7th Grade:
4 Lexia Power Up units per day
Writing: Expository 5 paragraph essays
ELA (Studysync): Freak the Mighty, The Giver, The Outsiders
Accelerated Reader goals per trimester
Core Lit / Novels: Freak the Mighty, The Outsiders, The Giver, Touching Spirit Bear
Social Studies: The Fall of Rome, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance
8th Grade:
4 Lexia Power Up units per day
Writing: Expository (Text-Based), Argumentative (Text-Based), Narrative (Text-Based)
ELA (Studysync): Suspense!, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Accelerated Reader goals per trimester
Core Lit / Novels: The Cage, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Social Studies: The Constitution / Citizenship, The Holocaust, The Civil War
HOMEWORK:
Daily Homework:
- Read 15 minutes (most days done in class)
- Finish classwork (although, enough time in class is always given, as well as opportunities to finish homework twice a week at The Stable)
Weekly Homework:
- Parent Signature on planner
Bi-weekly Homework:
- Parent Signature on Progress Report
5th Period - 7th grade Career Class (ASL):
- Alphabet
- Fingerspelling
- Numbers 0-10
- ASL Conversational Signs
- "Happy Birthday" song
- The Pledge of Allegiance
- The National Anthem
- ONE song in ASL
7th Period - 7th & 8th grade P.E
- First 7 minutes of class are dedicated to changing / dressing in P.E clothes (no long jean pants)
- Take attendance
- 2 laps daily (4 laps if out of P.E dress code)
- Sports Choices: walking, basketball, soccer, football, volleyball, kickball, wiffleball, capture the flag