6th grade curriculum resources and links

8/19/2019 6th Grade Curriculum Resources and Links

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6th Grade – Common Core Resources

UNIT 1 - I Won’t Grow UpLiterary Texts –

Poetry:

* “A Birthday” (Christina Rossetti) – www.bartleby.com/101/780.html

* “Past, Present, Future” (Emily Bronte) –http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Bronte/Past%20Present%20Future.htm

Stories:

* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)

* “Eleven” (Sandra Cisneros) – exemplar text – old Glencoe blue Literature textbook or online site that

includes the text and formative assessments as well as notes -

http://www.viewpdfonline.com/pdf/download/forevafound__tripod__com--eleven.pdf

PowerPoint online presentation –www.mrsmondragon.weebly.com/uploads/3/3/2/4/3324214/elements_of_a_story.ppt

* Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie) – complete text –

http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/peterpan/ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16/16-h/16-h.htm

*Peter and the Starcatchers (Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, and Greg Call)

* James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)excerpt -

http://www.bpe.org/files/MN3Eleven.pdf

memorable quotes from the story –http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116683/quotes

video clip of “Al’s Book Club for Kids” from The Today Show and excerpt from book –

http://www.today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43094612/ns/today-books/t/explore-roald-dahls-classic-

james-giant-peach/#.UAbJcmt5mSM

teaching guide –

http://www.gourmetlearning.com/Site/Novel%20Dish%20Samples_files/NDSMailerGrades4-5.pdf

* Peter and the Shadow Thieves (Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Greg Call)teaching guide –

http://cdn2.dolimg.com/explore/PMPages/DCOM/books/catalog/Printable/Peter&ShadowThieves.pdf

* The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups (David Wisniewski) - excerpt

www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780064437530

* When I Was Your Age, Volume 2: Original Stories about Growing Up (Amy Ehrlich) -

guides for reading memoirs and writing a memoir –


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www.ssla.ca/medium_articles/submissions/pdf/winter2010_pdf/memoirs_cwalter_winter2010

.pdf

www.lesn.appstate.edu/fryeem/RE5130/Memoir_Fall09.pdf

Informational Texts -

Articles :

* “Classic Story Files in Many Forms (A Peter Pan Timeline)” (Bob Minzesheimer, USA

Today, 9/1/2004)www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-09-01-peter-pan-timeline_x.htm

* “Peter Pan’s Early Years” (Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today, 9/1/2004)www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-09-01-peter-pan-prequel_x.htm

Nonfiction: * Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl)

* J. M. Barrie: The Magic Behind Peter Pan (Susan Bivin Aller)

*”Prequel to Peter Pan: Filling in the Blanks on Peter Pan’s Past” (Sue Corbett, Miami Herald) –http://6thgradewampuscats.wikispaces.com/file/view/UNIT+1+articles+and+poems.docx

Art, Music and Media:

Worksheets for the following that may be used with this and all other units to follow:

poster analysis -http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/poster_analysis_worksheet.pdf

photo analysis –http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/photo_analysis_worksheet.pdf

cartoon analysis –http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/photo_analysis_worksheet.pdf

artifact analysis –

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/artifact_analysis_worksheet.pdf

written document analysis –http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/written_document_analysis.worksheet.pdf

motion picture analysis –

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/motion_picture_analysis_worksheet.pdf

sound recording analysis –http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/sound_recording_analysis_worksheet.pdf

Film:

* Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) (Mel Stuart, director)


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* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) (Tim Burton, director)

* James and the Giant Peach (1996) (Henry Selick, director)

* Finding Neverland (2004) (Marc Forster, director)movie trailer online – YouTube

interview with Johnny Depp (plays J. M. Barrie in movie) –www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIZ4FNyqCgO&feature=related

* Peter Pan (2000) (Glen Casale and Gary Halvorson, directors)

Media:

* James and the Giant Peach (audiobook CD – Puffin Books)

* Peter and the Suncatchers (audiobook CD – Brilliance Audio)

* Peter Pan (BBC Radio Presents – Random House Audio)

Music: www.youtube.com * “I Won’t Grow Up” (1954 by Moose Charlap and Carolyn Leigh) – NOTE: This song is

from Peter Pan, the musical. The version in which Cathy Rigsby is recommended. If you

purchase the 2000 Peter Pan movie, it contains the song.

