Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RI.6.2: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
| Passage | Pages |
|---|---|
| Without Warning: The Destruction of Pompeii | 10-12 |
| The Black Death | 13-15 |
| Look Out Below! Here Comes the Snow | 16-18 |
| Horror in Halifax | 19-21 |
| The Hindenburg Tragedy | 22-24 |
| Space Shuttle Disasters | 25-27 |
| Waves that Shook the Planet: The 2004 Tsunami | 28-30 |
| Prison Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary | 31-33 |
| Civil War Battleship Crews: The First Integrated U.S. Armed Forces | 34-36 |
| The Birth of Radio: The “Wireless” | 37-39 |
| Henry Ford's Assembly Line | 40-42 |
| Charles Lindbergh and the First Transatlantic Flight | 43-45 |
| A Giant Leap for Mankind | 46-48 |
| Executed for Espionage | 49-51 |
| Mascots in the Military | 52-54 |
| Destroying Ecosystems | 55-57 |
| The U.S. Coast Guard | 58-60 |
| The Man Who Slept Through His Own Presidency | 61-63 |
| Scream Machines: The History of Roller Coasters | 64-66 |
| Dorothea Dix, Champion for the Mentally Ill | 67-69 |
| Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park | 70-72 |
| Mohandas Gandhi: A Man of Peaceful Action | 73-75 |
| Amazing Courage: Irena Sendler’s Silence | 76-78 |
| Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice | 79-81 |
| Mother Teresa: Greatest Humanitarian of the Twentieth Century | 82-84 |
| At a Crossroads and in the Crosshairs: Afghanistan | 85-87 |
| Antarctica: A Hidden Land | 88-90 |
| The Land Down Under: Australia | 91-93 |
| Bulgaria: A Balkan Nation | 94-96 |
| The Cradle of Civilization: Iraq | 97-99 |
| Jamaica, Jewel in the Caribbean Sea | 100-102 |
| Swaziland, Land of a Single Culture | 103-105 |
Key Ideas and Details
ELA.RI.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
| Passage | Pages |
|---|---|
| Without Warning: The Destruction of Pompeii | 10-12 |
| The Black Death | 13-15 |
| Look Out Below! Here Comes the Snow | 16-18 |
| Horror in Halifax | 19-21 |
| The Hindenburg Tragedy | 22-24 |
| Space Shuttle Disasters | 25-27 |
| Waves that Shook the Planet: The 2004 Tsunami | 28-30 |
| Prison Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary | 31-33 |
| Civil War Battleship Crews: The First Integrated U.S. Armed Forces | 34-36 |
| The Birth of Radio: The “Wireless” | 37-39 |
| Henry Ford's Assembly Line | 40-42 |
| Charles Lindbergh and the First Transatlantic Flight | 43-45 |
| A Giant Leap for Mankind | 46-48 |
| Executed for Espionage | 49-51 |
| Mascots in the Military | 52-54 |
| Destroying Ecosystems | 55-57 |
| The U.S. Coast Guard | 58-60 |
| The Man Who Slept Through His Own Presidency | 61-63 |
| Scream Machines: The History of Roller Coasters | 64-66 |
| Dorothea Dix, Champion for the Mentally Ill | 67-69 |
| Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park | 70-72 |
| Mohandas Gandhi: A Man of Peaceful Action | 73-75 |
| Amazing Courage: Irena Sendler’s Silence | 76-78 |
| Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice | 79-81 |
| Mother Teresa: Greatest Humanitarian of the Twentieth Century | 82-84 |
| At a Crossroads and in the Crosshairs: Afghanistan | 85-87 |
| Antarctica: A Hidden Land | 88-90 |
| The Land Down Under: Australia | 91-93 |
| Bulgaria: A Balkan Nation | 94-96 |
| The Cradle of Civilization: Iraq | 97-99 |
| Jamaica, Jewel in the Caribbean Sea | 100-102 |
| Swaziland, Land of a Single Culture | 103-105 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RI.6.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
| Passage | Pages |
|---|---|
| Without Warning: The Destruction of Pompeii | 10-12 |
