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English · Grade 6
Learners analyze words the way linguists do: they use Greek and Latin roots such as aud, vis, script, ject and cred, choose the right meaning of multiple-meaning words with context and a dictionary entry, compare the connotations of words with similar definitions, and use word relationships to solve analogies.
English · Grade 6
Learners read an original story about a boy who signs up for a robotics team and then crosses his name off, plus a short science article about how ants find food. They annotate with purpose, cite evidence with signal phrases, explain inferences using claim, evidence and commentary, and choose the strongest evidence for an analysis.
English · Grade 6
Learners follow an original story about a girl who refuses to explore her new neighborhood until a tree survey changes her mind, and study Robert Frost's public-domain poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” They map plot episodes and character change, trace how details develop a theme across a text, explain what particular sentences, scenes and lines contribute to the whole, and write objective summaries.
English · Grade 6
Learners read one classroom mishap told by three different narrators, a storm description full of figurative language, Carl Sandburg's public-domain poem “Fog,” and two very different descriptions of the same cafeteria. They identify points of view and what each narrator can know, interpret similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole, analyze how word choice creates tone and mood, and rewrite a scene from a new perspective.
English · Grade 6
Learners read an original article about Louis Braille and the six-dot reading system he developed as a teenager. They determine its central idea and the details that convey it, analyze how the author introduces, illustrates and elaborates key ideas, explain what each section and sentence contributes to the structure, and write objective summaries. A new article about cool roofs checks transfer.
English · Grade 6
Learners trace and evaluate two fictional opinion pieces about phones and devices in school: one by a teacher and one by a marketing director for a tablet company. They outline claims, reasons and evidence, separate supported claims from unsupported ones, explain how word choice and selected details reveal an author's point of view and purpose, and consider how a source's interests can shape an argument.
English · Grade 6
Using an original mentor story about a girl baking her grandfather's cornbread from a smudged recipe card, learners study advanced narrative techniques: openings that establish context and a narrator, dialogue that reveals character and moves the plot, the difference between scene and summary, transitions that signal a flashback and a return, and endings that reflect. They then draft a narrative with a time shift.
English · Grade 6
Learners study an original model essay that explains the main families of clouds, then write their own explanatory essay. They choose organizational strategies (definition, classification, comparison and cause and effect), develop ideas with facts, examples, quotations and a table, connect ideas with transitions and precise vocabulary, keep a formal style and write a conclusion that does more than repeat.
English · Grade 6
Learners write an argument about whether a fictional middle school should start a composting and recycling program, using a set of sources that vary in credibility. They write a precise claim, organize reasons and evidence, choose credible and relevant evidence and cite it, explain how evidence supports each reason, use transitions and a formal style, and conclude in a way that follows from the argument.
English · Grade 6
Learners use grammar to make writing clear and engaging. They choose pronouns in the correct case and use intensive pronouns, fix shifts in pronoun number and person and vague pronouns, punctuate extra information with commas, parentheses and dashes, and revise paragraphs by varying sentence length, openings and structure while keeping a consistent style and tone.
English · Grade 6
Learners research the question of whether school gardens help students eat more vegetables, using a set of fictional sources that range from a university study to a company blog. They refocus a research question, choose search strategies, judge credibility by reading laterally, quote and paraphrase data and conclusions without overstating them, and record sources in a consistent bibliographic format.
English · Grade 6
Learners prepare for and analyze a student seminar about the role of modern zoos, practise asking and answering questions with elaboration and paraphrasing different perspectives, plan a clear presentation with a helpful visual, and curate a portfolio of their year's writing with a reflection that uses evidence from their own work.
