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Sixth Grade

Curriculum

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Communication Arts

Content Area: Communication Arts - Reading

Standard 1: Develop and apply skills and strategies to the reading process

Benchmark 1: Print concepts

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply skills and knowledge learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 2: Demonstrates phonemic awareness

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply skills and knowledge learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 3: Demonstrates an understanding of phonics

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply skills and knowledge learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 4: Demonstrates fluency

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. adjust reading rate to difficulty and type of text.
  2. read with fluency, accuracy, and expression with appropriate grade-level texts.

Benchmark 5: Develops word knowledge

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. develop word knowledge by reading, listening to, and discussing unknown words in stories by using root words and affixes, context clues, and glossary, dictionary, and thesaurus skills.

Benchmark 6: Develop and apply pre-reading skills

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. develop and apply, with assistance, pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension including: accessing prior knowledge; previewing with or without picture; predicting with evidence; and stating a purpose and rate for reading  (i.e. skimming).

Benchmark 7: Develop and apply skills during reading

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. during reading, develop and utilize strategies to self-question and correct, determine meaning of unknown words, self-monitor comprehension, question the text, infer, visualize, paraphrase, and summarize.

Benchmark 8: Develop and apply post-reading skills

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply post-reading skills in response to text, including: answering basic comprehension questions; identifying the main idea and supporting details; questioning to clarify; sequencing; reflecting; utilizing metacognitive awareness; drawing conclusions; interpreting; determining key ideas; paraphrasing; summarizing.

Benchmark 9: Make connections (compare and contrast) to text

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. compare, contrast, and analyze (why and how) relevant connections between text to text, text to self, and text to world.

 

Standard 2: Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate fiction, poetry and drama from a variety of cultures and times

Benchmark 1: Text features

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply and interpret information in title, table of contents and glossary.
  2. apply and interpret the text features of fiction, poetry and drama.

Benchmark 2: Literary techniques of poetry

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify and explain examples of sensory details, figurative language, and basic literary techniques in text, emphasizing onomatopoeia, idiom, and imagery.
  2. analyze literary techniques previously introduced.

Benchmark 3: Literary elements of fiction and drama

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use grade level text to identify plot, including problem/conflict, climax, resolution, and theme; analyze the influence of setting on characters and plot; identify and evaluate the problem-solving process of characters; explain the effectiveness of solutions; make inferences; identify and explain point of view; and identify and explain author’s viewpoint/perspective.

 

Standard 3: Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend, analyze and evaluate nonfiction from a variety of cultures and times

Benchmark 1: Text features

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use grade level text to apply and interpret information in text features to clarify and connect concepts to the main idea.

Benchmark 2: Text structures

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. answer questions.
  2. make predictions.
  3. explain main idea and supporting details.
  4. sequence events.
  5. identify and explain cause and effect.
  6. draw conclusions.
  7. compare and contrast.
  8. make inferences.
  9. identify and interpret author’s purpose.
  10. identify problem-solving processes and explain the effectiveness of solutions.
  11. distinguish between fact and opinion.
  12. summarize and paraphrase author’s stated ideas.
  13. determine and/or compare author’s viewpoint.
  14. evaluate the accuracy of the information.
  15. analyze two or more texts.

Benchmark 3: Understanding directions

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. read and follow multi-step directions to complete a task.

 

Content Area: Communication Arts - Listening and Speaking

Standard 1: Develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies

Benchmark 1: Purpose for listening

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. listen for enjoyment.
  2. listen for information.
  3. listen for directions.
  4. listen to identify and interpret tone, mood, and emotion of verbal and nonverbal communication.

Benchmark 2: Listening behavior

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. prepare to listen.
  2. listen without interruptions.
  3. maintain eye contact.
  4. ask relevant questions of speaker.
  5. use facial expressions to indicate agreement, disagreement, and confusion.
  6. use alert posture.
  7. ignore distractions.

 

Standard 2: Develop and apply effective speaking skills and strategies for various audiences and purposes

Benchmark 1: Discussion and presentation

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. give organized presentations that demonstrate a clear viewpoint.
  2. present ideas in a logical sequence in discussions and presentations.
  3. select appropriate speaking techniques such as volume control, pace, enunciation, fluency/inflections and eye contact in discussions and presentations.
  4. use designated time restraints.
  5. use organized notes.
  6. incorporate media or technology.

 

Content Area: Communication Arts - Writing

Standard 1: Apply a writing process in composing text

Benchmark 1: Writing process

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. brainstorm ideas using written words, graphic organizers, and/or pictures.
  2. generate a draft in written form.
  3. reread and revise writing.
  4. edit for conventions (see sixth grade conventions).
  5. share writing.

 

Standard 2: Composing a well-developed text

Benchmark 1: Audience and purpose

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. compose text showing awareness of purpose (persuade, inform, entertain).

Benchmark 2: Ideas and content

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. compose text with complex ideas, with assistance.
  2. compose text that remains on topic.

Benchmark 3: Organization

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. compose a beginning, middle, and end for a narrative text.
  2. compose an introduction, body, and conclusion for an expository text.
  3. provide 3 relevant paragraphs for the middle/body of text.
  4. construct 5 paragraph essay.

Benchmark 4: Word choice

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply strong verbs.
  2. select striking words and phrases and effectively use literary techniques (such as alliteration, simile, and metaphor).
  3. use specific and accurate words and chooses nouns, adjectives, and adverbs for clarity.
  4. choose words that deepen meaning.

Benchmark 5: Sentence fluency

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use various sentence types (simple, compound, and/or complex).
  2. vary sentence beginnings.
  3. enhance flow with transitional words.

Benchmark 6: Conventions

A Sixth grade student will be able to:

  1. use punctuation effectively (periods, question mark, exclamation point, comma, apostrophe, quotation marks).
  2. use capitalization effectively, including dialogue, abbreviations, proper names, and titles.
  3. use correct spelling.
  4. use classroom resources to edit for spelling.
  5. indent paragraphs.

Benchmark 7: Grammar and usage

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. recognize and use nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositional phrases correctly.
  2. recognize and use contractions and possessives.
  3. recognize and correct incomplete and run-on sentences.
  4. use subject-verb agreement.
  5. demonstrate understanding and proper usage of homophones.
  6. recognize and identify compound subject and predicate.
  7. use singular and plural forms of regular and irregular nouns.
  8. use comparative and superlative adjectives.
  9. use past, present, future verb tenses, gerunds, infinitives, and participles.

