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We Built This City
Unit Overview
WE BUILT THIS CITY
| 6th grade |
| 6 lessons |
| Students learn to
identify and explain grade level appropriate figurative language
through reading a number of fiction, nonfiction and poetry
selections. |
| Students use
conventions of capitalization for proper nouns and proper
adjectives, use apostrophes in irregular and plural possessives,
and quotation marks in dialogue. |
| This unit consists of six
lessons. To connect all the skills and knowledge
students work on a project throughout the unit known as “We
Built This City”. The end product is a script for a commercial
encouraging people to visit or to live in the student’s city.
The work from each of the first five lessons provides the
prewriting/writing for the dialogue or script that is the
culminating activity of this unit. Some of the activities in
this unit provide opportunities for cross-curricular studies,
especially with art and technology/computer classes. |
| Handouts including graphic
organizers |
| Formative and Summative
Assessment |
| Glossary |
Unit
Plan: Lessons
| Pretest and Present Project |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| What's Proper |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| Does this Belong to You? |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| Snappy Solutions, Sizzling
Sentences: understanding figurative language in poems, prose,
fiction, and nonfiction |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| Dazzling Dialogue |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
| Come to My City |
Word |
HTML (with links to
documents) |
Essential
Questions:
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How does the use of Standard English affect overall
communication? |
| How do figurative language/literary devices contribute to
the understanding of written and spoken communication? |
| What organizations, businesses and institutions will a
student include in an ideal city? |
| How will students describe their idea cities? |
Summative Assessment and
Scoring Guides:
instructions
Replace the next sentence with whatever
information about summative assessment is in the unit
-- Students complete selected response, constructed response, and performance
event portions of the assessment over the course of two days.
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PREVIOUS LEARNING |
TARGETED LEARNING |
FUTURE LEARNING |
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R2B:
Identify and explain figurative language in poetry and prose,
including metaphor, simile personification and sensory details. |
R2B:
Identify and explain figurative
language in poetry, prose, and nonfiction with an emphasis on
onomatopoeia and alliteration. |
R2B:
Identify and explain figurative language in poetry, prose, and
nonfiction with an emphasis on imagery, hyperbole, and
symbolism. |
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W2B:
Use conventions of capitalization in written text in titles and
proper nouns (departments of government, school subjects) |
W2B:
Use conventions of
capitalization in written text focusing on proper nouns (team
names, companies, school, and institutions), proper adjectives,
and the first word of direct quotations.
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W2B:
Use conventions of capitalizations in written text in titles
(magazines, songs, newspapers, and work of art) and proper nouns
(brand names of products, and nationalities). |
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W2C:
Compose text using commas in compound sentences and apostrophes
in singular possessives. |
W2C:
In composing text, use
apostrophe in irregular and plural possessives and use quotation
marks in dialogue, with assistance. |
W2C:
In
composing text, use comma rules for punctuating various sentence
structures, correct format in writing titles, quotation marks in
dialogue, and colons I business letters salutations. |
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W2E:
In
writing, correctly spell grade-level frequently used words, use
spelling strategies and patterns, and classroom resources and
dictionaries to verify correct spelling. |
W2E:
In writing, use correct spelling
of grade-level frequently used words, and classroom resources
and dictionary to verify correct spelling. |
W2E:
In
writing, use dictionaries, spell check, and other resources to
spell correctly. |
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