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Course Title:
Religion
Faculty Name: Toni Viscusi
Textbook: God’s Promises
Publisher: Sadlier
Copyright: 2008
Website: http://www.sadlier.com
Textbook: New American Bible
Publisher: St. Jerome Press
Website: http://www.stjeromepress.com
Significant Curriculum Guidelines
- Know basic doctrine and values of the Catholic faith
- Begin to have tools to articulate faith experiences in their own tradition
- Opportunities to participate in and plan the liturgy
- Learn prayers and experience different avenues used to pray
- Discuss and experience the Christian year through liturgical calendar
- Delve into essence of Old Testament scriptures
- Catholic Vision of Love (CVOL) is implemented
- Study Old Testament stories of faith
- Study lives of saints and relevance in our lives today
- Learn stations of the cross
Teaching Strategies
- Lectures
- Discussion of text
- Use film to enhance study of Old Testament
- Study current events through the Pittsburgh Catholic
- Cooperative learning
- Small groups
- Storytelling
- Art work to enhance biblical experience
Evaluations
- Written tests and quizzes
- Art projects
- Homework
- Class Participation
Other descriptions
Students will participate in:
- Mass
- Sacrament of reconciliation
- Prayer services
- Eucharistic Adoration
- Production of Lenten tableau
Course Title:
Literature
Faculty Name: Toni Viscusi
Textbook: Elements of Literature
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Copyright: 2007
Website: http://www.hrw.com/
Significant Curriculum Guidelines
Students will:
- Apply and use new vocabulary
- Interpret and evaluate information
- Identify elements in various types of literature
- Read orally with fluency and expression
- Read independently
- Word recognition
- Reading comprehension/literature
- Analyze plot structure and the way setting influences plot; conflict and setting using context clues; and climax through cause and effect
- Provide informational text to teach inference making
- Identify figurative language and literature
- Experience literature text through writing
- Develop vocabulary skills
- Understand words with multiple meanings
- Analyze different forms of comparison and contrast
- Learn to connect and clarify main ideas
- Identify story resolutions
eaching Strategies
Students will:
- Activate prior knowledge
- Clarify information through context clues
- Evaluate information and drawing conclusions
- Skim and scan
- Predict and Visualize
- Summarize
- Read aloud and individually
- Interpret and retell stories
- Participate in guided reading
- Discuss in large and small groups
- Develop vocabulary
Evaluations
· Written tests and quizzes
· Homework
· Class Participation
Other descriptions
- Terra Nova testing strategies
- Complete one book report a month using varied styles of expression
- Complete one research paper on a predetermined topic
- Understand characters through role-play
- Write a mystery story or fairy tale
- Written and oral reports
- Complete online work
- Practice book pages
Course Title:
Science
Faculty Name: Charlotte Leibach
Textbook: Life Science
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston
Copywrite: 2007
Website: go.hrw.com www.scilinks.org
Significant Curriculum Guidelines
Students will:
• Explore single-celled organisms to multi-cellular organisms
• Identify the parts of the cell
• Dissect an organism and identify the organs
• Examine information related the human body systems
• Research the body defenses and disease
• Carry out the steps of scientific method during laboratory experiments and assigned projects
Teaching Strategies Used
Students will:
• Participate in large group instruction, cooperative learning groups, independent challenge projects and evaluation assignments
Special Features
Students will:
• Complete a scientific method project
• Record data
• Complete charts and graphs
• Give an oral presentation
Evaluations
Classroom participation, homework assignments, quizzes, tests, and completion of assigned projects
Other descriptions
Review of physical and earth science
• Laboratory investigations related to matter and energy
• Greenhouse effect researched
• Identify environmental problems and propose solutions
Course Title:
Social Studies
Faculty Name: Mrs. Patricia Brandt
Textbook: World Explorer: People, Places and Culture Level 6
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Copyright: 2003
Website: www.PHSchool.com
Significant Curriculum Guidelines
Students will:
- understand basic concepts and facts
- apply basic concepts and facts
- demonstrate knowledge of geography
- demonstrate knowledge of map skills
- demonstrate effective note taking
- demonstrate research skills
- locate information about current events
- assess information about current events
Teaching Strategies Used
- active class participation
- comparing similarities and differences
- connect prior knowledge/learning
- cooperative learning
- differentiating instruction
- homework and note taking
- student projects
- student worksheets
- use of technology: computers, overheads, and videos
- vocabulary development
Special Features
Students will use materials provided by the Carnegie Museum of National History in the study of people, culture, and natural resources of the world.
