Common+Core--6th+Grade


 * __6-1 Literary Texts—I Won’t Grow Up__**

**Stories**
 * "[|Eleven]" (Sandra Cisneros) (E)
 * [|Peter Pan] (J.M. Barrie) (L941)
 * //Peter and the Starcatchers// (Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, and Greg Call) (L710)
 * //Peter and the Shadow Thieves// (Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, and Greg Call) (L780)
 * //When I Was Your Age, Volume Two: Original Stories about Growing up// (Amy Ehrlich, ed.) (L930)
 * //The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups// (David Wisniewski) (L810)
 * //James and the Giant Peach// (Roald Dahl) (L870)
 * //Charlie and the Chocolate Factory// (Roald Dahl) (L810)

**Audiobooks**
 * //Peter Pan// (BBC Radio Presents) (Random House Audio) (L941)
 * //Peter and the Starcatchers// (Audiobook CD) (Brilliance Audio)(L710)
 * //James and the Giant Peach// (Audiobook CD) (Puffin Books)(L870)

**Poems**
 * “Past, Present, Future” (Emily Bronte)
 * “A Birthday” (Christina Rossetti) (EA)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Biographies**
 * //J.M. Barrie: The Magic Behind Peter Pan// (Susan Bivin Aller) (L1020)

**Autobiographies**
 * //Boy: Tales of Childhood// (Roald Dahl) (EA) (L1090)

**Articles**
 * [|“Peter Pan’s early years”] (Bob Minzesheimer, //USA Today,// 9/1/2004)
 * [|“Prequel to Peter Pan fills in the blanks with fun]” (Sue Corbett, //Miami Herald,// No Date)

**Additional Resources**
 * [|“Classic story flies in many forms”](A Peter Pan timeline) (Bob Minzesheimer, //USA Today,// 9/1/2004)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Music** Note: This song is from //Peter Pan// the musical, and the version in which Cathy Rigby sings the part of Peter is recommended.
 * Moose Charlap and Carolyn Leigh, [|“I Won’t Grow Up”] (1954)

**Media**
 * //Peter Pan// (Cathy Rigby version) (2000)
 * //James and the Giant Peach// (1996)
 * //Charlie and the Chocolate Factory// (1971)
 * //Charlie and the Chocolate Factory// (2005)

**__6-2 Literary Texts—Folklore: A Blast From the Past__**

**Stories** **Greece/Ancient World** **Rome** **Vikings** **Inuit-Eskimo** **Latin America** **General**
 * //Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the ‘Iliad’// (Rosemary Sutcliff) (E) (L1300)
 * //Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths (//Bernard Evslin) (L800)
 * //The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1// (Rick Riordan) (L740)
 * //Women Warriors: Myths and Legends of Heroic Women// (Marianna Mayer and Heller Julek) (L1000)
 * //Roman Myths// (Geraldine McCaughrean and Emma Chichester Clark)
 * //D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths// (Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire)
 * //Tikta’Liktak: An Inuit-Eskimo Legend// (James A. Houston) (L1120)
 * //Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America// (Lulu Delacre) (Note: This title also includes informational text.) (L940)
 * //Favorite Folktales from Around the World// (Jane Yolen) (L980)
 * /The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales (Arthur Ransome)
 * [|Just So Stories] (Rudyard Kipling) (EA) (L1060)
 * //Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale// (Robert D. San Souci, Brian Pinkney, and Jane Yolen) (L1050)
 * //American Tall Tales// (Mary Pope Osborne and Michael McCurdy) (EA) (L970)