Benchmark 8: Handwriting and presentation

A Sixth grade student will be able to:

  1. produce legible and consistent handwriting (print and cursive).
  2. appropriately space letters and words and uses line breaks effectively.
  3. write within margins.
  4. uses word processing to publish a final piece.

Fine Art

Standard 1: ­­­­­­­­­­Elements of Art and Principles of Design

Benchmark 1: Line

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify differences in line quality.
  2. use horizon line to represent eye-level in artwork.

Benchmark 2: Shape

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify a variety of shapes in works of art.

Benchmark 3: Color

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. modify the value of colors in artwork.
  2. identify and use a variety of color combinations.
  3. use color relationships to solve design problems.
  4. identify and use a monochromatic color scheme.
  5. identify three properties of color: hue, value, and intensity.

Benchmark 4: Value

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. create various values using pencil.
  2. identify values in works of art.
  3. apply value in artwork.

Benchmark 5: Form

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. draw the basic forms to create volume.

Benchmark 6: Texture

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify how texture can create value.
  2. identify a variety of texture in works of art.

Benchmark 7: Space

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify positive and negative shapes in various works of art.

Benchmark 8:  Balance

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. create a balance design emphasizing negative space.
  2. recognize types of balance used in works of art.

Benchmark 9:  Contrast

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify contrast in works of art.

Benchmark 10: Emphasis

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. understand dominance as a focal point.

Benchmark 11: Movement

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify visual movement takes a viewer through a work of art.

Benchmark 12: Pattern

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. create a variety of patterns in works of art.

Benchmark 13: Rhythm         

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify and use rhythm in a composition.

Benchmark 14: Unity   

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. create unity in a composition.

 

Standard 2: ­­­­­­­ Art Production

Benchmark 1: Media techniques and processes/skills

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify the elements of art and principles of design.
  2. develop critical thinking skills exploring various media and techniques.
  3. identify how artist show the same theme by using different media and styles.
  4. develop an understanding of creativity.
  5. use art materials experimentally in expressive works of art.
  6. use various observation skills.
  7. demonstrate inquiry skills on works of art.
  8. evaluate own artwork using various criteria.
  9. create a variety of ideas before starting a work of art.
  10. engage in positive verbal exchanges of classmates artwork.
  11. participate in critiques.
  12. develop skills for drawing the human figure in proper proportion.
  13. identify how depth can be created: color, converging lines, overlapping, placement and scale variations.
  14. identify visual relationships between artistic styles.
  15. identify linear and aerial perspective in works of art.
  16. use 2 point perspective in a work of art.
  17. use a variety of ceramic techniques.
  18. create a functional ceramic piece.
  19. apply glaze to a ceramic surface to enhance the form.
  20. demonstrate proper use of clay tools and materials.
  21. identify the effect of light on three-dimensional objects.
  22. develop basic skills for graphic design.
  23. combine text and imagery using a computer.
  24. recognize the illusion of movement or direction in a design.
  25. dispose of waste materials in appropriate methods.
  26. explore various media and techniques during studio art.
  27. keep a sketchbook to express individual ideas.
  28. use age appropriate craftsmanship.

 

Standard 3: ­­­­­­­ Artistic Perceptions

Benchmark 1: Aesthetics/Art Criticism

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. recognize ways that art can be persuasive.
  2. identify ethical standards for use of print and digital images.
  3. use grade level art vocabulary.

 

Standard 4: ­­­­­­­ Art History

Benchmark 1: Cultural/Historical                                                                          

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify various artist and their work.
  2. identify and compare art from various movements and periods.
  3. identify visual relationships between artistic style.
  4. identify historical significance of ceramics.
  5. identify the impact and affect of electronic visual communications.
  6. research artists and works of art they have produced.
  7. recognize how available resources, technologies, and social conditions
    have affected artworks.
  8. identify how art galleries and museums contribute to the conservation of art.
  9. identify historical subject matter in works of art.
  10. recognize how knowledge of the arts can benefit lifelong learning.
  11. recognize the connections of the visual arts to other disciplines.
  12. examine artworks from United States and Europe.
  13. examine artworks from another culture – Egypt.

Math

Standard 1: ­­­­­­­­­­ Number concepts and numerical operations

Benchmark 1: Demonstrates understand of numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems.    

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply and understand whole numbers to millions, fractions and decimals to the hundred-thousandths (including location on the number line).
  2. recognize and generate equivalent forms of fractions, decimals and benchmark percents.
  3. recognize equivalent representations for the same number and generate them by decomposing and composing numbers.

Benchmark 2: Understand the meaning of operations and how they relate to each other.     

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. describe the effects of multiplication and division on fractions and decimals.
  2. apply properties of operation (including order of operations) to positive rational numbers.
  3. identify square and cubic numbers and determine whole number roots and cubes.

Benchmark 3:  Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. multiply and divide positive rational numbers.
  2. estimate and justify the results of multiplication and division of positive rational numbers.
  3. solve problems using ratios and rates.

 

Standard 2: ­­­­­­­­­­ Algebraic Relationships

Benchmark 1: Understands patterns, relations and functions.     

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. represent and describe patterns with tables, graphs, pictures, symbolic rules or words.
  2. compare various forms of representations to identify patterns.
  3. identify functions as linear or nonlinear from tables or graphs.

Benchmark 2:  Represent and analyze mathematical situations and structures using algebraic symbols.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use symbolic algebra to represent unknown quantities in expressions or equations and solve one-step equations.
  2. use the commutative, distributive and associative properties to generate equivalent forms for simple algebraic expressions.

Benchmark 3:  Use mathematical models to represent and understand quantitative relationships.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. model and solve problems, using multiple representations such as tables, expressions and one-step equations.

Benchmark 4:  Analyze change in various contexts.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. construct and analyze representations to compare situation with constant or varying rates of change.

 

Standard 3: ­­­­­­­­­­ Geometric and Spatial Relationships

Benchmark 1:  Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three- dimensional geometric shapes and develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify similar and congruent shapes.

Benchmark 2:  Specify locations and describe relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use coordinate systems to construct geometric shapes.

