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Humanities 6 Home
Class Description
The Humanities
curriculum in the sixth grade will integrate literature, grammar, and
writing with World History during the Medieval Period. In addition to
Medieval Europe, we will focus on the non-western cultures of Japan and
Africa as well as the Middle East and Islamic culture.
Expectations
The most
effective way for students to learn and succeed is to come to class with a
positive attitude, their materials organized, and their homework
thoughtfully completed. By the sixth grade, we encourage students to work
increasingly independently with support from parents and teachers.
Assessment
Organization: 5%
With so much going on at
school, it can be really tough to remember everything for class. However,
being organized is a great skill to have in life and you’ll get plenty of
chances to practice in sixth grade humanities. CEO’s, pro football coaches,
Disc Jockeys, astronauts, and many other successful people have to be
organized. Turns out a successful sixth grade student does as well. We’ll go
over some ways to get organized and methods for remembering to bring
everything to class to help you out so you can do the best you can!
Participation: 5%
We know you’ve got great
thoughts, so get that hand up! We’re waiting with baited breath to hear your
latest insightful observation on the crisis in Darfur, how Bugs Bunny is
related to West Africa, or your opinion on which character in “Crash” you
liked best. Do it enough, and you’ve earned our admiration plus an A+.
Citizenship: 5%
Humanities six has a zero
tolerance policy for bullying, put downs, insults, cheating, personal
attacks, and any other lack of good citizenship. We expect your full effort
in acting kindly, bravely, honorably, and treating others as you want to be
treated. This grade acknowledges your efforts in good citizenship. In
return, we as teachers will do our best to hold ourselves to the same
standard.
Projects: 37%
We know you’ve been
itching to build a catapult and get that brilliant documentary out of your
head and onto the silver screen, and we teachers are here to help you do an
even better job. Each project has a rubric, which is a road map to success.
You’ll be graded on how well you complete the requirements. Follow the
directions, check the rubric, work well with your teammates, put your back
into it and you’ll have something pretty cool to be proud of at the end of
the day.
Writing-
Ideas: 8%
The ideas are the heart of
the message, the content of the piece, the main theme, together with the
details that enrich and develop that theme.
Writing-
Organization: 8%
Organization is the
internal structure of a piece of writing, the thread of central meaning, the
logical and sometimes intriguing pattern of the ideas.
Writing-
Voice: 8%
The voice is the heart and
soul, the magic, the will, along with the feeling and conviction of the
individual writer coming out through the words.
Writing-
Word Choice: 8%
Word choice is the use of
rich, colorful, precise language that moves and enlightens the reader.
Writing-
Fluency: 8%
Sentence fluency is the
rhythm and flow of the language, the sound of work patterns, the way in
which the writing plays to the ear - not just to the eye.
Writing-
Convention: 8%
Whuts! the pblm, this:
sentince"? Conventions are the
mechanical correctness of the piece - spelling, grammar and usage,
paragraphing, use of capitals, and punctuation. Do this wrong and your
writing is simply hard to understand.
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