Ms. O’Hara’s 6th Grade

Language Arts Class

Course Description

The sixth grade English/Language Arts curriculum will follow the Common Core State Standards for Literacy. These standards are based on four areas of study:

• Reading (literature and informational text)• Writing• Speaking and Listening • Language

To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a global society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and non-print texts in media forms old and new.

Tutoring Times

Extra help will be available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from ---------it can be arranged at either the teacher’s or student’s urging but needs to be requested with some degree of prior notice to avoid scheduling conflicts.

Late Work Policy

Homework will be written in the agenda daily. Parents are expected to check the agenda daily and make sure work is completed. If homework is not completed, students will lose a square on their Homework card.

• Late work must be turned in but will result in a loss of points. Homework is expected to be complete when class begins.

• Late homework, projects, and final draft writing will be penalized 10 points per day late.

NOVELS • D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

• Freak the Mightyby Rodman Philbrick

• Woodsongby Gary Paulsen

• The OutsidersBy S.E. Hinton

Course Overview

Quarter 1 Elements of Text

• Vocabulary• Major Genres• Main Idea/Supporting Details• Summarizing• Inferences Drawing Conclusions• Making Judgments• Context Clues• Author’s Purpose• Text Features/Organizational Patterns• Story Elements• Vocabulary • Writing Process• D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths• Grammar/Language Focus: Nouns, Verbs, Sentences

• Major GenresMajjMain Idea and Supporting Details

SummarizingInferences and Drawing ConclusionVocabulary

• Writing Process• Grammar/Language Focus: Nouns, • Verbs, Sentences

Quarter 3Nonfiction…A Deeper Look

• Biography/Autobiography• Memoirs• Personal Narratives• Primary/Secondary Sources• Text Structure and Features• Summarizing• Claim• Debate• Supporting Evidence• Argument• Bias• Perspective• Persuasive Techniques• Generalizations• Reliable vs. Unreliable Sources• Research• Writing Process• Vocabulary• Woodsong – memoir• Grammar/Language Focus: Pronouns, Word/Phrases with Multiple Meanings, Analogies

WEBSITE AND CONTACT

My email address is:marie.bellion@cms.k12.nc.us

My Website:http://pauletteohara.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/Home

You can also connect to these through a link on the Crestdale faculty page!