中学课程

12项清单.

• 课程概述

  中学课程的特点:

  • 英语, 社会研究, 和科学 classes by grade level
  • 数学 and language classes (placement by skill level)
  • World language choices: Spanish, 法国 or Chinese
  • 美术和音乐课
  • Computational thinking classes (logic, problem solving, programming, and robotics)
  • 体育课
  • 生活技能和人类发展课程
  • 班级旅行 to Pinnacles National Monument (Sixth Grade), California coastal regions (Seventh Grade) and Washington D.C. 和纽约市(八年级)
  • 每周咨询会议, when students meet with a small cohort led by a teacher to have fun and navigate the social-e运动al landscape of middle school.
  • P艺术icipation in orientation, all-school meetings, and other community activities.
  • 请注意:语言, 艺术, and physical education classes occur with the same frequency as classes in 英语, 社会研究, 数学, 和科学.

• 艺术 & 音乐

  赌场捕鱼网投’s 中学 艺术s program encourages students to feel confident and successful in their creative efforts and to take risks, make mistakes, and try again.
  
  

  所有六年级的学生都选修视觉艺术. The activities in the visual 艺术s curriculum explore the fundamentals that 形状 艺术istic expression: line, color, 纹理, 形状, 和体积. Students employ a wide variety of media and techniques. Projects involve drawing, painting, sculpture, clay, and conceptual creations.

  
  Sixth grade music is a trimester-long course that introduces students to a variety of musical skills and concepts including keyboard playing, 打鼓, 弦乐器, 音乐理论. Students 工作 on a number of musical selections with an emphasis on creative strategy and problem-solving. 在小团体中,学生 collaborate with their peers to select, 准备, and perform a piece of their choosing for a school recital.
  
  

  Seventh and eighth grade students can choose between music and visual 艺术s classes. Students have the opportunity to learn new instruments in band, 在唱诗班中发展他们的声音, or cultivate their 艺术istic talents in visual 艺术. 

• 计算思维

  在需要 computational thinking classes at each grade level,学生 learn the foundations of logical processing and computational problem solving. 
  
  

  在六年级，学生们参加a 第一个乐高联盟(FLL) 机器人 半年里每周上一次课. 这门课的高潮是相扑机器人焦点日. 

  
  Seventh graders p艺术icipate in a required CodeCombat elective for one semester of the year. 通过CodeCombat, 学生学习如何用Python编写代码, 最流行的编程语言之一. With a comprehensive curriculum that includes computer science units and reinforces learning through project-based game development and web development units,学生 will progress on a journey from basic syntax to recursion.

  
  八年级的时候,学生 combine the skills developed in sixth and seventh grade into a project-based experience. 通过使用小型电路板, 传感器, 汽车, 和编码,学生 will design and program their own robot. Project challenges include coding appropriate responses to different environmental stimuli. The final project is to build a line-following car.
  
  

  In addition to the required electives in computational thinking,学生 have the opportunity to p艺术icipate in our competitive FLL robotics team in the fall as well as various robotics and computational thinking electives throughout the year. 

• 选修课

  除了你的必修课程, you will have the opportunity each year to take up to three different electives of your choice. Free choice electives include classes such as:

  • 领导
  • 射箭
  • 机器人
  • 陶瓷
  • 即兴音乐会
  • 戏剧性的即兴创作
  • 摄影
  • 团队运动

  其他选修课程是必需的, 包括计算思维, 在卡特创新工作室进行创新, 生活技能.
  
  

• 英语

  Students explore a diverse range of literature while discovering their voices in 英语 classes that are designed to complement the 社会研究 curriculum.
  
  

  Sixth grade reading selections focus on identity and community. Seventh grade literature includes Western Civilization-themed texts, such as the Trojan War and the plays of Aeschylus. 八年级英语, 你将探索美国文学, with texts such as To Kill a Mockingbird and The Joy Luck Club. 英语 classes also include public 说话 and performance. 
  
  

  除了探索文学, you will learn to clearly and concisely communicate your ideas by engaging in the 写作 and editing process. 学生阅读, 在各个年级进行写作和编辑, 注重文学分析, 英语语法和写作习惯, 语言和词汇发展, 以及各种体裁的写作, 包括创意, 分析, 以及自传体形式. 在中学的课程中, the depth and sophistication of students' 写作 develops and improves.

• 生活技能和咨询

  Every student is p艺术 of an advisory group of 9-10 students across grade levels that is led by a middle school teacher. 咨询小组每周与他们的顾问会面. This is a time to check in with a caring adult who knows them well, 听取同行的建议, discuss social-e运动al topics relevant to middle school students, 玩游戏, 祝大家玩得开心. Students typically stay with the same advisor through their middle school experience. After three years, these adults may become a student’s strongest advocate and closest mentor.
  
  

  Students p艺术icipate in Life Skills class in sixth grade, study sex education as p艺术 of seventh grade science class, and take Human Development class in eighth grade. 六年级的时候, 生活技能包括学习技能, 如何适应中学生活的课程, 同侪压力和数字公民. Seventh grade sex education is grounded in anatomy and biology, and includes frank conversations about the physical and e运动al changes that occur during adolescence. Eighth grade human development focuses on making good choices, and tackles topics such as peer pressure and drug and alcohol education. 