Additional Resources -

www.readwrite.think.org • “Story Map”

• “Roald Dahl Was Born on This Day in 1916”• “March is Music in Our Schools Month”

• “You Can’t Spell the Word Prefix without a Prefix”• “Flip-a-Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary”

• “Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes”• “Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map”

• “Action is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives”• “Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character”

• “Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character”• “Literacy Elements Map”

*“The Making of a Scientist” – lesson plans and text –

http://engageny.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Elementary-School-Exemplar-Feynmans-The-Making-of-a-Scientist.doc


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Unit 2 - Folklore: A Blast from the Past

Literary Texts -

Poetry :* “Twelfth Song of Thunder” (Navajo, Traditional) – exemplar text -

www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/3/unit/act2.1blm.html

http://www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/commoncore/ela-appendix-b.pdf

Stories:

* American Tall Tales (Mary Pope Osborne and Michael McCurdy)

“Pecos Bill” – yellow Prentice Hall reading book

http://www.youtube.com - search for old Disney “Pecos Bill” clips/videos and other folktales

adapted by Mary Pope Osborne in her writings (Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, Paul Bunyan)

“Davy Crockett” – excerpt –

www.amazon.com/American-Tall-Tales-Mary-Osborne/dp/0679800891

* Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale (RobertD. San Souci, Brian Pinkney, and Jane Yolen)

* Favorite Foktales from Around the World (Jane Yolen)

* Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling) - select stories online –

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32488 (click on html link)

* The Talking Eggs (Robert D. San Souci)

* The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales (Arthur Ransome)

www.artrusse.ca/fairytales.firebird.htm

GREECE/ANCIENT WORLD:

* Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Illiad (Rosemary Sutcliff) – exemplar text –


* Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths (Bernard Evslin)

* The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1 (Rick Riordan)

* Women Warriors: Myths and Legends of Heroic Women (Marianna Mayer and Heller

Julek)

ROME:

* Roman Myths (Geraldine McCaughrean and Emma Chichester Clark)

VIKING:

* D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths (Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire)


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INUIT – ESKIMO:

* Tikta’Liktak: An Inuit-Eskimo Legend (James A. Houston)

LATIN AMERICA: * Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America (Lulu Delocre)


Nonfiction:

LATIN AMERICA:* Aztec, Inca, and Maya (DK Eyewitness Books – Elizabeth Baquedano and Barry

Clarke)

* Beneath the Stone: A Mexican Zapotec Tale (Bernard Wolf)

* First Americans: Story of Where They Came From and Who They Became (AnthonyF. Aveni and S. D. Nelson)

* Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America (Lulu Delacre)

* The History Atlas of South America (MacMillan Continental History Atlases – EdwinEarly)

INUIT-ESKIMO:* Building an Igloo (Ulli Steltzer)

* The Inuit (Watts Library – Suzanne M. Williams)

GREECE:

* Greeks: Internet Linked (Illustrated World History – Susan Peach, Anne Millard, andIan Jackson)

* The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy (Laura Amy Schlitz and

Robert Byrd)

* You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece; a Life You’d Rather Not Have (You Wouldn’t Want

to . . . series) (Fiona McDonald, David Saliriya, David Antram)

ROME:

* Romans: Internet Linked (Illustrated World History – Anthony Marks)

* You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Roman Soldier! Barbarians You’d Rather Not Meet (from

the You Wouldn’t Want to Be . . . series by David Stewart, and David Antram)

* You Wouldn’t Want to Live in Pompeii! A Volcanic Eruption You’d Rather Avoid (JohnMalam, David Saliriya, David Antram)

VIKINGS: *You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Viking Explorer! Voyages You’d Rather Not Make (Andrew Langley, David


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Salariya, and David Antram)

*Horrible Histories: Vicious Vikings (Terry Deary and Martin Brown) – magazine online –www.horriblebooks.com/hh11.htm

