Unit Project

Sixth Grade :
Language Arts Unit Project

1. Biographies - Learn about other people and then write about them using different methods. This will have them learning about other people and different methods of writing to enhance and improve their abilities. They can write different forms of writing such as a poem about the person or something important in their life, persuasive essay about why that person is famous or deserves an award for something, or a biography about their person. To incorporate technology into the classroom and this project the students can also writes their own blogs or make web pages that have to do with the person that they are learning about. They can also use the computers to gather more knowledge about their person and to create their web pages or blogs. They can also type up their smaller essays that they choose to do on their person. With the person they choose, they can decide to pick one type of writing to do and either the blog or webpage as their other piece for the unit.

2. Fairy Tales - The students will pick a few different fairy tales to read about and see what different ways the author writes the story and if there are illustrations how they are done. The students then will brain storm what type of fairy tale they would like to do. They will make a rough draft of their ideas and come up with what their story will say. The students will incorporate technology into this unit by either using Toon Doo to create cartoon like fairy tales, use digital storytelling by having the students bring in their own pictures from their life, but make fairy tale stories out of them. The students will pick which type they would prefer to do to make their stories.

3. Poetry - The students will learn about poetry by reading different pieces and then creating their own. The will learn about a few different types of poetry and then have the chance to create their own poetry modeling the different types they learn about. They can then use blog to post their creation online where others can read their work or they can create a Web Page that displays their pieces of poetry and add creativity to it as well by adding related pictures or information in a way that allows the students to show who they are and what they have learned.

4. Family Biography - The students will talk to members of their family about their lives and then write a short story about their family or a member of their family. They will take and write up the stories so that they will work on their writing skills and learn about their heritage at the same time. Then once they have finished typing up their personal story they can take this and decide how they want to create their own short cartoon using events and ideas that are in their paper that they have finished writing. The students will have learned about one type of books, about their family, worked on writing skills and creating their own biography on a person, and then take this and made a fun cartoon out of it.

5. WikiJunior- The students will spend time learning about the Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, and the Sons of Liberty. As they are learning about these they will take and make a web using inspiration that way they will organize their thoughts. They will then take this and type up the information that they have learned about the topic. Once it has been typed and approved by the teacher, they will then be able to put it on WikiJunior as the final step of the unit in their language arts unit. They are going to learn about this topic and then use the inspiration to create webs to organize thoughts and finally type it up and have it posted for others to read and use as information.