The McGuffey Reader provides a challenging literacy experience for the sixth-graders. The readers include selections from Shakespeare, Bryant, Dickens, Irving, Poe and Jefferson. Students learn to identify and inculcate such literary devices as alliteration, allusion, metaphor, simile, and personification into their own compositions. Oral reading is also stressed, and a strong emphasis is placed on expression and smoothness. The accelerated curriculum in English grammar includes capitalization, punctuation, types of sentences, parts of speech and parts of sentences, such as predicate nominative, appositives, and direct objects.
Students learn to diagram all the parts of speech.
Sixth-graders also work on a term paper on the nation of Israel. This includes writing bibliography cards, footnotes, and assembling materials. Because the Designer of the universe used mathematical laws, Faith Baptist is able to present those laws and use them as a tool to lift students' eyes upward and lead students to a personal knowledge of their Creator. Mathematics promotes a further understanding of the universe. In sixth grade, students learn to use and apply algebra in their first semester, and in their second semester, students learn the fundamentals of geometry.