Our Sixth Grade Curriculum
Unit 4: Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
Skills
Story Elements
Comprehension
Strategies
Non-Fiction: Speech
Realistic Fiction
Fantasy/Myth
HIstorical Fiction
Cause and Effect
Main Idea and Details
Context Clues
Figurative Language
Calendar of Lessons
These calendars are tentative and subject to change.
updated 9/23/14
Vocabulary for Sixth Grade
admonish
advocate
align
allusion
analyze
annotate
anticipates
anticipation
archery
archetype
ascend
bellow
bestow
blemish
boarding
bottersweet
cause
centaur
challenge
chaotic
cherish
cite
claim
clarify
cliffhanger
cloven
compare
compulsively
conclusion
consider
contrast
convention
convey
crucial
delinquents
dialogue
discouraged
disgorge
diverge
dreaded
ecstatic
effect
elements
emanations
embark
embedded
engulfs
evaluate
evidence
excerpt
fate
feats
finicky
flashback
foreshadow
forged
fortitude
gaping
Gestures
gist
gloating
greed
hallucinations
idealistic
idol
imagery
imitating
impatiently
implications
imprisoned
indifferent
infamous
inference
instincts
integrate
intentionally
intercepted
intrusion
intuition
irritable
journey
karma
laments
languished
lavished
legacy
loathe
maniac
manifest
manipulation
mortal
naively
nonchalantly
nonperishable
obligation
obligation
offerings
olden
ordeal
origins
overhead
pandemonium
paraphrase
patron
pavillion
perfunctory
perilous
perseverence
pivitol
plunked
predicament
prediction
prefix
preposterous
probation
prophecy
protruding
pursue
quiver
reasoning
recoil
reference
reflect
relented
repetition
replicas
resent
resented
retaliated
satyr
scythe
seething
segregation
shrouded
smatter
solemnly
solitude
solstice
spirited
stalk
stoic
structure
stunning
stupefied
suffice
supernatural
suspense
suspicious
tension
theme
theories
topic
torrential
tranformed
trial
unbeknownst
unexpectedly
univerasal
unpredictable
vaporize
visualize
worship
writhing