Sixth Grade Curriculum
Holy Spirit students in Sixth Grade will:
RELIGION
- Explore the Old Testament and understand how it prepares the chosen people of God for the coming of Jesus Christ
- Participate in the special seasons of the Church's liturgical year
- Enhance their commitment to Catholic values and church teachings in their daily lives (supported by their readings from RCL Benziger's Family Life series)
- Pray daily as a community of faith
MATH
- Manipulate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers, positive fractions, positive decimals and positive and negative integers
- Identify ratios, proportions, percentages, probability, logic and statistics with estimating measurement, geometry and graphing
- Apply a focus on algebraic thinking and conceptual problem solving
- Experience an enriched curriculum through application of higher-level problem-solving techniques
- Benefit from a variety of supplemental teaching techniques
LITERATURE
- Describe types of character traits; inferred, physical, and descriptive
- Build vocabulary to describe character
- Compare and contrast types of stories: drama, poems, audio, and video
- Determining the central theme/main idea within a story
- Determine the setting of a piece of literature
- Analyze plot and how it unfolds throughout a story
- Analyze characters and how they change throughout a story
- Apply the above skills through the study of three novels: Esperanza Rising, The Egypt Game, and Hatchet
READING
- Determine theme/central idea within an informational text
- Summarize details from text
- Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text
- Analyze how a sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text
WRITING
- Compose personal narratives, informative research-based writing, and opinion writing
- Create short stories and poems
- Summarize events in student’s lives in their writing journals
- Use story starters for creative writing
- Apply their writing skills to cross curricular subject writing
SCIENCE
- Discover the structure of life and learn how cells are the basic unit of life
- Explore a cell’s cycle and use a microscope to observe cell division
- Analyze the interactions between factors and organisms in ecosystems
- Research how weather affects the world’s climate
- Attend a week-long Science Camp
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Analyze the key traits of ancient civilizations from 3500 B.C. to 476 A.D
- Explore civilizations of early humankind
- Map the progress of technology through the ages
- Enrich their learning through a variety of hands-on projects and educational tools
