Sixth Grade Academics

Language Arts - Reading
UNIT 1: Literary Archetypes
Goal 1: The student will demonstrate the ability to observe how recurring literary themes and motifs unify individual works and enable readers to compare works of literature.

Goal 2: The student will demonstrate the ability to use a variety of strategies to understand what he or she reads.

Goal 3: The student will demonstrate the ability to compose oral, written, and visual presentations that inform, persuade, and express personal ideas.

UNIT 2: Literary Forms: Biography and Autobiography
Goal 1: The student will demonstrate the ability to examine biography and autobiography as authenticate sources for understanding a person's life.

Goal 2: The student will demonstrate the ability to use a variety of strategies to understand what he or she reads.

Goal 3: The student will demonstrate the ability to compose oral, written, and visual presentations that inform, persuade, and express personal ideas.

Language Arts - Writing
Goal 1: The student will demonstrate the ability to apply the elements of the writing process to original work.

Goal 2: The student will demonstrate the ability to generate products that express personal ideas, inform, or persuade.

Language Arts - English
Goal 1: The student will recognize, recall, and use grammar concepts and skills to strengthen control of oral and written language.

Goal 2: The student will comprehend and apply standard English usage in oral and written language.

Goal 3: The student will apply standard English capitalization and punctuation.

Goal 4: The student will compose texts using the revising and editing strategies of effective writers to achieve style and clarity.

Mathematics
QUARTER 1: Knowledge of Number Relationships and Computation/Arithmetic
Goal 1: The student will apply knowledge of rational numbers and place value.

Goal 2: The student will analyze number relations and compute.

Goal 3: The student will analyze ratios, proportions, and percents.

Goal 4: The student will analyze number relations and compute.

Goal 5: The student will apply knowledge of rational numbers and place value.

QUARTER 2: Knowledge of Geometry
Goal 1: The student will measure in customary and metric units.

Goal 2: The student will analyze the properties of plane geometric figures.

Goal 3: The student will analyze geometric relationships.

Goal 4: The student will represent plane geometric figures.

Goal 5: The student will analyze congruent figures.

Goal 6: The student will analyze a transformation in a coordinate plane.

QUARTER 3: Knowledge of Algebra, Patterns, or Functions
Goal 1: The student will locate points on a number line and in a coordinate plane.

Goal 2: The student will write and evaluate expressions.

Goal 3: The student will identify, write, solve, and apply equations and inequalities.

Goal 4: The student will identify, describe, extend, and create numeric patterns and functions.

Goal 5: The student will locate points on a number line and in a coordinate plane.

Goal 6: The student will analyze linear relationships.

QUARTER 4: Knowledge of Measurement

Goal 1: The student will estimate and apply measurement formulas.

Knowledge of Statistics

Goal 1: The student will organize and display data.

Goal 2: The student will describe a set of data.

Knowledge of Probability

Goal 1: The student will identify simple space.

Goal 2: The student will determine the probability of an event comprised of no more than 2 independent events.

Goal 3: The student will analyze the results of a survey or simulation.

Goal 3: The student will conduct a probability experiment.

Social Studies
Unit 1: Early People

Goal 1: The student will apply social studies skills to develop an understanding that the lives of early people, who were hunters and gatherers, involved a constant search for food. With the discovery of fire and the making of tools, life became somewhat easier. Archaeologists study artifacts to learn about prehistoric people.

Unit 2: The Kingdoms of Egypt

Goal 1: The student will apply social studies skills to develop an understanding that the Egyptian society developed along the Nile River, ruled by Pharaohs Egypt had Old, Middle, and New Kingdom eras. Egyptians kept records using hieroglyphics written on papyrus, a code finally understood again about two centuries ago.

Unit 3: Early Indian Civilizations

Goal 1: The student will apply social studies skills to develop an understanding that geography and climate have influenced India's development. The Himalayan Mountains and the Indus and Ganges Rivers, along with the seasonal monsoons, have created unique culture in South Asia. Hinduism, a major world religion, developed in India.

Goal 2: The student will apply social studies skills to develop an understanding that the Mauryan Empire was in many ways a modern government, with taxes, highways, and a postal system. The great emporer Asoka ruled during 40 years of peace and prosperity. Siddhartha Gautama set out to understand the causes of suffering and developed the teachings of Buddhism. The Gupta Empire was a time of achievements in literature, mathematics, astronomy, and human relations.

Unit 4: China's First Dynasties

Goal 1: The student will apply social studies skills to develop an understanding that despite regular flooding of the region. Chinese civilization began in the Huang He Valley. China was separated from its neighbors by mountain ranges and deserts and called itself the Middle Kingdom.

Goal 2: The student will apply social studies skills to develop an understanding that during the Qin Dynasty, China was divided into provinces, and its currency and language were standardized.

Science
Unit 1: Life Science

Goal 1: Diversity of Life - The student will use scientific skills and processes to better understand that living things are classified into six kingdoms based on their characteristics.

Goal 2: Cells - The student will use scientific skills and processes to better understand that living things are made of cells.

Unit 2: Earth Science

Goal 1: Changes Over Time - The student will use scientific skills and processes to better understand that the Earth's surface includes landforms and bodies of water.

Goal 2: Conserving Our Resources - The student will use scientific skills and processes to better understand that the Earth's resources include minerals, rocks, air, and water.

Unit 3: Physical Science

Goal 1: Classifying Matter - The student will use scientific skills and processes to better understand that matter can be described by physical properties and classified as an element or a compound.

Goal 2: Chemistry - The student will use scientific skills and processes to better understand that matter undergoes chemical changes when bonds are broken and formed. Knowing a substance's chemical properties can help us predict how it will interact with other matter.