Comedy and Tragedy Unit: New Alberta Grade 6 LA Curriculum - Print & Go!

We know Alberta Grade 6 Language Arts teachers are really scratching their heads over how to cover the comedy and tragedy outcomes in the new Alberta ELAL curriculum.

So, we have the spent many, MANY hours creating this high quality, print and go unit to help you out! 

This Grade 6 Alberta tragedy and comedy unit thoroughly covers the new grade 6 Alberta ELA outcomes on tragedy and comedy (listed below). It includes over 100 pages of curriculum-aligned resources including: 

• A Teacher Crash Course 
• Unit Vocabulary Pages
• Student pages on the concepts and literary structures of tragedy & comedy 
• An original tragedy script and accompanying comprehension work and art activity
• A student-friendly version of As You Like It by Shakespeare 
• A comedy writing task and comprehension based on the short story A Package for Mrs. Jewls
• Tragedy poem The Spider & The Fly and accompanying comprehension & vocabulary work
• A Tragedy writing assignment, along with planning pages and a teacher rubric
• Walk-the-Room Activity including 9 original Tragedy Short Stories
• A variety of assessment materials
• Answer keys for all student pages

These resources are all aligned to completely cover the following 2022 Alberta ELAL outcomes:

Guiding Question: How can text form and structure improve understanding of content?

Learning Outcome: Students analyze how text form and structure clarify information and support connecting with self, others, and the world.

Knowledge

• Forms of drama include comedy and tragedy.
• A comedy is a humorous story with a happy ending.
• A tragedy is a serious story with an unhappy ending.

Understanding

• Forms of drama can influence the outcome of the story being represented.

Skills and Procedures

• I can listen to, read, or view dramatic works, including comedy and tragedy.
• I can examine narrative structures in dramatic works.

At Alberta Teacher Resources our mission is to provide thorough, practical and simple resources to support Alberta teachers with the implementation of the new Provincial curriculum. As current classroom teachers we feel the pressure of implementing a new curriculum in a non-graduated way, and we see the learning gaps that students will experience as a result. We want classroom teachers to feel like they have tools and resources they need to be successful this year and throughout their careers.

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