Melissa Honzay
Meghan Rettke
Visible Curriculum
Class: Mathematics
Grade: Sixth
Length: Year Long
Textbook: Connected Mathematics
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2002
Academic Standards
- Apply skills of mathematical representation, communication, and reasoning throughout the remaining four content strands.
- Use positive and negative rational numbers, represents in a variety of ways, to quantify information and solve real-world and mathematical problems.
- Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates with positive and negative rational numbers in real-world and mathematical problems. Understand the meanings of arithmetic operations and factorization, and how they relate to one another. Appropriately use calculators and other technologies to solve problems.
- Demonstrate understanding of the rectangular coordinate system.
- Represent data and use various measures associated with data to draw conclusions and identify trends.
- Calculate and express probabilities numerically, and apply probability concepts to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
- Identify a variety of simple geometric figures by name, calculate various quantities associated with them and use appropriate tools to draw them.
- Make calculations of time, length, area, and volume within standard measuring systems, using good judgement in choice of units. Complete alignment of standard in material from publisher.
Class Description
The overall goal of Connected Mathematics is to help students develop sound mathematical habits. Though their work in these number units, students learn important questions to ask themselves about any situation that is represented and modeled mathematically.
Syllabus
- Units: Prime Time Chapters: All Pages: All
- Determining factors of whole numbers; finding the greatest common factor of two numbers
- Generating multiples of numbers; finding the least common multiple of two numbers
- Determining factorizations, including the prime factorization, of a whole number
- Classifying numbers as prime or composite, as even, odd, abundant, deficient, or perfect
- Units: Data About Us Chapters: All Pages: All
- Collecting and organizing categorical and numerical data
- Representing data with line plots, bar graphs, coordinate graphs, and stem-and-leaf plots
- Finding measures of center
- Finding measures of the “spread” of a set of data
- Calculating the mean
- Units: Shapes & Designs Chapters: All Pages: All
- Parts of polygons and how they are related
- Properties of polygons
- Tiling with polygons and determining properties of shapes used
- Symmetries in squares, rectangles, parallelograms, and equilateral triangles
- Units: Bits & Pieces I Chapters: All Pages: All
- Comparing and applying fractions
- Comparing and applying decimals
- Comparing and applying percents
- Connecting fractions, decimals, and percents
- Units: Covering & Surrounding Chapters: All Pages: All
- Interpreting area using square units
- Interpreting perimeter as the number of linear units
- Finding perimeter and area of irregular 2-D shapes
- Perimeter and area in rectangles
- Algorithms for perimeter and area of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, and circles
- Units: Bits & Pieces II Chapters: All Pages: All
- Computations involving percents
- Mathematical operations with fractions
- Mathematical operations with decimals
- Algorithms for performing calculations with fractions, decimals, and percents
Special Materials & Procedures required for the class
Text and materials provided by Prentice Hall
Visible Curriculum
Class: Language Arts-Reading
Grade: Sixth
Length: Year Long
Textbook: The Language of Literature
Publisher: McDougal Littell
Copyright: 2002
Academic Standards
- Students will read and understand grade-appropriate English language text.
- Students will use a variety of strategies to expand reading, listening and speaking vocabularies.
- Students will understand the meaning of informational, expository or persuasive texts, using a variety of strategies and will demonstrate literal, interpretive, inferential and evaluative comprehension.
- Students will actively engage in the reading process and read, understand, respond to, analyze, interpret, evaluate and appreciate a wide variety of fiction, poetic and nonfiction texts.
- Students will speak clearly and effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences and actively listen to, view and evaluate oral communication and media.
Class Description
Students read a broad range of materials from classic literature, fiction, non-fiction, to web pages. They use a variety of skills and strategies that will strengthen their comprehension and help them to become active readers. They apply reading strategies to get the most out of what they read whether they are reading for information or enjoyment. The students respond to literature in both written and oral formats as reading, writing, listening, and speaking are a part of Language Arts.
