Amesbury Seventh-day Adventist School

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Grade 6

Curriculum:

  • BIBLE+

    • Life of Christ

    • Parables and teachings of Jesus

    • Miracles of Jesus

    • Death and Resurrection

    • Disciples then and now

    • Christian witness and service

  • ART

    • Realism and abstractions

    • Vocabulary

    • Interpreting feelings and ideas in art

    • Hue, Values, Intensity

    • Positive and negative space

    • Create designs

    • Acquaintance with artists’ lives and their works

    • Fabric comparisons: color, texture, design

    • Media experimentation

    • Collage, paper mache, bock prints, enlargements

    • Proportions and perspective

    • Organic and inorganic

    • Elements and principles of design

    • Creative lettering

    • Print making

    • Construction and assembly 3-D

    • Still life

    • Color combination

    • Color wheel

    • Complementary colors

    • Graduated value scale

    • Architectural forms

  • COMPUTERS

    • Careers, impact on jobs

    • Software selection and manuals

    • Electronic advances

    • Programming

    • Logo, list, handling sound, music

    • Ethics and commercial programs

    • Modem, Fax, Bulletin boards, Networking

    • Keyboarding: technique, accuracy, speed

    • Block, copy, move, fonts, graphics

    • Newspaper layout and graphs

    • Update records, sorting, report preparation

    • Directories: copy and delete files, change menu, organize, alphabetize, prioritize

  • LANGUAGE ARTS

    • Reading and Literature

      • Read at instructional level

      • Read independently

      • Word analysis

      • Comprehension

      • Variety of literature: classics, contemporary, multi-cultural

      • Literary elements: Rhyme, rhythm, figurative language

      • Analysis of media: reliability and accuracy

    • Speaking

      • Vocabulary and usage

      • Discussion and conversation

      • Present reports

      • Christian drama: audience awareness, empathy

      • Parliamentary procedure

      • Conduct interviews and surveys

    • Spelling

      • Assigned words

      • Organized study plan

      • Spells correctly written work

    • Listening

      • Critical thinking: fact versus opinion, persuasive words, nonverbal clues

    • Writing

      • Legibility

      • Composition, Reports, Stories, Poetry, Journal, Diary, Plays

      • Parts of speech: abstract and concrete nouns, auxiliary and perfect forms of verbs, indefinite interrogative pronouns, adverts: place, time, manner, degree intensifier, prepositions, subordinate conjunctions and interjections

      • Sentences: complex, implied subject, direct and indirect objects, independent and dependent clauses

      • Capitalization

      • Punctuation: bibliography, letter parts, introductory word or phrase, direct address, appositive, subordinate clause

    • Study Skills and Reference

      • Note taking and outlining

      • Concordance and index

      • Dictionary and Thesaurus

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Converting common fractions to decimal fractions

    • Exponents

    • Factoring: prime and composite

    • Geometric figures and angles, classification and measurement

    • Fundamental operations of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and mixed numbers

    • Integers

    • Problem solving and application

    • Percent: meaning of and problems using

    • Concepts of similarity, angles, congruence, and symmetry

    • Statistics: mean, median, mode, sampling

  • MUSIC

    • Sixteenth notes, triplet patterns

    • Sight reading

    • Major scales

    • Canons

    • Cadences IV-I, VI

    • Composers and their compositions

    • First and second endings

    • Sharp, flat, and natural

    • Tonal qualities of human voice

    • Classical period: music and hymns

    • Descriptive music

    • Early Advent hymns

    • Classroom singing

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION

    • Motor skills

      • team sports, track, lead-up games

    • Fitness

      • testing, agility, running and jogging, cardiovascular endurance

    • Positive attitudes

      • self-worth, self-control, patience, responsibility

    • Concepts

      • strategies, history, current sports events

    • Interpersonal skills

      • cooperation, sportsmanship, leadership, respect

  • SCIENCE & HEALTH+

    • Man’s uniqueness in creation

    • Skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems

    • Sense organs

    • Integumentary and excretory systems

    • Circulatory and respiratory systems

    • Earth’s moving crust

    • Volcanoes and earthquakes

    • Weathering and erosion

    • The Biblical flood

    • Rocks, minerals, and soil

    • Digestion and nutrition

    • Substance abuse

    • Safety and first aid

    • Electricity and magnetism

  • SOCIAL STUDIES+

    • God’s involvement in events

    • Map and globe skills

    • Resources of the world

    • Cultures of the past and present

    • Greece and Rome, Middle Ages and Renaissance

    • Countries and cultures of the Eastern and/or Western hemisphere, Latin America and Canada

    • Religious influences

    • Exploration: pre-columbian

    • Revolutions and governmental changes

    • Twentieth Century

    • Lands and people

    • Climate

    • Economic systems

  • + Subjects may alternate for grades 5 and 6 and for grades 7 and 8. Materials are adapted to the appropriate grade level.

 

 

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