**Poems**
 * "[|Twelfth Song of Thunder]" (Navajo, Traditional) (E)

**Audiobooks**
 * Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling) (Harper Collins)
 * //The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 1// (Rick Riordan and Jesse Bernstein) (Listening Library)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Informational Text** //Ancient World// //Greece// //Rome// //Vikings// //Inuit-Eskimo// //Latin America//
 * //The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History// (Jane Bingham)
 * //The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy// (Laura Amy Schlitz and Robert Byrd) (L910)
 * //Greeks Internet Linked// (Illustrated World History) (Susan Peach, Anne Millard, and Ian Jackson) (L930)
 * //You Wouldn’t Want to be a Slave in Ancient Greece!: A Life You’d Rather Not Have// (You Wouldn’t Want To…Series)(Fiona MacDonald, David Salariya, and David Antram) (L830)
 * //Romans: Internet Linked// (Illustrated World History) (Anthony Marks) (L920)
 * //You Wouldn’t Want to Live in Pompeii! A Volcanic Eruption You’d Rather Avoid// (You Wouldn’t Want To…Series) (John Malam, David Salariya, and David Antram) (L810)
 * //You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman Soldier!: Barbarians You’d Rather Not Meet// (You Wouldn’t Want To…Series) (David Stewart and David Antram) (L950)
 * //First Facts about the Vikings// (Jacqueline Morley) (L830)
 * //Vicious Vikings// (Horrible Histories TV Tie-in) (Terry Deary and Martin Brown) (L870)
 * //You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Viking Explorer!: Voyages You’d Rather Not Make// (You Wouldn’t Want To…Series) (Andrew Langley, David Salariya, and David Antram) (L870)
 * //The Inuit// (Watts Library) (Suzanne M. Williams) (L800)
 * //Building an Igloo// (Ulli Steltzer) (L720)
 * //Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America// (Lulu Delacre) (Note: This title also includes folktales.) (L940)
 * //Aztec, Inca, and Maya// (DK Eyewitness Books) (Elizabeth Baquedano and Barry Clarke) (L1050)
 * //Beneath the Stone: A Mexican Zapotec Tale// (Bernard Wolf) (L770)
 * //The History Atlas of South America// (MacMillan Continental History Atlases) (Edwin Early, ed.
 * //First Americans: Story of Where They Came From and Who They Became// (Anthony F. Aveni and S.D. Nelson) (L1080)

**__6-3 Literary Texts—Embracing Heritage__**

**Stories**
 * //One More River to Cross: The Stories of Twelve Black Americans// (Scholastic Biography) (Jim Haskins) (EA) (L1070)
 * //As Long as the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans// (Scholastic Biography) (Paula Gunn Allen and Patricia Clark Smith) (L1060)
 * //Esperanza Rising// (Pam Munoz Ryan) (L750)
 * //Project Mulberry// (Linda Sue Park) (L690)
 * //Weedflower// (Cynthia Kadohata) (L750)
 * //Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy// (Andrea Warren) (L930)
 * “On Discovering America” (Pearl S. Buck) (//Survey Graphic Magazine//)
 * //One Eye Laughing, the Other Eye Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York, 1938// (Dear America Series) (Barry Denenberg) (L950)
 * //Something About America// (Maria Testa) (NP)
 * //Journey of the Sparrows//( Fran Leeper Buss) (L760)
 * //Behind the Mountain// (First Person Fiction) (Edwidge Danticat) (L940)
 * //An Indian in Cowboy Country: Stories from an Immigrant’s Life// (Pradeep Anand)

**Lyrics**
 * “[|Coming to America]” (Neil Diamond)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Informational Text** //Easy Books for Building Background Knowledge// //General// //Genealogy//
 * //Coming To America: The Story of Immigration// (Betsy Maestro and Suzannah Ryan) (L890)
 * //If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island// (If You[r]…Series) (Ellen Levine and Wayne Parmenter) (L880)
 * //A History of US: Reconstructing America 1865-1890// (Book 7) (Joy Hakim) (EA) (L890)
 * //How People Immigrate// (Scholastic, A True Book) (Sarah De Capua) (L940)
 * //Immigrant Kids// (Russell Freedman)(EA) (L1050)
 * //New Kids in Town: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens// (Scholastic Biography) (Janet Bode) (L630)
 * //First Crossing: Stories about Teen Immigrants// (Donald R. Gallo) (L820)
 * //Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Uncovering Your Family’s History// (Maureen Alice Taylor) (L1000)
 * //Do People Grow on Family Trees?: Genealogy for Kids and Other Beginners, The official Ellis Island Handbook// (Ira Wolfman and Michael Klein) (L900)

