English Language Arts Grade 6
Lesson Plans

Writing Standard 4

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)

• Argumentative Writing/Religions of the World Unit
  This 14 day Unit Plan integrates the Utah Core Standards for Language Arts and for Reading and Writing in History/Social Studies with the existing Utah Social Studies Standards. The students read, research, draw conclusions, and write beginning level argumentative essays comparing/contrasting major world religions. For a more thorough summary see the Background For Teachers section.
• Argumentative Writing/WWI & WWII Unit
  In this 28 day unit, students will gain background information on historic wars, compare different genres' presentations of events, recognize different points of view, research an essential question, compile evidence, create warrants that lead to a claim which answers the essential question, and write an argumentative essay.

  Cheryl Dominguez helped to crystallize the Essential Question #2 Graphic Organizer idea.

• Graphic Organizers Bring About Good Science Read/Writng
  This activity emphasizes the importance of teaching reading and writing strategies for students to use with informational text.
• Text Structures-Informational Writing/Mesopotamia Unit
  This 18 day unit explicitly teaches text structures, summary, text features, reading informational text about Mesopotamia, and writing a book about Mesopotamia. Instruction moves from high scaffolding to moderate scaffolding to independent practice as students become familiar with the various text structures, how to identify them, what graphic organizer will work with each text structure, how to use notes recorded in graphic organizers to write summaries, and how to compile an informational book. Mesopotamia is the content used as an anchor.

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