Mrs. Gilmore's 6th Grade
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        • *The Good Deed
        • *All Summer in a Day>
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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>
        • **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>
        • **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>
        • 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>
        • *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>
        • *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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        • 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>
        • *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
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        • Houdini: The Great Escape
        • News Reports
        • Persuasive Techniques in Commercials
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      • Subject-Verb Agreement
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Unit 1 Plot, Conflict and Setting

The School Play
The Good Deed
All Summer in a Day
Lob's Girl
Bud, Not Buddy
Woodsong
The Horse Snake
The Walrus and the Carpenter
The Prince and the Pauper

Unit 2 Analyzing Character and Point of View

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 Understanding Theme

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 Mood, Tone and Style

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 The Language of Poetry

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 moons/Two Limericks
Good Hotdogs/Ode to an Artichoke

Unit 6 Myths, Legends and Tales

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: A Cinderella Story from China/Sootface: AnOjibwa Cin. Story

Unit 7 Biography and Autobiography

Matthew Henson at the Top of the World
from Over the Top of the World
from The Story of My Life
from Under the Royal Palms:  A Childhood in Cuba
from Spellbinder:  The Life of Harry Houdini
In a Neighborhood in Log Angeles/ For Gwen, 1969

Unit 8 Information, Argument and Persuasion

SuperCroc
Bird Brains
The First Emperor from the Tomb Robbers/Digging up the Past: Discovery...
What Video Games can Teach Us/The Violent Side of Video Games
Should Wild Animals be Kept as Pets?
No Thought of Reward

Unit 9 The Power of Research