Goals/ Objectives:

• Identify salient details about a chosen subject from a newspaper article
• Write a nine-line poem about a chosen topic

Common Core Objectives:

• RI.6.2: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details
• W.6.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts and information through the selection, organization and analysis of relevant content