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Skill plan for myPerspectives Florida - 6th grade

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1	Unit 1 Where I'm From
Whole-Class Learning
Memoir: from Brown Girl Dreaming		Analyze and interpret 1. Identify the narrative point of view Study language and craft 2. Read poetry Share ideas 3. Identify sensory details
Memoir: from Brown Girl Dreaming
Analyze and interpret 1. Identify the narrative point of view Study language and craft 2. Read poetry Share ideas 3. Identify sensory details

Science Fiction: The Sand Castle		Analyze and interpret 1. Analyze short stories Study language and craft 2. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 3. Simple past, present, and future tense: review 4. Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
Science Fiction: The Sand Castle
Analyze and interpret 1. Analyze short stories Study language and craft 2. Words with un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non- 3. Simple past, present, and future tense: review 4. Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

Poetry: from Spoon River Anthology		Analyze and interpret 1. Compare and contrast points of view Study language and craft 2. Identify gerunds and their functions 3. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases
Poetry: from Spoon River Anthology
Analyze and interpret 1. Compare and contrast points of view Study language and craft 2. Identify gerunds and their functions 3. Identify infinitives and infinitive phrases

Performance Task		Write a personal narrative 1. Identify the author's purpose 2. Create varied sentences based on models 3. Correct errors with signs 4. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 5. Are the modifiers used correctly? 6. Use the correct homophone 7. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Performance Task
Write a personal narrative 1. Identify the author's purpose 2. Create varied sentences based on models 3. Correct errors with signs 4. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier 5. Are the modifiers used correctly? 6. Use the correct homophone 7. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Peer-Group Learning
Memoir: from Bad Boy		1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 3. Find synonyms in context 4. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 5. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent
Memoir: from Bad Boy
1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words 3. Find synonyms in context 4. Identify pronouns and their antecedents 5. Use the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent

Oral Storytelling: The Moth Presents: Aleeza Kazmi		1. Identify an author's statement of opinion 2. Identify supporting details in informational texts
Oral Storytelling: The Moth Presents: Aleeza Kazmi
1. Identify an author's statement of opinion 2. Identify supporting details in informational texts

Compare Within Genre
Compare Within Genre

Realistic Short Story: Prince Francis		1. Read realistic fiction 2. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters 3. Show character emotions and traits 4. Use dictionary definitions
Realistic Short Story: Prince Francis
1. Read realistic fiction 2. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters 3. Show character emotions and traits 4. Use dictionary definitions
Realistic Short Story: The Sound of Summer Running		1. Compare passages for tone 2. Use dictionary entries 3. Which definition matches the sentence?
Realistic Short Story: The Sound of Summer Running
1. Compare passages for tone 2. Use dictionary entries 3. Which definition matches the sentence?

2	Unit 2 Natural Allies
Whole-Class Learning
Autobiography: from My Life With the Chimpanzees		Analyze and interpret 1. Read about animals 2. Identify the author's purpose Study language and craft 3. Words with -able and -ible 4. Commas with series, dates, and places 5. Commas with compound and complex sentences 6. Commas with nonrestrictive elements Share ideas 7. Determine the order of events in informational texts
Autobiography: from My Life With the Chimpanzees
Analyze and interpret 1. Read about animals 2. Identify the author's purpose Study language and craft 3. Words with -able and -ible 4. Commas with series, dates, and places 5. Commas with compound and complex sentences 6. Commas with nonrestrictive elements Share ideas 7. Determine the order of events in informational texts

Compare Within Genre
Compare Within Genre

Science Article: How Smart Are Animals?		1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Select and use text features
Science Article: How Smart Are Animals?
1. Distinguish facts from opinions 2. Select and use text features
Science Article: So What is a Primate?		Analyze and interpret 1. Identify text structures 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts 3. Compare information from two texts Language development 4. Which sentence matches the definition?
Science Article: So What is a Primate?
Analyze and interpret 1. Identify text structures 2. Compare and contrast in informational texts 3. Compare information from two texts Language development 4. Which sentence matches the definition?

