• Make appropriate choices when faced with peer pressure
• Explain the differences between proper uses of drugs and drug abuse.
• Explain the harmful effects of smoked and smokeless tobacco.
• Explain the functions of the endocrine and nervous systems.
• Define and explain genetics.
• Recognize and respond appropriately to sexual harassment.
• Demonstrate conflict resolution, decision making, communication, problem solving, and refusal skills.
• Demonstrate healthy and safe habits (Various current social issues).
• Explain the influence of drugs on the human body as well as society-at-large.
• Explain the benefits of physical activity, healthy diet, and stress management.

• Create a color wheel that will allow them to explore tints and shades of color.
• Distinguish relationships between colors in their art.
• Use continuous line to draw a still life.
• Use knowledge of texture, color, line, and shape to create artwork in various mediums (printing, sculpting, drawing, and painting).
• Use self-expression and problem solving to create their art.
• Identify International and American artists and their styles of art.

• Echo melodic intervals on same pitches just heard.
• Sing a song to accompaniment that does not include a melody.
• Demonstrate understanding of ritardando (gradually become slower) and accelerando (gradually become faster).
• Sing a song with consistent tempo.
• While singing in a group, sing a simple harmony part to a selected piece of music.
• Sing a major scale in their own range.
• Demonstrate minor tonality in their singing.
• Independently read a piece of appropriate music.
• Identify the introduction, verse, and refrain of a song.
• Identify individual instruments from the families of sound.
• Recognize a change of dynamics and key change within a piece of music.
• Recognize music that has the form theme and variations.
• On a classroom instrument play a notated eight-beat pattern consisting of sixteenth notes & rests, eighth notes, quarter notes, quarter rests, half notes, half rests, whole notes, and whole rests.

• Individually or in a group, will play one of two or more ostinato parts on an instrument as class sings a song.
• Notate a melodic rhythmic phrase.
• Properly prepare (changing and removing bars) the following instruments
  • Xylophone
  • Metallophone
  • Song Bells
• Demonstrate proper performance behavior (posture, attention to director, expression, etc)
• Identify the style of music composed during a historical musical era (i.e. Handel and the Baroque era).
• Identify characteristics rhythms and dances of other nations.
• Identify theme in a piece of music.
• Identify musical symbols while following the contour of a melody in a simple song.
• Sing the indicated part in a 2-part selection
• Demonstrate phrasing in a song.
• Identify the melody, harmony, rhythm, and form in a piece of music.
• Identify time signature in a piece of music.

• Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities
• Participate regularly in physical activity
• Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
• Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities
• Exhibits responsible personal social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
• Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and /or social interaction.

Reading

• Identify more advanced story elements of an appropriate narrative selection (foreshadowing & flashback)
• Read and analyze a main character by writing interview questions and answers based on character traits
• Describe how various cultures are represented in literature
• Extract relevant information and construct meaning from an appropriate expository text after learning a variety of study skills

Speaking

• Prepare and deliver a presentation from a selected content area employing elements of communication, which include clarity, purpose, appropriate body language, voice projection, inflection, and visuals

Research

• Locate and organize in writing information on a selected topic using a minimum of two different types of resources that may include the encyclopedia, trade books, thesaurus, atlas, almanac and available technology

Writing

• Write fluently for a variety of purposes to produce compositions such as personal narrations, reports, letters, resumes, essays, and summaries
• Effectively and carefully plan and draft texts, self and peer edit to revise and analyze their own work and that of others

Listening

• Listen to narrative and expository selections, employ listening strategies and write summaries
• Listen to an oral presentation for a variety of purposes including predicting, analyzing, summarizing, and/or establish a position on an issue
• While listening to an oral presentation, infer the nature of the characters from dialogue
  

Spelling

• Correctly spell a selected list of high-frequency use, frequently misspelled words and content area words appropriate for sixth grade
• Spell accurately in a final draft of a two-draft assignment (Type 4 or 5 writing)

Geometry

• Triangle inequality
• Relationships of vertical angles, complementary angles, supplementary angles
• Congruence of corresponding and alternate interior angles when parallel lines are cut by a transversal, and that such congruencies imply parallel lines.
• Locate interior/exterior angles of any triangle, and use the property that an exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the remote (opposite) interior angles
• Know that the sum of the exterior angles of a convex polygon is 360 degrees
• Understand that for polygons, congruence means corresponding sides and angles have equal measure
• Understand the basic rigid motions in the plane (reflections, rotations, translations) relate these to congruence, and apply them to solve problems
• Understand and use simple compositions of basic rigid transformations, e.g. a translations followed by a reflection
• Use paper folding to perform basic geometric constructions of perpendicular lines midpoints of line segments, and angle bisectors, justify informally.
  