Benchmark 3: Apply transformations and use symmetry to analyze mathematical situations.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. describe the transformations from a given pre-image using the terms reflection/flip, rotation/turn, and translation/slide.
  2. create polygons and designs with rotational symmetry.

Benchmark 4: Use visualization, spatial reasoning and geometric modeling to solve problems.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use spatial visualization to identify isometric representations of mat plans.
  2. draw or use visual model to represent and solve problems.

 

Standard 4: ­­­­­­­­­­ Measurement

Benchmark 1: Understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and processes of measurement.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify and justify the unit of measure for area and volume (customary and metric).
  2. solve problems involving elapsed time (hours and minutes).

Benchmark 2: Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify and justify an angel as acute, obtuse, straight, or right.
  2. solve problems involving the area and perimeter of polygons.
  3. convert from one unit to another within a system of measurement (mass and weight).

 

Standard 5: ­­­­­­­­­­ Data and Probability

Benchmark 1: Formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. formulate questions, design studies and collect data about characteristics.
  2. interpret circle graphs; create and interpret stem-and-leaf plots.

Benchmark 2: Select and use appropriate statistical methods to analyze data.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. find a range and measures of center, including median, mode and mean.

Benchmark 3: Develop and evaluate inferences and predictions that are based on data.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use observations about differences between two samples to make conjecturers about the populations from which the samples were taken.

Benchmark 4: Understand and apply basic concepts of probability.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use a model (diagrams, list, sample space, or area model) to illustrate the possible outcomes of an event.

Music

Standard 1: ­­­­­­­­­­Elements of Music

Benchmark 1: Melody

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. compare melodies of contrasting sections.
  2. show melodic contour of treble staff pitches.
  3. list song pitches from high to low.
  4. read notes of melody on staff from low to high with letter names.
  5. learn about ledger lines.
  6. create melodies.
  7. read pitch letter names.
  8. discuss melodic contour of a scale.
  9. aurally recognize whole and half steps.
  10. learn about sharps, flats and intervals.
  11. note stepwise motion in song.
  12. locate half steps in melody.
  13. create pentatonic melody.
  14. move to show melodic contour.
  15. play 5-note keyboard melodies.
  16. sing melody with pitch syllables and hand signs.
  17. compose pentatonic patterns.
  18. compose piece with pitched ostinatos.
  19. compose pentatonic accompaniment.
  20. sing pitch letter names in bass clef.
  21. trace melodic contour.
  22. learn about melodic motive and recognize in song.
  23. aurally recognize whole and half steps.
  24. play melodic bass line.
  25. discuss pitch as an element of music.
  26. make up a melody for a poem.

Benchmark 2:  Rhythm

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. move to emphasize beat.
  2. hear and sing in 4/4.
  3. clap rhythmic ostinatos.
  4. hear and sing in 2/4.
  5. play unpitched percussion ostinatos from notation.
  6. play drum patterns to show sections.
  7. pear and sing in 2/2.
  8. review rhythmic notation and move to show values.
  9. perform rhythmic ostinatos using eighths, quarters and half notes.
  10. identify song from its rhythm.
  11. play countermelody using rhythmic ostinatos.
  12. play melody using song rhythm.
  13. create and notate rhythmic ostinatos.
  14. devise movement using 4-beat ostinatos.
  15. choose rhythmic ostinatos to play with song.
  16. snap on beats 2 and 4 of a song.
  17. recognize beats with the sixteenth note.
  18. echo-clap, describe, and identify sixteenth note patterns.
  19. snap pattern with half notes and quarter rests.
  20. recognize 4 sounds per beat as 4 sixteenth notes.
  21. play rhythmic accompaniment with 4 sixteenth note groupings.
  22. pat song rhythm from notation.
  23. read and perform ostinatos with the dotted eighth and sixteenth note.
  24. perform rhythm of melody in canon.
  25. distinguish 2/4 meter from 4/4 meter aurally.
  26. compose 8-beat ostinatos for song.
  27. identify the number of beats in a phrase.
  28. create movement for the dotted eighth followed by the sixteenth note.
  29. echo 6/8 patterns.
  30. learn about and clap syncopated rhythms.
  31. find ties in a song.
  32. play 6/8 ostinatos.
  33. move to 6/8 meter.
  34. discover meter in Native American songs.
  35. play one pitch per measure in 4/4 meter.
  36. recognize syncopation.
  37. discuss rhythm as an element of music.
  38. recognize changing rhythm patterns.

Benchmark 3:  Dynamics

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. hear and sing p, mp, mf, f, ff and diminuendo.
  2. hear ppp through f.
  3. define crescendo and diminuendo.
  4. sing crescendo and ff.
  5. choose dynamics to recite poem.
  6. review definition of dynamics.
  7. choose dynamics for songs.
  8. sing chosen dynamics through notation in the Italian terms.
  9. discuss dynamics as an element of interpretation.

Benchmark 4:  Form

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. recognize rondo form.
  2. understand D.S. al Coda and Coda.
  3. show form.
  4. learn march form, introduction, trio, AB form.
  5. learn and use verse-refrain form.
  6. make up movement to show sections of verse-refrain form.
  7. learn about canon.
  8. recognize AB or verse-refrain form.
  9. show contrasting and repeated sections.
  10. locate verse, refrain, coda.
  11. learn about and show rondo form.
  12. find coda in map.
  13. compose rondo form poem.
  14. sing in 3 part canon.
  15. show the sections in ABA form.
  16. play ABA form.
  17. review AABA form.
  18. move to show canon.
  19. add an introduction and coda to a song.
  20. improvise section of a song.
  21. make up dance for song to show phrases.
  22. perform rhythm of melody in a canon.
  23. recognize verse-refrain form with an introduction and coda.
  24. compose rondo form for a song.
  25. sing and move in unison and in canon form.
  26. sing call and response.
  27. learn about, hear, perform, recognize fugue.
  28. learn about the sonata.
  29. make up movement for a poem.
  30. recognize sections in major and minor tonality.
  31. play ostinatos to show different sections.
  32. recognize solo and group section and sing responses.
  33. play repeating phrases with song.
  34. make up repeated movement motives.
  35. recognize motive in song.
  36. compare musical and opera.
  37. discuss form as an element of music.

