Sixth Grade
Language Arts (2 periods per day)
- Writing for purpose: to express, to entertain, to inform and to persuade
- Writing Process: focus on honing prewriting techniques and drafting skills
- Thesis statements, topic sentences and application in the five-paragraph essay
- Identification of parts of speech and sentence structures (basic diagramming)
- Verb tenses
- Conjunctions and participles
- Exploring genre and literary elements; plot, setting, character, conflict/resolution
Math
- Mastery of basic facts and operations
- Rational and irrational numbers
- Exponents
- Fraction concepts
- Mixed numbers, decimals, and percents
- Estimation
- Number theory
- Sets and systems
- Factorization
- Measurement units and conversion
- Geometry terms, measuring and bisecting angles, polygons, platonic solids, perimeter, surface area, pi, volume of cylinders and prisms, coordinates, constructions, and transformations
- Algebra patterns, sequences, integers, linear equations and expressions, functions, properties, and graphing; statistics
- Collecting, organizing, analyzing and representing data
- Theoretical and experimental probability
- Problem solving strategies
- Mathematical reasoning
Social Studies - Ancient World Studies
Content
- Early Humans and Development of Societies
- Early Middle Eastern Civilizations
- Ancient Egypt
- Early Asian Civilizations
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Using the Past to Understand Our Present
Skills
- Effective use of maps and globes
- Understanding primary sources in an historical context
- Connecting present day phenomena with historical roots
- Using critical thinking
- Mastering note-taking and outlining
Science
- Scientific method
- Lab safety
- Metric system
- Basic lab tools
- Introduction to earth science
- Earthquakes
- Volcanoes
- Erosion
- Plate tectonics
- Stars
- Galaxies
- The solar system, earth and the moon
Middle School Physical Education
Middle School Electives
