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 * **Month**

|| **6th Grade**

|| **7th Grade**

|| **8th Grade**

|| **Reading**

|| **Special Education** || Generations Narrative Essay || **Unit 1** Rites of Passage Narrative Essay || 1st Quarter || 3 Year Rotation 6th, 7th, 8th || || ||  ||  ||  ||  || Introduction to Google drive, google docs, google classroom || Symbolism Banned Books Week || Speed Date || Color Books The Crayon Box that Talked My Many Colored Days The Colors of the Earth || Tech Start: Introduction to Google drive, google docs, google classroom with Bucket List || Narrative Essay Circle of Life || Google Classroom: Narrative Essay RADD Leads || How to use your Planner || Pets Rikki Tikki Tavi
 * **September** || **1st Quarter -**
 * Unit 1**
 * Childhood**
 * Narrative Essay** || **Unit 1**
 * Weeks 1/2 || Library Orientation || Generations
 * Weeks 3/4 || Newbery Club

ABC Books: Chicka Chica Boom Boom Thanksgiving Books Make a hand turkey Day of the Dead || ||  || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || Figurative Language || My Perspectives Grade 8 Unit 1 Quizlet/Kahoot Introduce Poetry Terms using Quizlet and Kahoot || Scary Stories || Halloween Books Make Pumpkin Faces for Feelings ||
 * **October** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Weeks 5/6 || My Perspectives Grade 6 Unit 1 Quizlet/Kahoot || My Perspectives Grade 7 Unit 1 Quizlet/Kahoot
 * Weeks 7/8

|| Narrative Description

What’s My Genre? Bookmark Contest Book Fair Preview || What’s My Genre? Bookmark Contest Book Fair Preview || What’s My Genre? Bookmark Contest Book Fair Preview || Book Fair Genre Activity || Scholastic Booktalks ||



|| || Facing Adversity Expository Essay || **Unit 2** The Holocaust Expository Essay || 2nd Quarter || 2nd Quarter || || ||  ||  ||  ||  || || //Thanksgiving Break// || //Thanksgiving Break// || //Thanksgiving Break// || //Thanksgiving Break// || //Thanksgiving Break// || || ||  ||  ||  ||  || David Shannon Bill Peet Dav Pilkey ||  ||   ||   || || Holiday Books: Bear Stays Up Snowy Day How the Grinch Stole Christmas || || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || Anne Frank Holocaust Denial || Library Mouse || Favorite Characters:Charlie and Lola Cliford: Dogs Arthur ||
 * **November** || **2nd Quarter -**
 * Unit 2**
 * Animal Allies**
 * Expository Essay** || **Unit 5**
 * Weeks 9/10 || Book Fair || Scholastic Book Fair || Scholastic Book Fair || Scholastic Book Fair || Scholastic Book Fair ||
 * Weeks 11/12
 * **December** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Weeks 13/14 || Wonder Precepts || What's Your Problem? Realistic Fiction Booktalk: RIYL Teen Issues || Holocaust Background || New Books Book Pass || Favorite Authors:
 * Weeks 15/16 || Animal Allies NBC Learn Story || Malala Nobel Lecture || The Hangman Poem || Chrome Book Skills: Make a Holiday Greeting
 * || **Winter Break** || **Winter Break** || **Winter Break** || **Winter Break** || **Winter Break** ||
 * **January** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Weeks 17/18 || Year in Review: point of view, multiple sources || Quizlet/Kahoot Unit 5 Review || Anne Frank Connections
 * Weeks 19/20

|| Goal Setting || Martin Luther King Blackout Poetry

|| Start a Personal Journal to build a bank of narrative stories || How to find a good book: Read the Movie || Winter Books The Stranger in the Woods

|| What Matters February || 3rd Quarter February || || ||  ||  ||  ||  || Folktales Nursery Rhymes || ||  || NBC Learn: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch || Chief Joseph Research
 * **February** || **3rd Quarter -**
 * Unit 3**
 * Modern Technology**
 * Argumentative Essay** || **Unit 4**
 * People and the Planet**
 * Argumentative Essay** || **Unit 3**
 * Argumentative Essay** || 3rd Quarter
 * Weeks 21/22 ||  || Random Acts of Kindness Week || Brown vs. Board of Education: Separate is never Equal || Favorite First Lines || Fairy Tales
 * Weeks 23/24

Fake News/Website Evaluation || Sharks [|#Booksnaps] || Read Valentine Stories Make Valentines || || ||  ||  ||  ||  || The effects of technology on teens || Read Across America Week Dr. Seuss Video: The Lorax Cause/effect thinking map || Read Across America Week || Read Across America Dr. Seuss: Horton Hatches the Egg: College Promise || Dr. Seuss Books and Videos Cat in the Hat Sneetches The Lorax || Daylight Saving Time || Argumentative Essay Tablets vs. Textbooks || Ferdinand || Bugs: Quick as a Cricket Simile Ant Report || || ||  ||  ||  ||  || Exploration Argumentative Essay || **Unit 3** Turning Points Expository Essay || **Unit 4** Human Intelligence Expository Essay || 4th Quarter || 4th Quarter || || ||  ||  ||  ||  || Works Cited ||   || Intelligence Test Flowers for Algernon/Argumentative || Works Cited Joke Books || Picture books about the Environment ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || Stellaluna Elmer the Elephant Ferdinand || || ||  ||  ||  ||  || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || College Promise Book Fair Preview || Bookmark Contest Book Fair Preview || Bookmark Contest Book Fair Preview || Genre Booktalk || Bookmark Contest || || ||  ||  ||  ||  || ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||
 * **March** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Weeks 25/26 || Argumentative Essay
 * Weeks 27/28 || Technology: Using Quizlet and Kahoot to learn Unit Vocabulary || Argumentative Essay:
 * || Spring Break || Spring Break || Spring Break || Spring Break || Spring Break ||
 * April || **4th Quarter -**
 * Unit 5**
 * Weeks 29/30 || Planet Report
 * Weeks 31/32 ||  ||   || Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Scavenger Hunt || Poem in my Pocket || Animals:
 * **May** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Weeks 33/34 || Bookmark Contest
 * Weeks 35/36 || Scholastic Book Fair || Scholastic Book Fair || Scholastic Book Fair || Scholastic Book Fair || Scholastic Book Fair ||
 * **June** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Weeks 37/38 || Summer Programs LBPL || Summer Programs LBPL || Summer Programs LBPL || Summer Programs LBPL || Summer Reading: Read a summer series

book bundles ||
 * Weeks 39/40 || Closing/Inventory || Closing/Inventory || Closing/Inventory || Closing/Inventory || Closing/Inventory ||


 * Alphabetical List of Lessons**

Animal Report Ant Report Banned Books Week Bookmark Contest Booktalks Bucket List Call It Courage Children's Rights: Malala Article Annotation Color Unit Cornell Notes Dictionary Days Digital Literacy Elmer (SPED) The Hangman Poem Heroes Horton Hatches the Egg Genre Dating Game Goal Setting Great Pacific Garbage Patch Eleven by Sandra Cisneros Figurative Language Flat Stanley Immigration Report Library Mouse Martin Luther King Jr. Day Narrative Essay Newbery Club Orientation Planet Report Poem in my Pocket Read the Movie Ransom of Red Chief: Irony Lesson Short Story Writing: Parts of the Story Simile using Quick as a Cricket (Special Education or ELL) Summer Programs @Rikki Tikki Tavi The Terrible Things by Eve Bunting Thinking Maps Website Evaluation Wonder