Benchmark 5: Tone Color

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. hear and recognize woodwind, brass, string and percussion families.
  2. distinguish band from orchestra.
  3. identify tone colors aurally.
  4. hear, learn about, and name Brazilian percussion.
  5. hear German brass band.
  6. compare bands.
  7. identify instrument families in band.
  8. play unpitched percussion.
  9. hear rock accompaniment.
  10. listen for percussion instruments in the accompaniment.
  11. hear and recognize stringed instruments.
  12. recognize families of an orchestra.
  13. compare band and orchestra.
  14. learn about and hear steel band.
  15. learn about and create arrangements.
  16. list favorite songs and their instrumentation.
  17. perform recorder playalongs.
  18. accompany songs on guitar.
  19. hear and play piano.
  20. play pitched instruments.
  21. hear Israeli folk ensemble.
  22. hear Turkish lute.
  23. discuss hearing and playing keyboard.
  24. hear and identify sound of harpsichord, pipe organ, and piano.
  25. understand how sounds are produced on harpsichord, pipe organ and piano.
  26. understand why the piano can be substituted for an orchestra.
  27. recognize organ sounds.
  28. discuss why the organ is often used to accompany church music.
  29. recognize how sound is produced on an organ.
  30. learn about and identify the synthesizer.
  31. learn about tempered tuning.
  32. learn about the player piano.
  33. hear chamber music ensemble and identify fortepiano.
  34. hear jazz piano.
  35. recognize organ, and piano.
  36. recognize the harpsichord.
  37. compare harpsichord, piano and organ.
  38. learn about sound envelope.
  39. play electronic keyboards.
  40. recognize electric organ.
  41. compare prepared and unprepared piano.
  42. hear mbira.
  43. improvise piece for prepared piano.
  44. hear duo-pianists.
  45. play piano with a song.
  46. hear solo and group singing.
  47. accompany poem with instruments.
  48. perform percussion and pitched instrument playalongs.
  49. recognize, and learn about the ukulele.
  50. hear and imitate Navajo vocal tone color.
  51. play chords on pitched instruments.
  52. play recorder and handbell accompaniments.
  53. identify soprano, alto, tenor, and bass vocal ranges.
  54. identify appropriate vocal tone color.
  55. identify lighter and heavier vocal tone color.
  56. choose tone color to recite poem.
  57. hear and recognize changed and unchanged voices.
  58. recognize instrumental accompaniment styles.
  59. recognize mood projected by the orchestra through tone colors.
  60. discuss tone color as an element of interpretation.
  61. hear and learn about Indian percussion.
  62. play barred instruments.
  63. choose instrumentation for songs.

Benchmark 6: Cultural

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. learn about Brazil, samba, and samba bacteria.
  2. learn about the march.
  3. study the composer, Van Morrison.
  4. learn about Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
  5. learn about the steel band.
  6. learn about spirituals.
  7. learn about the career of an arranger.
  8. learn about new music technology.
  9. study the career of a pop singer Whitney Houston.
  10. meet a poet named Georgia Douglas Johnson.
  11. study composers: Mac Davis, Jacques Offenbach.
  12. learn about Liberian music.
  13. study Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  14. learn about “Alla turca.”
  15. study composer Camille Saint-Saens, and Don Besig.
  16. learn about “The Tortoise” by Ogden Nash.
  17. learn about Israel and “Tumbai.”
  18. learn about Turkey and “Uskudar.”
  19. learn about the saz (Turkish folk lute).
  20. learn about Edvard Grieg and “Anitra’s Dance.”
  21. learn about the poet Frank Horne.
  22. learn about composers: Artie Kaplan, and Hoagie Carmichael.
  23. study the music of J. S. Bach.
  24. learn about mazurka and accordion.
  25. study the music of Frederic Chopin.
  26. look at paintings from Eugene Delacroix.
  27. learn about Cajun music.
  28. study the music of F. J. Haydn.
  29. learn about chamber music.
  30. read a poem by John Updike.
  31. study Ragtime style.
  32. listen to an interview by Ellis Marsalis.
  33. study the music of Domenico Scarlatti.
  34. study Jazz and Gospel styles of music.
  35. learn about African folktale.
  36. study the style of minimalism.
  37. listen to Thelonius Monk.
  38. learn the history of the bass clef.
  39. perform Native American dance.
  40. learn about Panama.
  41. learn about ancestors musical traditions.
  42. study composers: John Williams, Linda Williams and John Philip Sousa.
  43. read Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry.
  44. listen to interviews by songwriters: Jane Foster Knox and Mark Wilson.
  45. study Ralph Vaughan Williams music.
  46. learn about Renaissance music.
  47. learn about Tahiti and “Hoe Ana.”
  48. learn Navajo singing style.
  49. learn an Iroquois dance.
  50. learn about Navajo nation.
  51. listen to a poem written by Phil George.
  52. learn about a poem “Whip Man” and oral history.
  53. learn about gospel choir step.
  54. learn about harmony in art.
  55. discuss music special to their family.
  56. compare opera and musical.
  57. play in Balinese style.
  58. learn about musicals, lyricists, opera.
  59. study composers Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Cy Coleman and George Gershwin.
  60. learn about “Kiss Me Kate, Porgy and Bess.”
  61. learn about the lyricists :Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
  62. study the music of composers Sandy Wilson and Stephen Sondheim.
  63. discuss the career of a music journalist.
  64. listen to a musical “Chorus Line.”
  65. discuss the career of a songwriter.
  66. learn the music of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
  67. listen to the musical “Starlight Express.”
  68. learn about the composer Giacomo Puccini, Federico Moreno Torroba.
  69. learn about South Indian and Indonesian theater music: shadow puppets, the Mahabharata, Shiva statue and zarzuela.

Benchmark 7: Tempo

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. hear and sing allegro.
  2. hear and sing andante.
  3. hear presto and accelerando.
  4. hear and sing allegretto.
  5. hear and sing moderato.
  6. hear and sing ritardando.
  7. hear and sing fermatas.
  8. identify the appropriate tempos.
  9. review definition of tempos.
  10. discuss tempo as an element of interpretation.

