English
August
September
Subjects, predicates, and
sentences/fragments
Descriptive Paper: Show not
tell about summer activities
Subjects, predicates, and
sentences/fragments
Expository Writing: Point of
View paper from “Tuesday
of the Other June”
October
Nouns
November
Persuasive Paper: Native
American Values
Pronouns
December
Writer’s Workshop: 6th
Grade Camp Experience
Verbs
January
February
Rewriting A Christmas Carol
for primary audience
Verbs
cont.
Writer’s Workshop: Writer’s
Choice
Adjectives and Adverbs
Narrative Writing: Writer’s
Choice
March
April
May
Adjectives and Adverbs
cont.
Research Paper: Civil Rights
Movement
Prepositions, conjunctions
and interjections
Research Paper cont.
Grammar Review
Writer’s Workshop: Writer’s
Choice
Religion
Science
Note taking strategies,
SQ3R, KWL, Think-PairShare, Graphic Organizers
Literature
Number sense, addition,
and subtraction
Math
Ten Commandments, Jesus’
New Covenant, Types of
Prayer
Understanding science;
measurement and scientific
tools
Latin America
Poems and Short Stories:
“Tuesday of the Other June”
“The Six Rows of Pompons”
“Stolen Day”
“My First Years in Junior
High”
“The Circuit” and “Emily”
Fictional Novel: Walk Two
Moons
Conflict, characterization,
and theme
Fictional Novel: Bridge to
Terabithia
Mood, internal conflict, and
symbolism
Play: A Christmas Carol
Multiplication and
division of whole numbers
and decimals
Angels and Saints’ role as
Intercessors, Church
Triumphant, Second through
Fourth Commandments in
depth
Mapping Earth; Earth in
space (Sun-Earth-Moon
system, solar system, stars,
galaxies, universe)
Mexico-history and today
Mobile project and oral
presentation
VBRD Kickoff Mass
Iowa Assessments
VBRD Retreat Day
Expressions, equations and
integers
Glory of the Cross, sacrifice,
Legal versus moral duties,
Church Authority
Central America and
Caribbean Islands
Temperance
6th Grade Camp
Number theory and
fractions
Fifth Commandment in
depth, Charity toward all,
Respect Life
South America
Fortitude
Canned food drive
Fractions cont.
Christmas Season, Seasons
of the Church
Our planet – Earth (Earth
systems and their
interactions); Earth’s
dynamic surface
Natural resources (energy
resources, renewable
energy; land, air, and water
resources
Life’s classification and
structure; inheritance and
adaptation
Prudence
Sponsor-a-Family
A Christmas Carol
(Repertory Theater)
Fictional Novel: Where the
Red Fern Grows
Personification,
internal/external conflict,
and theme
Where the Red Fern Grow
cont.
Personification,
internal/external conflict,
and theme cont.
Biography: Stealing Home:
The Jackie Robinson’s Story
JA Biztown (even years),
Data and statistics
Sixth through Tenth
Commandments, Selfrespect and respect of
others, Beatitudes, Chastity
Introduction to plants (plant
diversity and reproduction);
Introduction to animals
(invertebrates)
North Africa and
Southwest Asia
Egypt-ancient history
Hieroglyphics Project
North Africa and Southwest
Asia today
Justice
Catholic Schools Week
Geometry
Sacrament of the Eucharist,
Mass, Last Supper, Jesus’
death & Resurrection, Living
Sacrifice
Animals cont. (Chordates);
Interactions of life (i.e.,
ecosystems)
Western Europe-Greece,
Roman Empire and Middle
Ages
Shields Project
Charity
Mission Carnival
Ratio, proportion, percent
Mass, Effects of Holy
Communion, Vessels and
linens used at Mass
Matter and atoms;
Properties and changes of
matter
Growth of New IdeasReformation, Renaissance
and Russian Empire
Roman Gods Project
Faith
Percent cont.
Eucharist-Real Presence,
Transubstantiation, Worthy
reception of Eucharist
Energy and energy
transformation; Waves,
light, and sound
China-early history and
modern times
Hope
Spring Music Concert
Measurement
Resurrection, Parts of the
Mass in depth, Heaven, Hell,
Purgatory, General
Judgement
Electricity and magnetism
(electric charges and forces,
electric current and circuits,
magnetism)
Students’ choice to explore
a country through its people
and history
Review of all virtues
Field Day
Biography and theme
Historical Fictional Novel:
Watsons Go To Birmingham
Point of view, setting,
conflict, theme
Watsons Go To Birmingham
cont.
Point of view, setting,
conflict, theme cont.
Social Studies
Virtue
Special Events