SYLLABUS
PETTIT 1st Quarter - 6th grade Language Arts
Progress Monitoring - Think Link
Writing Prompt (Expository)
How to write an essay (organization, transitions, parts)
AR READING
Read Aloud - Dark Life
Comprehension Test on Short Stories
Six Way Paragraphs - Comprehension
Grammar and Usage - Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Simple and Compound Sentences, Capitalization
Prefixes
Literature - Plot, conflict, setting, character, and point of view
" The Big Bad Pig" - compare and contrast
"Dragon, Dragon"
"The Lawyer and the Ghost"
"The School Play"
"The Good Deed"
"Eleven"
"Ghost of the Lagoon"
"Lob's Girl"
and several other short stories
Test on Plot, Conflict, Setting
Test on Character & Point of View
Main Idea & Author's Purpose
1st QUARTER EXAM (20 % of your grade)
Sunshine State Standards used:
ALL
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PETTIT 2nd Quarter
AR READING
Progress Monitoring - Think Link assessment
Writing (Persuasive)
Six Way Paragraphs
Suffixes
Read Aloud - TBA
Grammar and Usage - verbs & averbs, synonyms/antonyms, finding information
Tropicana Speech Contest
Literature - Theme, Mood, Tone, and Style
"Exploring the Titanic"
"The Loch Ness Monster"
"The Stone"
"The Dog of Pompeii"
and several other short stories
Test on Theme
Main Idea and Author's purpose
2nd QUARTER EXAM (20 % of your grade)
Sunshine State Standards used:
ALL
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PETTIT 3rd Quarter
AR READING
Read Aloud - TBA
Progress Monitoring - Think Link assessment
Grammar and Usage - verb tense, interjections, conjunctions, prepositions
Latin roots
Tropicana Speech Contest
F-CAT practice test
Prefixes / Suffixes / Root Words
Comprehension Test on Short Stories
Poetry Unit - poems TBA
Six Way Paragraphs
Writing Prompts
Short Stories - " The All American Slurp" and "The Jacket"
Test on author's tone
Test on Poetry
TROPICANA SPEECH CONTEST
3rd QUARTER EXAM (20 % of your grade)
Sunshine State Standards used:
ALL
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PETTIT 4th Quarter
AR READING
Progress Monitoring - Think Link assessment
Writing Prompts
Drama (play) "The Phantom Tollbooth"
Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales - TBA
Greek Roots
Grammar and Usage - review 8 parts of speech
Stories and test on myths
4th QUARTER EXAM (20 % of your grade)
Sunshine State Standards Used:
ALL
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