Sixth Grade Curriculum

Math: Saxon Math (according to placement test)

Grammar: Shurley English 6

Composition: IEW

Natural Philosophy: Noeo Science

Theology: Veritas Bible (see below), Heidelberg Catechism

History & Geography: Veritas History (see below) plus supplemental material, Map Drawing (Bortins)

Latin: Memoria Press Latin

Music Enrichment: Classical Composers, Concepts, & Songs

Literature: Covenant Classical Sixth Grade Book List:

  • Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

  • Air Raid, Pearl Harbor by Theodore Taylor

  • Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • Watership Down by Richard Adams

  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Hiding Place by Corrie TenBoom

  • Hamlet by Shakespeare

  • Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

  • Call of the Wild by Jack London

Music and jingles are integrated throughout the curriculum, and we hope to add PE, music, and art as formal specials when resources are available.

The curriculum plans will be subject to ongoing Board and faculty review and fine-tuning.

Bible & History will rotate for the school from 1 to 5 depending on the year; depth of study will correspond to grade level (2nd - 6th).

Bible cycles:

  1. Genesis to Joshua

  2. Judges to Kings

  3. Chronicles to Malachi and Job

  4. Gospels

  5. Acts to Revelation

History cycles:

  1. Old Testament & Ancient Egypt

  2. New Testament, Greece & Rome

  3. Middles Ages, Renaissance & Reformation

  4. Explorers to 1815

  5. 1815 to Present

“The scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and microphone of his own age.”

- C.S. Lewis