Performance Task		Write an expository essay 1. Choose the best topic sentence 2. Choose the best concluding sentence 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 4. Which sentence is more formal? 5. Remove the sentence that does not belong 6. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? 7. Use the correct frequently confused word
Performance Task
Write an expository essay 1. Choose the best topic sentence 2. Choose the best concluding sentence 3. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 4. Which sentence is more formal? 5. Remove the sentence that does not belong 6. Is it a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on? 7. Use the correct frequently confused word
Peer-Group Learning
Poetry collection 1: Sonnet; I Understand - A Villanelle		1. Find words using context 2. Label the rhyme scheme
Poetry collection 1: Sonnet; I Understand - A Villanelle
1. Find words using context 2. Label the rhyme scheme

Myth: The Tale of the Hummingbird		1. Use key details to determine the main idea 2. Match the quotations with their themes 3. Use thesaurus entries 4. Identify dependent and independent clauses
Myth: The Tale of the Hummingbird
1. Use key details to determine the main idea 2. Match the quotations with their themes 3. Use thesaurus entries 4. Identify dependent and independent clauses

Biography: Black Cowboy, Wild Horses		1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meanings of similes 3. Interpret figures of speech
Biography: Black Cowboy, Wild Horses
1. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 2. Determine the meanings of similes 3. Interpret figures of speech

3	Unit 3 Technology and Society
Whole-Class Learning
Science Fiction: Feathered Friend		Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the themes of short stories Study language and craft 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Share ideas 3. Identify an author's statement of opinion 4. Choose evidence to support a claim
Science Fiction: Feathered Friend
Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the themes of short stories Study language and craft 2. Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots Share ideas 3. Identify an author's statement of opinion 4. Choose evidence to support a claim

Compare Across Genres
Compare Across Genres

Informational Article: The Biometric Body		Analyze and interpret 1. Read about science and nature 2. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Study language and craft 3. Describe the difference between related words 4. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Informational Article: The Biometric Body
Analyze and interpret 1. Read about science and nature 2. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements Study language and craft 3. Describe the difference between related words 4. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Argumentative Essay: Biometrics Are Not Better		Analyze and interpret 1. Trace an argument 2. Compare information from two texts Study language and craft 3. Identify prepositions 4. Identify prepositions and their objects 5. Identify prepositional phrases
Argumentative Essay: Biometrics Are Not Better
Analyze and interpret 1. Trace an argument 2. Compare information from two texts Study language and craft 3. Identify prepositions 4. Identify prepositions and their objects 5. Identify prepositional phrases

Media Video: The Internet of Things		Analyze and interpret 1. Read graphic organizers Share ideas 2. Distinguish facts from opinions
Media Video: The Internet of Things
Analyze and interpret 1. Read graphic organizers Share ideas 2. Distinguish facts from opinions

Performance Task		Write an argumentative essay 1. Identify supporting details in informational texts 2. Identify counterclaims 3. Correct errors in everyday use 4. Prepositions: review 5. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters 6. Correct capitalization errors
Performance Task
Write an argumentative essay 1. Identify supporting details in informational texts 2. Identify counterclaims 3. Correct errors in everyday use 4. Prepositions: review 5. Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, and interrupters 6. Correct capitalization errors
Peer-Group Learning
Reflective Essay: Is Our Gain Also Our Loss?		1. Identify the author's purpose 2. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 3. Use relative adverbs
Reflective Essay: Is Our Gain Also Our Loss?
1. Identify the author's purpose 2. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that 3. Use relative adverbs

Persuasive Essay: The Black Hole of Technology		1. Classify logical fallacies 2. Find antonyms in context
Persuasive Essay: The Black Hole of Technology
1. Classify logical fallacies 2. Find antonyms in context

Science Fiction: The Fun They Had		1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 2. Draw inferences from a text 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue
Science Fiction: The Fun They Had
1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word 2. Draw inferences from a text 3. Formatting quotations and dialogue

Photo Essay: Mexico's Abandoned Railways and the SEFT-1		1. Read about business and technology 2. Select and use text features 3. Identify and correct plagiarism
Photo Essay: Mexico's Abandoned Railways and the SEFT-1
1. Read about business and technology 2. Select and use text features 3. Identify and correct plagiarism

4	Unit 4 The Power of Imagination
Whole-Class Learning
Drama: The Phantom Tollbooth, Act I		Analyze and interpret 1. Summarize a story 2. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters 3. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Study language and craft 4. Read drama 5. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 6. Positive and negative connotation 7. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 8. Identify coordinating conjunctions 9. Identify subordinating conjunctions 10. Fill in the missing correlative conjunction
Drama: The Phantom Tollbooth, Act I
Analyze and interpret 1. Summarize a story 2. Use actions and dialogue to understand characters 3. Is the sentence declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory? Study language and craft 4. Read drama 5. Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 6. Positive and negative connotation 7. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 1 8. Identify coordinating conjunctions 9. Identify subordinating conjunctions 10. Fill in the missing correlative conjunction

