Curriculum

• Introduce proper sentence diagraming from simple subject and verb sentences through adverb clauses.
• Reinforce knowledge of all parts of speech and parts of the sentence.
• Focus on ways to improve and strengthen comprehension skills continue to enrich vocabulary with words from reading and supplementary sources.
• Emphasize basic writing skills, including composing strong topic and concluding sentences, writing quality sentences following specific formulas, composing short in-class assignments, and offering opportunities for creative writing.

• Introduce advanced grammar concepts and diagraming: participles, gerunds, infinitives, noun clauses, and adjective clauses.
• Improve note-taking skills, especially annotating, through the reading of classic novels and short stories.
• Continue to enrich vocabulary with words from reading and supplementary sources.
• Produce oral presentations related to the literature. 
• Emphasize paragraph organization, strong introductions and conclusions, proper use of quotations, and original expression.

• Improve sentence fluency from a foundation in diagraming.
• Practice annotation and note-taking from a variety of texts.
• Use new vocabulary from readings.
• Practice posing and probing questions in Socratic-styled discussion.
• Compose original essays that interrogate an aspect of the literature or test an author’s tactic.

This course is designed to promote the qualities of Kindness, Manners, Respect, and Responsibility (KMRR) through fun and meaningful stories and films and by sharing activities with other divisions.

Provides students in key middle grades a strong foundation of mathematical concepts and skills.

These topics are covered:

• Representing and interpreting data
  
• Geometry concepts
  
• Applications with fractions and decimals
  
• Operations with integers
  
• Patterns, measurement
  
• Number theory
  
• Ratio
• Proportion
  
• Percent
• Probability
  
• Problem solving

Provides a review of Math 6 topics and extends those topics to include a thorough Algebra readiness curriculum.

These topics are included:

• organizing, displaying, and analyzing data
  
• patterns in geometry
  
• integers and variable expressions
  
• algebraic equations and inequalities
  
• graphing in coordinate plane
  
• patterns
  
• rational numbers
  
• applications of proportion and percent
  
• probability
  
• measurement
  
• number theory
  
• problem solving

• the real number system and its properties
  
• solving and writing equations in one and two variables
  
• solving and graphing inequalities
  
• systems of linear equations, exponents and radicals
  
• radical equations
  
• quadratic equations
  
• polynomials and factoring
  
• exponential functions
  
• problem solving
  
• logical reasoning
  
• algebraic applications using technology

Computer science provides students with an array of experience within the world of computers.

• Basic computer operation
• Keyboarding skills
• Digital citizenship/Internet safety
• Google apps for education suite
• Creation of multimedia presentations
• Photo/video production
• Graphic art/animations
• Web page creation
• Computer programming/coding

No prerequisites required for this course.

• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• Adobe Suite

No prerequisites required for this course.

Covers scientific probing of nature, observations, recording of laboratory data and analysis, astronomy, oceanography, meteorology, geology, and related sciences.

Covers scientific probing of nature, introduction to biology, observations, recording of laboratory data and analysis, integration of biological and health sciences, and ecosystems.

Scientific method

• observation
  
• laboratory data
  
• analysis
  

Metric system

Chemistry

• periodic table
  
• atomic structure
  
• chemical reactions and processes
  

Physics

• light
  
• sound
  
• mechanics

Grades 7-8

Places emphasis on understanding and using skills for students to gain confidence in becoming active learners. Students observe, inquire, question, formulate, and test hypotheses; analyze data, report and evaluate findings.

• Stone Age and Early Culture
• River Valley Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus River Valley, China
• Premodern China: Tang-Ming Dynasties
• Ancient Hebrews
• Ancient Greece and Rome
• Islamic World
• Early African Civilizations
• Early American Civilizations
• Medieval Europe

• European Renaissance and Reformation: Exploration, Cultural Diffusion, New Ideas.
• The Enlightenment: Challenging Absolutism, Scientific Revolution, Spread of New Ideas.
• The French Revolution: Causes and Impact on Europe and the New World.
• Nationalism and Revolution: Changes in Political Thought, Development of Nation States.
• Industrial Revolution: Why England First? Consequences of Industrialization.
• Imperialism: How Nationalism, Industrialism, and Empire are connected.
• Transformations Around the Globe: China Resists the West, Japan Modernizes, Global Tensions, and WWI.
• Revolutions and Nationalism: Russian Revolution, Totalitarian Regimes, Nationalism in India and Southwest Asia, WWII.
• Decolonization: Policies Implemented After WWII Around the Globe.

