Sixth Grade

Reaching the pinnacle of the Total Trinity Experience, Sixth Graders are members of the Leadership Class. This culminating year centers on building skills that allow these students to transition from Trinity as confident, self-directed, and passionate learners and leaders. Relishing the experiences associated with the Sixth-Grade year, students leave Trinity with a sense of pride and accomplishment.

Sharing their Trinity Experience with prospective parents, serving as mentors for their “little kids,” acting in a full-scale production, completing a multi-disciplinary Capstone Project, and participating in two outdoor education trips are among the memories of Sixth Grade that our graduates will cherish.

Sixth Grade Learning Essentials

Humanities

• Reads, understands, interprets, and responds to various types of text including informational, short stories, memoirs, and novels.

• Develops and crafts creative and personal narrative writing, research papers, five-paragraph literary essays, and poetry.

• Conducts research and presents a capstone project.

• Demonstrates command of the English language in spelling and punctuation.

• Understands the five themes of geography: location, place, regions, movement, and humanenvironment interaction.

• Demonstrates understanding of the connecting themes of social studies—culture; power, authority, and governance; people, places, and environment; time, continuity, and change; and individual development and identity—by interpreting them through the lens of literature.

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Math

• Begins to compose algebraic expressions through the analysis of patterns and relationships.

• Reasons and solves one-variable equations and inequalities.

• Understands ratio concepts and uses ratio reasoning to solve problems.

• Understands positive and negative numbers and uses them to represent quantities in realworld contexts.

• Develops understanding of statistical variability.

• Solves real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.

Science

• Identifies various systems of water, the topographical features, and ecosystems within.

• Understands that weather is influenced by sunlight and the ocean patterns.

• Identifies objects that can be seen in the night sky and that are in the universe.

• Explains solar and lunar eclipses, gravitational pull, and the impact of daylight and seasons.

• Explains geology, types of rocks, the rock cycle, plate tectonics, and how the Earth’s surface changes.

• Describes the changes that take place during puberty and the hormones and organs that are responsible.