Sixth Grade
In sixth grade the children begin the study of ancient Rome. “This is appropriate, for the sixth grader now stands, like an ancient Roman, solidly on the earth, and craves facts and their relationship to one another.” Eugene Schwartz
Topics will include:
- descriptive and expository writing
- composition, including business letters and journalism
- business math including interest, percentage and discount
- proportion
- tales of chivalry, poetry
- ballads
- foreign language – reading texts, humorous stories, free translations
- music-descant, alto and tenor recorders, strings and winds
- painting of landscapes, color contrasts, spectrum
- sewing and pattern making
- modeling
- exact geometric drawing
- black and white drawing
- beginning use of saws, rasps, gouges, etc.
- history of ancient Rome
- geography of Canada, Central and South America
- physics
- geology and mineralogy
- team sports
