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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 />

© <strong>Albemarle</strong> <strong>County</strong> Public Schools, May 2006 38

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