Grade 6

Reading

Sunrise Edition

Sixth graders need examples of courageous men and women to follow. The reader Calls to Courage provides such examples: George Washington Carver, who coaxed poor Alabama soil into production; young Jakob, who discovered the meaning of the word responsibility; Judith, who found that maturity doesn’t come in the mail; Jack, the slave who found the most important thing in the world and suffered so others could have it too.

Along with character-building themes of contentment, courage, and commitment, the accompanying LightUnits help students understand and think deeply about what they read. They expand their reading comprehension and evaluation skills and apply important lessons to their own lives. Two or three lessons a week cover a year’s work.

An optional Teacher’s Guide provides brief teacher’s notes, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests.

Bible

Each LightUnit in this course takes about seventeen days to cover, providing work for a 170-day school year. This course gives a historical overview of the whole Bible in one year’s study. The themes for Bible 600, one per LightUnit, are as follows:

601 From Creation to Moses
602 From Joshua to Samuel
603 The Kingdom of Israel
604 The Divided Kingdom
605 The Captivity and Restoration
606 The Life of Jesus
607 The Followers of Jesus
608 The Apostle Paul
609 Hebrews and General Epistles
610 Revelation and Review

Each LightUnit contains one self check per section and one final test.

Language Arts

Sunrise Edition

Language Arts 600 integrates grammar, spelling, and penmanship into one easy-to-use package. Grammar and punctuation skills are introduced incrementally at the beginning of each daily lesson, followed by exercises reviewing the latest material as well as more familiar, almost-mastered skills. Each day’s lesson concludes with penmanship and spelling practice.

In addition to the basic English skills, students study pronoun case and person as well as conjunctions and interjections. They learn to recognize and diagram appositives, complements, and direct and indirect objects in sentences. This study contains indepth paragraph writing based on the book On Teaching Writing.

The optional Teacher's Guide provides teacher's notes, spelling word lists, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests.

Math

Sunrise Edition

Math LightUnit 601 reviews concepts that should be adequately mastered in order to succeed in Level 600. It can be used as a diagnostic tool.

The remaining LightUnits introduce new skills and concepts in incremental, continuously reviewed steps. We teach the metric system simultaneously with the U.S. system of measurement.

We assume total mastery of the number facts in all four operations previous to Math 600. After Math 601, speed drills stop. This course covers three-digit divisors, decimal division, area and volume, using a compass and protractor, exponents, simplifying expressions, solving equations in two steps, estimation, and graphs and statistics.

LightUnit themes in story problems and random nuggets of information are based on famous mathematicians in history.

An optional Teacher's Guide provides brief teacher's notes, useful appendices, and alternate tests.

Science

Each LightUnit in this course takes about seventeen days to complete, providing work for a 170-day school year. Science 600 covers the tools and methods of science, astronomy, the solar system, atmospheric conditions, climate, and human anatomy. The specific themes, one per LightUnit, are as follows:

601 What is Science?
602 Making Comparisons
603 The Heavens Declare: Part 1
604 The Heavens Declare: Part 2
605 Earth’s Atmosphere
606 Weather
607 Climate
608 Human Anatomy Part 1
609 Human Anatomy Part 2
610 Review

Each LightUnit contains one self check per section and one final test.

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Social Studies

Sunrise Edition

Social Studies 600 is based on Neighbors in Latin America, a beautifully illustrated full-color textbook. Units 1-4 cover the early history, geography, and climate of Latin America as a whole. Units 5-10 divide Latin America into regions and give specific information about the major countries in each region.

A limited number of activities appear in the textbook, designed to review only the highlights. For student work activities, choose either the workbook study or the LightUnit study for better coverage of the material. Either option is a full-year course.

The new printing of the LightUnits and worksheets will be available April 2010! The new printing replaces the preliminary editions.

The ten LightUnits match the ten units of the textbook. Two quizzes and a LightUnit test are included in each LightUnit.

The two-workbook option provides one worksheet per lesson and will require more teacher input. This option also includes a pack of quizzes, reviews, and tests for each student.