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Welcome to 6th Grade

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Course

Curriculum

Reading / ELA

  • Reading comprehension and literary skills: Novel Study
  • Use context clues to make predictions and define unknown vocabulary terms
  • Identify theme, point of view, main idea and support with text evidence
  • Make inferences and support with text evidence
  • Analyzing character traits and support with text evidence
  • Identify plot structure and development
  • Identify conflict/resolution

Writing

  • Summarizing
  • Personal narrative
  • Argumentative writing

Mathematics

Operations and Properties:

  • Whole Numbers and Exponents
  • Order of Operations
  • Properties

Introduction to Algebra:

  • Variables and Expressions
  • Solving Equations

Decimals

Spiral review of all skills and concepts taught

Science

Earth science

Social Studies

Early Human Civilization

Ancient Civilizations

  • Indus Valley
  • Mesopotamia
  • Egypt
  • Persia
  • Greece
  • Rome
  • China

Reading / ELA

  • Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel study and short stories
  • Identify and explain story elements
  • Identify types of conflict in a story
  • Compare and contrast character traits with citing evidence
  • Analyzing character traits and plot structure

Writing

  • Argumentative writing
  • Informative writing

Mathematics

  • Number Theory and Fractions
  • Fraction Operations
  • Data Collection and Analysis
    • Mean, Median, Mode, and Range
    • Types of Graphs
  • Proportional Relationships:
    • Ratios, Rates, and Proportions
    • Ordered Pairs
    • Percents
  • Spiral review of all skills and concepts previously taught

Science

Earth Science

Social Studies

  • Middle Ages
  • Medieval Governments
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • The Vikings
  • The Silk Road
  • The Black Death
  • The Renaissance
  • The Reformation
  • The Mongols
  • Mesoamerican Cultures

Reading / ELA

  • Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel Study & Poetry
  • Use context clues to make predictions and define unknown vocabulary terms
  • Identify theme, point of view, main idea and support with text evidence
  • Make inferences and support with text evidence

Writing

  • Informative Writing
  • Poetry and Figurative Language

Mathematics

  • Measurement and Geometry:
    • Converting units, Area, Volume, and Surface Area
  • Integers and the Coordinate Plane
  • Functions
  • Spiral review of all skills and concepts previously taught

**Some students may move through curriculum faster and therefore start pre-algebra at the end of the year.

Science

Earth Science

Social Studies

  • Age of Exploration
  • Colonial Europe
  • African Civilizations
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Contemporary History
    • Age of Invention
    • World Wars
    • 50s
    • 60s
    • 70s
    • 80s
    • 90s
    • 2000s

Meet

Our Teachers

Ben Danielson (ELA)
Alison Wright (Math)
Susan Connelly (Social Studies)
Coming Soon! (Science)
6th Grade's Supply List

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