Religion

  Students will:

• describe how God is revealed through Sacred Tradition.
• know and relates the stories of Jesus' life.
• describes the Church as missionary.
• identify and discuss the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist (Adoration).
• identify the Eucharist as celebration, sacrificial, and memorial.
• know Penance as fasting, prayer, and alms giving.
• identify and explains the Beatitudes.
• demonstrate Christian values through action.
• understand prayer is a personal relationship with God.
• identify and describes prayer as blessing, petition, intercession, thanksgiving, and praise.

 
Literature
Students continue to learn about elements of literacy.
 
Students will: 

• analyze longer complex plot structures.
• identify different characterization qualities.
• identify different figurative languages 
• listening to out loud reading
• participate in reading groups
• have independent reading and creative writing time 
• practice making connections, inferences, questions, predictions, and images while reading 
• have access to small group stations where they peer edit and read together 

 
Vocabulary/Grammar
 
Students will:

• learn required words.
• apply vocabulary skills to daily written work
• demonstrate conventions of grammar usage.
• demonstrate use of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
• use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

 
Mathematics
Students will receive a solid foundation in algebra, geometry, and problem-solving.  To ensure success in more advanced courses, students are provided with numerous worked-out examples, note-taking strategies, organizational skills, and technological support while concentrating on the algebraic approach. 

• The concepts covered are:
• Number Sense, Patterns, and Algebraic Thinking
• Data and Statistics
• Fraction and Integer Operations
• Rational Numbers, Properties and Expressions
• Solving Equations and Inequalities 
• Ratio, Proportion, Percents
• Geometric Figures
• Measurement and area
• Surface Area and Volume 
• Probability

 
Science
Students will study Life Science.
 
Content includes:

• Cells and Heredity
• Diversity in Living Things
• Ecology and the Environment

 
 
Social Studies
Students study the Revolutionary period through the development and study of the constitution and the early days of the new government. It culminates with the study of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Students will

• study the Revolutionary War period.
• memorize the Preamble.
• learn about the government through the study of the constitution at both the federal and state levels.
• learn about the early leaders of the United States.
• understand the fight for suffrage.
• learn about the events leading up to the Civil War.
• learn about the war years and reconstruction.