Grade 6
- Notebook rubric in a page protector
- Cover divider (meaning the first divider in your notebook) should have the following information printed on it:
Name
Grade 6
2007-2008
Xavier Charter School - After the cover divider, in a page protector, the "Grade 6" handout with "Course of Study" on the other side
- Time line in a page protector
- "The Successful Student" in a page protector
- Class preparedness/Study Question and Entry Assignment rubrics in a page protector
- Independent study/Poster rubrics in a page protector
- Divider labeled "Literature"
- “Mighty Men” handout
- Grade level reading list signed by both parent/guardian and student, in a page protector
- Divider labeled "Poetry"
- Old man and the sea drawing
- October 12 paragraph on themes in the Odyssey written in class after studying Odyssey notes.
- October 11 paragraph on the Epic Hero written in class after studying Odyssey notes.
- October 9 homework: What does Menelaus value more than his riches?
- October 5 drawing (in page protector): Your character or any ancient Greek person
- October 4 paragraph summarizing Book III in the Odyssey
- October 1 paragraph: What is Nestor’s opinion of Odysseus?
- September 26 paragraph: How did Penelope trick her suitors?
- Outline written in class about epic poems, epic heroes, and themes in the Odyssey
- Handout the Illustrated Odyssey
- Divider labeled "Vocabulary"
- October 1 assignment to find three words from pp. 27-28 in the Odyssey that you don’t understand and define them. If you did this on the same paper as your October 1 paragraph about Nestor, put a piece of paper here telling me that.
- Our character vocabulary to date:
respect
self-discipline
responsibility
honesty
integrity
courage - Our Word of the Week to date:
benevolent
cajole
chasten
desecrate
digress
effervescent
emulate - Divider labeled "Writing"
- October 24 keyword outline and paragraph: Egyptian death
- October 16-17 keyword outline and paragraph: Osiris, Isis, Horus and sacred animals
- October 10 keyword outline and paragraph: Egyptian class system and priests
- October 5 keyword outline and paragraph: Egyptian pharaohs and Menes
- October 4 keyword outline and paragraph: Egyptian paper—papyrus
- October 3 keyword outline (initialed by parent or guardian) and paragraph: B.C. and A.D.
- October 2 keyword outline and paragraph: Semites
- Keyword (it says "note", but it should be "word") outline handout in page protector
- Notes taken in class: “Public Speaking”
- Divider labeled "Grammar"
- Grammar worksheet: Review 1/7
- Grammar worksheet: 5/6
- Grammar worksheet: 3/4
- Grammar worksheet; 1/2
- Grammar outline written in class with these headings to date:
articles
nouns
pronouns
verbs - Divider labeled "Latin/Greek"
- Latin worksheet ‘Let’s Practice’ pp. 18-19
- Latin worksheet 'Let's Practice' pp. 11, 14
- Latin sounds list written in class
- Misc. Latin quizzes and entry assignments (anything left over)
- Divider labeled "History"
- September 27 paragraph: Mycenaean Age
- September 25 keyword outline and paragraph from “Greece, Ancient” handout
- September 24 paragraph: What was the reason for the Trojan War?
- September 18 paragraph: Choose one event or person on the timeline and write what you know about it
- Outline done in class on ancient Greek life with the following headings to date:
Ancient Greeks
Life wasn’t perfect - Four page handout: “Greece, Ancient”
- Divider labeled "Geography"
- Greece Outline Map (in page protector)
- Appendix A Student Map of Ancient Greece
- Map showing Pylos and Sparta (in page protector)
- Divider labeled "Xavier Procedures" handout (1 sheet, double-sided)
- Divider labeled "Entry Assignments"
- Divider labeled "Study Questions"
