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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%
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
Turning Every
Kid Into a
Reader
Student/teacher
conferences
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
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
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
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
OCTOBER
Realistic
Fiction
**Q1 assessment
~On-Demand
~Rubrics
~Checklist
~Writing Goals
~Portfolios
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
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
Ms.Orozco
ELA6thGradeBacktoSchoolNight20162017
Email:sorozco@owncs.org
7182742902ext:113
* Using persuasive words
* Using appropriate punctuation
~Research
* How to research for what we
need
*Citing evidence
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
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
Ms.Orozco
ELA6thGradeBacktoSchoolNight20162017
Email:sorozco@owncs.org
7182742902ext:113
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
~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