Literature Curriculum
I align the course to the grade-specific common core standards, but it is always a work in process. Some of the areas we will develop in the year are as follows:
6th Grade
Religion Curriculum
In following the religion curriculum of the diocese, we will cover the following in class:
6th Grade
I align the course to the grade-specific common core standards, but it is always a work in process. Some of the areas we will develop in the year are as follows:
6th Grade
- Read novels, Four Perfect Pebbles, When My Name was Keoko, and Fever, 1793
- Analyze plot and setting, and draw inferences from the texts
- Compare and contrast stories and characters in a variety of poems, short stories and novels
- Realize similar themes and subjects in different genres
- Examine the theme of a text based on the evidence presented in the text
- Examine Point of View and the influence it has on a text
- Write comparison/contrast essay, a profession letter to an author, a creative writing piece, book summaries and a biography
- Read the novel, Friedrich, and the play, Much Ado About Nothing
- Make critical analysis of direct text and inferences of tone
- Determine theme and analyze it over different texts and media
- Observe how characters and setting affect the plot
- Examine Poetry – figurative language, rhyme scheme, rhythm, allusion, personification; and, types of poems such as haiku, sonnets, and poems imagery poems
- Analyze different points of view and how they affect the overall theme of a work
- Write comparison/contrast essays, evaluate an argument, write descriptive essays, analogies, a technical writing piece, and a biography from research
- Read novels such as Night, Romeo and Juliet, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and Lord of the Flies
- Analyze characters from different historical eras
- Determine the theme of a text and write an objective summary of that text
- Compare/contrast the structure of two texts and recognize how the structure gives meaning to the text
- Examine how modern fiction compares to characters in religious history
- Observe mood, tone and actual meaning of text
Religion Curriculum
In following the religion curriculum of the diocese, we will cover the following in class:
6th Grade
- God’s Revelation to His people through Creation
- Period of the Patriarchs
- The Exodus event and Moses
- The settlement in Canaan and the Period of the Kings
- The Divided Kingdom and the Prophetic Books
- Wisdom Literature and its relevance in our living
- The cycles of the Liturgical Calendar
- The authorship of the Bible, including Divine Inspiration and the variety of literary styles
- History of Jesus’ people
- Stages of the Gospels and their differences and similarities
- Infancy Narratives
- Examination of the Kingdom of God
- Who Jesus is and how others see him in:
- The Parables
- The Miracles
- The Sermon on the Mount
- Paschal Mystery and the Triduum
- The Letters of the New Testament
- Discipleship and the origin of the Church
- The start of the Church after Jesus’ Ascension
- Persecution of Christians which takes us to great men like Constantine, Theodosius, Jerome and then to the four Ecumenical Councils
- Middle Ages, barbarians, Church Fathers and monasticism
- Christian empire flourished with Clovis, Pepin and Charlemagne
- Politics of Feudalism, Inquisition and Crusades
- The great saints to bring the Church’s people back to the true meaning of the Gospels
- The Avignon Papacy and the Great Schism
- The Protestant Reformation and the Council of Trent
- French Revolution, the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution and their affects on the Catholic Churc
- Vatican II