Fiction-Non+Fiction+Unit


 * Fiction/ Non Fiction 6th Grade Unit **

[|interactive author's purpose practice] [|inferences/predictions] [|setting practice] [|Theme practice] Bud Not Buddy -Intro Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5nT-SSw_3c&feature=related
 * Unit Study Guide /Benchmark **


 * Focus: Symbolism (Comparing The Sound of Summer Running, Eleven and Bud, Not Buddy) **


 * [[file:lesson outline 3-5 through 3-9.doc]] We will be done w/ Bud Not Buddy wk of 3/12 [[file:Vocabulary-revised.doc]] **


 * Writing Assignment- Week 3/5-3/9 **

**I was very much inspired by the writing assignment that you developed for gr 7/8 cls**

Focus: Fiction week of 2/27 Lessons outline for wk 2/27 (a work in progress):

Reviewing elements of fiction through familiar movies and stories. We will also continue to read aloud Bud Not Buddy and complete story board chart and interactive plot diagram. We have not read enough and some students are having trouble following Bud to rely on this book alone.

Cinderella Story/song clip
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ucno0rUZw**

5 elements of a story rap
 * http://flocabulary.com/fivethings/**

Elements of fiction Power point

Literary Elements Packet/Homework /classwork and Bud Not Buddy classwork/hw to be added



Compare/Contrast



Cause/Effect



Student Grades (a work in progress-correcting): as of 2/25

Unit Plan lesson for 2/9

wk 2/6-2/10 WKLY Lesson plans/outline wk of 1/30-2/3


 * info on portion of lesson that is coming up on class wiki:**
 * As part of our Fiction/Nonfiction unit __students__ will be immersed in the 1930's/ the Great Depression through literature, vocabulary, writing, music, video and pictures. To help __students__ understand the cause/ effects and the events of the Great Depression they will be reading //Bud, Not Buddy// by Christopher Paul Curtis. This portion of the unit will include a wide variety of lessons and activites in the area of language arts, drama and socail studies. Students will continue to participate in writing open response entries, daily reading assignments (both in and out of class) and weekly short __essay writing__ assignments.**


 * Weekly lesson plan 1/23:**




 * HW for 1/23:**







Images of 1930's











Brainpop Video/Activities on Great __Depression__ (login: bay path/hatch) [|Great Depression]

Brainpop Video/Activites on martin Luther King Jr. (persuasive speaker) [|Martin Luther King Jr]




 * List __of Possible People/Biographies__ **

Amelia Earhart-**pilo**t Herbert Hoover-**president** Franklin D. Roosevelt-**president** Elanore Roosevelt-**first lady**

Charles Lindberg-**avaitor** Louis Armstrong-**musician (jazz)**

Babe Ruth-**baseball player**

John Steinbeck-**author** Dorothea Lange**-photographer, photojournalist** Jesse Owens**-athlete** Walt Disney**