Sixth Grade
This is an important year for you not just as a new junior high school student but as a person who is a part of a family, a friend and as an individual making your own way in the world. You have so much to look forward to and learn in this beautiful life...you are a young adult now making important choices every day. You have the power to decide which path you will take, let's start the year off strong AND finish strong!
We will:
We will:
- read and analyze various fiction and non-fiction books, essays, articles and short stories throughout the year
- work on reading comprehension, literary response and analysis
- study various types of poetry as well as memorize poems
- work on vocabulary development
- study the writing process and various writing strategies
- write different types of compositions such as narrative, expository, persuasive, research papers and literary responses
- discuss and study written and oral English language conventions
- work on listening and speaking strategies as well as speaking applications