Full year
Language Arts 6 focuses on enhancing students' skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Students will learn to consider diverse perspectives when communicating their ideas and to support their arguments with solid evidence, details, and explanations. The curriculum covers a variety of genres, including narrative and informational texts. Further, grammar and language skills are integrated into each unit, ensuring practical and comprehensive learning.
The course is designed to be interactive, with opportunities for students to collaborate in pairs and small groups, as well as to work independently. Teachers provide guidance by sharing effective strategies and presenting engaging texts for analysis. This course aims to foster both creativity and critical thinking in a supportive learning environment.
Students will:
- Read regularly and widely
- Respond and reflect insightfully to a range of texts
- Develop and apply narrative and non-narrative writing strategies
- Develop skills to communicate effectively
Some sample questions students will explore:
- What are the habits of effective readers and writers?
- How do stories reveal truths, and how do these truths deepen our empathy?
- What is the art of an argument?
- How can our own lives be viewed as a hero's journey?