* First Facts about the Vikings (Jacqueline Morley)

ANCIENT WORLD:

* The Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia of World History (Jane Bingham)

Art, Music and Media –

Art : * Marble portrait of the Emperor Augustus (Roman, circa 14-37 centuries)

www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/130008467

* Mural painting at Teotihuacan (Latin America, circa 14-15 centuries)

www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tect4/hd+tec14.htm

* Oseburg Burial Ship (Viking circa 800)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseberg_ship

* Stelae from La Venta (Olmec, Latin America circa 1000-500 BCE)www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vent3/hd_vent3.htm

* Sutton Hoo Burial Helmet (Viking, early 7th century)www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/h/helmet_from_sulton_hoo.aspx

* Winged Victory of Samothrace (Greek circa 190 BCE)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace

Media: * Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling – audiobook CD – Harper Collins)

* The Lighning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1 (Rick Riordan andJesse Bernstein – Listening Library)

Additional Resources :

www.readwritethink.org

• “Pourquoi Tales”• “Today is St. Patrick’s Day”

• “Plot Diagram”• “The Big Bad Wolf: Analyzing Point of View in Texts”

• “Myth and Truth: The First Thanksgiving”


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Unit 3 – Embracing HeritageLiteraryTexts -

Stories:

* An Indian in Cowboy Country: Stories from an Immigrant’s Life (Pradeep Anand)

* As Long As the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans (ScholasticBiography – Paula Gunn Allen and Patricia Clark Smith)

* Behind the Mountains (First Person fiction – Edwidge Danticat)

* Dreaming of America (Eve Bunting)

* Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnamese War Orphan Became an American Boy

(Andrea Warren)

* Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)

* Journey of the Sparrows (Fran Leeper Buss)

* “On Discovering America” (from Survey Graphic Magazine – Pearl S. Buck)

* One Eye Laughing, the Other Eye Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria

to New York, 1938 (Dear America series – Barry Denenberg)

* One More River to Cross: The Stories of Twelve Black Americans (Scholastic Biography

– Jim Haskins)

* Project Mulberry (Linda Sue Park)

* Something about America (Maria Testa)

* The Christmas Tapestry (Patricia Polacco)

* Weedflower (Cynthia Kadohata)


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* When Jesse Cam Across the Sea (Amy West and P.J. Lynch)


Nonfiction:* A History of US: Reconstructing America 1865-1890, Book 7 (Joy Hakim)

* Coming to America: The Story of Immigration (Besty Maestro and Susannah Ryan)

* Do People Grow on Family Trees? Geneology for Kids and Other Beginners: The

Official Ellis Island Handbook (Ira Wolfman and Michael Klein)

* First Crossing: Stories about Teen Immigrants (Donald R. Gallo)

* How People Immigrate (True Books – Sarah De Capua)

* If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island (If Your . . . series (Ellen Levine andWayne Parmenter)

* Immigrant Kids (Russell Freedman)

* New Kids in Town: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens (Scholastic Biography – Janet

Bode)

* Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Uncovering Your

Family’s History (Maureen Alice Taylor)

Art, Music and Media -

Art:* Childe Hassam -

* “Flags on Fifty-Seventh Street: The Winter of 1918” (1918) –

http://www.topofart.com/artists/Childe_Hassam/painting/5132/Flags_on_Fifty-seventh_Street,_The_Winter_of_1918.php

* “Village Scene” (1883-1885)

www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=17302

* “Winter in Union Square” (1889-1890)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/43.116.2


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* Jacob Riis - various photographs –

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/davis/photography/images/riisphotos/slideshow1.html

Music: * “Coming to America” (Neil Diamond) – www.youtube.com


* “Travel Brochures: Highlighting the Setting of a Story” –www.readwritethink.org

* The People of America (The Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)

* Song and Poetry Analysis Tools (Library of Congress – links previously listed with UNIT 1)

* “Create a Travel Brochure” (Scholastic)

* Photographs from Ellis Island (Library of Congress)

* “New American Series, Cultural Riches – PBS)

* Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota)

* Pearl S. Buck: “On Discovering America” Reading Questions (National Endowment for

the Humanities)

* Phillip Lopate, “Immigrant Fiction: Exploring an American Identity” (The Golden

Lehrman Institute of American History)

* “Gateway to Dreams: Ellis Island/Immigration WebQuest for Upper Elementary

Grades” (Today’s Teacher)

*Life without the Bill of Rights (graphic organizer)

http://billofrightsinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/LIFE-WITHOUT-THE-BILL-OF-RIGHTS_Graphic-Organizer.pdf

* “Thinking about Poems as Historical Artifacts” (Library of Congress)

* “Thinking about Songs as Historical Artifacts” (Library of Congress)

* “Annie Moore Becomes the First Immigrant to Enter Ellis Island in 1892” -www.readwritethink.org

*Lydia Lum, “Angel Island: Immigrant Journeys of Chinese-Americans” (from An Oral

History of Chinese Immigrant Detainees)

*Our Documents Teacher Sourcebook – sourcebook of lessons for founding and historical documents

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/document_data/pdf/Our_Documents_Sourcebook_v2.pdf


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Unit 4 – Courageous CharactersLiterary Texts -

Poetry:* “Casablanca” (Felicia Dorothea Hemans) -

http://1stholistic.com/reading/poems/liv_poems-casablanca.htm

* “If” (Rudyard Kipling) -www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/

* Lives: Poems about Famous Americans (Lee Bennett Hopkins and Leslie Staub)

Stories:* Fire from the Rock (Sharon M. Draper)

* Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Eleanor Coerr)

* The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah (Isaac Bachevis Singer and IreneLieblich)

* War Comes to Willy Freeman (James and Christopher Collier)

SLAVERY AND OVERCOMING SLAVERY:

* Free at Last! Stories and Songs of Emancipation (Doreen Rappaport and Shane W.Evans)

* “The People Could Fly” from The People Could Fly (Virginia Hamilton and Leo andDiane Dillon) – exemplar text – text


ASIA:* Kira-Kira (Cynthia Kadohata)

* Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (Ji-Li Jiang)

* Sign of the Crysanthemum (Katherine Paterson and Peter Landa)

* Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution (Moying Li)

* “The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks” (Katherine Paterson and Leo and Diane Dillon) –

exemplar text –http://www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/commoncore/ela-appendix-b.pdf

* Under the Blood-Red Sun (Graham Salisbury)


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SHIPWRECKS:

* Shipwreck Season (Donna Hill)

* SOS Titanic (Eve Bunting)

* Timothy of the Cay (Theodore Taylor)

CHILD LABOR: * “Counting on Grace” (Elizabeth Winthrop)

* Iqbal (Francesco D’Adamo)

* Lyddie (Katherine Paterson)

* “The Circuit” from the Life of a Migrant Child – Francisco Jimenez

* Uprising: Three Young Women Caught in the Fire that Changed America (MargaretPeterson Haddix)

Informational Texts:

Nonfiction:

* Kids with Courage: True Stories about Young People Making a Difference (Barbara A.

Lewis)

SLAVERY AND OVERCOMING SLAVERY:* Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad (Ann Petry) – exemplar text


* Leon’s Story (Leon Walter Tillage and Susan L. Roth)

* Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (companion toThe People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillon)

* Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself

(Frederick Douglass) – exemplar text -www.americanliterature.com/NARR/NARRINDX.HTML


* Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts (Patricia C. and Frederick L.

