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6th Grade Curriculum
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.
Revised 05/27/2015
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, surface 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
Communicate understanding of selected topics
(greetings, numbers, time, date, use of adjectives, the
verb ser, and the verb gustar) in oral and written forms.
Show understanding of customs, history, and
geography of Spain and Puerto Rico.
Write sentences using subject, subject pronouns, and
verbs.
Computer
Physical Education & Health
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.
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.
EPIPHANY
CATHOLIC SCHOOL
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.
6th Grade
Fine Arts - Art
Create two-dimensional drawings and threedimensional sculptures.
Apply the art elements and principles in critiquing and
creating artwork.
Expose students to culturally diverse art and artists
throughout the ages.
Curriculum
Expectations
Fine Arts - Music
Play traditional band instruments or sing using good
technique.
Describe elements of music using traditional music
vocabulary (tempo, dynamics, and pitch).
Demonstrate good performer and audience behavior in
class performances.
Read and write traditional music notation on the treble
clef.
Play or sing major and minor scales and triads.
Revised 05/27/2015
1002 E. College Avenue, Normal, Illinois 61761
Phone: 309-452-3268
www.epiphanyschools.org
Principal: Mr. Mike Lootens