• 数学

  数学 classes in the 中学 are designed for students to build and demonstrate mastery, 培养批判性思维能力, 增加信心. Students are placed in 数学 classes by readiness rather than grade level, and most 数学 classes have a mix of students across grades, 提供丰富的学习氛围.
  
  Students will apply the skills learned in textbooks to real-life situations. 中学 数学 classes include 数学 6, Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Advanced Algebra, and Geometry. Some eighth grade students have the opportunity to take advanced 数学 classes in the 上学校.

• 体育课

  “Health and fitness for life” is our physical education motto. Students acquire the knowledge and skills to take responsibility for their health and wellbeing by learning different kinds of exercise, 练习正确的形式, 参与团队合作, 准备和计划健身活动. Students p艺术icipate in cardiovascular fitness, 肌肉力量和耐力, 团队运动带来的灵活性, 个人活动, 和调节.
  
  

  Physical education includes a variety of team sports including water polo, 足球, 夺旗橄榄球, 极限飞盘, 篮球, 羽毛球, 和更多的. Students will also swim, dance, practice yoga, and do circuit training. We believe it is necessary for students to develop cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills to be successful learners. Sportsmanship and confidence building are important components of our physical education curriculum.

   

• 科学

  在中学科学课上,学生 develop curiosity about the natural world and a 工作ing knowledge of scientific problem-solving methods. Overall, the curriculum creates perspective on how we as humans fit into the natural world.
  
  

  Sixth grade students begin the year by studying the human brain, and learning about who they are as thinkers and learners as they begin their middle school journey. 之后，重点是地球科学. 这包括对天气的研究, 矿物学, 岩石循环, 板块构造论, 地震, 和火山. Sixth grade also includes units on planetary and environmental science. 

  
  

  生命科学是七年级的重点. Students come to understand the environment as a dynamic living system and how they have the potential to affect change. 学生们还学习了进化论, 人体, 青少年的成长和发育, 性, 以及如何做出负责任的选择. 

   

  Eighth grade science 准备s students for upper school science courses by developing their quantitative and 分析 approaches to solving problems in physics and chemistry. 学生学习科学测量, 原子结构, 元素周期表, 化学反应, 化学污染, 以及牛顿物理学的力的概念, 运动, 工作, 和能源.

• 社会研究

  By studying groups and peoples from around the world,学生 come to understand societies through the frame工作 of culture, 经济, 和政治. They will journey through a series of historical and geographic regions, st艺术ing far away and long ago and moving closer in time and space—the Pacific Rim in sixth grade, 七年级的西方文明课, 八年级的美国研究. They will learn how and why civilizations change over time. By integrating 社会研究 with 英语 and 艺术, they will gain an understanding of the interconnectedness of our world.
  
  Sixth graders study the lands and peoples of South Asia, 东亚, and Oceania after introduction to the main 分析 skills used to evaluate the features of a society. 主题包括史前和外观, 扩张, and increasing complexity of human societies; technology and innovation; religions and philosophies; beliefs and government; social structures and systems of rule; aesthetics and 艺术s.
  
  

  七年级学生探索神话, 古希腊和古典希腊的文化, 中世纪生活和一神论传统, 启蒙运动, and explorations of the origins of modern democracies. 

   

  Eighth grade 社会研究 focus on conflict and change in American society and political structures. This course examines American history through a cultural and social justice lens, 审查宪法和人权, 迁移, 移民, 美洲原住民文化, 奴隶制, 以及公民权利. Students learn how to investigate controversial issues with reason and objectivity with respect for their peers at the forefront of class discussions.

• 世界语言

  比如数学课, language classes in the 中学 are organized by skill level rather than grade level. 学生可能被安排学习西班牙语, 法国, 或普通话1A, 1B, 或1C取决于他们之前的经验. Students begin to acquire language through games and conversation, building a basic vocabulary. Grammar and syntax are introduced through stories and thematic units that incorporate world cultures. 
  
  Acquiring verbal fluency and a 工作ing vocabulary receive high priority. An emphasis on grammar clarifies communicative intent. Activities engage students’ interest and encourage lively discussion. Accelerated students may be placed in advanced 中学 or 上学校 world language classes.
  
  通过练习阅读, 写作, 说话, 和听力,学生 gain comfort and ease in communicating a new language. Cultural studies help them to understand languages in context. Playing games and telling stories are mainstays in our language classes, and the speed of language acquisition reflects the fun kids have in these courses.

• 学校间的运动

  The 赌场捕鱼网投 中学 competes with other schools in interscholastic athletics in a number of sports, 包括:极限飞盘, 足球, 篮球, 排球, 还有国旗橄榄球. Practices take place during the school day’s elective period. Games occur after school with transportation to and from events provided by 赌场捕鱼网投 buses or vans. 赌场捕鱼网投’s transportation dep艺术ment is very busy taking care of needs of the whole school, and there are times when we may need to ask for parent help as chaperones or drivers.