Syllabus for Mrs



3rd Nine weeks syllabus for Mrs. Coleman’s 6th grade class (Tentative Schedule)

6th Reading we will be covering Unit 4

Theme: Explorers, Pioneers, and Discoverers

How have those who’ve gone first influenced others who’ve gone after?

|Into the Ice-Skills Covered: Comprehension Skill-Cause and |Unit 4 Test |

|Effect, Comprehension Strategy-Summarize, and Vocabulary | |

|Strategy-Context Clues | |

|The Chimpanzees I Love-Skills Covered: Comprehension |The View from Saturday Literary-Skills Covered: |

|Skill-Author’s Purpose, Comprehension Strategy-Answer Questions, |Comprehension Skill-Elements-Plot, Predict, Cause and Effect |

|Vocabulary Strategy-Dictionary/Glossary |Vocabulary Strategy-Context Clues, |

|Black Frontiers- Skills Covered: Comprehension Skill-Cause and |Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez-Skills Covered: |

|Effect, Comprehension Strategy-Prior Knowledge, and Vocabulary |Comprehension Skill-Fact and Opinion, Sequence |

|Strategy-Context Clues |Comprehension Strategy-Prior Knowledge |

| |Vocabulary Strategy- Context Clues |

|Space Cadets- Skills Covered: Comprehension Skill-Draw |The River That Went to the Sky: A Story from Malawi- Skills |

|Conclusions, Comprehension Strategy-Visualize, and Vocabulary |Covered: Comprehension Skill-Cause and Effect, Sequence |

|Strategy-Context Clues |Comprehension Strategy-Graphic Organizers, Chart or Table |

|Inventing the Future- Skills Covered: Comprehension |Vocabulary Strategy-Context Clues, |

|Skill-Author’s Purpose, Comprehension Strategy-Monitor and Fix | |

|Up, | |

|Vocabulary Strategy- Word Structure | |

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Students are also, required to read 4-AR books in Reading each grading period. Parents if you would like to pick a book for your child feel free to so. The AR-reading level should be on 5th or 6th grade and worth 5 points or more. There is a short book summary form for them to fill out and return to me. They are also required to make a 70 or above on the AR-test. The book summary and the AR-test will be average as one grade. We will have weekly tests on the Reading Street story along with worksheets, weekly tests, and unit test these tests are 75% of the students reading grade. There will be reading homework on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, tests on Friday.

6th Social Studies –We will cover the following chapters:

Unit 3

Chapter 5-1834-1887: Changing Ways of Life

a. Rural Life Changes

b. Life in the Growing Cities

c. Chart and Graph Skills

d. Unequal Opportunities

e. Booker T. Washington

f. Women’s Right

g. Susan B. Anthony

Chapter 6-1908-1919: Becoming a World Power

a. Expanding Overseas

b. Theodore Roosevelt

c. Credibility of a Source

d. The Progressive Movement

e. Interpret Political Cartoons

f. Citizen Heroes Ida Tarbell

g. World War I

Unit 4-Prosperity, Depression, and War

Chapter 7 – Times of Plenty, Times of Hardship

a. An Industrial Nation

b. The Roaring Twenties

c. The Good Times End

d. The New Deal

Chapter 8- World War II

a. World War II Begins

b. The Home Front

c. The World at War

Unit 5-Challenges at Home and Abroad

Chapter 9- The Postwar World

a. The World is Divided

b. Boom Years at Home

c. Cold War Conflicts

Section quizzes will be given weekly as well as an end of the chapter test. Map assignments every six weeks. Twice monthly students will read and be graded on the Junior Scholastic. Each student will complete a state report. This report will be count as two test grades. The completed project is due on March 15, 2011.

Science/Health-The states requires AIDS awareness is to be taught for 5-hours, Bullying Curriculum & Life Skills

AMSTI Science-Your child will receive grades on their notebooks, participation through experimenting in groups, and tests. Their notebooks and textbooks will stay at school. If you would like to see what the 6th grade Pollard McCall Wolves are working on in Science fill free to come by during class or after class to see.

AMSTI has furnished the class with all the supplies we will need for Catastrophic Events.

|Glencoe Life Science |Glencoe Life Science |

|Chapter 6 |Chapter 15 |

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|AMSTI Lesson 1-Thinking About Catastrophic Events |Lesson 4- Heat Transfer and the Movement of Air |

|Inquiry 1.1 Creating a Group |Inquiry 4.1 Investigating the |

|Concept Map |Temperature of Air |

|Inquiry 1.2 Using a Globe and a |Inquiry 4.2 Investigating How |

|world Map |Warm Air and Cool Air Move |

|*Images of the Earth |*Air Masses |

|*How Scientist Study the Earth |*What’s the Forecast? |

|*Views From Space |*Weather Forecasting Can Be Cool… or Hot! |

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|Glencoe Life Science |Glencoe Life Science |

|Chapter 16 |Chapter 15 & 17 |

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|Lesson 2-Introducing Storms |Lesson 5 Convection Currents in the Air |

|Inquiry 2.1 Modeling a Vortex |Inquiry 5.1 Investigating the |

|Tornado Watch or Warning |Effects of Colliding Air Masses |

|*What Is a Vortex? |*Why Does the Wind Blow? |

|*That’s a Fact: An Introduction to |*What Are Monsoons? |

|Thunderstorms, Tornados, and |*Weather Fronts |

|Hurricanes |*Trouble in Tornado Alley |

| |*Waterspouts |

| |*Staying Safe |

|Glencoe Life Science |Glencoe Life Science |

|Chapter 17 |Chapter 16 |

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|Lesson 3-Heating Earth’s Surface |Lesson 6 Temperature, Pressure, and Cloud Formation |

|Inquiry 3.1 Investing Rates of |Inquiry 6.1 Observing |

|Heating and Cooling |Evaporation and condensation |

|*Weather Versus Climate |*Hurricane Formation and the weather |

|*The Source of Earth’s Heat |Cycle |

|*The Atmosphere: The Blanket of |Inquiry 6.2 Modeling the Effects |

|Air |of Air Pressure on Cloud Formation |

|*Joseph Henry: The Father of |Inquiry 6.3 Reading Weather |

|Weather Forecasting |Maps |

| |The Truth About Air |

| |*Torricelli: Inventor of the Mercury |

| |Barometer |

| |*Hurricane Mitch |

****I would like to thank each and every one of you for the gifts I received for Christmas. I am blessed to work at such a wonderful school, and with such excellent children.

Love, Mrs. Coleman

If you would like to make an appointment please call the office. The office staff will be glad to set up an appointment between 12:00P.M-12:30P.M.

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