K - 8th Grade

 

Coming in November
Nov. 1st Thurs. - All Saints Day - School Mass - Dress Uniforms

Nov. 2nd Fri. - All Saints Day - School Mass - Dress Uniforms

Nov. 6th  Tues. - End of First Quarter Saints Day * Parent Assoc. Meeting.

Nov. 9th Fri. -Flex Friday. Report Cards Issued.

Nov. 12th Mon. - Veteran's Day - No School.

  Nov. 16th Fri.- Parent/Teacher Conferences - No School.

  Nov. 20th Tues. - Quarterly Awards 11:00 AM. Thanksgiving Fest 12:00 PM.

Nov. 21st  Wed. Thanksgiving Break Begins.

Nov. 26th Mon. - School Resumes. Board of Directors Meeting.

 

 

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Seventh & Eight Grade Scope and Sequence

Art

-         Develop an appreciation for art in its various mediums.

Drama

-    Develop memorization, public speaking and performance skills at age appropriate levels with plays, poetry, and music.

History

-         Reconstruction to current.

-         Debate over slavery.

-         The West (miners, railroads, farming).

-         Industrial & Urban nation (the second industrial revolution, immigrants & the cities).

-         Reforming the workplace.

-         Overseas U.S. Territories.

-         Spanish-America war.

-         World War I, Great Depression, WWII, Postwar America

Language Arts

-         Public speaking & listening skills.

-         Vocabulary (word derivations, pronunciation, definitions).

-         Literature study and analysis

-         Reasoning skills (fact vs. opinion), relevant information, inferences, cause & effect, syllogism,

-    Deductive reasoning, following directions.

-    Proper sentence structure (fragments & run-ons, identifying subject & predicate).

-         Building paragraphs (topic sentence, supporting details, ending sentence).

-         Writing expository, descriptive, and narrative essays (prewriting, writing, revising, proofreading, publishing).

-         Writing stories, book reports, and a research paper (with outline).

-    Writer’s resources (study strategies, using the dictionary & library, taking notes, outlining).

-         Grammar (correct usage & mechanics, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, punctuation, capitalization, complex sentences, verbs).

Math

-     Pre-algebra and algebra.  Some geometry.

Physical Education

-     Team sports & calisthenics skills development.

Religion

-         Creation, Divine Revelation, God’s Plan of Salvation, Moses, The Prophets.

-         The Mission & Priesthood of Jesus,

-         The Founding of the Church, The Church in our Time.

-         Doctrine of Grace.

-         Faith, Hope, & Charity.

-         The Cardinal Virtues.

-         Seven Sacraments.

-         Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Science

-         Physical science and biological science in alternating years.

Spanish

-         Expanding vocabulary.

-         Cultures of Spanish speaking countries.

-    Developing conversational Spanish.