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:
| 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.
PREVIOUS LEARNING |
TARGETED LEARNING |
FUTURE LEARNING |
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. |
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). |
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. |
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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