Benchmark 8: Harmony

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. notice harmony parts.
  2. sing melody or the countermelody.
  3. learn about, recognize, sing and play I and V chords in C major.
  4. accompany songs with guitar chords.
  5. hear three part harmony.
  6. accompany song with chord roots.
  7. tell meaning of harmony.
  8. discuss presence or the absence of harmony.
  9. recognize the voicing of the harmony part.
  10. play I, IV and V chords on the piano and guitar.
  11. play bass line.
  12. play I and V chord roots in the key of C, F, G, and D.
  13. learn about and play chord inversions.
  14. play melodic bass line.
  15. perform harmonic accompaniment.
  16. sing in two part harmony.
  17. sing in three part harmony.
  18. play 2-part ostinatos patterns.

 

Standard 2: Performance

Benchmark 1:  Oakhill’s Activities

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. present two songs for their grandparents and special friends.
  2. sing in tune to the best of their ability with one another.
  3. understand the dynamics of the songs.
  4. know the form of their performance pieces.
  5. understand the syncopation in their performance songs.

Benchmark 2: Holiday and Spring Performances

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. control their singing voices on stage.
  2. sing in tune to the best of their ability with one another.
  3. understand the dynamics of the songs.
  4. know the form of their performance pieces.
  5. understand the syncopation in their performance songs.
  6. feel comfortable with the dialogue and movement of blocking.
  7. perform choreography while maintaining their vocal part.
  8. sing in harmony and be able to hold their part.

Physical Education

Standard 1: Motor Skills and Movement Patterns

Benchmark 1:  Practice and exercise specific skills for motor skills and movement

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. demonstrate selected locomotor skills.
  2. designs and performs routines of locomotor skills.
  3. demonstrate selected postural, non-locomotor and body control (movement) skills.
  4. demonstrate selected object control and manipulative skills during game like activities.
  5. demonstrate selected rhythmical skills.
  6. recognize and respect self or personal space and general space.
  7. follow directions, levels, pathways, time, force and flow.
  8. recognize and understand basic body parts, kinesthetic feelings, body in space and the body in relation to objects and others.

Benchmark 2:  Display knowledge and comprehension of motor skills

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. demonstrate warm-up activities.
  2. show time, force and flow in movement.
  3. show expression in rhythm and dance.
  4. practice and participate in cooperative and individual activities.
  5. combine and apply multiple movement patterns, simple to complex in individual and dual activities.
  6. demonstrate proficient movement skills in individual and dual activities.
  7. identify, explain, and apply the skill-related components of balance, reaction time, agility, coordination, explosive power, and speed that enhance performance levels.
  8. explain and demonstrate offensive, defensive and transition strategies in individual and dual activities.
  9. analyze and respect feedback from self, others and performance of motor activities.
  10. demonstrate independent learning of movement skills.

 

Standard 2: Movement Concepts and Strategies

Benchmark 1: Demonstrate movement concepts, principles and strategies as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activity

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. practice manipulative activities.
  2. develop skills in organized games.
  3. combine manipulative skills.
  4. combine two or more locomotor/non-locomotor movements.
  5. time movements in relation to other obstacles/variables.
  6. pass accurately in game conditions.
  7. apply the concepts of body awareness, time, space, direction, and force to movement.
  8. explain and apply the essential steps in learning motor skills.

 

Standard 3:  Participation in Physical Activity

Benchmark 1:  Participate in daily physical activity to achieve a healthy lifestyle

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. participate in physical activity for personal enjoyment.
  2. develop basic motor skills that allow participation in a variety of physical activities.
  3. build confidence in motor skills to enhance their success and enjoyment in physical activity.
  4. participate regularly in a wide variety of activities that involve locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills both inside and outside of physical education.
  5. develop personal goals to improve one’s performance in physical activities.
  6. become competent in a select number of physical activities they enjoy and succeed in.

 

Standard 4: Value of Healthy Lifestyle

Benchmark 1:  Display knowledge of the human body

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify major internal and external body parts.
  2. identify muscles in the body and which muscles are used for specific physical activities and exercises.
  3. correctly demonstrate activities designed to improve and maintain muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and cardiovascular functioning. 
  4. comprehend the importance of slow, static movements during exercises to prevent injury.

Benchmark 2: Express interest in participation and performance of activity

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. associate the positive feelings derived from movement with the physical activity experience so that movement becomes an enjoyable lifelong habit.
  2. participate five days each week in moderate to vigorous physical activities that increase breathing and heart rate.

Benchmark 3:  Show basic knowledge of nutrition

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. comprehend the role of nutrition in providing energy for physical activity.
  2. describe the role of water as an essential nutrient for the body.
  3. explain that nutritious food provides energy for our body.

 

Standard 5:  Personal Fitness and Exercise

Benchmark 1:  Practice and participate specific exercise

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. perform movements designed to improve and maintain cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and proper body composition.
  2. practice appropriate warm-up and cool-down techniques and understand the reasons for using them.
  3. participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity on a daily basis.
  4. participate in Workout Wednesdays.

Benchmark 2:  Demonstrate an understanding of safety performing fitness skills and exercise

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. demonstrate responsible behaviors during physical activities.
  2. use proper safety practices.
  3. understand safety procedures that should be followed when engaging in activities to improve cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.

 

Standard 6:  Responsible Personal and Social Behavior

Benchmark 1:  Demonstrate responsible behavior while participating in games and activities

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. demonstrate responsible social behavior.
  2. use proper verbal and expressive language to communicate ideas and feelings.
  3. demonstrate body awareness and control while moving.
  4. demonstrate acceptance and respect for the decisions made by game officials.
  5. follow and apply rules and safety procedures.
  6. display sportsmanship.

 

Standard 7:  Knowledge of Sports Units

Benchmark 1:  Practice and participate specific sports and the skills required by that sport

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. practice and participate in the sports units: Field Hockey, Soccer, Flag Football, Basketball, Badminton, Disc Golf, Volleyball, Cross Country, Track and Field, Hantis, Fitness/Agility, Rugby, Throwing/Kicking Sports.

Benchmark 2:  Display knowledge and comprehension of the sports units

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. practice and participate in games and events pertaining to each sports unit.
  2. comprehend the rules and instructions for each sports unit.
  3. display appropriate sportsmanship.
  4. demonstrate warm-up activities.
  5. practice and participate in cooperative and individual activities.
  6. identify and apply the skill-related components necessary to participate in each sports unit.
  7. explain and demonstrate offensive and defensive strategies in the sports units.
  8. analyze and respect feedback from self and others.

