6th, 7th, 8th grade ELA and 6th Religion overview – 2nd Trimester 2019-2020
6th Grade ELA
Persuasive Writing
- How to create a claim
- Writing a proposal
- Research evidence and facts
- How to interpret facts and evidence
- How to debate
- How to create an opinion piece for a newspaper
- How to write a movie review
The Giver
- Literary Elements
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Vocabulary
- Chapter (Grouped) Quizzes
- Book Test
- Story Essay and Project
Into Literature Textbook
- Realistic-fiction and non-fiction selections of poems, excerpts, and short stories
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Vocabulary
- Unit Tests
Grammar
- Pronouns
- Different Types of pronouns
- Pronoun Usage
- Adjectives
- Broad range of adjectives
- Using adjectives to compare
- Special adjectives that compare adjectives
- Adverbs
- Using adverbs to modify verbs
- Using adverbs to modify adjectives and adverbs
- Using adverbs to compare
NYS Test Prep (March)
- Reading Prep
- Writing Prep
- Vocab Comprehension
7th Grade ELA
Narrative Writing
- How to create a claim
- Writing a proposal
- Research evidence and facts
- How to interpret facts and evidence
- How to debate
- How to create an advertisement (Writing)
- How to write a movie review
The Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- Literary Elements
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Vocabulary
- Chapter (Grouped) Quizzes
- Book Test
- Story Essay and Project
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Literary Elements
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Vocabulary
- Chapter (Grouped) Quizzes
- Book Test
- Story Essay and Project
Into Literature Textbook
- Poems, Excerpts, and Short Story Selections
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Vocabulary
- Unit Tests
Grammar
- Pronouns
- Different Types of pronouns
- Pronoun Usage
- Adjectives
- Broad range of adjectives
- Using adjectives to compare
- Special adjectives that compare adjectives
- Adverbs
- Using adverbs to modify verbs
- Using adverbs to modify adjectives and adverbs
- Using adverbs to compare
NYS Test Prep (March)
- Reading Prep
- Writing Prep
- Vocab Comprehension
8th Grade ELA
Narrative Writing
- How to create a claim
- Writing a proposal
- Research evidence and facts
- How to interpret facts and evidence
- How to debate
- How to create an advertisement (Video and Writing)
- How to write a movie review
Our Town
- Literary Elements
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Vocabulary
- Chapter (Grouped) Quizzes
- Book Test
- Story Essay and Project
Poetry
- Literary Elements
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Quizzes and Accumulative Tests on Poems read in Class
- Variety of Poetry Writing
Into Literature Textbook
- Poems, Excerpts, and Short Story Selections
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Vocabulary
- Unit Tests
Grammar
- Pronouns
- Different Types of pronouns
- Pronoun Usage
- Adjectives
- Broad range of adjectives
- Using adjectives to compare
- Special adjectives that compare adjectives
- Adverbs
- Using adverbs to modify verbs
- Using adverbs to modify adjectives and adverbs
- Using adverbs to compare
- Project Based Learning
- The Evolution of Light: A Series
- 6 Volume Set created by students about how our commercial use of light began and how it may evolve in the future
- The Evolution of Light: A Series
6th Grade Religion
- Foundations of Catholicism
- Prayers
- Fundamental Rules of Catholicism
- The Pathway to Adulthood (in Catholicism)
- We Believe Unit 1: Forming the Covenant
- God’s Revelation
- God’s Creation
- God’s Relationship with the People
- God’s Promise with the People
- God’s Choice in our Patriarchs
- Epiphany
- Easter
- Ash Wednesday
- Good Friday
- Holy Thursday
- Lent
- Palm Sunday
- Project Based Learning
- Retelling of the Baptism of Jesus Christ in a book form