6th Grade Curriculum 2017 – 2018

Yikes! This is way overdue, but we’ve had so much going on this year. I went back to work full-time for Automattic Inc., the company behind WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce and more. As expected, my contract with GameTruck was not renewed when they decided to go with an agency for their social media needs. For the first time in a long time, I was able to take a step back and decided what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go. After a few days of checking out some of my favorite companies, I applied to be a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, Inc..

In the meantime, I wrote a book (coming soon), and I worked on getting our curriculum ready for the year. While my daughter was at summer camp for a week (be still my heart), I scoured every resource that we had on hand to figure out what we needed. Then I created a year-long (maybe two-year) program to help propel us closer to reaching our homeschool goals.

Here are the items that we are using. What is not included here is how we mapped it all together because that project is coming soon. In the meantime, enjoy this list; it’s chock full of affiliates links because that’s how we pay the blogging bills! 🙂

Art

• Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book: Make a World

Language Arts

Novels

• Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
• The Trail of Tears (Step into Reading: A Step 4 Book)
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase  Joan Aiken
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Author Study

• Fever 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson

Short Stories

• “Home” by Gwendolyn Brooks
• “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros
• “The Fun They Had” by Issac Asimov
• American Tall Tales (Puffin Books) Anthology; Adrien Stoutenburg
• “Jumping Monkey Hill,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” by Ursula LeGuin
• “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell

Spelling / Vocabulary

• All About Spelling 5-7

Grammar and Writing

• Fix It
• Journaling
• Blogging
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Math

• The Math Teacher’s Book Of Lists: Grades 5-12, 2nd Edition
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Cooking and Sewing

Science and Technology

• Earth Science and Astronomy for the Logic Stage
• Scratch Coding
• MosaMack
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Social Studies American History

• History Textbooks
• Making Thirteen Colonies: 1600-1740 A History of US Book Two Textbook; Joy Hakim
• From Colonies to Country: 1735-1791 A History of US Book Three Textbook; Joy Hakim
• The New Nation: 1789-1850 A History of US Book Four Textbook; Joy Hakim
• Liberty for All?: 1820-1860 A History of US Book Five Textbook; Joy Hakim
• History Biographies
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  • Black Lives Matter (a biography unit that I created)
  • 10 Black Women Pioneers You Should Know
  • Black Heroes of the American Revolution (Odyssey Books) Non-fiction; Burke Davis
  • (What You Didn’t Know About the
    American Revolution) Michael Burgan
• Articles and Essays; Other Books
  • COLONIAL LAWS Divide and Conquer by Bill Bigelow Article
  • D Is for Democracy: A Citizen’s Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Alphabets) Picture Book; Elissa D. Grodin
• Various Living History Books
  • Picture Book; Ruth Belov Gross
  • Picture Book; Ann Mcgovern
  • Picture Book; Kay Moore
  • (Picture Book Biography) Picture Book; David A Adler
  • (Picture Book Biography) Picture Book; David A Adler
  • (Picture Book Biographies) Picture Book; David A. Adler

(Picture Book Biography) Picture Book; David A. Adler

(For Young People Series)
Kindle Book; Howard Zinn

(Picture Book Biographies)Picture Book; David A. Adler

Spanish

• Rosetta Stone Spanish 1
• Mango Languages Spanish

Physical Education

• Belly Dancing
• Youth Roller Derby
• Play