English 6 / Encounters 6
Unit 1: Testing Our Limits -
What do we do when life gets hard?
Reading
Eleven
The Magic Marker Mystery
The Mighty Miss Malone
Grammar
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Pronouns, and Verbs
Capitalization
Writing
Narrative Writing - "An Unexpected Challenge"
Unit 2: In the Dark - How do you know what to do when there are no instructions?
Reading
The Lightning Thief
Fever 1793
"An American Plague"
Grammar
Parts of Speech: Adjectives and Adverbs
Punctuation
Writing
TPSP
Unit 3:
Reading
Grammar
Writing
Unit 4: Testing Our Limits - How do relationships shape us?
Reading
"We're on the Same Team"
Choice Read*
Grammar
Parts of Speech: Prepositions
Phrases and Clauses
Writing
Research*
*Students will choose a person to research that invented something or did something that changed the world. Students will have book conferences with their teacher about their book.