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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: 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)
Taylor Koban (Science)
6th Grade's Supply List

Return the completed Summer SOAR packet (date to be determined) for a prize!

Summer SOAR Club Packet