South Carolina Calvert Academy Sixth Grade

Course Materials

Your child’s knowledge of classic American literature will grow to include Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes, among others. Calvert’s Sixth Grade grammar course also teaches sentence diagramming, unique among contemporary educators. The spelling unit includes many cross-curriculum words from other subjects and integrates with phonics instruction.

In history, your child explores the birth of Western Civilization from the dawn of man to 1600. In Geography, your child will travel to Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.

Sixth Grade Calvert Math emphasizes problem-solving steps. Your child’s math skills will grow to include fractions, decimals, and two-step equations.

Technology lessons cover operation systems, URLs,Web searches, and presentation software. In science, students study plants and animal structures and functions, earth science, the environment, weather and climate, and properties of energy and work. The second volume of A Child’s History of Art: Sculpture offers hands-on art lessons coordinated with art history study.

Course Materials
• Science Lesson Manual
• Humanities Lesson Manual
• English Language Arts Lesson Manual
• Computer Skills & Applications Manual
• Activity Pages
• King Arthur and His Knights
• The Swiss Family Robinson
• Theras and His Town
• Anne of Green Gables
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• Critical Thinking: Level F
• Everyday Spelling
• Calvert Mastery Series: Spelling 6 (online)
• Elements of Language
• Calvert Math LessonManual
• Calvert Math
• Calvert Math Practice and Enrichment Workbook
• From Bacteria to Plants
• Animals
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Motion, Forces, and Energy
• Weather and Climate
• The Road Not Taken and Other Poems—Frost
• Selected Poems—Dickinson
• The Dream Keeper and Other Poems—Hughes
• History of Our World
• Geography—The World and Its People, Volume 2
• A Child’s History of Art: Sculpture
• Art Card Portfolio
• Answer Keys for DailyWork (online)
• How to Diagram a Sentence (online)
• Supplies

Optional Enrichment Courses
• Discoveries in Art
• Discoveries in Reading VI a and b
• Discoveries in Science
• Grade Level Science Kit
• Calvert Reference Library IV
• Intermediate Math Manipulatives
• Skills Workshops: Grammar, Composition, Math, and Study Skills