GRADE 6 CURRICULUM *Sample Lesson Request Form at the Bottom of the Page*
Language Arts • Improving comprehension and reading using Romeo and Juliet, Oliver Twist, The Secret Garden, Animal Farm, and The Diary of Anne Frank • Poetry, myths, phrases, sayings and other adventure and mystery classics • Studying daily vocabulary • Commonly misspelled words • How to write original compositions, reports, poetry, friendly and business letters including sentence structure, parts of speech, and research skills
Math • Place value • Estimation • Properties • Division • Decimals • Fractions • Reciprocals • Expressions • Exponents • Exponent notation • Order of operations • Frequency tables • Adding and subtracting units of time • Percents • Introduction to geometry • Integers • Coordinate graphing
Science • Examining the classifying of life forms • Reproduction • Heredity • Genetics • Matter • Space • Light • Sound • Energy sources • Body systems • Crust history • Electricity • Chemistry • Plant reproduction • Health and personal hygiene • Introducing scientists
Social Science • Studying maps with focus on vegetation, minerals, demographics, weather and economy of Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands • Examining ancient history including the civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Southwest Asia, Rome, and Europe • The Middle Ages • The revolutions of Latin America • The discovery of America • The industrial revolution • The British Empire • Missionaries • Explorers • World War I • The depression • World War II • The twentieth century
Fine Arts • Studying the musical keyboard • Chords • Patterns in music • Musicians including Aaron Copland, Mozart, Gershwin, Joplin, Berlin, and Chopin. • Looking at the visual arts and the artists including Tanner, Homer, van Gogh, Monet, Rodin, Kandinsky, Munch, Picasso, Mondrian, Hopper, Wyeth, and Frank Lloyd Wright • Examining dance with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring