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6th grade library curriculum
Author of the week | Genre
of the month | Lesson of the
day | |
| September | |||
| Week 1 |
| 3 Rs: Respect, Responsible, Resourceful | |
| Week 2 | Paul Fleischman | Historical Fiction | How
to find a good book How to find a good book quiz |
| Week 3 | Susan Cooper |
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Chemical element report |
| Week 4 | Mildred Taylor | Broadening Broader terms | |
| October | Poetry (in class) | ||
| Week 5 | Bloor | Narrower | |
| Week 6 | Karen Cushman | Read a record/Bibliography | |
| Week 7 | Scavenger hunt A / hunt B | ||
| Week 8 | Dictionary Day | Miss Alaineus disaster -
dictionary - or Heteronyms | |
| November | Biography | Peacemaker project | |
| Week 9 | Shusterman | Africa report | Reference - Encyclopedias (gen.&spec.) |
| Week 10 | Mckinley | Online - homepage hunt Africa | |
| Week 11 | Henkes | Africa
FT- pourquoi African Tales | All
about me: online internet hunt |
| Week 12 | CS Lewis | All about me: reference and book hunt | |
| December | Mythology and Folk Tale - ppt | Thanksgiving-Had | |
| Week 13 | Pierce | History
of the Internet and Quiz | |
| Week 14 | Dickinson | Internet terminology - cards & worksheet | |
| Week 15 | Avi / Cross | What is a URL - make your own | |
| Week 16 | Munro Ryan | game - Ups Downs | |
| January | Fantasy | Scholastic Book Fair | |
| Tolkien | New Year traditions- Google quotations | ||
| VanDraanen / Ho | Newbery minihunt - POWER searching | ||
| London | Newbery Nonsense | ||
| Cormier | author video / bookfair | ||
| Lester | |||
| Alexander | |||
| February | Mystery | Valentine's day scavenger hunt :Internet Book Ency. Dictionary Atlas | |
Nixon | Invisible Web miniquiz - subject directories | ||
| Verne | |||
| Crossley Holland | Web evaluation - why wary - Hoaxes | ||
| Woodson | Presidents reference hunt | ||
| Sleator | What are URLs, why important | ||
| Lawrence, Ian | URL worksheet breakdown | ||
| Voigt | |||
| March | Adventure | Internet search quiz - search engine math | |
| Linda Sue Park | Google v. Yahoo - variety of search engines | ||
| TA Barron | Google Advanced | ||
| Search Engine Quiz | |||
| Sewell | Proverbs | Quotations book | |
| vote YRC - due April 1 | |||
| April | Science
Fiction / Non Fiction | ||
| McCaffrey | fact
& opinion: True Story of 3 Little Pigs Harry Potter story with fact and opinion | ||
| Haddix | Advanced Google- Poetry scavenger hunt | ||
| J. Christopher | Poetry Homepage hunt | ||
| Mary Hoffman | Poetry Hunt - all reference/internet | ||
| Duncan | National Library Week - Boy raised librarians -scavenger hunt | ||
| May | Historical
Fiction / Fine arts | ||
| Cadnum | magazines | ||
| Zindel | NW connections Almanac | ||
| Doyle | |||
| Naidoo | Alphabet Scavenger hunt = test | ||
| Cooper | |||
| TH White | |||
| Mazer | |||
| June | |||
homepage hunt - Library history
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