6th Grade Resources
The Read Side by Side Reading Program
6.1 Read-Aloud
Day 3 - Ellen Raskin and The Westing Game
Day 3 - The Origins of the American Dream
Day 7 - Timeline of Samuel Westing's Life
Day 9 - Suspects List Organizer
Day 13 - Biography: Andrew Carnegie
Day 16 - Video: What Happened During the Salem Witch Trials
Day 16 - Seeds of Paranoia: The Salem Witch Trials
Day 20 - The Last Will and Testament of Samuel Westing
Day 26 - Video: How Andrew Carnegie Became the Richest Man in the World
Day 31 - Video: Napoleon Hill: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve
Day 31 - Transcript: Napoleon Hill: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve
6.1 Book Club
Maps and Outside Sources
When You Reach Me
Why the Wrinkle in Time Movie Will Change Hollywood
The London Eye Mystery
Siobhan Dowd: A Shining Talent Who Tragically Ran Out of Time
4 Things You Need to Know About the Guggenheim Mystery
The Hound of the Baskervilles
6.2 Read-Aloud
Day 1 - Genre Chart -Historical Nonfiction
Day 4 - Video: What Are Stocks
Day 4 - Sinking Deeper and Deeper: 1929-33
Day 6 - Corrected P. 72 Important Events List
Days 10 & 11 - Surviving the Dust Bowl (Vimeo)
- Surviving the Dust Bowl (Daily Motion)
Days 10 & 11 - Surviving the Dust Bowl (Print Transcript here)
Day 16 - Dorothea Lange's Social Vision
Day 17 - Introduction: Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother
Day 17 - Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936
6.2 Book Club
Genre Chart - Historical Fiction
Day 3 - Video: Disney American Presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Maps and Outside Sources:
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
Biography for Kids: Amelia Earhart
Children Turn to the President and First Lady for Help
Sylvia & Aki
World War II for Kids: Japanese Interment Camps
Righting a Wrong: Mendez vs. Westminster
Out of the Dust
6.3 Read-Aloud
Day 1 - Genre Chart - Historical Fiction
Day 17 - Video: Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica
Day 17 - Our Lady of Guadalupe
Day 25 - Video: Hugs Not Walls
Day 25 - Repatriation of Mexican & Filipino Farmworkers
Day 28 - Opinion Essay Prompt & Notes
Day 30 - A History of Mexican Americans in California
6.3 Book Club
Maps and Outside Sources:
Four Perfect Pebbles
Day 1 - Video: Surviving the Holocaust
Day 4 - Germany and Surrounding Areas Map
Day 6 - Extension: Immigration in the U.S. 1933-1941
Day 7 - Extension: Survivors Remember Kristallnacht
Day 8 - Extension: What did Refugees Need to Obtain a US Visa in the 1930's?
Day 14 - Extension: Escape from German Occupied Europe
Day 15 - Video: The Final Solution 0:00-5:44 & 11:00-13:48
Day 15 - Extension: Anne Frank Diary
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Narrative,
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Persuasive,
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Students use the novels in the reading program as mentor texts!
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