McKissack)

* Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America (Deborah Hopkinson)

ASIA:* “Life in Ancient Japan” (People of the Ancient World) (Hazel Richardson)

* Samurai: Warlords of Japan (High Interest Books – Arlan Dean)


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SHIPWRECKS:

* A Night to Remember: A Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic (Walter

Lord) – exemplar text

* Exploring the Titanic: How the Greatest Ship Ever Lost, Was Found (Robert D.Ballard)

* Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary Story of Shackleton and theEndurance (Jennifer Armstrong)

* You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Titanic! One Voyage You’d Rather Not Make (YouWouldn’t Want to . . . series – David Stewart, David Salariya, and David Antram)

CHILD LABOR:* Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor (Russell Freedman and

Lewis Hine)

* Kids on Strike! (Susan Campbell Bartoletti)


Art:

* Frederick Douglass Home (Washington, DC, circa 1855)

www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/douglass/

* Iwo Jima Memorial (Rosslyn, VA, 1954)

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USMC_War_Memorial_Sunset_Parade_2008-07-08.jpg

* Lincoln Memorial (Washington, DC, 1912-1922)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial

* Vietnam War Memorial (Washington, DC, 1982)

www.atpm.com/7.01/washington-dc/images/vietnam-memorial.jpg

* Washington Monument (Washington, DC, 1848-1888)

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_Monument_Dusk_Jan_2006.jpg

*USMC War Memorial Sunset Paradehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USMC_War_Memorial_Sunset_Parade_2008-07-08.jpg

Music:

* Traditional - www.youtube.com

* “Cotton Mill Girls” (as sung by Michele Welborne)* “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”

* “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (possibly by Wallis Willis)


* www.read.writethink.org • Venn Diagram Circles


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• “Titanic: The RMS Titanic Sank on This Day in 1912)• “Susan B. Anthony Voted on This Day in 1872, Leading to Her Arrest”

• “Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience”• Word Map

• “Heroes Around Us”

* “In Motion: The African American Migration Experience (Schomburg Center forResearch in Black Culture, The New York Public Library)

* “Africans in America” (PBS)

* “Spirituals” (National Endowment for the Humanities)

* “Underground Railroad, Escape from Slavery” (interactive unit on Scholastic.com)

* Slave Narratives: Constructing US History Through Analyzing Primary Sources(National Endowment for the Humanities)

*”Families in Bondage” (National Endowment for the Humanities)


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Unit 5 – Figure It Out

Literary Texts:

Poetry:

* 39 Clues Book 1: The Maze of Bones (Rick Riordan – Scholastic Books, websites, and Audiobooks) –

video clip launch -http://scholastic.com/aboutscholastic/mediaroom/opk/39clues/39Cluesvideoaug.html

book talk about The Maze of Bones –http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collateral.jsp?id=35884

audio reading of Chapters 1-2 of The Maze of Bones –http://scholastic.com/aboutscholastic/mediaroom/opk/39clues/39Clues.html

* “Jabberwocky” (Lewis Carroll) – exemplar texthttp://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jabberwocky/

* Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices (Theoni Pappas)

* Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allen Poe, Brad Bogert, and Carolynn

Cobleigh)

* Poetry for Young People: Edward Lear (Edward Lear, Edward Mendelson, and Laura Huliska-Beith)

Stories:CONTEMPORARY MYSTERIES:

* 39 Clues series (Rick Riordan)

* Chasing Vermeer (Blue Balliet and Brett Helquist)

* The Name of This Book is Secret (Secret series by Pseudonymous Bosch)

* The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart and Carson Ellis)

MATH STORIES:

* G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book (David M. Schwartz and Marissa Moss)

* The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin)

* Toothpaste Millionaire (Jean Merrill)

CLASSIC MYSTERIES:* The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)


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* Three Act Tragedy (Agatha Christie)


Nonfiction: * Go Figure! A Totally Cool Book about Numbers (Johnny Ball)

*Math Curse (John Scieszka)

* Grapes of Math: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles (Greg Tang and Harry Briggs)

*Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem Solving (Greg Tang and Greg Paprocki)

* The $1.00 Word Riddle Book (Marilyn Burns and Martha Weston)

* The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure (Hans Magnus Enzensberger) – exemplar text –


Art. Music and Media -

Art:* Balthus, “Solitaire” (1943)

www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/20509

* Balthus, “The Living Room” (1942)http://www.artsmia.org/viewer/detail.php?v=12&id=1627

* Balthus, “The Mountain” (1936-1937)www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1982.530

*Balthus, “The Street” (1933-1935)http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A317&page_number=4

