The Language Arts for St. Mary’s 6th graders uses novels to both teach the curriculum and to dig into the following themes:
Two of our novel studies correspond with Minnesota history, allowing for cross-curricular study.
During the course of the year, students will read these four texts:
In addition to the novel studies, students build writing skills with weekly structured paragraph writings, assigned argument essays, journal responses, and more. Grammar and vocabulary is structured into the curriculum.