**Informational Text (Read Aloud)**
 * //Colors of Freedom: Immigrant Stories// (Janet Bode) (L700)

**__6-4 Literary Texts—Courageous Characters__**

**Stories** //General// //Slavery/Overcoming It// //Asia// //Shipwrecks// //Child Labor//
 * //The Power of Light: Eight Stories for Hanukkah// (Isaac Bashevis Singer and Irene Lieblich) (EA)
 * //Fire from the Rock// (Sharon M. Draper) (L830)
 * //War Comes to Willy Freeman// (James and Christopher Collier) [easier to read but excellent] (L800)
 * //Baseball Saved Us// (Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee) [easier to read but excellent] (L500)
 * "The People Could Fly" (Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillon) (E) (L660)
 * //Free at Last!: Stories and Songs of Emancipation// (Doreen Rappaport and Shane W. Evans) (L910)
 * //The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks// (Katherine Paterson and Leo and Diane Dillon) (E) (L930)
 * //Sign of the Chrysanthemum// (Katherine Paterson and Peter Landa) (EA) (L870)
 * //Kira-Kira// (Cynthia Kadohata) (L740)
 * //Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution// (Ji-Li Jiang) (L780)
 * //Under the Blood-Red Sun// (Graham Salisbury) (L640)
 * //SOS Titanic// (Eve Bunting) (L690)
 * //Timothy of the Cay// (Theodore Taylor) (L860)
 * //Shipwreck Season// (Donna Hill) (L670)
 * //Uprising: Three Young Women Caught in the Fire That Changed America// (Margaret Peterson Haddix) (L790)
 * //Lyddie// (Katherine Paterson) (EA) (L860)
 * //Counting on Grace// (Elizabeth Winthrop) (L760)
 * //The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child// (Francisco Jiménez) (L880)
 * //Iqbal// (Francesco D’Adamo) (L730)

**Poems**
 * [|“If”] (Rudyard Kipling) (EA)
 * //Lives: Poems about Famous Americans// (Lee Bennet Hopkins and Leslie Staub)
 * “[|Casabianca]” (Felicia Dorothea Hemans)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Informational Text** //General// //Slavery/Overcoming It// //Asia// //Shipwrecks// //Child Labor//
 * //Kids with Courage: True Stories About Young People Making a Difference// (Barbara A. Lewis) (L820)
 * //Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad// (Ann Petry) (E) (L1000)
 * //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself// (Frederick Douglass) (E) (L1080)
 * //Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts// (Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack) (L1130)
 * //Leon’s Story// (Leon Walter Tillage and Susan L. Roth) (L970)
 * //Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom// (Companion to //The People Could Fly//) (Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillon) (L990)
 * //Samurai: Warlords of Japan// (High Interest Books) (Arlan Dean) (L900)
 * //Life in Ancient Japan// (Peoples of the Ancient World) (Hazel Richardson) (L1010)
 * Text about the Cultural Revolution (forthcoming)
 * //A Night to Remember: A Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic// (Walter Lord) (E) (L950)
 * //You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Titanic!: One Voyage You'd Rather Not Make// (You Wouldn’t Want To…Series) (David Evelyn Stewart, David Salariya, and David Antram) (L940)
 * //Exploring the Titanic: How the Greatest Ship Ever Lost—Was Found// (Robert D. Ballard) (L980)
 * //Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance// (Jennifer Armstrong) (L1090)
 * //Kids On Strike!// (Susan Campbell Bartoletti) (L920)
 * //Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor// (Russell Freedman and Lewis Hine) (EA) (L1140)

**Informational Text (Read Aloud)**
 * //Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America// (Deborah Hopkinson) (L1060)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Music**
 * Spirituals
 * Traditional, possibly Wallis Willis, “ [|Swing Low, Sweet Chariot] ”
 * Traditional, “ [|Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen] ”
 * Find additional spirituals here: []
 * Traditional, “ [|Cotton Mill Girls] ” (as sung by Michèle Welborne)

