​Knowledge 

• ​Understand the significance of the Christian contribution to art​​
  
• Begin to appreciate an art history perspective in addition to a cultural history perspective
  
• Study and give explanations of art of relevant time periods, especially Medieval and Renaissance
  
• Begin to give more complex explanation and interpretation of works of art
  
• Continuation of rendering
  
• Develop an understanding of and be able to apply the following principles in artistic work (drawing, painting and other media): line, shape, texture, color, value and form
  
• Recognize and employ basic elements of space and perspective
  

​Knowledge 

• ​Understand key figures and events of Medieval, Modern and American History
  
• Appreciate how the lives of the saints shaped the respective historical periods
  
• Know how people in the Middle Ages understood God and man
  
• Recognize how Medieval culture exhibits and understanding of truth, goodness and beauty
  
• Know that Christianity has shaped the world and that the expansion of Christianity has brought increasing liberty, reason and culture
  
• Distinguish how the Modern period differs from the past in its understanding of God and man, and truth, goodness and beauty
  
• Understand how America understand God and man
  
• Recognize how American culture exhibits an understanding of truth, goodness and beauty
  
• Understand history of American in the context of Catholic and world history
  
• Appreciate the novelty of America in relation to its European origins
  
• Understand what it means to be a good citizen
  
• Understand the difference between Medieval and Modern political forms
  
• Understand key technological developments of the historical periods students' are studying
  
• Recognize basic geography (major world land masses and bodies of water, European and U.S. states and capitals)
  
• Memorize songs and chants for relevant kings and queens, states and capitals, original 13 colonies, etc.​
  
• Recognize major periods of history using timelines
  
• Understand how the differences between these periods and cultures are reflected in art
  

​Knowledge 

• Acquire familiarity with classic folklore and literature of the historical periods they study
  
• Begin to analyze and diagram sentences
  
• Write complete sentences and paragraphs
  
• Acquire facility in spelling and vocabulary
  
• Have a repertoire of light verse, Psalms, ballads and historical mnemonic devices committed to memory
  
• Memorize the fundamentals of Latin: primary declensions, conjugations and vocabulary
  
• Memorize Latin prayers, hymns and phrases
  

​Knowledge 

• Deploy nu​mercy/counting: whole numbers into the millions, decimal place value
  
• Recognize geometric shapes and calculation of perimeter and area
  
• Have facility in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and whole number operations
  
• Add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals up to the thousandths place
  
• Use fractions (reducing, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing)
  
• Measure accurately using both customary and metric systems
  
• Estimate measurement when measurement tools are not available by comparison of surrounding or similar objects
  
• Solve word problems
  
• Count money and basic decimals
  
• Acquire basic algebra skills (looking for unknowns)
  
• Begin to understand proportions
  
• Comprehend basic averages and ranks (median and mode; mean by grade 5)
  
• Introduce classical geometric and architectural design (choose a building from historical time period being studied and analyze its geometric and proportional properties)
  
• Analyze rounds and simple canons to identify simple progressions
  
• Recognize and construct fundamental shapes in plane geometry: points, lines, rays, angles, parallels, perpendiculars, quadrilaterals and regular and irregular polygons
  
• Analyze composition and use of light in art in relation to geometry
  
• Analyze perspective in art in relation to angle measurement
  
• Construct Platonic and Archimedean solids
  
• Solve more complex codes such as a single replacement and translation code
  
• Apply numeric methods in describing natural phenomenon—for example, estimate the number of leaves on a tree by modeling the splits in a branch
  

Knowledge 

• ​Understand the concepts of melody, harmony and rhythm
  
• Be able to recognize beautiful music and be able to explain why it is beautiful
  
• Recognize instruments by sight and sound
  
• Be able to sing and, if possible, play an instrument
  
• Be able to read music
  
• Memorize lyrics and know how to sing liturgical music
  
• Sing carols, ballads and authentic folk music from periods of history which students are studying
  
• Sing the Hail Mary and Our Father in plain chant
  
• Recognize forms of music from the periods of history which students have studied
  

​Knowledge 

• Recognize the study of nature as part of the human endeavor to understand the world
  
• Understand science as one aspect of the study of nature, which must be integrated into a more comprehensive vision of reality as God's creation, and thus behold nature in a different way
  
• Recognize persons and animals not as historical accidents or the sum of their mechanical parts, but as living wholes that transcend their parts and are irreducible to them
  
• Understand that as living wholes, organisms possess an inexhaustible depth and are worthy of our awe, wonder and affection
  
• Understand that nature is, therefore, hierarchically arranged according to capacity for selftranscendence:
  
• All organisms, including plants, exhibit some form of metabolism that relates to the world through appetite
• Animals exhibit metabolism as well, but also a capacity for self-movement and an awareness through the senses
• Human beings, in addition to these, move and transcend themselves through reason and will, are able to contemplate God and the world and can offer themselves in love
• Render detailed observations of different organisms
• Distinguish between genera in the plant and animal kingdoms
• Specify essential differences between species​
• Identify unique characteristics in different forms of animal life
• Explain what these characteristics mean in the life of the animal
• Identify essential differences distinguishing human beings from other animals
• Botany
• Anatomy
• Physiology
• Ecosystems
• Natural processes that support life (e.g. weather, soil formation, water cycles)
• Earth's place in the solar system: the finely-tuned astronomical factors necessary to support life

​Knowledge 

• ​Understand students' bodies and physical abilities as gifts​
  
• Learn the rules of major sports and races
  
• Recognize importance of discipline for achieving bodily excellence
  
• Understand dynamics of competition
  

​Knowledge 

• ​​Begin to recognize how the Christian culture of the Middle Ages is reflected in art, music, architecture, literature, the liturgical calendar, the structure of cities, organization of labor and the code of chivalry, and how this is transformed in the Modern period.
  
• Begin to understand the importance of the Trinity and Incarnation
  
• Know students belong to God's chosen people, and are part of his family, the Church
  
• Know students are made for heaven, and that creatures and the created world exist to help them get there
  
• Memorize books of the Bible, important verses, Apostles, Beatitudes, basic prayers of the Mass in English and Latin, sacraments and major events of salvation history
  
• Know the parts of the Mass
  
• Know the major moments of salvation history from creation to Pentecost
  
• Understand basic teachings on Confession and Eucharist
  
• Understand sin, grace and the sacraments
  
• Know the Creed and understand each of its tenets
  
• Know lives of the major saints of the periods of history students are studying
  
• Know how to pray the Rosary