This grade level brochure is designed to provide you with an overview of the challenging curriculum we offer our students. It identifies key curriculum concepts for 6th grade but it is not meant to be all-inclusive.
Mission Statement
Epiphany Catholic School provides a student-focused, standards-driven, and secure educational environment, based upon the Gospel values, that promotes the spiritual, emotional, moral, intellectual, and physical development of all students.
Religion & Character Formation
- Foster the virtues of kindness, respect, optimism, generosity, honesty, prudence, patience, responsibility, morality.
- Discuss the lives of the saints.
- Prepare and participate in liturgical celebrations (weekly masses, Adoration, Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, Reconciliation, Feast of Corpus Christi, and visits to the Blessed Sacrament).
- Study the truths of the Catholic faith found in the Old Testament and Tradition.
- Be faithful to the teachings of the Church and embrace the four pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Creed, Liturgy and Sacraments, Moral Life, and Prayer.
Language Arts – Language
- Write a fully-developed essay with an introduction, body, and conclusion in narrative, expository, and persuasive forms.
- Write a well-organized essay with a clear central idea and adequate support.
- Build a strong foundation in English conventions.
- Follow multi-step directions given both orally and in writing.
Language Arts – Literature
- Read classic novels, short stories, and poetry in a variety of genres (fantasy, adventure fiction, historical fiction, mythology).
- Identify and analyze plot, setting, theme, character traits, and major ideas from text.
- Identify literary elements (characterization, narration, and foreshadowing).
- Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend reading selections.
Mathematics
- Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
- Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
- Apply and extend previous understanding of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
- Apply and extend previous understanding of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
- Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
- Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities.
- Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.
- Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area and volume.
- Develop understanding of statistical variability.
- Summarize and describe distributions.
Pre-Algebra
- Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers.
- Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
- Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations.
- Know that there are numbers that are not rational and approximate them by rational numbers.
- Work with radicals and integer exponents.
- Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
- Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations.
- Analyze and solve linear equations and systems of linear equations.
- Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.
Science
- Interpret data from classroom activities to form hypotheses and conclusions.
- Explore how matter and energy can affect changes in states.
- Use the periodic table to identify elements, metals, and non-metals.
- Illustrate the structure of elements, compounds, and mixtures.
- Explore laws and theories associated with different examples of force and motion (Newton’s Laws).
- Describe the nature of waves as they relate to light and sound.
- Demonstrate an understanding of thermal energy.
Social Studies
- Describe significant political events and the development of world cultures and economic systems.
- Relate world geography and environmental history to its effects on society.
- Identify major personalities related to the significant events in the ancient world.
- Describe the impact of technology in bringing about social change in the ancient world.
- Use maps and globes to identify the locations of key places in the ancient world and relate to present day locations.
- Connect the historical events of the world and geographic features of a region to the lifestyles of the population today.
Foreign Language – Spanish
- Read simple stories, interpret new words in context, retell familiar stories.
- Acquire language through comprehensible input.
- Introductions, colors, time, likes and dislikes, basic adjectives of description.
- Culture in context: Running of the Bulls.
Computer
- Use touch typing skills and proper posture (95% accuracy at 25 wpm).
- Identify appropriate use of productivity and multimedia applications (word processor, spreadsheet, multimedia presentation tools, and multimedia resources).
- Apply guidelines of acceptable use policy for use of technology systems.
- Use word processing applications to produce a variety of writing types (business letter, personal letter, memo writing).
- Create a multimedia presentation, using text, graphics, videos, and animations.
- Enter data and create a chart from a simple spreadsheet.
- Manipulate a prepared spreadsheet to produce charts/graphs.
- Make appropriate and informed choices when accessing electronic information sources.
- Use copyrighted materials appropriately and cite sources when using information or graphics.
- Locate the author/creator of a website to determine credibility of the information.
- Summarize information found during an Internet search.
- Utilize Web 2.0 tools and Google Drive apps.
Fine Arts – Art
- Create two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional sculptures.
- Apply the art elements and principles in critiquing and creating artwork.
- Expose students to culturally diverse art and artists throughout the ages.
Fine Arts – Band
- Play traditional band instruments using proper technique.
- Demonstrate and describe the elements of music (tempo, pitch, dynamics, form and timbre).
- Demonstrate proper performance behavior.
- Read traditional music notation.
- Play major and minor scales and triads.
Fine Arts – Choir
- Demonstrate good vocal technique.
- Demonstrate proper performance behavior.
- Read traditional music notation.
Fine Arts – General Music
- Play classroom instruments and dance using proper technique.
- Demonstrate, identify, and describe elements of music using traditional music vocabulary (tempo, dynamics, pitch, form).
- Read, notate, and perform complex rhythmic and melodic patterns.
- Create short melodies, rhythms, and movements within guidelines.
- Compose music using technology.
- Identify and differentiate between different styles of American popular music.
- Describe how music functions in commercial applications.
Physical Education & Health
- Identify lifestyle choices which have a positive effect on well-being.
- Identify specific personal safety habits that will prevent accidents at school, home, and in recreational situations.
- Identify criteria for selecting fitness equipment and sports products and explain why these factors are important.
Resource
Epiphany School offers assistance with a variety of skills and in all academic areas for students with a demonstrated need. The Epiphany Resource Program collaborates with Unit 5 to meet the needs of these students. Contact the Epiphany Resource teacher regarding any educational concerns in the following areas: academic evaluations, speech and language development, motor skills, and behavioral, health, vision, hearing, and social/emotional concerns.