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6.1 |
Characters Facing Challenges |
In this unit, the student reads narrative texts about challenges that characters encounter in stories. The student applies reading and vocabulary strategies to help him/her understand what he/she read and he/she uses the writing process to create narrative writings. |
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6.2 |
Non-Fiction Study: Challenges Facing Communities |
In this unit, the student reads expository texts about challenges faced by communities. He/she learns and uses reading and writing strategies specific to expository texts. |
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6.3 |
Non-Fiction Study: Newspapers and Current Events |
In this unit, the student further explores the genre of non-fiction by studying newspapers and reporting on challenges facing his/her community. He/she examines the differences between fact and opinion through comparing news and editorial articles. The student creates his/her own classroom newspaper publication, complete with news reporting, editorials, and interviews of community or school leaders who are tackling challenges faced by the community. |
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6.4 |
Memoirs: Exploring Personal Challenges |
In this unit, the student explores the genre of memoirs through reading memoirs of individuals who faced challenges in their lives. He/she is introduced to several prewriting strategies as he/she brainstorms ideas for his/her own personal memoir about his/her childhood. The student experiences the writing process in-depth as he/she drafts, revises, and publishes his/her childhood memoirs. |
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6.5 |
Exploring Poetry |
In this unit, the student analyzes how poets express their everyday challenges through their poems. The student reads and writes poems about everyday experiences. |