Syllabus
- Units: One Pages: 20 – 188
- Part One: Genre Focus – Fiction
- Part Two: Genre Focus – Nonfiction
- Literature in Performance Video
- Writing Workshops: Response to Literature & Personal Experience Essay
- Units: Two Pages: 188 -308
- Part 0ne: Genre Focus – Poetry
- Part Two: Genre Focus – Character and Setting
- Literature in Performance Video
- Writing Workshop: Original Poem & Character Sketch
- Units: Three Pages: 316 – 438
- Part One: Focus – Drama
- Part Two: Focus – Autobiography and Biography
- Literature in Video Performance
- Writing Workshops: Comparison and Contrast Essay & Informative Exposition
- Units: Four Pages: 442 – 602
- Part One: Focus – Plot
- Part Two: Genre Focus – Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Writing Workshop: Narrative and Literary Writing
- Communication Workshop: Speaking and Listening
- Units: Five Pages: 610 – 764
- Focus: Theme
- Genre focus: Historical Fiction
- Literature in Performance Video
- Writing Workshops: Reports
- Units: Six Pages: 768 – 851
- Genre Focus: Storytellers Past and Present
- Literature in Performance Video
- Link to Units, One, Two, Three, Four, and Five
- Communication Presentation: Speaking and Listening
Special Materials & Procedures required for the class
- Text
- Videos
- Variety of Media Equipment
- Materials Provided by McDougal – Littell
Visible Curriculum
Class: Language Arts-English
Grade: Sixth
Length: Year Long
Textbook: The Language of Literature & Grammar, Usage WB
Publisher: McDougal & Littell
Copyright: 2002
Academic Standards
The students will write clearly and coherently to effectively communicate for a variety of audiences and purposes.
The students will create informative, expressive and persuasive writing.
The students will engage in a writing process, with attention to organization, focus, quality of ideas and purpose.
The students will apply standard English conventions when writing.
Class Description
The students will write numerous projects and responses to literature with emphasis on sentence structure, grammar, mechanics, and other writing skills. Skills are stressed, then applied in written work associated with reading.
Syllabus
- Units: One Chapters: One Pages: 1 – 28
- The Sentence and Its Parts
- Units: Two Chapters: Two Pages: 31 -40
- Nouns
- Units: Three Chapters: Three Pages: 43 -70
- Verbs
- Units: Four Chapters: Four Pages: 73 -97
- Verbs
- Units: Five Chapters: Five Pages: 100 – 118
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Units: Six Chapters: Six Pages: 121- 131
- Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections
- Units: Seven Chapters: Seven Pages: 133 – 145
- Verb Agreement
- Units: Eight Chapters: Eight Pages: 148 – 157
- Capitalization
- Units: Nine Chapters: Nine Pages: 160 -181
- Punctuation
- Units: Ten Chapters: Ten Pages: 184 – 193
- Diagramming
- Units: One – Six Immersed in Literature and Language Text
- Various conventions and skills as above
Special Materials & Procedures required for the class
- The Language of Literature Text
- Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Workbook
Visible Curriculum
Class: Language Arts-Spelling and Vocabulary
Grade: Sixth
Length: Year Long
Textbook: Vocabulary and Spelling Workbook
Publisher: McDougal Littell
Copyright: 2002
Academic Standards
- The students will edit writing for correct spelling.
- The students will read unfamiliar complex and multi-syllabic words using advanced phonetic analysis and structural analysis.
- The students will apply standard English conventions when writing.
Class Description
This class is an advanced phonetic and structural study of words with ongoing assessments in spelling. Vocabulary involves the use of decoding skills.
Syllabus
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 1 – 6 Pages: 1 – 12
- Context Clues
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 7 -15 Pages: 13 – 30
- Roots, Base Words and Affixes
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 16-19 Pages: 31 – 38
- Specialized Vocabulary
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 20 – 22 Pages: 39 – 46
- Multiple Meanings, Synonyms, Antonyms, Detonation and Connotation
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 24 Pages: 47 – 48
- Using a Thesaurus
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 25 – 27 Pages: 49 – 52
- Idioms, Similes, and Metaphors
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 27 Pages: 53 – 54
- Compound Words
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 28 – 30 Pages: 55 – 60
- Homonyms, Homographs
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 31 Pages: 61 – 62
- Anologies
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 32 Pages: 63 – 64
- Using Strategies
- Units: Vocab Chapters: 1- 12 Pages: 71 – 83
- Academic Vocabulary
- Units: Spelling Chapters: 1- 8 Pages: 85 – 100
- Silent e Words, Suffixes, Prefixes, Words that end in o
- Base Words, Roots, Words Ending in ary
- Soft and Hard g
- Units: Spelling Chapters: 9 – 16 Pages: 101 – 116
- Suffixes, Prefixes
- Words Ending in ory, al + ly
- Unstressed syllables
- Units: Spelling Chapters: 17 – 24 Pages: 117 – 132
- VAC Words, Non – VAC Words
- Prefixes, Base Words
- Words Ending inc + ally, cious, cial, cian
- Units: Spelling Chapters: 25 – 32 Pages: 133 – 148
- Greek Combining Forms
- Compounds and Contractions
- Suffixes, Prefixes
- Words ending with ize or ise
Special Materials & Procedures required for the class
Spelling and Vocabulary Book
