Unit 1 – Growing Up (4 Weeks) Suggested Text (Examples of text) contains lessons using these and other texts Fiction by Sandra Cisneros (Textbook * +) “Eleven” of the by Norma Fox Mazer (Textbook * +) “Tuesday Other June” Summer In a by Ray Bradbury (Textbook * +) “All Day” Poetry by Emily Bronte “Past, Present, Future” by Eleanor Farjeon (Textbook +) “The Quarrel” Non-Fiction Vicious Sixth Grade by Carole Currie (Asheville Sept. 2, 1998) “The Game” Citizen Times, I Really Need to Know I Learned In by Robert Fulghum (Textbook +) “All Kindergarten” Problem with by Sean Price (Textbook *) “The Bullies” Other Media (Film 1971) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Clip from X Factor (Film 2004) Finding Neverland by Bob Dylan (Song Lyrics) “Forever Young” of by Greenday (Song Lyrics) “Time Your Life” by The Birds (Song Lyrics) “Turn, Turn, Turn” by Taylor Swift (Song Lyrics) “Never Grow Up” by Miranda Lambert (Song Lyrics) “The House That Built Me” Textbooks Referenced: * Grade 6, Holt McDougal, 2012 + Grade 6, McDougal Littell, 2006 Literature The Language of Literature
Unit 1 – Growing Up (4 Weeks) Suggested Text (Examples of text) contains lessons using these and other texts Fiction “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros (Textbook * +) “Tuesday of the Other June” by Norma Fox Mazer (Textbook * +) “All Summer In a Day” by Ray Bradbury (Textbook * +) Poetry “Past, Present, Future” by Emily Bronte “The Quarrel” by Eleanor Farjeon (Textbook +) Non-Fiction “The Vicious Sixth Grade Game” by Carole Currie (Asheville Citizen Times, Sept. 2, 1998) “All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten” by Robert Fulghum (Textbook +) “The Problem with Bullies” by Sean Price (Textbook *) Other Media Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Film 1971) Clip from X Factor Finding Neverland (Film 2004) “Forever Young” by Bob Dylan (Song Lyrics) “Time of Your Life” by Greenday (Song Lyrics) “Turn, Turn, Turn” by The Birds (Song Lyrics) “Never Grow Up” by Taylor Swift (Song Lyrics) “The House That Built Me” by Miranda Lambert (Song Lyrics) Textbooks Referenced: * Literature Grade 6, Holt McDougal, 2012 + The Language of Literature Grade 6, McDougal Littell, 2006
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