Middle School History
6th Grade History: Year-at-a-Glance
September- World Deserts, Pearson Learning History & Geography, and Core Knowledge Support Units:
- Students will describe the various ways that plants, animals, and humans adapt to and change the desert.
- Students will describe the conditions of the major World Deserts.
- Students will understand the ways deserts have affected travelers and other visitors.
Week 1: What is a Desert?
Week 2: Deserts of Africa
Week 3: Australia, a Dry Continent and Deserts of North America
Week 4: Deserts of North America & Patagonia and Its Desert
October- Judaism and Christianity, Pearson Learning History & Geography, and Core Knowledge Support Units:
- Students will explain about Abraham’s convenant with God and his role as patriarch for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
- Students will explain about the Ten Commandments and how God revealed them to Moses.
- Students will explain about the centrality of Jesus Christ to Christianity.
Week 1: “The Convenant” & “The Ten Commandments”
Week 2: “The Prophets” & “The Life of Jesus”
Week 3: “The Rise of Christianity” & “Ideas about God and Humanity”
Week 4: Unit Wrap-Up; Begin Ancient Greece and Rome (next unit)
November-Ancient Greece and Rome, Pearson Learning History & Geography, and Core Knowledge Support Units:
- Students will identify tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, and democracy as early forms of Greek government.
- Students will explain the Spartan system of government.
- Students will identify contributions made to Greek culture.
Week 1: “The Ancient Greek City-States” & “Athens”
Week 2: “Sparta” & “The Olympic Games”
Week 3: “The Persian Wars” & “The Golden Age of Athens”
Week 4: “The Peloponnesian War” & “Greek Philosophy and Socrates”
December- cont. Ancient Greece and Rome, Pearson Learning History & Geography, and Core Knowledge Support Units:
- Students will recognize mythology and the early Greek philosophy as ways of explaining natural phenomena.
- Students will explain about the accomplishments and victories of Alexander the Great.
- Students will recognize Roman methods of conquering and building an empire.
- Students will explain about Julius Caesar’s rise to power and his conquests.
Week 1: “Plato and Aristotle” & “Alexander and the Hellenistic Period”
Week 2: “The Roman Republic” & “The Punic Wars”
Week 3: “A Great Roman: Julius Caesar” & “The Age of Augustus”
Week 4: “Rome and Christianity” & “The Fall of the Roman Empire”
January- The French Revolution and Romanticism, Pearson Learning History & Geography, and Core Knowledge Support Units:
- Students will understand the main ideas of the French Enlightenment
- Students will understand the reasons for the growing social unrest in French society.
- Students will identify Marie Antoinette and her effect on the French people.
- Students will describe the provisions of the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
Week 1: The Enlightenmen t (The Age of Reason), Roots of the Revolution & The Three Estates
Week 2: The Absolute Monarchs & Queen Marie Antoinette
Week 3: The Third Estate Revolts & A Time of Violence
Week 4: Toward a New Government & From Monarchy to Republic
February- Industrialism, Capitalism, and Socialism
March- Independence for Latin America
April- Immigration
May- Industrialization and Urbanization in America
