Middle School Full Day (7-8) – Year A

COURSE PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

This full day course package for grades 7 and 8, offers three classes in one full day. Students will take Language Arts, Math, and Science for 16 weeks per semester. Classes meet one day per week.

Middle School students will be in a 7/8 combo class during our Elementary Academics day. They will have a different teacher for each subject. Only core subjects will be offered on this day. Students can also register for Junior High electives held on Tuesday-Thursdays, as well as attend teen events.

This course differs from our Tuesday-Thursday Junior High courses in that the students must take all three subjects and stay for the entire day, and parents are required to score their own student’s work. If you would like the teacher to provide scores for your student, you can pay a scoring fee for each subject in which you would like feedback and accountability.  

Language Arts: This class will include a review of grammar concepts, book studies focusing on literary works from various periods in world history, such as The Golden Goblet and Number the Stars, and focus on developing writing skills using IEW Modern World History Based Writing.

Math: Monday math class will focus on teaching new concepts and giving strategies to help understand and complete the homework pages for the week.  Concepts will include topics such as: basic algebra concepts, integers and their operations, negative rational numbers, solving/graphing linear equations, ratios, rates, proportions, and percent, angle relationships, Pi, geometric transformations, surface area, and volume, probability, statistics, exponent laws and scientific notation, introduction to functions, irrational numbers, square and cube roots, and the Pythagorean Theorem, solving systems of linear equations (in two variables), and scatter plots and two-way tables.

Science: This class will study Life Science through experiments and other hands-on activities. Students will learn about how atoms and cells form the building blocks to living things. This will lead to a study of plants, human anatomy, as well as biomes of other living things. All of this is done within the context of modern history as they learn about famous scientists who have had an impact on our world today.