Upper School

Welcome to 6th Grade

Daily

Schedule

Monday
8:45-9:30 Advisory/ WIN/RTI
9:35-10:25 Period 1
10:30-11:20 Period 2
11:25-12:15 Period 3
12:15-12:40 Lunch
12:45-1:35 CEE Block A (P4)
1:40-2:30 CEE Block B (P5)
2:35-3:25 Period 6
3:30-4:00 Dismissal

Course

Curriculum

Reading / ELA

Reading comprehension and literary skills

  • Character traits
  • Character development
  • Conflict
  • Point of view
  • Mood and tone

Novel Studies: Freak the Mighty + Westing Game

Define unknown vocabulary terms

Writing

Grammar

  • Subjects, predicates, and sentences

Narrative Writing

Mathematics

Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons

Nets of 3D Figures

Understand the concept of a ratio

Understand the concept of a unit rate

Make tables of equivalent ratios

Solve unit rate problems

Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100

Use ratio reasoning to convert measurement units

Science

Earth and Space Science

  • Geology on Mars
  • Plate Motion
  • Engineering Internship: Plate Motion
  • Rock transformation

Social Studies

Units of Study

  • Tools of history
  • Earliest societies
  • Mesopotamia
  • Early Empires
  • Ancient Egypt

Skills

  • Geographic thinking
  • Historical thinking
  • Source analysis
  • Civilization analysis
  • Historical writing

Reading / ELA

Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills

  • Summarizing
  • Making inferences
  • Identifying theme
  • Finding evidence

Novel Studies: The Giver + A Long Walk to Water

Define unknown vocabulary terms

Writing

Grammar

  • Nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs

Argumentative Writing

Mathematics

Dividing  fractions by fractions.

Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm

Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals

Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.

Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which letters stand for numbers

Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.

Identify when two expressions are equivalent

Science

Earth Science

  • Rock transformation continued
  • Earth, Moon, and Sun
  • Ocean atmosphere and climate

Social Studies

Units of Study

  • Kush and the other African kingdoms
  • Ancient China
  • Ancient America

Skills

  • Geographic thinking
  • Historical thinking
  • Source analysis
  • Civilization analysis
  • Historical writing

Reading / ELA

Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills

  • Comparing texts
  • Analyzing themes across texts
  • Evaluating character decisions
  • Supporting ideas with evidence

Novel Studies: The Odyssey

Define unknown vocabulary terms

Writing

Grammar

  • Prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections
  • Subject-Verb agreement
  • Diagramming sentences

Informative Writing

Mathematics

GCF and LCM 

Distributive Property in factoring

Understand positive and  negative numbers

Rational numbers on number lines

Ordering Rational Numbers and value of Absolute Value

Real world problems on the coordinate plane

Solving equations and Inequalities

Use of variables in real world problems

Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations

Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world proble

Science

Earth and Space science

  • Weather patterns
  • Earth’s changing climate
  • Engineering Internship: Earth’s changing climate

Social Studies

Units of Study

  • Ancient Greece
  • Classical Greece
  • The rise of Rome
  • Rome’s decline and legacy

Skills

  • Geographic thinking
  • Historical thinking
  • Source analysis
  • Civilization analysis
  • Historical writing

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