In Nuce: Grade Six

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"

Pages

Roles assigned for Julius Caesar

Grade Six Greek Meal

Grade Six notebook sequence

Reading the Odyssey