6th Grade-Standards of Achievement and Learning
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Reading Language Arts
● Recognize various sentence patterns.
● Determine when to vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader, listener, or style.
● Interpret different types of figures of speech.
● Recognize textual evidence that supports inferences of text.
● Analyze how key individuals, events, and ideas are introduced, illustrated, and elaborated.
● Analyze how sentences, paragraphs, chapters, or sections contribute to idea development.
● Recall arguments and claims of a text.
● Distinguish between textual and facts and personal opinions or judgements.
● Recognize meaning and tone in a text.
● Recognize the difference of multiple text format: text, audio, visual, live performance.
● Orally present claims and findings sequencing ideas logically.
● Write an argument including organization of reasons and evidence with credible sources.
● Conduct a short research project to answer a question.
● Cite textual evidence to analyze explicit text.
Math
● Identify rations, calculate unit rate, and solve proportions.
● Comprehend and work with rational numbers including fractions, percentages, and negative
numbers.
● Compute arithmetic operations including dividing by a fraction and mixed numbers.
● Simplify expressions and solve equations.
● Calculate area, surface area, and volume.
● Analyze basic statistics.
Science
● Explain the orbital motion of objects in the solar system; motion and force.
● Summarize the accomplishments of a contributing scientist in Earth Science.
● Describe technologies used to predict, monitor, and minimize the effects of natural hazards.
● Create a model home that withstands an earthquake simulation.
● Understand the relationship between gravity and force.
Social Studies
● Interpret and explain the development of money in history.
● Locate and identify the physical features in the World.
● Compare ancient and present day communities around the world.
● Identify and describe significant people in the major eras in World History.
● Analyze significant events in the World such as revolutions and war.
● Identify past and present countries in the World.