&template_id=1&sort_order=1

* Illustrations from “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick” (Chris Van Allsburg) (1984)http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/davidc/6c_files/documents/mysteries/divmysteries.htm

Media:

* The Essential Agatha Christie Stories: Agatha Christie’s Best Short Sleuths Crack

Twenty-Two Famous Cases (Agatha Christie – BBC Audiobooks America)

* The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (Anthony Boucher –

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* Puzz.com 1001 Best Puzzles – www.Puzz.com

* History’s Mysteries (Education World)

* www.readwritethink.org -* “Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare’s Secret”

* “Celebrate Blues Legend Robert Johnson’s Birthday”* “Edward Stratemeyer, Creator of Book Series Such as Nancy Drew, Was Born

on This Day in 1862”

* “Mystery Cube”

* “Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study”

* “Ingredients of a Mystery” (Scholastic)

* Chasing Vermeer: Picture the Process!, Do You See What I See?, and Patterns and

Pentominoes (Scholastic)

* “The Raven” (Edgar Allen Poe) (narrated by Vincent Price) -

www.youtube.com – “The Raven with Vincent Price”


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Unit 6 – Winging It

Literary Texts -

Picture Books:* “A is for Airplane: An Aviation Alphabet” (Mary Ann McCabe Riehle, Fred Stillwell, and

Rob Bolster) – as an introduction to this unit

* “The Airplane Alphabet Book” (Jerry Pallotta) – as an introduction to this unit

Poetry:* “I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices” (Paul Fleischman)

Stories:* Dragonwings (Lawrence Yep) – exemplar text

* First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane (Peter Busby)

* Flight (Robert Burleigh)


Biographies:* Amelia Earhart (DK Biography – Tanya Lee Stone)

* Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero (James Cross Giblin)

* The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane (Russell Freedman)

*Sterling Biographies: The Wright Brothers: First in Flight (Tara Dixon-Engel)

* Up in the Air: The Story of Bessie Coleman (Phillip S. Hart and Barbara O’Connor)

* Wilbur and Orville Wright: Taking Flight (Stephanie Sammartino McPherson and

Joseph Sammartino Gardner)

* William Boeing: Builder of Planes (Community Builders – Sharlene Nelson and Ted


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Nelson)

Nonfiction:

* Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation (James Haskins)

* Fantastic Flights: One Hundred Years of Flying on the Edge (Patrick O’Brien)

* Flight: Discover Science through Facts and Fun (Geerry Bailey)

* Flying Free: America’s First Black Aviators (Philip S. Hart)

* Strange and Wonderful Aircraft (Harvey Weiss)

* The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets (Henk Tennekes)


Art: * Attributed to Wilbur and Orville Wright, “Orville Wright, Major John F. Curry, and

Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who came to pay Orville a personal call at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio”(photograph – early 20th century) -

www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppprs.00694

* Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, and John T. Daniels, “Crumpled glider wrecked by the

wind on hill of the wreck” (photograph – early 20th century) -

www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppprs.00544/?co=wri

* Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, and John T. Daniels, “Wilbur gliding down steep slope

of Big Kill Devil Hill” (photograph – early 20th century) -www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppprs.00602/?co=wri

* Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, and John T. Daniels, “First Flight” (photograph – early20th century) -

www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppprs.00626/

* photographer unknown, “Charles Lindbergh, three quarters-length portrait, standing,left profile, working on engine of The Spirit of St. Louis” (photograph – early 20th century) -www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a51858/


* Wright Brothers Have Liftoff (and other examples of first flights)

* video interview with Lawrence Yep (Reading Rockets)

* lesson plans for Dragonwings – text and study guide

www.WebEnglishTeacher.com



19/19

* First Flight – a website for researching the history of flight

* Aviation History Online Museum – a website for researching the history of flight

* www.readwritethink.org * “ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Area”

* “Charles Lindbergh Began His Transatlantic Flight on May 20, 1927”* “The Wright Brothers Made Their Phenomenal Flight”

* Women Aviators in World War II – “Fly Girls” (National Endowment for the

Humanities)

* America on the Move (National Museum of American History)