Drama: The Phantom Tollbooth, Act II		Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 2. Compare and contrast characters Share ideas 3. Compare and contrast points of view
Drama: The Phantom Tollbooth, Act II
Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the meaning of idioms from context: set 2 2. Compare and contrast characters Share ideas 3. Compare and contrast points of view

Performance Task		Write a short story 1. Add imagery to stories 2. Create varied sentences based on models 3. Use coordinating conjunctions 4. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions 5. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
Performance Task
Write a short story 1. Add imagery to stories 2. Create varied sentences based on models 3. Use coordinating conjunctions 4. Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions 5. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
Peer-Group Learning
Retelling: from The Misadventures of Don Quixote		1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex? 3. Use the correct subject or verb
Retelling: from The Misadventures of Don Quixote
1. Identify the narrative point of view 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, or complex? 3. Use the correct subject or verb

Compare poetry: Jabberwocky; The Mock Turtle's Song		1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Find words using context
Compare poetry: Jabberwocky; The Mock Turtle's Song
1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Find words using context

Reflective Essay: The Importance of Imagination		1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 2. Identify appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos in advertisements 3. Compare and contrast in informational texts 4. Match causes and effects in informational texts
Reflective Essay: The Importance of Imagination
1. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context 2. Identify appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos in advertisements 3. Compare and contrast in informational texts 4. Match causes and effects in informational texts

5	Unit 5 Exploration
Whole-Class Learning
Memoir: from A Long Way Home		Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Read about famous places Study language and craft 3. Choose between the past tense and past participle 4. Use the perfect verb tenses 5. Form the perfect verb tenses Share ideas 6. Choose evidence to support a claim 7. Identify supporting details in literary texts
Memoir: from A Long Way Home
Analyze and interpret 1. Determine the main idea of a passage 2. Read about famous places Study language and craft 3. Choose between the past tense and past participle 4. Use the perfect verb tenses 5. Form the perfect verb tenses Share ideas 6. Choose evidence to support a claim 7. Identify supporting details in literary texts

Compare Across Genres
Compare Across Genres

Informational Text: If Apollo 11 Had Failed		Analyze and interpret 1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 2. Compare two texts with different genres Study language and craft 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Informational Text: If Apollo 11 Had Failed
Analyze and interpret 1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 2. Compare two texts with different genres Study language and craft 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Poem: The Soldier		Analyze and interpret 1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 2. Compare two texts with different genres Study language and craft 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Poem: The Soldier
Analyze and interpret 1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source 2. Compare two texts with different genres Study language and craft 3. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

Media Video: BBC Science Club: All About Exploration		Analyze and interpret 1. Draw inferences from a text
Media Video: BBC Science Club: All About Exploration
Analyze and interpret 1. Draw inferences from a text

Performance Task		Write a formal research paper 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Organize information by topic 3. Which is a thesis statement? 4. Suggest appropriate revisions 5. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 6. Identify and correct plagiarism
Performance Task
Write a formal research paper 1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Organize information by topic 3. Which is a thesis statement? 4. Suggest appropriate revisions 5. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) 6. Identify and correct plagiarism
Peer-Group Learning
Biography: Ada and the Thinking Machines		1. Analogies 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 3. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
Biography: Ada and the Thinking Machines
1. Analogies 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs 3. Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots

Short Story: The King of Mazy May		1. Identify story elements 2. Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 3. Use dictionary entries
Short Story: The King of Mazy May
1. Identify story elements 2. Use the meanings of words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots 3. Use dictionary entries

Compare Across Genres
Compare Across Genres

Fiction: from Sacajawea		1. Classify figures of speech 2. Read historical fiction 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Fiction: from Sacajawea
1. Classify figures of speech 2. Read historical fiction 3. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Nonfiction: from Lewis and Clark		1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects 2. Read historical fiction with illustrations
Nonfiction: from Lewis and Clark
1. Compare illustrations of literary and historical subjects 2. Read historical fiction with illustrations

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