English Language Arts

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English Language Arts

• Millennial Tech Middle School
• Alys Robinson
• 6th Grade

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Standards
6th Grade Standards English Language Arts  

• Literary Response and Analysis 3.4 Define how
  tone or meaning is conveyed in poetry through
  word choice, figurative language, sentence
  structure, line length, punctuation, rhythm,
  repetition, and rhyme.
• Writing Strategies 1.1 Choose the form of writing
  (e.g., personal letter, letter to the editor,
  review, poem, report, narrative) that best suits
  the intended purpose.
• Writing Strategies 1.6 Revise writing to improve
  the organization and consistency of ideas within
  and between paragraphs.

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Purpose

• Plan, organize, revise, and compose a poetic
  composition on a S.T.E.M. topic applying word
  choice, poetic devices, sentence structure, line
  length, punctuation, rhythm, repetition, and
  rhyme.
• Employ creative figurative language and common
  literary devices (symbolism, imagery, metaphor)
  in written and oral language.
• Revise writing to improve the organization and
  consistency of ideas within and between
  paragraphs (Stanzas).

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Summary

• Students participated in a week-long poetry
  workshop hosted by San Diego Border Voices, a
  collaborative project incorporating Language Arts
  standards and our magnet curricular focus of STEM
  content.
• Students read, analyzed, and evaluated
  diverse mentor texts before planning and drafting
  their original poems. While working with both
  their classroom teacher and the Border Voices
  poet-teacher, students