This blog provides links to nonfiction and diverse media for lessons in the 6th grade reading program. Students in the program will expand their knowledge of topics and themes by exploring 'outside texts' related to narrative and nonfiction titles.
6.1 The Westing Game
Labels and Highlighting Directions
Realistic Fiction (Mystery) Genre Chart
Day 3 - "Ellen Raskin and The Westing Game"
Day 3 - "How the American Dream Works"
Day 13 - "Biography: Andrew Carnegie"
Day 16 - "Salem Witch Trials: The Story of the Witch Hunt"
Day 16 - "Seeds of Paranoia: The Salem Witch Trials"
Day 26 - "Andrew Carnegie - Rags to Riches, Power to Peace"
(Teachers, this video has been taken down and was a replacement to the PBS video Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World. We are working to resolve this but, in the meanwhile, here is another video link to use: How Andrew Carnegie Became the Richest Man in the World.)
Day 31 - "Napoleon Hill: Whatever the Mind Can Conceive and Believe, the Mind Can Achieve"
6.1 Book Club
The Hound of the Baskervilles Article
6.2 Children of the Dust Bowl
Labels and Highlighting Directions
Historical Nonfiction Genre Chart
Day 4 - "Sinking Deeper and Deeper"
Days 10 & 11 - "Surviving the Dust Bowl"
Days 10 & 11 - "Surviving the Dust Bowl" Transcript
Day 16 - "Dorothea Lange's Social Vision"
Day 17 - "Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936"
(Teachers, this video has been taken down from the PBS site and we are SO SAD because this is one of our favorite lessons! We are working to resolve this but, in the meanwhile, here is another video link to use: Antiques Roadshow: The Story of the Migrant Mother.)
6.2 Book Club
Historical Fiction Genre Chart
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt Setting Map
6.3 Esperanza Rising
Labels and Highlighting Directions
Historical Fiction Genre Chart
Day 2 (and Day 28) - "History of Mexico"
Day 17 - "Our Lady of Guadalupe"
Day 17 - "Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica"
Day 25 (and Day 28) - "Repatriation for Mexican & Filipino Farm Workers"
Day 29 - "Migrant Farm Workers: Our Nation's Invisible Population"
Day 30 - "A History of Mexican Americans in California: Revolution to Depression: 1900-1940
Day 31 - "United States Farmworker Factsheet"
Day 31 (optional) - "Farmworker Justice"
6.3 Book Club
Biography/Autobiography Genre Chart
Day 1 - "Surviving the Holocaust"
Day 4 - Germany and Surrounding Nations, 2016 Map
Day 4 - Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp 1944 Map
Day 15 - "The Final Solution: Jewish Life on the Brink of Death"
Day 20 - "Liberators and Survivors"