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​Core Virtues®️-Core Knowledge®️Connections

Sixth Grade

September

Human Dignity & Solidarity
Langston Hughes. Mother to Son. (LA)
Maya Angelou. Woman Work. (LA)
A Tale of Two Cities. (LA)
Charles Dickens. (WC)Working conditions in early Industrial Revolution. 

​"All for one and one for all."

“A friend in need 
is a friend indeed.”​

October

Temperance & Diligence
Rudyard Kipling. If. (LA)
Apollo and Daphne. (LA)
Jean Millet. The Gleaners (FA)

​“Rome wasn’t built in a day.”


“Little strokes fell great oaks.”
​

“A stitch in time saves nine.”


November

Gratitude & Wonder
George Gordon Byron. Apostrophe to the Ocean. (LA)
William Wordsworth.  The Daffodils.  (LA)
Robert Frost. Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.  (LA)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A Psalm of Life. (LA)
Caspar David Friedrich. The Wanderer. The Chalk Cliffs of Rugen. (FA)
Monet. Impression Sunrise. Bridge Over a Pool of Water Lilies. (FA)
Vivaldi. Four Seasons. (M)
Debussy. Claire de Lune. (M)

​"Don't look a gift horse ​in the mouth"

December

Moving Beyond Self
Paul Laurence Dunbar. Sympathy. (LA)
Narcissus and Echo. (LA)
Orpheus and Eurydice. (LA)
​Pygmalion and Galatea. (LA)

January

Courage/Fortitude
Homer. The Iliad and the Odyssey. (LA)
​William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar.(LA)
Plato. Trial of Socrates. (WC)
Jacques Louis David. Death of Socrates. (FA)
Virgil. Aeneid. (WC)
Alexander the Great. (WC)
South American Liberators: Hidalgo, Bolivar, San Martin, O’Higgins, Marti. (WC)

February

Justice
Judaism. Concepts of law and justice. 10 Commandments. (WC)
Greek polis and patriotism. (WC)
Greeks on who is the good citizen? (WC)
Trial of Socrates. (WC)
French Revolution. Liberte, egalite, fraternite. (WC)
Samuel Gompers. (AC)
Labor conditions at turn of century. (AC)
Ida B. Wells. (AC)
Booker T. Washington. (AC)
Theodore Roosevelt. (AC)
Susan B. Anthony. (AC)
Eugene V. Debs. (AC)
Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. (FA)

March

Compassion & Forbearance
Christianity: Two Great Commandments. (WC)
Christianity: Sermon on Mount. (WC)
Jane Addams. Hull House. (AC)
​Jacob Riis. How the Other Half Lives. (AC)
​
​“Time heals all wounds.”

April

Seeking Knowledge
Emily Dickinson. There is No Frigate Like a Book. (LA)
Aristotle. (WC)
Isaac Newton and Laws of Nature. (WC & S)
Descartes. Cogito ergo sum. (WC)
Charles Darwin. (S)
Marie Curie. (S)
​Albert Einstein. (S)
“Eat crow.”
​

“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”

May

Hope
James Weldon Johnson. Lift Every Voice and Sing. (LA)
​Handel. Water Music. (M)

"Make hay while the sun shines." ​   “It’s never over till it’s over.”           

​“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

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