Grade 6 (MS) - Pacing Guide at a Glance Language Arts Writing

Grade 6 (MS) -
Second Nine Weeks
First Nine Weeks
Instruct.
time
Pacing Guide at a Glance
Language Arts
Writing
Discuss types of writings
Prewriting techniques
5w’s/Pars of speech
Punctuate/Sentence
Sentence variety
Capitalization
Prior knowledge to make pred.
-Plot, setting, conflict, theme,
character development
Western Expansion
Reconstruction
-Infer, Draw Concl.
-Main Idea, Summ
Practice Narrative Writing
Immigration
Compare/Contrast, Cause/Effect
Narrative Essay
Industrialization
Fic/NF main Idea/Plot
Parts of Speech Review
Rev: 5w’s/Prewriting
Indust./Electrification
Electrification
5 Paragraph Form
Progressive Movement
Text Structure / Features
Fact/Opinion/Author’s Purpose
Revisions, Editing
Reference Materials
Compare/Contrast, Cause/Effect
Review: Text Structure / Feature,
Authors Purpose
F / NF / P Poetry
-Fig. Language
-Poetic Devices
-Imagery
-Poetic Forms
WWI
Elaboration
WWI/Great Migration
Roaring 20’s
st
End of 1 semester
(Total 87)
Great Depression
New Deal
WWII
Descriptive Essay
Double Negatives,
Verb Tense
Word Relations Analogies
Media Messages
6.1 a-d, 6.2 a-e,
6.3 a-c
SOL Review
Spanish-American War
Plagiarism, etc.
Expository/Research Writing
Review
Third Nine Weeks
Intro/Pre-Test/Geography
Geography
-Tone, Authors Purp.
Winter Break
Weeks
Social Studies – USII
Post WWII
Persuasive Essay
Cold War
Cold War/Civil War
Persuasive Writing
Civil Rights
Sub. / Verb Agreement
Pronoun / Antecd
Tech Advances
Globalization
Fourth Nine
Spring Break
b Benchmark
Testing
Diagram Simple Sentences
SOL Review
Review & Practice
Types of Writing from year
Globalization
Review
SOL
nd
End of 2 Semester
Review and Testing
(Total 93)