• Meeting of Cultures: European contact and interaction with Native groups.
• Empire: Colonization of North America.
• Creating a Republic: Revolution, Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.
• Westward Expansion: Land Use, Indian Policy, War with Mexico, and the Civil War.
• Industrialization: Urban Development, Railroads, Mining, Labor, and the Birth of the Progressive Movement.
• Turn of the Century: Changes in Society, Two World Wars, the Great Depression, and the New Deal.
• Modern America: Social Unrest, Civil Rights, Vietnam, and Changes to the Political Landscape.

Emphasizes proficiency through storytelling and reading, covers present tense, sentence and question formation, and short compositions and stories, along with various cultural aspects.

Emphasizes proficiency through storytelling and reading, reviews present tense, covers negative commands, the future tense, sentence and question formation, short compositions and stories, along with various cultural aspects.

Emphasizes language usage in the present and past tenses. Continues verb and vocabulary enrichment. Exposes students to Spanish in a variety of listening activities, including viewing television programs and composing and performing oral presentations. Concludes the year with the reading and discussion of a short novel.

• English and Spanish vocabulary acquisition through the study of Latin word roots. 
• Exploration of ancient Roman culture as a means to understand modern US culture.
• Active engagement with Latin that has persisted into the 21st-century US in its language and institutions (especially scientific, legal, and medical terminology).

• Rehearsal Behavior 
• Characteristic Sound on the Horn
• Breathing Routine for Focus and Timing
• Fundamental Based Exercises
• Articulation 
• Changing Notes

• Sight Reading
• Performance Skills
• Musical Skills Development
• Form and Structure in Music Understanding
• Composing and Arranging
• Music Technology
• Stage Presence

• Sight Reading
• Performance Skills
• Musical Skills Development
• Form and Structure in Music Understanding
• Composing and Arranging
• Music Technology
• Stage Presence

• Improvisation
• Character Development
• The Ensemble
• Movement
• Voice and Acting Technique
• Monologue & Scene Study

• Voice & Body Work
• Staging
• Improvisation
• Musical Theatre
• Playwriting
• Ensemble Building

• Improvisation
• Ensemble Building
• Body Awareness
• Stage Business
• Monologue & Scene Study
• Musical Theatre

• The Actor’s Tools
• Improvisation
• Pantomime
• The 5 W’s
• Sensory & Body Awareness
• Scene Building

• Puppet Building & Performance
• Stage Makeup
• Costume Design
• Voiceover
• Prop Building
• Tech Theatre

• Music Pieces for Upcoming Concerts
• Rehearsal Behavior
• Characteristic Sound on the Horn
• Breathing Routine for Focus and Timing
• Fundamental Based Exercises
• Articulation

One-semester course, offered in fall and spring. TMS-TV or M-TV is an introduction to the world of broadcast journalism and to electronic news gathering (ENG), also known as "info-tainment." The course provides opportunities for students to develop skills and understanding in the concepts of the history of television, basic video camera operation, post production graphics, audio, and editing.

One-semester course, offered in fall and spring.

Introduces students to Fine Art at an intermediate level and is designed to expand their understanding of the elements and principles of art.

One-semester course, offered in fall and spring.

Most advanced art class offered in Middle School, although students are not required to have taken an art class before.

Students take PE Classes twice per week and must:

1. Participate on one School team.

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2. Participate in a sport or activity not offered by the School which is competitive and meets at least three hours per week throughout the school year.

Physical Education class focuses on the sports that are in-season as well as teaching students how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

All Middle School students need six Physical Education credits earned over three years to satisfy the Middle School PE requirement.

Students do not have a regularly scheduled PE Class and must participate in the following to meet the Middle School PE requirement:

1. Participate on two School teams.

– or –

2. Participate in a sport or activity not offered by the School which is competitive and meets at least three hours per week throughout the school year.

– or –

3. Take the Early Bird Fitness Class.

All Middle School students need six Physical Education credits earned over three years to satisfy the Middle School PE requirement.