| The Black Death | 13-15 |
| Look Out Below! Here Comes the Snow | 16-18 |
| Horror in Halifax | 19-21 |
| The Hindenburg Tragedy | 22-24 |
| Space Shuttle Disasters | 25-27 |
| Waves that Shook the Planet: The 2004 Tsunami | 28-30 |
| Prison Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary | 31-33 |
| Civil War Battleship Crews: The First Integrated U.S. Armed Forces | 34-36 |
| The Birth of Radio: The “Wireless” | 37-39 |
| Henry Ford's Assembly Line | 40-42 |
| Charles Lindbergh and the First Transatlantic Flight | 43-45 |
| A Giant Leap for Mankind | 46-48 |
| Executed for Espionage | 49-51 |
| Mascots in the Military | 52-54 |
| Destroying Ecosystems | 55-57 |
| The U.S. Coast Guard | 58-60 |
| The Man Who Slept Through His Own Presidency | 61-63 |
| Scream Machines: The History of Roller Coasters | 64-66 |
| Dorothea Dix, Champion for the Mentally Ill | 67-69 |
| Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park | 70-72 |
| Mohandas Gandhi: A Man of Peaceful Action | 73-75 |
| Amazing Courage: Irena Sendler’s Silence | 76-78 |
| Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice | 79-81 |
| Mother Teresa: Greatest Humanitarian of the Twentieth Century | 82-84 |
| At a Crossroads and in the Crosshairs: Afghanistan | 85-87 |
| Antarctica: A Hidden Land | 88-90 |
| The Land Down Under: Australia | 91-93 |
| Bulgaria: A Balkan Nation | 94-96 |
| The Cradle of Civilization: Iraq | 97-99 |
| Jamaica, Jewel in the Caribbean Sea | 100-102 |
| Swaziland, Land of a Single Culture | 103-105 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RI.6.5: Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
| Passage | Pages |
|---|---|
| Without Warning: The Destruction of Pompeii | 10-12 |
| The Black Death | 13-15 |
| Look Out Below! Here Comes the Snow | 16-18 |
| Horror in Halifax | 19-21 |
| The Hindenburg Tragedy | 22-24 |
| Space Shuttle Disasters | 25-27 |
| Waves that Shook the Planet: The 2004 Tsunami | 28-30 |
| Prison Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary | 31-33 |
| Civil War Battleship Crews: The First Integrated U.S. Armed Forces | 34-36 |
| The Birth of Radio: The “Wireless” | 37-39 |
| Henry Ford's Assembly Line | 40-42 |
| Charles Lindbergh and the First Transatlantic Flight | 43-45 |
| A Giant Leap for Mankind | 46-48 |
| Executed for Espionage | 49-51 |
| Mascots in the Military | 52-54 |
| Destroying Ecosystems | 55-57 |
| The U.S. Coast Guard | 58-60 |
| The Man Who Slept Through His Own Presidency | 61-63 |
| Scream Machines: The History of Roller Coasters | 64-66 |
| Dorothea Dix, Champion for the Mentally Ill | 67-69 |
| Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park | 70-72 |
| Mohandas Gandhi: A Man of Peaceful Action | 73-75 |
| Amazing Courage: Irena Sendler’s Silence | 76-78 |
| Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice | 79-81 |
| Mother Teresa: Greatest Humanitarian of the Twentieth Century | 82-84 |
| At a Crossroads and in the Crosshairs: Afghanistan | 85-87 |
| Antarctica: A Hidden Land | 88-90 |
| The Land Down Under: Australia | 91-93 |
| Bulgaria: A Balkan Nation | 94-96 |
| The Cradle of Civilization: Iraq | 97-99 |
| Jamaica, Jewel in the Caribbean Sea | 100-102 |
| Swaziland, Land of a Single Culture | 103-105 |
Craft and Structure
ELA.RI.6.6: Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
| Passage | Pages |
|---|---|
| Prison Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary | 31-33 |
| A Giant Leap for Mankind | 46-48 |
| Executed for Espionage | 49-51 |
| Destroying Ecosystems | 55-57 |
| Dorothea Dix, Champion for the Mentally Ill | 67-69 |
| Mohandas Gandhi: A Man of Peaceful Action | 73-75 |
