Weeks/ Title/Content Primary Standards Supporting Skills Assessed Length Standards of Unit Unit 3: C CCR: Assess how point of view or purpose L.6.4 Identify the three main author’s (6-8 days) Craft and Structure in shapes the content and style of a text. purposes (persuade, inform, and Informational Text SL.6.1 entertain). Standard: RI.6.6 SL.6.4 Determine an for author’s purpose Determining Point Determine an point of view or purpose author’s writing informational text. of View in in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the Cite evidence to explain how the Informational Text text. is conveyed in author’s purpose the text. Standard: W.6.1 Explain what point of view author’s Write arguments to support claims with clear means when reading informational reasons and relevant evidence. text. Determine an point of author’s view about the topic of an informational text. Cite evidence to explain how the point of view is conveyed author’s in a text. Unit 4 Weeks/ Title/Content Primary Standards Supporting Skills Assessed Length Standards of Unit Unit 4: A CCR: Interpret words and phrases as they are L.6.4 Identify different types of figurative (4-6 days) Craft and Structure in used in a text including determining technical, L.6.5 language (simile, metaphor, Literature connotative and figurative meanings and personification) in a literary text. analyze how specific word choices shape SL.6.5 Determine the meaning of Determining Word meaning or tone. figurative words and phrases in a Meaning: Figurative literary text. and Connotative Standard: RL.6.4 Distinguish between the Determine the meaning of words and phrases connotative and denotative as they are used in a text including figurative meanings of words. and connotative meanings, analyze the impact Determine the connotative of a specific word choice on meaning or tone. meaning of words and phrases in a literary text. Standard: W.6.2
Weeks/ Length of Unit Title/Content Primary Standards Supporting Standards Skills Assessed (6-8 days) Unit 3: C Craft and Structure in Informational Text Determining Point of View in Informational Text CCR: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Standard: RI.6.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text. Standard: W.6.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. L.6.4 SL.6.1 SL.6.4 Identify the three main author’s purposes (persuade, inform, and entertain). Determine an author’s purpose for writing informational text. Cite evidence to explain how the author’s purpose is conveyed in the text. Explain what author’s point of view means when reading informational text. Determine an author’s point of view about the topic of an informational text. Cite evidence to explain how the author’s point of view is conveyed in a text. Unit 4 Weeks/ Length of Unit Title/Content Primary Standards Supporting Standards Skills Assessed (4-6 days) Unit 4: A Craft and Structure in Literature Determining Word Meaning: Figurative and Connotative CCR: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text including determining technical, connotative and figurative meanings and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. Standard: RL.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text including figurative and connotative meanings, analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning or tone. Standard: W.6.2 L.6.4 L.6.5 SL.6.5 Identify different types of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification) in a literary text. Determine the meaning of figurative words and phrases in a literary text. Distinguish between the connotative and denotative meanings of words. Determine the connotative meaning of words and phrases in a literary text.