Sixth Grade

List of 11 items.

• Reading & Literature

  • Read and discuss novels, short stories, memoirs, and poetry
  • Develop critical thinking skills through literary analysis of character, setting, theme, and tone
  • Analyze literature and improve comprehension: whole class discussion, literature groups, and group projects
  • Connect literature to social studies; readings that are relevant to what’s happening in the world today and help students make these connections
  • Read and extract main ideas from non-fiction sources

• Writing & Language Arts

  • Write effective respond to literature, stories, poetry, and expository essays
  • Journaling as a means of self-reflection and analysis of society
  • Recognize sentence structure and parts of speech with grammar practice
  • Develop critical thinking skills through analysis and editing of one’s own and others’ written work
  • Increase breadth of vocabulary

• Social Studies

  • Understand civilization’s cultural universals and their interconnectedness
  • Dig 2: an introduction to archaeological methodology and ethics
  • Ancient Civilizations: Egypt and Maya
  • Study of farmworkers’ rights
  • Public speaking skills: practice through simulations and presentations
  • Research skills: finding and assessing quality of paper and electronic sources, taking organized notes

• Mathematics

  • Ratio concepts
  • Unit rates and percentages
  • Area, surface area, and nets
  • Operations using integers, fractions, and decimals
  • Data collection, organization, and analysis
  • Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities
  • Interpret and solve problems about real-world situations
  • Problem-solving strategies
  • Share multiple perspectives and communicate mathematical thinking

• Science

  • Lake Merritt - Ecology, biodiversity, stewardship
  • Chemistry - The building blocks of our universe
  • FBI Unit - Fungi, Bacteria, Infections
  • Product Testing - Experiment Design, Media Literacy
  • Physics - Kinematics: Science of Motion

• Spanish

  • Use Total Physical Response storytelling model: Canechi y Chipote
  • Use Realidades B textbook, workbook, and interactive website
  • Communicate using four modalities: reading, listening, speaking, and writing
  • Paired communication activities and Mini Speaking Assessments
  • One-on-one and small group conversation
  • Present, preterite, and future tenses
  • Use University of Texas at Austin Oral Proficiency site

• STEAM/Technology

  • Digital Citizenship: digital footprints, cyberbullying, media balance, email etiquette
  • Accessing & Utilizing Google Apps for Education
  • Typingclub.com
  • Creating presentations with Adobe Spark & Video
  • Coding with Scratch 2.0
  • Design Thinking: pencil prototype, short design challenges
  • Design & build a Rube Goldberg machine employing simple machines

• Visual Arts

  • Drawing: one-point perspective
  • Clay: animation
  • Ancient civilizations: Prehistoric, Egyptian, and Greek
  • Background – middle ground – foreground perspective collage

• Music

  • Sixth grade choir
  • Intermediate conga drum technique
  • Develop drum ensemble concepts
  • Dividing the beat, pattern development, and rhythm cycles
  • Performance band for instrumentalists

• Physical Education

  • Identifying proper warm-up and cool-down techniques
  • Taking responsibility for independent practice
  • Demonstrating appropriate sportsmanship in game situations

• Community Engaged Learning

  • Study the ecology of Lake Merritt and clean the lake