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simple grammatical concepts. Reading and writing skills are developed while improving listening and speaking in the target language. Prerequisite: None HOME AND CAREERS 7 10 weeks, 1/4 unit The Home and Career course is designed to prepare children for the world of work and managing their own affairs, including money management, nutrition, household responsibilities, and parenting. In addition to learning the skills needed for success, children will be expected to demonstrate these skills through class discussions written assignments, and hands-on activities. Prerequisite: None HOME AND CAREERS 8 1/2 year, ½ unit This valuable course provides students with lifetime skills in the areas of personal development, relating to other people, and career exploration. Group activities, lab work and independent study will provide opportunities to learn in a variety of settings with a focus on applying new skills to the daily lives of students. Prerequisite: None GRADE 7 FRENCH Spring, ¼ unit This course introduces language on a very elementary and introductory level. The student learns greetings, expressions, numbers, days, months and practices oral situations and conversations in the home and the family. Prerequisite: None GRADE 8 FRENCH 1 year, ½ unit This course reinforces basic phrases and introduces new vocabulary themes. Students begin to learn simple grammatical concepts. Reading and writing skills are developed while improving listening and speaking in the target language. Prerequisite: None MATH 7 INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH Fall, ¼ unit This course consists of 10 weeks each of Spanish and French for the first semester in seventh grade. This class meets every other day opposite physical education class. Each student with their parent/guardian must decide at the end of this course which language to take for the rest of junior high and high school. Prerequisite: None GRADE 7 SPANISH Spring, ¼ unit This course introduces language on a very elementary and introductory level. The student learns greetings, expressions, numbers, days, months and practices oral situations and conversations in the home and the family. Prerequisite: None GRADE 8 SPANISH 1 year, ½ unit This year long course reinforces basic phrases and introduces new vocabulary themes. Students begin to learn MATH 7 1 year, 1 unit Focus will be in four critical areas: (1) developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships. (2) Developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations. (3) Solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric construction, and working with two- and threedimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume (4) drawing inferences about population based on samples. In spring, students will take the NYS 7 th grade math assessment. Prerequisite: Math 6 MATH 7 ADVANCED 1 year, 1 unit This is a full year course, which combines both the 7 th grade and 8 th grade curricula. In spring, students will take the NYS math assessment. Prerequisite: 6 th grade teacher recommendation, 2 nd quarter 80 + average in 6 th grade, NYS Grade 5 state exam, final course grade and placement-test. MATH 8 1 year, 1 unit This one-year course is a rigorous course designed to allow students to use previously studied arithmetic skills in learning algebra. This course will introduce the concepts and techniques that are used in developing problem solving skills. Topics for this course will include the number 6
system, expressions and equations, functions, geometry and probability and statistics. In the curriculum there will be a focus on formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, the concept of a function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships, as well as analyzing twoand three-dimensional space and figures. In the spring of the eighth-grade year, students will be taking the NYS math 8 assessment. Prerequisite: Math 7 MATH 8 ADVANCED 1 year, 1 unit This is a one-year course which combines the Math 8 and Integrated Algebra curricula. Students will take the NYS Math 8 assessment in the spring as well as the Integrated Algebra in June. Prerequisite: A successful completion of Math 7 Advanced and recommendation from the teacher. It is recommended (not necessary) that students have a TI-83 plus of TI-84 calculator. INTEGRATED ALGEBRA 1 year, 1 credit Students will be eligible to take algebra. Please see algebra in the high school section. Prerequisite: Advanced Math 7 and recommendation of teacher. Students will need TI-83 Plus or TI-84 calculators. PHYSICAL EDUCATION 1 year (every other day), ½ unit The physical education (P.E.) program was established by using the accepted learning standards of New York State. They are the following: 1. Personal Health and Fitness – students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness in the areas of endurance, flexibility, muscular strength, and body composition. 2. A Safe and Healthy Environment – students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment. 3. Resource Management – students will understand and be able to manage their personal and community resources. 4. Activities included in physical education are conditioning, fitness, self-testing activities, and individual and team sports. Also, to promote the social aspects involved there will be opportunities to participate in a coeducational atmosphere. Prerequisite: None CONCERT BAND (GREY BAND) 1 year, 1 unit The Grey Band is composed of students in grades seven through nine. Students receive one group lesson per week. When the music director deems the student musically proficient, he/she is allowed to participate in the band. Participation in the concert band may fulfill the Regent’s requirement for one year of music provided that the student has fulfilled the performance requirements of his/her instrument and grade level. The musicians of the Grey Band work on basic music skills while studying grade-appropriate literature. Concert Band musicians also have the opportunity to perform in a variety of instrumental settings, including Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, and Brass, Woodwind, and Percussion Ensembles. MUSIC APPRECIATION (GRADE 8) 10 weeks, 1/4 unit Students will learn the importance of music in their culture, as well as other cultures throughout the world. This study will include the importance of acknowledging and respecting all music and cultures. Prerequisite: None WILSON READING 1,2,3 1 year, 0 credit Wilson reading is a reading program that teaches sound, total word structure and the structure of the English language to improve reading and writing skills. "Controlled tests" are used as well as diagnostic procedures for each lesson, which are taught to mastery. Prerequisite: Recommendation by the Committee on Special Education and/or by test scores on the Wade. READING Students in middle school engage in a computer-based program called “Read About.” This program focuses on comprehension strategies, vocabulary and content-area knowledge. The program is also designed to provide direct instruction, engage students with content based fiction and nonfiction reading material as well as transferring these acquired skills into core classes. Prerequisite: None 7
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