Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...
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6 th -grade Concept Requirements & Suggested Text<br />
Concepts & Reading Requirements<br />
Teachers should select texts appropriate for their students.<br />
• As a bridge between elementary and middle school, a main priority in reading at this level is to focus<br />
on genre distinctions as they relate to author’s purpose and author’s craft.<br />
• Teachers should integrate multiple concepts, themes, and genres. Suggested texts may be used to<br />
access multiple themes and genres.<br />
Universality: Search for Identity<br />
Systems: Genre: Drama<br />
Systems: Genre: Poetry<br />
Requirement: All students will read a<br />
variety of genres centering around the<br />
search for identity.<br />
Drama<br />
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)<br />
• Cheaper by the Dozen (Gilbreth)<br />
• Ten Little Indians (Alexie)<br />
Poetry<br />
• Haiku<br />
• Ballad<br />
• Limerick<br />
• Free verse<br />
• Love that Dog (Creech)<br />
Additional Texts<br />
• The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Farmer)<br />
• Esperanza Rising (Ryan)<br />
• Fever, 1793 (Anderson)<br />
• Freak the Mighty (Philbrick)<br />
• The Golden Compass (Pullman)<br />
• Hatchet (Paulsen)<br />
• Maniac Magee (Spinelli)<br />
• The Moon and I (Byars)<br />
• My Life in Dog Years (Paulsen)<br />
• Pictures of Hollis Woods (Giff)<br />
• Pirates (Rees)<br />
• Shoeshine Girl (Bulla)<br />
• A Taste of Blackberries (Smith)<br />
• A Wrinkle in Time (l’Engle)<br />
• Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)<br />
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