Fractions, Ratios, Decimals, Percents, and Probability

• Add, subtract, multiply and divide positive rational numbers fluently.
• Understand division of fractions as the inverse of multiplication, e.g., if 4/5 ÷ 2/3 =, then 2/3 ∙=4/5, so =4/5 ∙3/2=12/10.
• Given an applied situation involving dividing fractions, write a mathematical statement to represent the situation.
• Solve for the unknown in equations such as:
• ¼ ÷=1, 3/4÷=1/4 and ½=1∙
• Multiply and divide any two fractions fluently.
• Order rational numbers and place them on a number line.
• Represent rational numbers as fractions or terminating decimals when possible, and translate between these representations.
• Understand that a fraction or a negative fraction is a quotient of two integers, e.g., -8/3 is-8 divided by 3.
• Find equivalent rations by scaling up or scaling down.
• Calculate part of a number given the percentage and the number.
• Express probabilities as fractions, decimals, or percentages, between 0 and 1: know that 0 probability means an event will not occur and that probability 1 means an event will occur.
• Compute probabilities of events from simple experiments with equally likely outcomes, e.g. tossing dice, flipping coins, spinning spinners, by listing all possibilities and finding the fractions meets given conditions.
• Solve word problems involving percentages in such contexts as sales taxes and tips, and involving positive rational numbers.
• For applied situations, estimate the answers to calculations involving operations with rational numbers.
• Solve applied problems that use the four operations with appropriate decimal numbers.

Algebra

• Plot ordered pairs of integers and use ordered pairs of integers to identify points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.
• Solve applied problems involving rates including speed, e.g., if a car is going 50 mph, how far will it go in 3 ½ hours?
• Use letters with units to represent quantities in a variety of contexts, e.g., y lbs., k minutes, x cookies.
• Distinguish between an algebraic expression and an equation.
• Use standard conventions for writing algebraic expressions, e.g., 2x + 1 means “two time x, plus 1” and 2(x+1) means “two times the quantity (x+1).”
• Represent information given in words using algebraic expressions and equations.
• Simplify expressions of the first degree by combing like terms, and evaluate using specific values.
• Understand that relationships between quantities can be suggested by graphs and tables.
• Graph and write equations for linear functions of the form y=mx, and solve related problems, e.g., given n chairs, the ‘leg function’ is f(n)=4n; if you have 5 chairs, how many legs? If you have 12 legs how many chairs?
• Represent simple relationships between quantities using verbal descriptions, formulas or equations, tables, and graphs, e.g., perimeter-side relationship for a square, distance/time graphs, and conversions such as feet to inches.
• Relate simple linear equations with integer coefficients to particular contexts, and solve, e.g., 3x=8 or x+5=10.
• Understand that adding or subtracting the same number to both sides of an equation creates a new equation that has the same solution.
• Understand that multiplying or dividing both sides of an equation by the same non-zero number creates a new equation that has the same solutions.
• Solve equations of the form ax+b=c, e.g., 3x+8=15 by hand for positive integer coefficients less than 20, using calculators otherwise, and interpret the results.
  

Integers

• Understand integer subtraction as the inverse of integer addition; add and subtract integers using intergers from 10 to -10
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers between -10 and 10; use number line and strip models for addition and subtraction.
• Locate negative rational numbers (including integers) on the number line; know that numbers and their negatives add to 0 and are on opposites sides and at equal distance from 0 on a number line.
• Understand that rational numbers are quotients of integers (non-zero denominators), e.g., a rational number is either a fraction or a negative fraction.
• Understand that 0 is an integer that is neither negative nor positive.
• Know that the absolute value of a number is the value of the number, ignoring the sign, or is the distance of the number from 0.

Measurement and Exponents

• Convert between basic units of measurement within a single measurement system, e.g., square inches to square feet.
• Draw pattern (of faces) for a cube and rectangular prism that, when cut, will cover the solid exactly (nets).
• Compute the volume and surface area of cubes and rectangular prisms given the lengths of their sides using formulas.
• Understand and use integer exponents, excluding powers of negative numbers; express numbers in scientific notation.

• Use narratives and graphic data to describe the settings of significant events that shaped the development of the Caribbean, Canadian, and Latin and South American nations
• Select conditions in various parts of the Caribbean, Canada, Latin, and South America, and describe how they have been shaped by events from the past
• Analyze interpretations of major events selected from Caribbean, Canadian, Latino and South American history
• Identify major decisions in the history of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin and South America
• Identify the responses of individuals to historic violations of human dignity involving discrimination, persecution, and crimes against humanity
• Locate and describe the diverse places, cultures, and communities of the Caribbean, Canada, Latin and South America
• Describe and compare characteristics of major world cultures including language, religion, belief systems, gender roles and traditions
• Explain why people live and work as they do in different regions
• Locate, compare, and describe the characteristics of ecosystems, their resources, and human environment and explain the process that created them
• Explain how governments have divided land and sea areas into different regions
• Explain the importance of different kinds of ecosystems to people: how humans modify the environment; and describe some of the possible consequences of those modifications and consequences of human/environment interactions in several different types of the environment

• Describe how and why people, goods, services, and information move within the Western Hemisphere. Describe the major economic and political connections between the United States and the different regions of the Western Hemisphere
• Label maps of the Caribbean, Canada, Latin and South America
• Location major world events and explain how they impact people and the environment
• Distinguish between representative democracy in the United States and other forms of government
• Explain how the rule of law protects individual rights, serves the common good, and protects political and economic freedom
• Explain various ways that nations of the Western Hemisphere interact with each other
• Evaluate employment and career opportunities in light of economic trends
• Describe how each region acts as a producer and consumer
• Describe the effects of international trade to consumer and producers
• Gather and analyze information using appropriate information technologies to construct an answer to a question posed, and support the answer with evidence
• Identify a public issue, use data and inquiry methods to take an informed stand (position), and then create a persuasive oral or written argument that relates to at least one Core Democratic Value (CDV)