Science

Standard 1: ­­­­­­­­­­Physical Science 

Benchmark 1: Develop an understanding of properties of objects and materials, including changes in properties.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge of properties learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 2: Develop an understanding of position and motion of objects, including force.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. describe the circular motion of a moving object as the result of a force acting toward the center.
  2. describe how friction affects the amount of force needed to do work over different surfaces or through different media.
  3. classify different types of motion (e.g., straight line, projectile, circular, vibrational).
  4. given an object in motion, calculate its speed (distance/time).
  5. interpret a line graph representing an object’s motion in terms of distance over time (speed) using metric units.
  6. identify and describe the types of forces acting on an object in motion, at rest, floating/sinking (i.e., type of force, direction, amount of force in Newtons).
  7. compare the forces acting on an object by using a spring scale to measure them to the nearest Newton.
  8. explain every object exerts a gravitational force of attraction on every other object.
  9. compare the amount of gravitational force acting between objects (which is dependent upon their masses and the distance between them.
  10. compare the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces (including magnetic, gravity, friction, push or pull) on an object’s motion.
  11. calculate the amount of work done when a force is applied to an object over a distance (W = F x d).
  12. explain how the acceleration of a moving object is affected by the amount of net force applied and the mass of the object.

Benchmark 3: Develop an understanding of light, heat, electricity, and magnetism, including the transfer of energy.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge of light, heat, electricity and magnetism learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 4: Apply knowledge of physical science to a formal scientific investigation.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. formulate a testable question and explanation, and to select appropriate investigative methods in order to obtain evidence relevant to the explanations.
  2. gather evidence from qualitative and quantitative observations.
  3. use evidence is used to formulate explanations.
  4. evaluate explanations (hypotheses, laws, theories) in light of scientific principles (understandings).

 

Standard 2: Life Science

Benchmark 1: Develop an understanding of characteristics of organisms, including the structure and function in living systems, and regulation of behavior.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. explain the interactions between the circulatory and respiratory systems in exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between cells and the atmosphere (when oxygen enters the body, passes into the blood stream, and is transported into the cell; carbon dioxide is transported out of the cell, passes into the blood stream, and exits the body).
  2. describe how oxygen is needed by all cells of most organisms for the release of energy from nutrient (sugar) molecules.
  3. describe the importance of the transport and exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide to the survival of the organism.
  4. compare and contrast the processes of mechanical and chemical digestion, and their role in providing materials necessary for survival of the cell and organism.
  5. explain the interactions between the nervous and muscular systems when an organism responds to a stimulus.
  6. identify and give examples of each level of organization (cell, tissue, organ, organ system) in multicellular organisms.
  7. predict the response the body may take to maintain internal balance during an environmental change (e.g., shivering when cold, slowing metabolism when food supply decreases or when dehydrated, adrenaline rush when frightened).
  8. explain the cause and effect of diseases (e.g., AIDS, cancer, diabetes, hypertension) on the human body (locally assessed).
  9. relate some common diseases (i.e., cold, influenza, strep throat, dysentery, fungal infections) to the organisms that cause them (bacteria, viruses, protests, fungi).
  10. differentiate between infectious and noninfectious diseases.
  11. explain the role of antibiotics and vaccines in the treatment and prevention of diseases.
  12. recognize all organisms are composed of cells, the fundamental units of life, which carry on all life processes.
  13. compare and contrast the following plant and animal cell structures: cell membrane, nucleus, cell wall, chloroplast, and cytoplasm.
  14. recognize the chloroplast as the cell structure where food is produced in
  15. plants and some unicellular organisms (e.g., algae, some protists).

Benchmark 2: Develop an understanding of life cycle of organisms, including reproduction and heredity.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge of life cycle of organisms learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 3: Develop an understanding of organisms and environments, including populations, ecosystems, adaptations, and diversity.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge of life cycle of organisms, environment, populations, ecosystems, adaptations, and diversity learned in previous grades.

 

Standard 3: Earth Sciences

Benchmark 1: Develop an understanding of properties of earth materials, including the structure of the earth system.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. describe the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere (i.e., mixture of gases, water and minute particles) and how it circulates as air masses.
  2. describe the role atmosphere (e.g., clouds, ozone) plays in precipitation, reflecting and filtering light from the Sun, and trapping heat energy emitted from the Earth’s surface.
  3. explain and trace the possible paths of water through the hydrosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere (i.e., the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, surface run-off/ groundwater flow).
  4. relate the different forms water can take (i.e., snow, rain, sleet, fog, clouds, dew, humidity) as it moves through the water cycle to atmospheric conditions (i.e., temperature, pressure, wind direction and speed, humidity) at a given geographic location.
  5. explain how the differences in surface temperature, due to the different heating and cooling rates of water and soil, affect the temperature and movement of the air above.
  6. describe the characteristics of air masses (i.e., high/low barometric pressure, temperature) and predict their effect on the weather in a given location.
  7. identify weather conditions associated with cold fronts and warm fronts.
  8. identify factors that affect weather patterns in a particular region (e.g., proximity to large bodies of water, latitude, altitude, prevailing wind currents, amount of solar radiation, location with respect to mountain ranges).
  9. describe the  significant changes in temperature and barometric pressure may cause dramatic weather phenomena (i.e., severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes).
  10. identify factors that affect climate (e.g., latitude, altitude, prevailing wind currents, amount of solar radiation).
  11. provide examples of how the availability of fresh water for humans and other living organisms is dependent upon the water cycle.
  12. classify major bodies of surface water (e.g., rivers, lakes, oceans, glaciers) as fresh or salt water, flowing or stationary, large or small, solid or liquid, surface or groundwater.
  13. identify and use appropriate tools (i.e., thermometer, anemometer, wind vane, rain gauge, satellite images, weather maps) to collect weather data( i.e., temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, cloud type and cover).
  14. identify and summarize relationships between weather data (e.g., temperature and time of day, cloud cover and temperature, wind direction and temperature) collected over a period of time.

