Mrs. Gilmore's 6th Grade
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Number the Stars
Unit 1
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*The School Play
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*The Good Deed
*All Summer in a Day
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**Lob's Girl
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Bud, Not Buddy
**Woodsong
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The Horse Snake
The Walrus and the Carpenter
The Prince and the Pauper
Unit 2
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*Eleven
**Ghost of the Lagoon
*Tuesday of the Other June
**The Problem with Bullies
*President Cleveland, Where Are You?/Aaron's Gift
*The Red Guards
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Unit 3
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**The Dog of Pompeii
Nadia the Willful
*Scout's Honor
Ant and the Grasshopper/The Richer, The Poorer
from Esperanza Rising
Words Like Freedom/Dreams
*Same Song/Without Commercials
Unit 4
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**The All-American Slurp
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Jeremiah's Song
from Maniac Magee
The Jacket
**The First Skateboard in the History of the World
Skateboard Science
*The Morning Walk/There is No Word for Goodbye
The Phantom Tollbooth, Act 1
Unit 5
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Analysis of Baseball/Alone at the Nets
**Sea-Fever/The Village Blacksmith
**Something Told the Wild Geese/Change
Message from a Caterpillar/Fog/Two Haiku
**Windshield Wiper/Night Journey
from A Long Hard Journey
**I'm Nobody! Who are You?/ Is the Moon Tired?/ Mooses
who knows if the moon's/Two Limericks
Good Hotdogs/ Ode to an Artichoke
Unit 6
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*The Story of Ceres and Proserpina
*Apollo's Tree: The Story of Daphne and Apollo/Arachne
*Spider Webs
The Chenoo
Damon and Pythias
Uncle Septimus's Beard
The Crane Maiden/Aunt Misery
**Yeh-Shen/Sootface
Unit 7
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*Matthew Henson at the Top of the World
*from Over the Top of the World
*from The Story of My Life
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Blog
Movie Clips
from Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba
*from Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles/For Gwen, 1969
Unit 8
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*SuperCroc
*Bird Brains
*The First Emperor from the Tomb Robbers/Digging up the Past...
**What Video Games Can Teach Us/The Violent Side of Video Games
*Should Wild Animals be Kept as Pets?
No Thought of Reward
Media Study
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Smallville
Image Collection Artists and Style
Houdini: The Great Escape
News Reports
Persuasive Techniques in Commercials
Communication Arts
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Writing
Spelling/Vocabulary
Sentence and Its Parts
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives and Adverbs
Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections
Subject-Verb Agreement
Capitalization
Punctuation
Webquests
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"Arachne"
Can pride ever hurt you?
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