an introduction
State your claim
Give reasons and evidence
Organize your writing
Acknowledge counterclaims
Use transition words
Write a conclusion
Essay Boot Camp

Thank You, Maam, by Langston

Hughes
The Gift of the Magi, by OHenry
Everything Will Be Okay, by
James Howe (the mentor text for the
Personal Narrative unit)
Freak the Geek, by John Green
Your Move, by Eve Bunting
Stray by Cynthia Rylant
FANTASY
- Rikki Tikki Tavi (mentor text)
- Rikki Tikki Tavi animated movie

FEB/MARCH
REVIEW

REVIEW
~Practice Test
~NY State Exam

REVIEW
~NY READY BOOKS
~RIFF(short answer response)
- RACE
~Argument Essay
~Persuasive Essay

REVIEW
~5th-7th
NY READY
~Engage NY
~Florida State Exam

APRIL/MAY
POETRY

ELA
~Rubrics
~Checklist
~Writing Goals
~initial assessment
consisting of
asking students to

Unit:
Writing as a poet, capturing the
sounds, images and ideas of
everyday life, while crafting a
collection of poetry that is
supported by powerful language
and purposeful images.
~Line Breaks

~collections of poetry written by

adolescents to inspire your students
~Maya Angelou
~Mentor: POPCORN
~Langston Hughes
~Nikki Giovanni
~Billy Collins
~Lucille Clifton

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revise a notebook
entry into a poem
~Q3 Portfolios

~Powerful Words
~complexity and meaning
~ 5 senses
~ Adjectives
~ Word play (alliteration)
UNIT:
Speaking Standards/
presentation
enunciation, pacing, projection,
physical presence - all of these
are key to conveying meaning
through performance

MAY/JUNE
Historical
Fiction
DIARY
ENTRIES

Q4 assessment
~On-Demand
~Rubrics
~Checklist
~Writing Goals
~Portfolios

*Journal Diary Entries

Focus:
Setting
Characters (emotion,
struggle, hardships))
Time period
Describing words
Plot
Description
Conflict
Appearance
Theme
Character Traits

~Mary Oliver
SINGERS/SONGWRITERS:
*Tupac Shakurs The Rose that Grew
* Jay-Z -memoir Decoded
from Concrete
*Alicia Keys Tears for Water:
Songbook of Poems and Lyrics
*Taylor Swift
GREAT WEBSITE FOR RESOURCE:
www.poetryfoundation.org
The Unit Suggest:
~ Paint Me Like I Am, edited by
WritersCorps. Youll want collections
of contemporary poems as well,
including perhaps
~Poetry 180, a collection of
poems for high school students, edited
by Billy Collins
~Honey I Love, by Eloise
~Greenfield This Place I Know: Poems
of Comfort, edited by Georgia Heard
Walter Dean
~Myers Here In Harlem: Poems in
Many Voices
Sample Work (Mentor)
Student Samples
Teacher Samples
Videos:
Mulan
BIG Books:
Anne Frank
Pink and Say
Henrys Freedom Box
The Wall
Dandelion
The Patchwork Quilt
Seeker of Knowledge