Benchmark 2: Develop an understanding of objects in the sky, including Earth in the solar system.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge of objects in the sky and Earth in the solar system learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 3: Develop an understanding of changes in earth and sky including Earth’s history.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. explain how the formation of sedimentary rocks depends on weathering and erosion.
  2. explain the types of fossils and the processes by which they are formed (i.e., replacement, mold and cast, preservation, trace).
  3. differentiate between minerals and rocks (which are composed of different kinds of minerals).
  4. describe the distinguishing properties that can be used to classify minerals (i.e., texture, smell, luster, hardness, crystal shape, streak, reaction to magnets and acids).
  5. explain convection currents are the result of uneven heating inside the mantle resulting in the melting of rock materials, convection of magma, eruption/flow of magma, and movement of crustal plates.
  6. explain how rock layers are affected by the folding, breaking, and uplifting of rock layers due to plate motion.
  7. describe how the movement of crustal plates can cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that can result in mountain building and trench formation.
  8. explain how heating and cooling in the mantle layer leads to the formation of metamorphic rocks and some igneous rocks.
  9. make inferences about the formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks from their physical properties (e.g., crystal size indicates rate of cooling, air pockets or glassy texture indicate volcanic activity).
  10. explain and diagram the external and internal processes of the rock cycle (e.g., weathering and erosion, sedimentation, compaction, heating, recrystallization, resurfacing due to forces that drive plate motion).
  11. use rock and fossil evidence to make inferences about the age, history, and
  12. changing life forms and environment of the Earth (i.e., changes in successive layers of sedimentary rock and the fossils contained within them, similarities between fossils in different geographic locations, similarities between fossils and organisms present today, fossils of organisms indicating changes in climate, fossils of extinct organisms).

Social Studies

Standard 1: ­­­­­­­­­­Students will demonstrate an understanding of Kansas City, Missouri and the Midwest Region including the areas of geography, economics, government, history, and culture. 

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. conduct in-depth investigations of influential figures of Kansas City and Missouri past of present.
  2. create a biography of one figure and present in a form such as: movie maker, book, play or report.
  3. investigate the development of Kansas City from trading post to Westward Expansion.
  4. identify responsibilities that local government and citizens accept to function together.
  5. distinguish between powers and functions of local, state and Federal Government.
  6. identify responsibilities that governments and citizens accept to become a Constitutional Republic.
  7. define and provide examples of:  rule of law, limited government, majority rule, separation of powers, minority rights, checks and balances, consent of the governed.
  8. distinguish between powers and functions of local, state, and national Government.
  9. examine how the westward expansion assisted in the growth of the Midwest region.
  10. identify consequences of personal and public economic decisions.
  11. examine spending habits and consequences.
  12. investigate a vocation and determine level of education, training, years to reach position and potential salary.

Standard 2: ­­­­­­­­­­Students will demonstrate an understanding of the United States including the areas of geography, economics, government, history, and culture. 

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. investigate the idea of “Manifest Destiny”.
  2. explain the importance of the Westward expansion in relation to the growth of Missouri.
  3. include hardships, names and significance of trails leading west from Missouri.
  4. investigate the causes and consequences of “Manifest Destiny” including Texas-Mexican War, Oregon Territory, California Gold Rush.
  5. examine cultural interactions of westward expansion in relation to: Native Americans, Immigrants from Europe, Africans brought to America.
  6. identify political, economic and social causes and consequences of Civil War and Reconstruction
  7. investigate Missouri-Kansas conflicts that occurred before the Civil War
  8. identify and define the importance of Underground Railroad and the key figures involved.
  9. investigate the development of modern society from Industrial Revolution through the 1920’s.
  10. examine how the Industrial Revolution influenced immigration to the United States.
  11. investigate the start of WWI including major battles and the outcome of the war.
  12. investigate and apply the following economic terms: scarcity, supply and demand, specialization, trade offs, income and sources of wealth.
  13. examine Washington DC in preparation for 5th-6th trip.
  14. understand and consistently implement the lifeskills promoted at Oakhill Day School.

Standard 3: ­­­­­­­­­­Students will demonstrate an understanding of the World including the areas of geography, economics, government, history, and culture. 

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. investigate the Mayan people and culture.
  2. investigate the Aztec people and culture.
  3. investigate the Incan people and culture.
  4. compare and contrast the Mayans, Aztecs and Incan peoples and cultures.
  5. examine how Europeans came in contact with any of these peoples and the effect of their contact. 
  6. investigate African Empires in relation to religion, mercantile goods, gold and production of trading goods and caravan trading.
  7. construct maps.
  8. locate major cities and countries in the world.
  9. identify climate, topography, and the importance of water to areas of the world.

Standard 4: ­­­­­­­­­­Students will demonstrate an understanding of geography including spatial terms, place and region, physical and human systems, environment and society, and use of geography.

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use maps, and other geographic representations, tools and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
  2. use mental maps to organize information about people, places and environments in a spatial context.
  3. analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on the earth’s surface. 
  4. identify physical and human characteristics of places, that people create regions to interpret earth’s complexity, and how culture and experience influence people’s perceptions of places and regions. 
  5. understand the physical processes that shape the patterns of earth’s surface, and the characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems of earth’s surface. 
  6. understand the characteristics, distribution, and migration of the human population, the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of the cultural mosaic, the patterns and networks of economic interdependence, the process, patterns, and functions of human settlement, and how the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division  and control the earth’s surface. 
  7. understand that the physical environment is modified by human activities, largely as a consequence of the ways in which human societies value and use earth’s natural resources.  The students will learn and know how human actions modify the physical environment, how physical systems affect human systems, and the changes that occur in the meaning, use, distribution, and importance of resources.
  8. understand how geography enables people to develop an understanding of the relationships between people, places, and environments over time, and how to apply geography to interpret the past, and how to apply geography to interpret the present and plan for the future. 

Spanish

Standard 1: ­­­­­­­­­­Communication

Benchmark 1: Colors

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1.  apply knowledge learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 2: Numbers

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 3: Shapes

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 4: Personal Information and Basic Greetings

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 5: Body Parts

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 6: Opposites

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge learned in previous grades.

Benchmark 7: Verbs

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. increase fluency using the first and third persons on the verbs they hear on a regular basis with their stories and in class.
  2. use ‘ser’ and ‘estar’ and the use of second person verbs in their stories and answers.

Benchmark 8: TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling)

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. make short stories together as a class.
  2. give each other commands.
  3. read and act out short stories they create as a class.
  4. read and act out longer stories incorporating grade appropriate vocabulary.

Benchmark 9: Weather, Seasons and Climate

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge learned in previous grades.
  2. integrate knowledge across Spanish curriculum.

