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Welcome to Middle School

Daily

Schedule

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8:45-9:10 Advisory
9:10-10:25 6th ELA
10:25-10:35 Recess Break
10:35-11:50 6th Math
11:50-12:35 Micro Electives
12:35-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-1:50 6th Science
1:50-2:35 Specials
2:35-3:25 6th Social Studies
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8:45-9:10 Advisory
9:10-10:25 7th Math
10:25-10:35 Recess Break
10:35-11:50 7th ELA
11:50-12:35 Micro Electives
12:35-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-1:50 7th Social Studies
1:50-2:35 Specials
2:35-3:25 7th Science

Course

Curriculum

Reading / ELA

6th & 7th Grades

  • Reading comprehension and literary skills: Novel Study
  • Use context clues to make predictions and define unknown vocabulary terms
  • Identify theme, point of view, main idea and support with text evidence
  • Make inferences and support with text evidence
  • Analyzing character traits and support with text evidence
  • Identify plot structure and development
  • Identify conflict/resolution

Writing

6th & 7th Grades

  • Summarizing
  • Personal narrative
  • Argumentative writing

Mathematics

6th Grade

Operations and Properties:

  • Whole Numbers and Exponents
  • Order of Operations
  • Properties

Introduction to Algebra:

  • Variables and Expressions
  • Solving Equations

Decimals

Spiral review of all skills and concepts taught

7th Grade

Algebraic Reasoning:

  • Order of Operations
  • Variables and expressions

Integers and rational numbers

Solving equations

Decimal operations and applications

Fraction operations and applications

Spiral review of all skills and concepts taught

Science

6th & 7th Grades

Earth science

Social Studies

6th Grade

Early Human Civilization

Ancient Civilizations

  • Indus Valley
  • Mesopotamia
  • Egypt
  • Persia
  • Greece
  • Rome
  • China

7th Grade

American Revolution:

  • Causes and effects
  • Sons of Liberty
  • Articles of Confederation

Reading / ELA

6th & 7th Grades

  • Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel study and short stories
  • Identify and explain story elements
  • Identify types of conflict in a story
  • Compare and contrast character traits with citing evidence
  • Analyzing character traits and plot structure

Writing

6th & 7th Grades

  • Argumentative writing
  • Informative writing

Mathematics

6th Grade

  • Number Theory and Fractions
  • Fraction Operations
  • Data Collection and Analysis
    • Mean, Median, Mode, and Range
    • Types of Graphs
  • Proportional Relationships:
    • Ratios, Rates, and Proportions
    • Ordered Pairs
    • Percents
  • Spiral review of all skills and concepts previously taught

7th Grade

  • Proportional Relationships
    • Ratios, Rates, and Proportions
    • Proportions in Geometry
  • Graphs
  • Percents
  • Data Analysis
  • Spiral review of all skills and concepts previously taught

Science

6th & 7th Grades

Earth Science

Social Studies

6th Grade

  • Middle Ages
  • Medieval Governments
  • Byzantine Empire
  • Holy Roman Empire
  • The Vikings
  • The Silk Road
  • The Black Death
  • The Renaissance
  • The Reformation
  • The Mongols
  • Mesoamerican Cultures

7th Grade

  • World War 1
  • Economics
  • Stock Market
    • Crash 1929
  • Great Depression

Reading / ELA

6th & 7th Grades

  • Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel Study & Poetry
  • Use context clues to make predictions and define unknown vocabulary terms
  • Identify theme, point of view, main idea and support with text evidence
  • Make inferences and support with text evidence

Writing

6th & 7th Grades

  • Informative Writing
  • Poetry and Figurative Language

Mathematics

6th Grade

  • Measurement and Geometry:
    • Converting units, Area, Volume, and Surface Area
  • Integers and the Coordinate Plane
  • Functions
  • Spiral review of all skills and concepts previously taught

**Some students may move through curriculum faster and therefore start pre-algebra at the end of the year.

7th Grade

  • Geometric Figures:
    • Lines and Angles
    • Congruent Figures
  • Measurement and Geometry:
    • Perimeter, Circumference, Area, Volume, and Surface Area
  • Probability
  • Multi-Step Equations and Inequalities
  • Spiral review of all skills and concepts previously taught

Science

6th & 7th Grades

Earth Science

Social Studies

6th Grade

  • Age of Exploration
  • Colonial Europe
  • African Civilizations
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Contemporary History
    • Age of Invention
    • World Wars
    • 50s
    • 60s
    • 70s
    • 80s
    • 90s
    • 2000s

7th Grade

  • Great Depression (con’t)
  • World War 2
  • Holocaust

Meet

Our Teachers

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