**__6-5 Literary Texts—Figure It Out__**

**Stories** //Math//
 * //The Westing Game// (Ellen Raskin) (L750)
 * //G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book// (David M. Schwartz and Marissa Moss) (L760)

**Mysteries** //Precedent// //Contemporary//
 * //The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes// (Arthur Conan Doyle) (L1090)
 * //Three Act Tragedy// (Agatha Christie) (L680)
 * //39 Clues// series (Rick Riordan) (L690)
 * //The Mysterious Benedict Society// (Trenton Lee Stewart and Carson Ellis) (L890)
 * //The Name of this Book is Secret// (Secret Series) (Pseudonymous Bosch) (L810)
 * //Chasing Vermeer// (Blue Balliet and Brett Helquist) (L770)

**Poems**
 * "Jabberwocky" (Lewis Carroll) (E)
 * //Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices// (Theoni Pappas)
 * //Poetry for Young People: Edward Lear// (Edward Lear, Edward Mendelson, ed., and Laura Huliska-Beith)
 * //Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe// (Edgar Allen Poe, Brod Bagert, ed., and Carolynn Cobleigh)

**Audiobooks**
 * //The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes// (Arthur Conan Doyle) (Anthony Boucher)
 * //The Essential Agatha Christie Stories: Agatha Christies Best Short Sleuths Crack Twenty-Two Famous Cases// (Agatha Christie) (BBC Audiobooks America)
 * //39 Clues Book 1: The Maze of Bones// (Rick Riordan) (Scholastic Audio Books)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Informational Text**
 * //The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure// (Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Rotraut Susanne Berner, and Michael Henry Heim, trans.) (E) (L580)
 * //Go Figure!: A Totally Cool Book About Numbers// (Johnny Ball) (L970)
 * //The $1.00 Word Riddle Book// (Marilyn Burns and Martha Weston) (L800)

**Picture Books** //Problem Solving in Math//
 * //Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem Solving// (Greg Tang and Greg Paprocki) (NP)
 * //Grapes of Math: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles// (Greg Tang and Harry Briggs) (NP)

__ **Art, Music, and Media** __

**Art**
 * Illustrations from //The Mysteries of Harris Burdick// (Chris Van Allsburg)
 * Balthus, [|"The Mountain"] (1936-37)
 * Balthus, [|"The Living Room"] (1942)
 * Balthus, [|"The Street"] (1933-35)
 * Balthus, [|"Solitare"] (1943)

**Stories**

 * //Dragonwings (Lawrence yep) (E) (L870)//
 * //First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane// (Peter Busby) (L990)
 * //Flight// (Robert Burleigh) (L570)

**Poetry**
 * //I Am the Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices// (Paul Fleischman)

**Picture Book (Used as an introduction to this unit)**
 * //A is for Airplane: An Aviation Alphabet// (Mary Ann McCabe Riehle)
 * //The Airplane Alphabet Book// (Jerry Pallotta) (L660)

__ **Informational Texts** __

**Biographies**
 * //Sterling Biographies: The Wright Brothers: First in Flight (//Tara Dixon-Engel)
 * //Wilbur & Orville Wright: Taking Flight// (Stephanie Sammartino McPherson) (L950)
 * //The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane// (Russell Freedman) (L1160)
 * //Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero// (James Giblin) (L1140)
 * //William Boeing: Builder of Planes// (Sharlene Nelson) (L850)
 * //Amelia Earhart (DK Biography//) (Tanya Stone) (L1000)
 * //Up In the Air: The Story of Bessie Coleman// (Philip S. Hart) (L950)

**General Nonfiction**
 * //Flying Free: America's First Black Aviators// (Phillip S. Hart) (L1130)
 * //Fantastic Flights: One Hundred Years of Flying on the Edge// (Patrick O'Brien) (L990)
 * //Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation// (James Haskins) (L1160)
 * //Strange And Wonderful Aircraft// (Harvey Weiss) (L980)

**Science**
 * //The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets (Henk Tennekes)//
 * //Flight: Discover Science Through Facts and Fun (Gerry Bailey) (L750)//