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Course Description

Students continue their exploration of literary genres, using active reading techniques such as note-taking and drawing conclusions from texts. Students review the steps of the writing process, making connections between the stages of writing, the genre they are studying, and a well-formed final product. To prepare students for writing narrative essays, lessons focus on plot, theme, and historical setting. Writing reflective and persuasive essays based on their own thoughts and ideas allows students to demonstrate their individuality. Solid research and understanding of organizational methods and visual features provide the foundation for writing informational essays. After improving their ability to recognize the biased language, students write persuasive essays to express their own opinions. Students then look at the unique characteristics of poetry, myth, and folklore, and discover the conventions of playwriting and how drama employs the elements of fiction.

Course Goals

• Read and analyze nonfiction and fiction texts to identify different text features.
• Identify bias and analyze persuasive tactics.

Course Description

What are algebraic expressions? How are they structured, and how can they be combined to create equations and inequalities? How do you know that the solutions you find are correct? In Algebra 1, students create expressions from verbal descriptions, manipulate and transform them, and create visual models. Requiring students to explain each step helps them understand mathematical processes. Exploring functions, sequences, and their corresponding graphs helps students determine the best ways to represent each. Students examine functions graphically, numerically, symbolically, and verbally, and learn how to translate between these different forms. Students’ depth of understanding increases as they complete proofs and describe data, fitting functions to their data. Students then extend their knowledge of linear and exponential relationships and apply their new understanding to create quadratic and exponential expressions as models of real-life phenomena.

Course Goals

• Perform operations with real numbers.
• Solve one-step and multistep equations using different operations.
• Solve problems involving rates and proportions. Define percentages and solve simple percent problems.
• Solve one-step and multistep linear inequalities using different operations.
• Recognize functions and different aspects of their graphs.

Course Description

Mathematics 8th Grade helps students to see the power of mathematics in everyday life. The course begins with a review of percentages and proportions, applying these concepts to conversion factors and emphasizing English and metric measurements. Work with linear equations includes computing rates of change, finding intercepts, graphing linear functions, and describing the action of a line. Number patterns and sequences foster a study of arithmetic and geometric means as students learn to find missing terms in sequences. An investigation of the Cartesian plane teaches students how to work with scale drawings, dilations, and graphs. Students learn about the properties of triangles, the Pythagorean Theorem, and the properties of parallel lines cut by a transversal. With pie charts, bar graphs, histograms, scatter plots, and other linear models, students explore probability and make predictions and correlations. Students apply the concepts of independent and dependent events, odds, combinations, permutations, and factorials to situations ranging from playing cards to determine the number of different outfits they have in their closets.

Course Goals

• Apply basic exponent properties to simplify expressions.
• Simplify rational expressions involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
• Simplify radical expressions.
• Convert between English and metric units. Construct and evaluate direct variation equations.
• Identify the areas and perimeters of two-dimensional figures.
• Calculate the volumes and surface areas of three-dimensional figures.
• Determine the dimensions of a figure, given a scale factor.

Course Description

Spanish 1 provides a solid foundation for students to build proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing in Spanish, and provides students with basic skills and contextual information for using Spanish. Each unit presents new information, including useful vocabulary and grammatical structures, and introduces relevant cultural information. At the end of this course, students have the basic skills and contextual information required for using Spanish in their professional and daily lives and when traveling abroad.

Course Goals

• Identify and recite the letters of the Spanish alphabet.
• Recite numbers to express age and dates.
• Express likes and dislikes in Spanish. Describe people’s physical attributes and personality traits.
• Specify objects that you and others have.
• Discuss household chores.
• Explain how family members are related.