Evaluations:
· Oral and written tests; quizzes
· Class participation; homework
· Oral presentations & projects
Course Title:
English
Grade: Six
Faculty Name Mrs. Patricia Brandt/Mrs. Antoinette Viscusi
Text Elements of Writing
Publisher Holt Rinehart & Winston
Copyright 1998
Significant Curriculum Guidelines
Students will:
- Identify parts of speech
- Identify sentence types
- Understand and implement subjects and predicates
- Classify verbs
- Define and compare adjectives and adverbs
- Prepositional phrase use as adjectives and adverbs
- Direct and indirect objects
- Predicate nouns and predicate adjectives
- Analyze subject and verb agreement
- Review punctuation and capitalization rules
- Write narrative, descriptive, persuasive, and expository paragraphs
- Analyze poetry and write original poems
Teaching Strategies Used
- Define terms, give example, and record in notebook
- Model correct usage
- Do guided practice
- Assign independent work
- Work at board
- Diagram sentences
- Analyze grammatical information
Special Features:
- Teach students to write varied sentence structure by employing “no two sentences start with the same word” rule
- Terra Nova testing strategies
Evaluation:
- Grammar tests and quizzes
- In-class paragraph writing
- Oral presentation
- Homework
- Class Participation
Course Title:
Spelling
Faculty Name Mrs. Kalish
Textbook Spelling
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Copyright 1990
Website www.harcourtschool.com
Significant Curriculum Guidelines
Students will:
- Know assigned spelling words
- Apply spelling skills in written work
- Study spelling patterns and use spelling rules
- Study word origin
- Identify word pronunciations
- Define or understand the definitions of spelling words
- Use spelling words successfully in sentences
- Use the dictionary
- Use rules for adding suffixes
- Use context clues to understand meaning
- Review alphabetical order
Teaching Strategies Used
Students will listen and repeat words orally. They will practice writing words to connect the physical motion of writing with the correct spelling of their assigned words. They will look for patterns in spelling words and use spelling rules to spell correctly. Students will continue to practice using outside help (glossary, dictionary, thesaurus etc.). Practice work will be assigned and done in a spelling notebook or on loose leaf paper.
Special Features
Students will be given the opportunity write stories with the spelling words, develop listening and speaking skills, and participate in spelling bees and board work. Spelling is integrated into all areas of the curriculum and will be assessed in all work.
Evaluations
Students will be graded on daily work, participation, written assignments, and unit tests.
Course Title:
Math
Faculty Name: Mrs. Brungo/Mrs. Kalish/Mrs. Leibach
Course Title: Accelerated Mathematics 6/Mathematics 6
Textbook: Prentice-Hall Mathematics Course 1
Publisher: Pearson Prentice-Hall
Copyright: 2004
Workbook: Prentice-Hall Mathematics Course 1 Practice Workbook
Publisher: Pearson Prentice-Hall
Copyright: 2004
Website: www.PHSchool.com
Significant Curriculum Guidelines
Students will:
- Understand meanings of operations and how they relate to one another and the order of operations
- Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates
- Master decimal and fraction operations
- Represent, compare, compute, and solve problems with integers, ratios, proportions, and percents
- Represent numbers in scientific notation and use exponents
- Understand and apply basic concepts of probability
- Master measures of center, simple line graphs, bar graphs, circle graphs, and stem-and-leaf plots
- Use variables to represent a specific unknown for simple algebraic expressions
- Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes
- Choose appropriate units, convert units, and estimate measures within the customary and metric systems
- Develop and use formulas for measurement of triangles, rectangles, squares, parallelograms, and circles
- Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems
- Use inductive reasoning to make and investigate conjectures
- Solve real-world problems by creating a mathematical model to represent the essential mathematics involved
Teaching Strategies used
- Large group instruction
- Practice by example
- Board work
- Small group instruction
- Individual class work
- Daily homework
- Reviews
- Computation skills for speed and accuracy
- Standardized test preparation
- Skills practice utilizing the internet
- Problem solving discussions
- Question and answer sessions
- Quizzes
- Tests
Special Features
- Assess mastery and diagnose weaknesses before, during, and after each concept
- Challenge abilities with both speed of instruction and problem solving of varing difficulty
- Tutoring available on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM
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- Initiate instruction in Pre-Algebra concepts
- Accelerated class will move through the concepts at a faster pace
Evaluations
- Periodic grading of homework
- Class work
- Internet assignments
- Quizzes
- Tests
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