• Christ Our Life- God Calls a People, Loyola Press, 2016

• Bible

The title of the sixth-grade program is God Calls a People. This year, your child will study God’s Revelation to the people he bound to himself in covenant love. The program emphasizes God’s call for a love relationship with him and with the Church community through his Son, Jesus. Intrinsic to this relationship, is a caring love for all people. Study of the Old Testament leads your child to see in Jesus the perfect fulfillment of all the Father has promised, as well as the perfect response to his love.

Further Study: Mass, formal and informal prayer, sacraments, saints, Ten Commandments, formation of conscience, respect for others (our world), the Church, vocations, scripture, special seasonal and liturgical celebrations.

Experiences: classroom prayer, class and school prayer services, mass, reconciliation, and outreach.

TeachTCI History Alive! Ancient World

Objective: Students will be able to identify characteristics of a civilization. They will learn the contributions ancient civilizations gave to the world. While studying ancient civilizations students will be connecting them to our world today.

Emphasis: The curriculum for sixth grade is Ancient Civilization covering early Hominins, Ancient Egypt & Middle East, Ancient India, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome. Students will explore what makes a civilization: stable food supply (geography), social structure, government, religion, written language, technology/arts/architecture.. They will learn how civilizations began and how they progressed through time. Students will identify and assess the responsibilities and gifts each civilization bestowed upon the world.

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We use a literature-based program in which students are introduced to a wide range of quality writing, themes, and world perspectives. Students will develop a variety of strategies and skills that allow them to become confident readers, able to critically examine, and apply meaning to literary works. They will learn to pick out and appreciate the elements of good literature, develop vocabulary, and strengthen comprehension, helping to establish a strong base in language arts. In 6th grade, the curriculum begins to focus more heavily on analytical and critical thinking skills so that students read for more than just comprehension and our guided through understanding why we write and read as a society and what messages are transmitted in the novels we read. Discussion of literature is an essential component to our class. Our discussions are student lead and focus on allowing the students to discuss their opinions and compare their perspectives. Their discussions and all assignments begin to focus on analyzing text and using textual evidence. Lastly, our goal is to help nurture life long readers who look to books to understand others and themselves.

We will be using a mix of contemporary the classic children's literature to understand the progress of literature and compare writing. The curriculum includes informational text that tie in with the themes and topics from our novels and supplementary materials. The informational texts include primary sources, secondary sources, news reports, online articles, and other forms of media.

Novel:

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan

Anthology: Literature Common Core Edition (Prentice Hall, 2013)