Grade 6
at a glance

Nonfiction text: The Diary of A Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank (Author), Otto M. Frank (Editor), Mirjam Pressler (Editor), Susan Massotty (Translator)

Video: Explained In 5 Questions: World War II by Encyclopaedia Britannica (~5 min)

Video: Who Was Anne Frank? by The History Channel (~3 min)

Fiction text: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

Video: India and Pakistan: What was partition? by Al Jazeera English (~3 min) 

Writing: Narrative

Fiction text: The Giver by Lois Lowry

Video: The Giver – official film trailer on Rotten Tomatoes Trailers (~2:30) 

Nonfiction text: Everest: The Remarkable Story of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay by Alexandra Stewart (Author), Joe Todd-Stanton (Illustrator)

Writing: argument 

Fiction text: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Video: Juana Maria | The Woman Who Inspired "Island Of The Blue Dolphins" by Weird History (~5 min) 

Nonfiction text: The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix 

Writing: informative

Fiction text: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Video: Film trailer - A Wrinkle in Time by Disney (~2 min)

Nonfiction text: Find Where the Wind Goes: Moments From My Life by Mae Jemison

Video: Mae Jemison: First African American Woman in Space by Biography (~3 min) 

Video: Dr. Mae Jemison and Defying Gravity: Women in Space by Microsoft (~3 min) 

Writing: informative

Fiction text: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Video: A Cry in the Wild (film based on Hatchet, 1 hour, 20 minutes)

Nonfiction text: The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Joshua M. Greene

Video: The Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Joshua M. Greene by Joshua M. Greene (~1 min)

Video: HISTORY MINUTE: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto in WWII - Vladka Meed by Zenger (~1 min) 

Writing: argument

Fiction: Wonder by R. J. Palacio 

Video: Wonder (2017 Movie) Precept Discussion Video – R.J. Palacio by Lionsgate Movies (~1 min) 

Video: Wonder — film trailer by YouTube Movies & TV (~1 min)

Nonfiction text: Anandabai Joshee (first Indian woman to earn a medical degree in the United States) 

Writing: narrative

Literature text: We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe (Author), Tamiko Nimura (Author), Ross Ishikawa (Illustrator), and Matt Sasaki (Illustrator)

Videos: The 442nd Regimental Combat Team | WWII in 2 by The National WWII Museum (~2 min) and From Hawaii to the Holocaust by directcinemalimited (~2 min)  

Nonfiction texts: “Second Lieutenant Susumu ‘Sus’ Ito.” The Nisei Soldier Congressional Gold Medal Digital Exhibition. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and “Reflection on Veterans’ Day” by Daniel Lubetsky.

Video: The Hero's Journey according to Joseph Campbell - video by Matthew Winkler and Kirill Yeretsky by Ueber-Brands (~3 min)

Writing: narrative

Video: The enigma of WWII codebreaker Alan Turing by CBS Sunday Morning (~7 min) 

Fiction text: The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin 

Video: Uncrackable! The Heroic Native American Code Talkers by Colossal Cranium (~4 min)

Video: Behind the Scenes: Unbreakable by Scholastic (~5 min)

Nonfiction text: “Unbreakable: The incredible true story of the Navajo code talkers, the top-secret heroes of World War II” by Tod Olson

Writing: informative

Fiction text: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 

Nonfiction text: Heroes of the Holocaust: True Stories of Rescues by Teens by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun  

Writing: argument