How Green was my Valley- a study of parables about man's relationship with nature (fineminds.org)

Film Study: "How Green Was My Valley", directed by John Ford
 Publicity Posters: Students created a publicity poster for the film "How Green was my Valley"
 Quotes from Publicity Posters 
 Essays: What are the memories which Huw holds dearest and why? What are your observations of Huw’s world?

Parables & Fables
 Grade 7 Fables: Original fables, which illustrate the moral: "He who tries to please everybody pleases nobody".

The Pearl by John Steinbeck
 Essays: After the discovery of the pearl with its mysterious ‘ghostly gleam’ a struggle begins. What is the struggle about, and how does Steinbeck make it evident through his storytelling?

Man & Nature (Moby Dick, Captains Courageous and The Old Man and the Sea)

 Final Essays: “There’s a magic in water that draws all men away from the land, leads them over the hills down creeks and rivers to the sea. . . . . .  . the sea, where each man as in a mirror finds himself.” Moby Dick

 

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Grade 6 Poetry Unit: Poems by Grade 6 Students on the themes Imaginary Cities and Over the Rainbow  

 Grade 6C Poems
 Grade 6D Poems

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