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Open Court Pacing
Guide for 2008 - 2009 |
| August 14 - September 26 | September 29 - November 21 | December 1 - February 6 | |||||||||
| Unit 1: Perseverance | Unit 2: Ancient Civilizations | Unit 3: Taking a Stand | |||||||||
| Lessons | Selection | Days | Lessons | Selection | Days | Lessons | Selection | Days | |||
| 1-Aug.18 | Fire Builder | 5 | 1-Sep. 29 | Digging Up the Past | 5 | 1-Dec.1 | Pretty Pennies Picket | 5 | |||
| 2-Aug.25 | Amarog, The Wolf | 5 | 2-Oct. 6 | The Search for Early… | 5 | 2-Dec. 8 | Class Discussion | 5 | |||
| 3-Sep.2 | On Top of the World | 4 | 3-Oct. 13 | Island of the Bulls | 5 | 3-Jan.5 | The Grimke Sisters | 5 | |||
| 4-Sep.8 | St. George and the ... | 5 | 4-Oct. 20 | People on the Beach | 5 | 4-Jan.12 | I Have a Dream | 5 | |||
| 5-Sep.15 | A Picture Book … | 5 | 5-Oct. 27 | Riddle of Rosetta Stone | 5 | 5-Jan. 20 | Gandhi | 4 | |||
| 6-Sep.22 | Back to the Drawing… | 5 | 6-Nov.3 | His Majesty | 5 | 6-Jan. 26 | Sweeping Pittsburgh | 5 | |||
| Aug.14th-15th | Flex Days | 2 | 7-Nov. 17 | The Silk Route | 4 | 7-Feb.2 | Passage to Freedom | 5 | |||
| Nov. 12-14 | Flex Days | 3 | Dec.15th-18th | Flex Days | 4 | ||||||
| Reading Lions due 10/3/08 | Reading Lions due 12/5/08 | Reading LIons due 2/13/09 | |||||||||
| Number of Lessons | 6 | Number of Lessons | 7 | Number of Lessons | 7 | ||||||
| Number of Instructional Days | 29 | Number of Instructional Days | 34 | Number of Instructional Days | 34 | ||||||
| Extra Instructional Days | 2 | Extra Instructional Days | 3 | Extra Instructional Days | 4 | ||||||
| February 9 - April 3 | April 6 - June 5 | Optional | |||||||||
| Unit 4: Beyond the Notes | Unit 5: Ecology | Unit 6: A Question of Value | |||||||||
| Lessons | Selection | Days | Lessons | Selection | Days | Lessons | Selection | Days | |||
| 1-Feb.9 | What is an Orchestra | 5 | 1-Apr.6 | Protecting Wildlife | 4 | 1 | King Midas | 5 | |||
| 2-Feb. 23 | The Nightingale | 5 | 2-Apr.20 | Most Beautiful Roof | 5 | 2 | A Brother's Promise | 5 | |||
| 3-Mar.2 | Aida | 5 | 3-Apr.27 | Alejandro's gift | 5 | 3 | A Gift for a Gift | 5 | |||
| 4-Mar.9 | The Sound of Flutes | 5 | 4.May.4 | A Natural Force | 5 | 4 | The Gold Coin | 5 | |||
| 5-Mar.16 | Ray and Mr. Pit | 5 | 5-May.11 | Saving the Peregrine | 5 | 5 | The No Guitar Blues | 5 | |||
| 6-Mar. 23 | Beethoven Lives | 5 | 6-May.18 | Day they Parachuted | 5 | 6 | The Qultmaker's Gift | 5 | |||
| 7.Mar.30 | The Man Who Wrote | 5 | May.26-June 5 | Flex Days | 9 | ||||||
| Reading Lions due 06/05/09 | |||||||||||
| Number of Lessons | 6 | ||||||||||
| Reading Lions due 4/09/09 | Number of Instructional Days | 38 | |||||||||
| Number of Lessons | 7 | Extra Instructional Days | 9 | Number of Lessons | 6 | ||||||
| Number of Instructional Days | 35 | Number of Instructional Days | 0 | ||||||||
| Extra Instructional Days | 0 | Extra Instructional Days | 0 | ||||||||
Do not skip lessons due to Sixth Grade Camp; pick up from last lesson one week later. If needed, OARS reporting can be delayed one week.
All sixth grade teachers at each site must follow the same pacing. Decide as a group how to use "flex" days.