6th Grade Language Arts
In the Grade 6 ELA curriculum, students explore different themes of growing up while becoming more proficient and complex readers and writers. Students reflect and write about changes in fictional characters, in the world, and in themselves. They conduct research and read nonfiction in order to write about how animals have the power to change our lives for the better. Through analyzing informational and argumentative texts, students see how others write and create argumentative texts. They debate and write their own argumentative text. Students read nonfiction and fiction texts. The main novel is Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. <Link to Class Syllabus>.
6th Grade Social Studies
With students taking their first full year course dedicated to the study of our world, they cement skills needed for that exploration including using timelines and maps to determine time and place. Students explore numerous ancient civilizations including the early humans, the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. Additionally, students study the ancient cultures found in India, China, Africa and the Americas. Students use this content as they build their skills in reading primary and secondary sources, finding main ideas, making claims, and using text evidence to support their reasoning. <Link to Class Syllabus>.
7th/8th Grade Business
In this class you will be learning the basics of business, the capitalist system, and the important events that impact our economy. You will learn how to grow your personal wealth, manage money, and the ways business can give back to the community and the world. You will develop the personal skills that will hopefully inspire and educate you on how you can create your own successful business someday. You will learn about the importance small business has as the big engine of economic growth and employment in our nation.<Link to Class Syllabus>.