Another great week in 6th grade.  Look forward to being together in our meeting on Monday night, August 31 at 7:30 p.m. link for meeting coming from Room parents.

Three things….

We have begun watching World Watch News – which is the broadcast version of World Watch magazine that we have used for 20 years at Perimeter School.  I am previewing each morning and we watch and discuss.  I will not show your children anything that I would not show my own children. There have been a few national issues presented (rioting) that I have skipped over as I think these should be discussed at home.   We discuss and even pray from a Biblical world view.  If you have any questions, please let me know.  I am glad to send the link and my password.  We are all on the same team with this.   If you are uncomfortable with your child watching at school, please let me know.

Also, the students are LOVING Spanish with our own Mrs. McNair….she will update soon.  She’s awesome!

Also, please see Mr. DeMaris’s History class syllabus attached at end of newsletter as well as this link to help study for Geography.

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/geography.htm

Kay

Monday (8/31) –

• Begin Where the Red Fern Grows novel study
• 7:30 p.m.– Sixth Grade Parent Meetings 
• Team Link for meeting coming from room parents…

Tuesday (9/1) –

• Shurley English Test 1
• History Narration

 Wednesday (9/2) – Chapel – Dressy Enrichment

• Science – Begin PNN Scientist research

 Thursday (9/3) –

• Math – Fractions Quiz
• Study Europe sheet #1

Friday (9/4) –

• Europe Quiz #1
• Math – Spiral Review due

 All quizzes, tests, assignments, and due dates are subject to change based on teacher’s discretion.

Upcoming:

August 31 – 7:30 – Parent Meeting (virtual)

September 10 & 11 – Half days and Conferences

September 14 – 7:30 – Campus Meeting

 

Perimeter School Sixth Grade History

Ken DeMaris kdemaris@perimeter.org    

Overall Purpose:

Since the history of man has a beginning and an end, students study history in a linear fashion, placing key men, women, and events on the timeline of history.  The history of the world and the nation are included in the sequence, with frequent integration of geography, science, and the literature of the period.  The fallenness of history is recognized not only in the consequences of man’s sin through the ages, but also in the current revisions of history used to promote personal agendas and to attempt to make God irrelevant in the past and present.  Ultimately, we teach history so that our children “would put their trust in God and would keep His commands,” (Psalm 78:7), recognizing His unfolding plan through the ages.

Curriculum:

We cover The Spanish/American War up to the present day (primarily the twentieth century) and learn the countries and capitals of Europe (1^st semester) and Asia (2^nd semester).

 

Example of People Studied:  Sargent York, Desmond Doss, Anne Frank, Louie Zamperini, Jim Elliot, Billy Graham, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ruby Bridges, Alan Shepherd, Neil Armstrong, President McKinley thru President Trump (including Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Ronald Reagan, etc.).

 

Students should be ready to learn and discuss serious subject matter including:

The KKK, The Holocaust, Presidential Assassinations, Wars, Civil Rights, and Abortion.

 

Students need to take neat notes for narrations and as a study guide for tests and quizzes.

 

Textbooks:  America Land I Love – ABEKA – Primary Text; 1898-present;

Age of Extremes; War, Peace, and All That Jazz; and All the People all three by Joy Hakim

Possible Read Aloud Books:  Bully for You, Children of the Dust Bowl, Number the Stars,

A Thousand Paper Cranes, Animal Farm

 

Primary source photographs, videos, & We Interrupt this Broadcast radio newscasts

 

Assignments:  1920s Oral Report; Veterans Day Poster; WWII Booklet, Other Misc.

 

Enrichment Days:  FDR’s Little White House, Warm Springs; Right to Life Day;

Jimmy Carter Library & MLK, Jr. Historical Site, Atlanta

 

Class Code:

Be Prepared, Be Organized, Be Respectful, Be Your Best, Honor the Lord!

Grading:

Below is the grading scale according to the Perimeter School Handbook:

 

Numeric Grade	Letter Grade
90-100	A
80-89	B
75-79	C
70-74	D
0-69	F

 

Grades will be calculated as follows:

• Classwork and Homework: 30%
• Quizzes: 20%
• Tests and Projects: 50%
• Late assignments will incur a 10% penalty per school day.
• It is not the teacher’s responsibility to ask students for late assignments.

 

*Please refer to the Student Handbook for further details.