Elementary Kaleidoscope Units
2011-2012
- Build it! - Architecture Unit
- Math Whiz Unit
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2012-2013
- Cast your vote! Election Unit
- Beyond Words for Primary
- Literary Reflections for Elementary
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2013-2014
- What a Find! - Archeology Unit
- Caravans - Geography Unit
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2014-2015
- Sherlock Holmes Mystery Unit
- Legal Eagles- Law Unit
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Middle School Language Arts Integrated Units
6th Grade |
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| Patterns |
Autobiographies |
Choose One:
- The Watson’s Go to Birmingham - Christopher
Curtis
- A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle
- Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
- A Long Way from Chicago - Richard Peck
- Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli
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Choose One:
- The Girl from Yamhill - Beverly Cleary
- Childtimes - Eloise Greenfield
- How I Came to be a Writer - Phyllis Naylor
- A Day of Pleasure - Isaac Singer
- The Invisible Thread - Yoshiko Uchida
- The Lost Garden - Laurence Yep
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| 7th Grade |
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| Persuasion -
2 Groups/Read 4 Books |
The 1940’s: A Decade
of Change |
Group A:
- Dragonwings - Laurence Yep
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor
- Going Home - Nicholasa Mohr
- Morning Star, Black Sun: The Northern Cheyenne
- Indians and America’s Energy Crisis - Brent
Ashabranner
Group B:
- Journey to Topaz - Yoshiko Uchida
- The Secret of Gumbo Grove - E. Tate
- Taking Sides - Gary Sota
- Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native
- Americans - Arlene Hirschfelder and Singer
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- Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
- The Journey - Sheila Hamanaka
- Maus II - Art Spiegelman
- Hiroshima - John Hersey
- The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers (Play)
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| 8th Grade |
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| Utopia |
Threads of Change in 19th
Century American Literature |
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- The Giver - Lois Lowry
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare
(Play)
- A few copies of: Harlem - Walter Dean Myers
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- Billy Budd, Sailor - Herman Melville
- The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
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