6th Grade Learning Objectives & Outcomes

6^th Grade Learning Expectations and Outcomes

S.M.I. General Expectations:

· show respect to teachers, students, and others at all times

· show respect for the property of others

· be prepared for class

· participate in class discussions

· take responsibility for your actions

· do your best

· demonstrate reverence during prayer and liturgy

6th Grade Literature & ELA:

· Students will answer short response questions by restating with a topic sentence, answering the question with 1 to 2 details, citing with evidence from the text, and extending their answer by making a connection to self/text/world.

· Students will use the writing process (Prewriting, Rough Draft, Revising, Editing, and Publishing) to write various types of essays, such as Personal Narratives, Expository, Argumentative, Descriptive, etc.

· Students will read various genres of novels and answer higher level thinking questions.

· Students will be able to identify the literary elements found in a novel or passage, such as characters, setting, plot, theme, and conflict.

· Students will understand the difference between tone and mood and be able to identify each within a text.

· Students will answer questions in complete sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation.

· Students will understand the different types of figurative language found in a text (metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, idiom, onomatopoeia, alliteration).

6th Math:

· Students will understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.

· Students will apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions by fractions.

· Students will multiply and divide multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.

· Students will apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.

· Students will apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.

· Students will reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities.

· Students will represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.

· Students will solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.

6^th Grade Social Studies:

A. Gathering, Interpreting and Using Evidence

· Students will identify, effectively select, and analyze different forms of evidence used to make meaning in social studies (including primary and secondary sources such as art and photographs, artifacts, oral histories, maps, and graphs).

· Students will identify evidence and explain content, authorship, point of view, purpose, and format; identify bias; explain the role of bias and potential audience.

· Students will describe the arguments of others.

B. Chronological Reasoning

· Students will identify ways that events are related chronologically to one another in time.

· Students will identify causes and effects from current events, grade-level content, and historical events.

· Students will compare histories in different places in the Eastern Hemisphere, utilizing time lines.

C. Comparison and Contextualization

· Students will identify a region in the Eastern Hemisphere by describing a characteristic that places within it have in common, and then compare it to other regions.

· Students will describe historical developments in the history of the Eastern Hemisphere, with specific references to circumstances of time and place and to connections to broader regional or global processes.

D. Geographic Reasoning

· Students will use location terms and geographic representations such as maps, photographs, satellite images, and models to describe where places in the Eastern Hemisphere are in relation to each other, to describe connections between places, and to evaluate the benefits of particular places for purposeful activities.

· Students will distinguish human activities and human-made features from “environments” (natural events or physical features—land, air, and water—that are not directly made by humans) in the Eastern Hemisphere; identify the relationship between human activities and the environment.

E. Economics and Economic Systems

· Students will explain how scarcity necessitates decision making; employ examples from the Eastern Hemisphere to illustrate the role of scarcity historically and in current events; compare through historical examples the costs and benefits of economic decisions.

F. Civic Participation

· Students will demonstrate respect for the rights of others in discussion and classroom debates, regardless of whether one agrees with the other viewpoint. Consider alternate views in discussion.

· Students will identify and explore different types of political systems and ideologies used at various times and in various locations in the Eastern Hemisphere and identify the role of individuals and key groups in those political and social systems.

6^th Grade Spanish:

· Students will comprehend language consisting of simple vocabulary and structures in face-to-face conversation with peers and familiar adults.

· Students will comprehend the main idea of more extended conversations with some unfamiliar vocabulary and structures as well as cognates of English words.

· Students will call upon repetition, rephrasing, and nonverbal cues to derive or convey meaning from a language other than English.

· Students will use appropriate strategies to initiate and engage in simple conversations with more fluent or native speakers of the same age group, familiar adults, and providers of common public services.

· Students will use some key cultural traits of the societies in which the target language is spoken.

6^th Grade Earth Science:

· develop and use a model of the Earth-Sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the Sun and moon, and seasons

· develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system

· analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system

· construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history

· construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying temporal and spatial scales

· analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions

· develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth’s materials and the flow of energy that drives this process

· develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the Sun and the force of gravity

· construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geologic processes

· collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions

· develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates

· ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

· analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects

· apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment

· construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems

6^th Grade Religion:

· Students will demonstrate their role as a disciple of Jesus

· Students will read through and discuss the Gospels and the Old Testament

· Students will learn the significance of liturgy

· Students will identify the seven sacraments

· Students will recite mass responses and prayers so that they are able to properly participate in mass

· Students will lead each other every day in prayer and in the passages from the Bible

· Students will understand that God can reveal his will for us through our natural reasoning powers and through God’s gifts to us by nature.

· Students will understand God’s creation of the Old Law and the New Law.

· Students will understand the meaning of each basic Precept of the Church and will apply the Precepts to their own lives.

· Students will understand the role of scripture in bringing God’s will to humanity.

· Students will understand the role of sacred tradition in bringing God’s will to humanity.

· Students will understand that Biblical writers revealed heavenly truths through the power of God’s spirit.

· Students will understand the role of the Catholic Church in doing God’s work on earth.