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Academic Standards for The Classical Academy

Third Grade

History: Age of Exploration (1000 A.D. – 1850 A.D.)
Students learn about the expansion and growth of Western civilization during the Age of
Exploration. Students will learn about the indigenous people, explorers, colonization, and the American Revolution. Sources used may include: Story of the World, Volume 3, Age of
Exploration by Susan Wise Bauer, Everything You Need to Know About American History by
Anne Zeman and Kate Kelly; The Age of Exploration Core Knowledge series by E.D. Hirsch.

European Explorers to North America (1000 – 1500 AD)

• Study and map the journey of Leif Erickson, Diaz, Magellan, Columbus, and Samuel

De Champlain

• The establishment of the North American colonies

Pilgrims and Puritans (1600-1775 AD)

• The events leading up to America’s independence from Great Britain. o The Acts (Sugar, Stamp, Quartering, Intolerable) o The Boston Tea Party o The Battle of Bunker Hill o The Boston Massacre o The French and Indian War
• Memorize the Mayflower Compact, and understand its importance as a foundational document that establishes our democratic government.
• Memorize a part of the Declaration of Independence.

Early America (1775-1850 AD)

• The Constitution and The Bill of Rights
• The three branches of government
• George Washington
• The Louisiana Purchase
• Lewis and Clark and Westward expansion
• The War of 1812
• The Monroe Doctrine
• Cherokee Trail of Tears/Indian Removal Act

Geography
Students will:

• Draw freehand, from memory, a map of the 7 continents
• Correctly place and draw lines of latitude and longitude on a world map
• Draw freehand, from memory a map of North America o Label all major mountain ranges and rivers
• Draw and label a map of the original 13 colonies

Academic Standards for The Classical Academy

Science: Physics
Everything You Need to Know About Science by Anne Zeman and Kate Kelly
Core Knowledge, What Your Third Grader Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsh
Physics for the Grammar Stage by Paige Hudson

Using the Scientific Method, students will explore:

• The Different States of Matter and their properties
• Chemical and Physical Changes
• Solutions and Suspensions
• The Changing States of Water

Students will learn to:

• Identify and describe different types of energy, including potential, kinetic, chemical, mechanical, nuclear, light, sound, and thermal.
• Memorize and describe Newton’s Three Laws of Motion.
• Identify and describe forces, including gravity.
• Understand and diagram simple machines, including levers and pulleys.
• Memorize and describe the Laws of Thermodynamics.
• Describe and diagram projectile motion.
• Describe and diagram a wave.
• Describe sound and light wave phenomena.
• Compare and contrast reflection and refraction.
• Describe color in terms of the white light, primary colors of light, and complementary colors of light.
• Describe the basic principles of electric current and magnetism.

Mathematics – (Saxon 5/4)
Mathematics is taught using Saxon textbooks and workbooks. Manipulatives and games are used to reinforce math concepts, basic facts, and operations.

Students will learn:

• Numbers to 10,000
• Number patterns
• Addition and subtraction
• Add ones, tens, hundreds and thousands
• Two-step word problems
• Multiplying to 12x12
• Multiplying ones, tens and hundreds
• Dividing by 9
• Dividing hundreds, tens and ones
• Quotient and remainder
• Adding and subtracting money
• Conversion of length and weight measurements

Academic Standards for The Classical Academy

• Graphs and bar graphs
• Fractions: Fractions of a whole and equivalent fractions
• Time: Hours and minutes
• Geometry: Angles and right angles
• Area and perimeter
• Squares and square roots

Riggs (Spelling)
The Riggs Institute; The Writing & Spelling Road to Reading and Thinking by Myrna T.
McCulloch. Sound and letter relationships are taught using explicit phonics in isolation (no key words, pictures or letter names are used). Instruction is multi-sensory and incorporates grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure, and handwriting.

Students will:

• Master all 71 phonograms
• Learn 5 new spelling words each day using multi-sensory method
• Recognize and apply 47 spelling rules
• Memorize phonograms by sound alone
• Use their knowledge of Riggs to advance reading skills
• Understand parts of speech of spelling words
• Define spelling words to expand vocabulary
• Increase listening skills as they hear sounds through instruction
• Master penmanship and how to write with excellence
• Write lowercase cursive

Language Arts
Grammar
Well Ordered Language by Tammy Peters and Daniel B. Coupland, PhD
Editor in Chief by Cherie A. Plant and Stephanie W. Stevens

Students will identify the following aspects of grammar and be able to apply them, allowing them to accurately express their own thoughts in a clear and concise manner:

• Four types on sentences
• Subject and predicate
• Predicate verbs
• Direct objects
• Adverbs
• Adjectives
• Direct Objects
• Subject pronouns
• Verbs
• Word Order

Academic Standards for The Classical Academy

• Contractions
• Object Pronouns
• Prepositional Phrases, Adverbial
• Compound Subjects
• Compound Verbs
• Compound Direct Objects
• Punctuation
• Abbreviations
• Common and proper nouns
• Revising fragments

Writing
Students will:

• Study the process and stages of writing with excellence
• Recognize and use proofreading marks
• Identify and apply correct punctuation
• Learn how to write beautiful sentences beginning with various parts of speech
• Understand the difference between direct and indirect quotations and utilize accordingly
• Incorporate spelling words in writing prompts
• Use source texts to enhance writing skills
• Learn how to write for specific purposes and audiences, including narrative, descriptive, sequential, and book reports

Poetry
Students will memorize, write, recite, and discuss the virtue of beautiful works of poetry, including but not limited to:

• The Flag Goes By, Henry Holcomb Bennett
• American’s Creed, William Tyler Page
• Columbus, Joaquin Miller
• Count That Day Lost, George Eliot
• True Nobility, Edgar Albert Guest
• Excerpt from Patrick Henry’s speech, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

Academic Standards for The Classical Academy

Literature
Student will listen to and orally read a wide range of great works of literature with an emphasis on the eighteen to nineteen hundreds.

Students will:

• Analyze character development within a novel
• Determine and explore qualities of the protagonist and antagonist
• Determine the setting and the impact it has on the selection
• Examine the author’s life and the influence it has in the text
• Identify mood and tone within the selection
• Explore varying sentence structure within the novel/selection
• Use a dictionary to find meanings of unknown words
• Learn new vocabulary words throughout the text

Literature selections: o Charlotte’s Web by E.B White, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis o Calico Bush by Rachel Field, The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Read-Aloud selections: o A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
o The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz, The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty
o Our Country’s Founders by William J. Bennett, Around the World in 100 Years by Jean Fritz o Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen

Reading
McCall Crabbs Standard Test Lessons in Reading, by William McCall
Daily Reading Practice, by Judith Holbrook

Students will:

• Identify author’s purpose of writing
• Classify the genre of literature
• Discern between opinion and fact
• Identify the point of view: first-person, third-person, third-person limited, omniscient
• Identify the main idea of a selection
• Summarize a selection of work
• Create graphic organizers, including storyboard, chart, timeline, character web, cause/effect
• Identify the correct sequence of a story

Academic Standards for The Classical Academy

• Read accurately and with expression
• Know how to write an excellent title
• Leave third grade reading at or above a fourth-grade level as determined by McCall Crabbs testing

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

School type:

• Private school

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Sarasota, FL 34240: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location

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