Benchmark 10: Calendar

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. apply knowledge learned in previous grades.
  2. integrate knowledge across Spanish curriculum.

Benchmark 11: House

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. answer questions about their ‘casa’ using ‘hay’ and ‘tengo.’
  2. describe friends’ houses using ‘hay’ and ‘tiene.’
  3. add to their ‘casa’ vocabulary by adding more rooms and distinctly ‘Latino culture’ items.

Benchmark 12: Food

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. learn about food, the names of more common food, the vocabulary around food (eg. ‘tengo hambre’ and ‘tengo sed’).
  2. increase fluency when talking about food and table settings.
  3. practice vocabulary in a restaurant setting.

Benchmark 13: Time

Sixth Grade – does not apply

 

Standard 2: Culture

Benchmark 1: Understanding differences

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. learn about Spanish speaking cultures through longer films and class reflection on the differences observed, books and authentic artifacts.

Benchmark 2: Geography

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. examine how the geography of the country affects the culture and language of the country.
  2. complete a postcard on their chosen Spanish-speaking country using books about the country and the internet as necessary.
  3. identify where the Spanish speaking countries are and know some of the capitals.

Benchmark 3: Celebrations

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. learn about the ‘Dia de los Muertos’ through crafts and video.
  2. learn about ‘Las Posadas’, ‘Semana Santa’ and the ‘Cinco de Mayo’ as well as other relevant celebrations throughout the year.

 

Standard 3: Written Vocabulary

Benchmark 1: Alphabet

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. read Spanish writing with grade appropriate vocabulary.
  2. increase knowledge of written vocabulary.
  3. apply knowledge of written vocabulary through journal writing focused on targeted vocabulary.

Benchmark 2: Grammar

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. hear the verb tenses that go together (tengo, tiene; soy, es; etc.) consciously.
  2. increase fluency in differentiating between 1st and 3rd person with the frequently used verbs in class.
  3. learn the second and fourth person verbs through hearing and reading.
  4. read the TPRS chapter book: ‘Isabela captura un congo’, thus seeing the grammar in a larger authentic context.

Technology

Standard 1: Technology Operations and Concepts

Benchmark 1:  Equipment, File, Drive and Network Awareness

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. create a folder and organize files.
  2. copy files to another location.
  3. rename and delete files.

Benchmark 2:  Mouse Usage and Keyboarding

Goals:

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use formal touch typing skills in all curricular areas.

Standard 2: Digital Citizenship

Benchmark 1:  Online Safety

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. describe positive aspects of online communication.
  2. understand rules for safe online communication.

Benchmark 2:  Security

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. identify strategies for creating and protecting secure passwords.
  2. create their own secure password.
  3. understand the benefits of sharing information online.
  4. understand the safety and security risks of sharing information online.

Benchmark 3:  Digital Life

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. understand their responsibilities to their offline communities.
  2. compare and contrast their responsibilities to their offline and online communities.
  3. understand that good digital citizens are responsible and respectful of the digital world and beyond.
  4. describe the 24/7 social nature of digital media.
  5. explore and reflect on their digital lives.

Benchmark 4: Privacy, Digital Footprints and Self-Expression

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. understand they have a digital footprint of information that can be searched, copied, passed on, seen by a larger, invisible audience, and is persistent.
  2. reflect on their own digital footprint and what they would like those footprints to be in the future.
  3. reflect on the risks of sharing inappropriate information (over-sharing) online.
  4. think critically about what they choose to post online and share about themselves.

Standard 3: Creativity and Innovation

Benchmark 1:  Visual Media (graphics, pictures, video)

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. add pictures to form simple slideshows.
  2. add text, transitions, and music to slideshows to tell a story.
  3. recognize that they have unique characteristics that make up their identities.
  4. discover that people express their identities through offline and online roles, which can sometimes differ from one another in significant ways.
  5. explore their own offline and online personalities.
  6. understand that the internet gives them the freedom to make choices about how they present themselves to others online.

Benchmark 2:  Audio Media

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. record their voice and save it.
  2. use pre-recorded sounds in an audio project.
  3. add special effects to sounds.
  4. modify and edit sounds.
  5. add audio created in one program to another software application.
  6. create music from a library of song pieces.

Standard 4: Communication and Collaboration

Benchmark 1:  Email and Internet

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. define the internet as a worldwide network of networks.
  2. model a portion of the internet.
  3. identify ways to connect to the internet.
  4. explain how packets and routers interact.
  5. analyze online bullying behaviors that “cross the line.”
  6. reflect on what it means to be brave and stand up for others offline and online.
  7. complete required tasks for an online project.

Benchmark 2:  Word Processing and Desktop Publishing

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. use online presentation software (Prezi)
  2. effectively implement a Tuesday Town Meeting.
  3. use upper and lower case letters, graphics, headlines, and body text effectively.
  4. use contrast, proportion, balance and white space effectively.
  5. apply a unit of graphical elements effectively.

Standard 5: Research and Information Fluency

Benchmark 1: Searching Online

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. understand the differences between search engines, directories and metasearch engines.
  2. evaluate the different types of search sites by comparing and contrasting with the others.
  3. learn that trying more than one search site can be the most effective way to search.
  4. experiment with different keyword searches and compare their results.
  5. learn how to refine keyword searches with multiple words, synonyms, and alternate words and phrases.

Benchmark 2: Respecting Creative Work

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. understand the copyright is a legal system that protect their rights to creative work.
  2. compare different ways people license their copyrighted work.
  3. consider ethical questions about real life decisions young creators make in exercising their creative rights and responsibilities.
  4. understand that piracy and plagiarism are irresponsible and disrespectful behaviors that have ethical and legal implications.
  5. identify the key points required for a creative work to fall under fair use.

Benchmark 3: Spreadsheets

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. utilize spreadsheets in various content areas (Math, Science, etc.)

Standard 6: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

Benchmark 1: Website Evaluation

A Sixth Grade student will be able to:

  1. understand how the ease of publishing on the internet might affect how much they can trust the content of some sites.
  2. learn criteria that will help them evaluate websites.
  3. apply the criteria to a site to determine how trustworthy and useful it is.
  4. understand the special challenges involved in citing online sources.
  5. learn the components of a correct bibliography citation for different types of websites.
  6. create bibliography citations for online newspaper and magazine articles, professional sites, and reference sites.