Common Core Standards
Grade 6
Writing W.6.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
For today's sixth graders, who have grown up in the Age of Computers, the skills required in this Common Core Standard (write stuff using a computer) should be second nature to them. The only thing to really teach students is the last part of this standard, the one that says they should be able to type at least three pages in one go. Last we checked, that’s the only thing they don’t teach at the Trolling University Online.
Example 1
Here's a lesson to use when teaching any science-fiction, futuristic, or dystopian novel of your choosing. (We like The Giver paired with articles speculating about the future of education.)
Have students create a digital yearbook in order to present their own concept of the “School of the Future.” Specific slides of the yearbook should be creative representations of a typical yearbook (student photos, clubs, sports, etc.), but reflect their ideas about going to school in the future.
Aligned Resources
- Teaching A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Follow the Thread
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Pizza Problems—Too Many to Count
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- Teaching Walk Two Moons: Movie Makin'
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching The Graveyard Book: The Graveyard Book: The Lost Chapter
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- The Basics of Social Media: Communicating with One to One Million People: Blogs and Instant Messaging
- Teaching Hatchet: Biology 101
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Bridge to Terabithia: Building Bridges
- Teaching Island of the Blue Dolphins: From Cave Dwellers to Cave Researchers
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Twilight Activity: The Cullen Cars
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: T.J.'s Downward Spiral
- Teaching The Little Prince: Baobabs & WWII
- Teaching The Phantom Tollbooth: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- Teaching The Witch of Blackbird Pond: Wethersfield, CT: Then and Now
- Teaching American Born Chinese: Individual Identity
- Teaching And Then There Were None: Putting It All Together
- ELA Online: Digital Literacy Connections to English Language Arts: Facebook or Twitter Plot Summary
- Teaching Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: The Great Lab Rat Debate
- Teaching Number the Stars: What Does It Mean to Be Human?
- Teaching The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Title
- Teaching Hatchet: What's The Big Deal in Hatchet?: Determining the Climax
- Teaching The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Out of This World
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Too Many Narrators? What's Your Point of View?
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: The Byron Files
- Teaching The Witch of Blackbird Pond: Modern Day Witch Hunts
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who