English Grade 6
During Middle School, students will spend a significant amount of time covering basic essay writing skills. Using a dual approach, Grammar lessons will be taught independently and will be reinforced through essay writing and editing.
Writing Objectives:
To generate and refine ideas and plans for writing.
To demonstrate sentence fluency and organization.
To produce unified and coherent paragraphs.
To develop clear and coherent essays that include an
introduction, body paragraphs, a conclusion and a well-developed
thesis statement.
To identify audience and purpose for writing.
To improve writing skills with peer editing and self evaluation.
To publish for general and specific audiences.
Students will build on their writing each year and keep a writing folder in an effort to provide teachers, parents, and students with evidence of how the student progressed. The following styles ofwriting will be introduced: Narrative, Descriptive, Persuasive and Expository.
Grammar Objectives:
Text
Glencoe Math – Course 1
McGraw-Hill Education
First Trimester
Ratio and Proportional Relationships
The Number System
Second Trimester
Expressions and Equations
Geometry
Third Trimester
Statistics and Probability
Reading Grades6-8
This course emphasizes student reading comprehension across literature and informational text. Students are taught to be strategic readers utilizing a variety of strategies, including text analysis, research, compare/contrast, and story analysis.
Each year students will read challenging books and articles and expand on their ability to analyze various genres of literature including, short stories, poetry, drama and essays. Novels are selected and used as a focus for discussion, comprehension and writing assignments. Specific literary terms are taught and vocabulary is addressed within the context of their reading. The ultimate goal is to produce thoughtful life long readers.
The following .texts will be used along with other selected material:
Grade -6 Spotlight on Literacy AnthologyGrade 7-8 Spotlight on Literature Anthology
Vocabulary Grades 6-8
Vocabulary Workshop Sadlier-Oxford workbook will be used to
enrichvocabularythroughouttheyear. Supplementaryworkcanbe found at www.vocabularyworksho~2,com.
Independent Reading Grades 6-8
During the course of the semester students will read books of
their choice as part of their independent reading requirement. A report/project will be assigned by their teacher for each book. Due dates for each independent reading assignment will be announced and plenty of notice will be -given. All books must be approved by their reading teacher.
A. Interaction of Living Things
B. Cycles in Nature
C. Earth’s Ecosystems
D. Environmental Problems and Solutions
E. Energy Resources
A. Flow of Fresh Water
B. Exploring the Ocean
C. Movement of Ocean Water
A. Electric current
B. Conduction versus induction
C. Static electricity and potential differences
D. Types of currents
A. Body Organization and Structure
B. Skeletal and Muscular System
C. Integumentary System
D. Circulatory and Respiratory Systems
E. Digestive and Urinary Systems
F. Nervous and Endocrine Systems
September – Pre-history and Mesopotamia
October – Egypt
Nov/Dec – India and China
January – Greece
February – Rome
March – Byzantine Empire
April – Middle Ages in Europe
May/June – Age of Exploration
There are three individual grades assigned to Social Studies; Content Knowledge, Mapping Skills, and Projects. When determining grades and averages, chapter tests have twice the value of quizzes. A rubric will be used to grade all essays and most written assignments.
Content Knowledge: This section will include sectional quizzes, chapter tests, and homework assignments.
Mapping Skills: This section will include reading charts, graphs, maps, diagrams and timelines.
Projects: This section will include research and classroom projects. A research project is assigned during each trimester. This will be discussed with your child as the year progresses.
First Semester
Chapter 1 – Descriptive adjectives
Chapter 2 – Vocabulary about classroom, school supplies
Second Semester
Chapter 3 – Vocabulary about school activities
Chapter 4 – Vocabulary about food and drinks
Third Semester
Chapter 5 – Vocabulary about family and adjectives
Chapter 6 – Vocabulary about clothing, colors and numbers to describe cost