Literacy

**Grade 6**

 * During this cycle, the students will** collaborate with a team in a socially responsible fashion to compare/contrast cultures by responding to a variety of literature related to the collection theme – “//M////oments of Truth//”. Students will practice constructing meaning from text by making predictions, interpreting plot (conflict and character), summarizing key ideas/concepts, and using context clues to determine unfamiliar words. Students will learn to analyze the author’s use of simile. Students will use the writing process to compose an autobiographical incident.
 * Compare & Contrast**
 * Understating [|Compare & Contast]


 * Context Clues**
 * [|Level 1] Ten questions online/scoring
 * [|Level 2] Ten questions online/scoring
 * [|Quiz] online scoring
 * [|Game]


 * Simile**s
 * [|Definition and samples]
 * [|A Fun Way to Teach Similies]
 * Online [|quiz] with answers
 * [|Simile of the Day]


 * Autobiographical Incident**
 * READ Write Think- [|Writing and Assessing an Autobiographical Incident]

**Grade 7**
** Laptop Lesson Activity: ** [|Setting Activity]
 * During this cycle, the students** will act as lifelong learners collaborating with team members and building relationships while working on individual as well as team projects, presentations and performance tasks. The students will learn to analyze the relationships among characters, setting, plot, and theme in a variety of literature. Students will use the writing process to compose a narrative story.
 * Verbs**
 * For Review- State of Being quiz .............Helping Verb [|Quiz] ................Action Verbs [|quiz]
 * Ten Question Verb[| Quiz]
 * List of 600 regular [|verbs]
 * Laptop Lesson Activity: ** [|Definition] [|Characteristics of a Narrative]

**Grade 8**
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 * During this cycle, the goal of my teaching is that students will ** act responsibly while building collaborative relationships with individuals representing diverse cultures. They will construct meaning from text by determining the main idea, summarizing key details and events, evaluating the narrative element plot (conflict), interpreting figurative language, and using reading strategies to monitor their comprehension. Students will apply context clues to derive meaning of unfamiliar words as they develop a robust vocabulary and will read a variety of genre including selections from __African American Literature__. They will select, compose, revise, and edit an autobiographical incident.
 * Context Clues**
 * [|Level 1] Ten questions online/scoring
 * [|Level 2] Ten questions online/scoring
 * [|Quiz] online scoring
 * [|Game]


 * Autobiographical Incident**
 * READ Write Think- [|Writing and Assessing an Autobiographical Incident]

Week 3 & Week 4 - [|Flowers for Algernon]