unit 1
11 Instructional days (11 hours)
Author’s Point of View and Idea Development in World without Fish
ELA Grade 6 Curriculum Map
Description
In this unit, students are involved in a study of how an author introduces, illustrates, and elaborates on an idea and how an author conveys his or her point of view. Students will begin reading Mark Kurlansky’s World without Fish, a literary nonfiction text about the causes of and solutions to the problem of fish depletion. The focus of Unit 1 is the first half of the book, in which Mark Kurlansky describes the problem. Students will return to the final chapters of the book and his suggested solutions in Unit 3.Downloads
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From EngageNY.org of the New York State Education Department. Grade 6 ELA Module 3B, Unit 1.
Available from engageny.org/resource/grade-6-ela-module-3b-unit-1; accessed 2015-05-29.
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