Franklin Weekly Agenda Template (15-16)

Course Name: 6th

grade language
arts
Do Now:

Monday the 26th

Tuesday the 27th

Wednesday the 28th

Thursday the 29th

Friday the 30th

Open your yellow anthology

to page R13. Find the
definition for nonfiction.
Write down this definition
on you Do Now paper. Then
explain what that definition
means in your own words.

Vocab scavenger hunt from

Jackie Robinson:
Copy the following words
on Do Now paper: integrate,
prejudiced, petition, dignity.
Find those words on pages
422-424 (hint blue). Copy
the sentence that contains
each word on your paper.
Students will be able to
identify and define key
phrases and background
information in the short
story, Jackie Robinson:
Justice
at
Last,
by
answering the question how
would it have felt to apart of
the Negro National League
in exit ticket.

On your Do now! Paper

please list three ways that
blacks were discriminated
against in the 20s-50s. Are
these things that we ever see
today in our society?

Write what annotating is on

your Do now! Paper. How
do you think annotating
help a reader comprehend
the text?

Students will be able

to identify and define
key
phrases
and
background
information in the
short story, Jackie
Robinson: Justice at
Last, by completing
the K and W of a
KWL.

Students will be able

to analyze the key
details in the story
Jackie
Robinson:
Justice at Last by
annotating the text
according
to
the
modeling done by the
teacher.

Get out your KWL chart.

You need to fill out the L
section of the chart. (What
you learned). You need at
least 3 things that you
learned. On your Do now!
Paper please reflect on if
you learned what you
wanted to know.
Students will be able to
display their understanding
of the elements of an
effective
summary
by
developing an objective
summary of the short story,
Drive-In Movies

Objective(s):

Students will be able to

compare
and
contrast
nonfiction to fiction by
taking Cornell Notes and
then completing a Venn
Diagram.

Activities:

- Review definitions of
fiction/nonfiction. Review
types of nonfiction texts.
Think of examples of
nonfiction texts collectively.
- Students will complete a
Venn Diagram on the
similarities and differences
between fiction and
nonfiction. (pathways)
- NewsELA article, Fleeing
Cuba by boat to one day
play

- DGP
-Think-Pair-Share: the
definition of the words from
the Do Now
- Review the author
-Activity that shows
segregation string
- Background: what is the
Negro National League?
How was life in the 20s50s?
- Exit ticket

- DGP
- Finish background
information
-Prereading: What
predictions can we make
from the title, the picture,
and the vocabulary words?
- Chunking the text (Review
why this is important)
-Begin first read (if time
allows)
- KWL

-Review the importance of

annotating. State what are
purpose is for annotating (to
find theme).
-Finish the first read of
Jackie Robinson: Justice at
Last
- Focus on annotating for
key details and focus on
theme

- Finish first read

- Sequence key events
- Summary of Jackie
Robinson: Justice at Last

Homework:

Finish SSR reflection due

10/30

Finish SSR reflection due

10/30

Finish SSR reflection due

10/30

Finish SSR reflection due

10/30

Finish SSR reflection due

10/30
Finish summary Monday

Upcoming Dates:

SSR Reflection due 10/30, this Friday. Worth 50 points.

End of trimester 11/6: All work needs to be turned in by then or it is a zero!

Strategies
Implemented to

Graphic Organizer
Reading with a focus

Marking the text

Reading with a focus

Marking the text

Reading with a focus

Think-Pair-Share
Visuals

KWL
Visuals

Meet ALL
Student Needs:

Marking the text

Role Play

Sequence of event chain

Summarizing the text