| Amazing Courage: Irena Sendler’s Silence | 76-78 |
| Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice | 79-81 |
| Mother Teresa: Greatest Humanitarian of the Twentieth Century | 82-84 |
| At a Crossroads and in the Crosshairs: Afghanistan | 85-87 |
| The Land Down Under: Australia | 91-93 |
| Bulgaria: A Balkan Nation | 94-96 |
| Jamaica, Jewel in the Caribbean Sea | 100-102 |
| Swaziland, Land of a Single Culture | 103-105 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RI.6.7: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
| Passage | Pages |
|---|---|
| Without Warning: The Destruction of Pompeii | 10-12 |
| Waves that Shook the Planet: The 2004 Tsunami | 28-30 |
| Mascots in the Military | 52-54 |
| At a Crossroads and in the Crosshairs: Afghanistan | 85-87 |
| The Land Down Under: Australia | 91-93 |
| The Cradle of Civilization: Iraq | 97-99 |
| Jamaica, Jewel in the Caribbean Sea | 100-102 |
| Swaziland, Land of a Single Culture | 103-105 |
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
ELA.RI.6.9: Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
| Passage | Pages |
|---|---|
| The Black Death | 13-15 |
| Look Out Below! Here Comes the Snow | 16-18 |
| Horror in Halifax | 19-21 |
| The Hindenburg Tragedy | 22-24 |
| Prison Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary | 31-33 |
| Civil War Battleship Crews: The First Integrated U.S. Armed Forces | 34-36 |
| A Giant Leap for Mankind | 46-48 |
| Dorothea Dix, Champion for the Mentally Ill | 67-69 |
| Mohandas Gandhi: A Man of Peaceful Action | 73-75 |
| Amazing Courage: Irena Sendler’s Silence | 76-78 |
| Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice | 79-81 |
| Mother Teresa: Greatest Humanitarian of the Twentieth Century | 82-84 |
| Antarctica: A Hidden Land | 88-90 |
| Bulgaria: A Balkan Nation | 94-96 |
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
ELA.RI.6.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
| Passage | Pages |
|---|---|
| Without Warning: The Destruction of Pompeii | 10-12 |
| The Black Death | 13-15 |
| Look Out Below! Here Comes the Snow | 16-18 |
| Horror in Halifax | 19-21 |
| The Hindenburg Tragedy | 22-24 |
| Space Shuttle Disasters | 25-27 |
| Waves that Shook the Planet: The 2004 Tsunami | 28-30 |
| Prison Reform at Eastern State Penitentiary | 31-33 |
| Civil War Battleship Crews: The First Integrated U.S. Armed Forces | 34-36 |
| The Birth of Radio: The “Wireless” | 37-39 |
| Henry Ford's Assembly Line | 40-42 |
| Charles Lindbergh and the First Transatlantic Flight | 43-45 |
| A Giant Leap for Mankind | 46-48 |
| Executed for Espionage | 49-51 |
| Mascots in the Military | 52-54 |
| Destroying Ecosystems | 55-57 |
| The U.S. Coast Guard | 58-60 |
| The Man Who Slept Through His Own Presidency | 61-63 |
| Scream Machines: The History of Roller Coasters | 64-66 |
| Dorothea Dix, Champion for the Mentally Ill | 67-69 |
| Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park | 70-72 |
| Mohandas Gandhi: A Man of Peaceful Action | 73-75 |
| Amazing Courage: Irena Sendler’s Silence | 76-78 |
| Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice | 79-81 |
| Mother Teresa: Greatest Humanitarian of the Twentieth Century | 82-84 |
| At a Crossroads and in the Crosshairs: Afghanistan | 85-87 |
| Antarctica: A Hidden Land | 88-90 |
| The Land Down Under: Australia | 91-93 |
| Bulgaria: A Balkan Nation | 94-96 |
| The Cradle of Civilization: Iraq | 97-99 |
| Jamaica, Jewel in the Caribbean Sea | 100-102 |
| Swaziland, Land of a Single Culture | 103-105 |
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