| The STRUCTURED WRITING FOR THE 6th GRADE is a small group class that provides instruction aligned with the California's Common Core State Standards in the following areas: |
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Active Reading (Reading Comprehension): Students will read and understand 4-5 novels, cite textural evidence to support analysis and inferences drawn from the text, determine a theme and how it is conveyed through particular details, provide a summary distinct from personal opinions, analyze how a particular sentence, chapter or scene fits into the overall development of the theme, setting, or plot and explain the effects of common literary devices (e.g., symbolism, imagery, metaphor). |
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Fundamentals of Effective Writing: Students will be writing clear, coherent, and focused essays that introduce a thesis statement, organize ideas using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect, develop a topic with relevant facts, quotations, and definitions, use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts, establish and maintain a formal style, provide a concluding paragraph. Students will be practicing the three writing genres (expository, persuasive arguments, and descriptive narratives) to include at least 500–800 words in each composition. |
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Vocabulary Acquisition: Students will integrate knowledge of individual words to enhance their writing, identify and interpret figurative language and words with multiple meanings, and understand and explain "shades of meaning" in related words. |
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Grammar: For the grammar module of the class, students will learn to identify and properly use all pronouns (e.g., subjective, objective, possessive case) and present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect verb tenses, ensure that verbs agree with compound subjects, use simple, compound, and compound-complex sentences, use effective coordination and subordination of ideas to express complete thoughts and the appropriate use of colons and semicolons to connect independent clauses. |
| CAASPP test preparation will be integrated to formally prepare students specifically emphasizing the areas of reading comprehension, sentence structure, writing strategies and vocabulary. Some book purchases will be necessary. Students can expect homework and weekly quizzes. Grades will be given. | |
| E06A | STRUCTURED WRITING (6th Gr) |
| January 26–June 5 (19 weeks)* | |
| *March 30–April 5 (Spring Recess) | |
| Wednesdays | 4:00–6:00pm | STARK |
| The MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH ACCELERATION PROGRAM (MSMAP) at the BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER is designed to prepare the 6th grade student for the appropriate advanced math class. |
| APPLIED MATH FOR THE 6TH GRADE (MSMAP) is designed for the 6th grade student for Common Core Math 7/8 placement in the 7th grade. This group class is aligned with the California's COMMON CORE State Standards: |
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Ratios and Proportional Relationships: Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems (by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations). |
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The Number System: Fluently add, subtract, and divide multi-digit numbers and decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation. Understand ordering and absolute value of rational numbers. Solve real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in all four quadrants of the coordinate plane. |
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Expressions and Equations: Evaluate expressions at specific values of their variables. Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities. Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables. |
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Geometry: Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume. |
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Statistics and Probability: Develop understanding of statistical variability. Display numerical data in plots on a number line, including dot plots, histograms, and box plots. |
| Students will be required to attend twice a week (one lesson to emphasize problem solving and word problems and the other to reinforce accuracy). Students are expected to complete additional exercise problem sets for homework. CAASPP test preparation will be integrated in the weekly lectures. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. |
| All sixth graders will be taking the Middle School Math Acceleration Test in the Spring. |
| M00A | Applied Math 6th Grade (MATH 7/8 MSMAP) |
| January 26–June 5 (19 weeks)* | |
| *March 30–April 5 (Spring Recess) |
| Thursdays | 4:00–6:00pm | CHAALAN |
| February 21–April 11 (5 weeks)* |
| Saturday, February 21 | 9:30–11:30am |
| Saturday, February 28 | 9:30–11:30am |
| Saturday, March 14 | 9:30–11:30am |
| Saturday, March 21 | 9:30–11:30am |
| Saturday, April 11 | 9:30–11:30am |
| The MIDDLE SCHOOL MATH ACCELERATION PROGRAM (MSMAP) at the BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER is designed to prepare the 6th grade student for the appropriate advanced math class. |
| MATH 7/8 (MSMAP) is designed for the select 6th grade student for Enhanced MATH 1 placement in the 7th grade. This group class is aligned with the California's COMMON CORE State Standards: |
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Expressions and Equations: Solve real-world and mathematical problems of two linear equations in two variables algebraically, and estimate solutions by graphing the equations. |
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Functions: Interpret the equation y=mx+b as defining a linear function. Construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities. |
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Geometry: Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions. Apply the formulas for the volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems. |
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Statistics and Probability: Construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. |
| Students will be required to attend twice a week (one lesson to emphasize problem solving and word problems and the other to reinforce accuracy). Students are expected to complete additional exercise problem sets for homework. CAASPP test preparation will be integrated in the weekly lectures. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. |
| All sixth graders must first pass the Middle School Math Acceleration Test to take the Enhanced Math 1 Acceleration Test in the Spring. |
| M01A | Math 7/8 (Enhanced Math 1 Placement-MSMAP) |
| January 26–June 5 (19 weeks)* | |
| *February 16 (Holiday) | |
| *March 30–April 5 (Spring Recess) | |
| *May 25 (Holiday) |
| Mondays | 4:00–6:00pm | CHAALAN |
| February 21–April 11 (5 weeks)* |
| Saturday, February 21 | 9:30–11:30am |
| Saturday, February 28 | 9:30–11:30am |
| Saturday, March 14 | 9:30–11:30am |
| Saturday, March 21 | 9:30–11:30am |
| Saturday, April 11 | 9:30–11:30am |