ELA 6 2.2.2

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2.2.2

Weds, 10/27/25

Connect and Apply, "The Cities Inside Us," Life Experiences

Unit:What Makes Me Who I Am?

Topic:Exploring Literature

Multiple Choice

What word is a capitalization error?

Linda says i don't want to go out tonight.

• People

• I

• Don't

• Care

Multiple Choice

Is this a complete sentence?

People catching.

• Yes, it is missing a predicate

• No, it is missing a predicate

• No, it is missing a subject

Learners can:

• identify word parts in new multisyllabic words

Look closely at the following words. Each word has two different word parts that you have studied in this case.

• antibiotic

• biography

• previewing

• extraordinarily
  

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Solve the case:

Match

Match the following

• antibiotic

  word parts: anti-, bio

• previewing

  • word parts: pre-, -ing

• biography

  • word parts: bio, graph

• extraordinarily

  • word parts: extra-, -ly

a medicine that fights against bacteria

viewing something ahead of time

a written account of one's life

to a remarkable degree

• a medicine that fights against bacteria

• viewing something ahead of time

• a written account of one's life

• to a remarkable degree

Open Ended

Create a sentence using one of the words you learned in today's lesson:

• antibiotic

• biography

• previewing

• extraordinarily

Learners can:

• paraphrase to show understanding of a poem

Reading: "The Cities Inside Us"

Match

Match the following Poetry Terms

• a cohesive group of words that start at the beginning of a row and end when the author creates a new row

• refers to the end of one line of poetry and the beginning of a new line

• 
  

  lines grouped around a topic or thought, like a paragraph in other texts

line

line break

Stanza

• 
  line

• line break

• Stanza

Drag and Drop

In a ​

Placeholder

, a ​ ​

Placeholder

is like a ​

Placeholder

in a story.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

poem

paragraph

poetry

stanza

group

Ríos is a poet, writer, and professor in Arizona.

He has written multiple collections of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir about growing up along the Mexico/Arizona border.

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Alberto Rios
"The Cities Inside Us"

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• Interesting facts

"The Cities Inside Us"
ELA 6 Notebook page 54

​Access the digital text in Edio Reader - slide 4 of Reading

To paraphrase, you might restate these lines as:

• We live in an undiscovered, mysterious place.

Scroll down to paraphrase the second stanza.

​To paraphrase, you might restate these lines as:

Paraphrasing is when you put the original text in your own words. It is important to paraphrase to show that you understand the text you are reading.

For example, review the first stanza of "The Cities Inside Us."

The poem reads:

• "We live in secret cities / And we travel unmapped roads."

Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing

Open Ended

Share Your Paraphrase

Reread the last three stanzas of the poem, and then paraphrase them. Remember that paraphrasing is just putting the text in your own words. 

Draw

My City

Share what makes you who you are by noting three important memories or qualities about yourself. You can choose to respond with a drawing or in written form.

Writing: Life Experience Narrative

​A life experience is an event or series of events that have a significant impact on someone's life

. Your narrative writing project for this unit will be to create a life experience narrative.

Narrative Writing Project

For this unit's writing project, you will create a life experience narrative. You will work on this project in small chunks throughout the unit.

There are two different paths you can take when writing your narrative project.

Write about your own life experience.

​Write about a fictional life experience.

Match

Match the following types of nouns

• nouns:

• proper nouns

• pronouns

person, place, or thing

a specific noun

words that replace a noun or proper noun

• person, place, or thing

• a specific noun

• words that replace a noun or proper noun

Personal Pronouns

Multiple Choice

Which personal pronoun would replace the italicized nouns in the following sentence?

Wendy and Samuel spent three weeks traveling around the country for vacation.

• it

• they

• I

• we

Wrap- up

Today, you:

• reviewed the prefixes, suffixes, and roots from your first case

• read and analyzed "The Cities Inside Us"

• learned about the narrative writing project and reviewed personal pronouns