MS Curriculum Guide

The immersion-style classroom environment emphasizes listening and speaking. Students learn how to function in a French-speaking classroom in addition to more traditional material such as basic vocabulary about the self and one’s environment.

This level of French allows Middle School students to have a developmentally appropriate yet linguistically rich experience. The course is conducted exclusively in French.

This course provides students who have a strong foundation in algebra with a genuine opportunity to explore the mathematics of both plane and solid figures.

This class meets once per cycle and it is an opportunity for students to meet with teachers

The first semester of mathematics for sixth graders focuses on the real-world application of mathematics, collaborative learning, and the review of fundamental mathematical skills.

The immersion-style classroom environment emphasizes pinyin, stroke order, the structure of Chinese characters, and basic sentence structures in addition to listening and speaking.

Students begin the year with a thorough review of the previous year’s content and skills while expanding vocabulary and fluency of written and oral expression with projects that consolidate this review.

This is a full-year course for seventh and eighth grade winds, brass, and percussion students. Continuing from 6th grade, this group acts both as a concert band and a jazz big band,

How do I lead a healthy life and contribute to a healthy community? In this course, sixth grade students, individually and in groups, gain the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors necessary to provide a foundation for lifelong physical health competencies.

This level of Spanish allows our most advanced Middle School students to have a developmentally appropriate yet linguistically rich experience.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to stage design, stage systems, production design, set construction, lighting, sound, and operation

This course is designed for seventh and eighth grade students who wish to pursue a more experiential vocal music option.

Through experiential learning students develop the technical skills to create 2-dimensionally in a variety of drawing media such as graphite, colored pencil, collage, and mixed media. Assignments challenge students through the implementation of proper techniques and thoughtful composition.

Through experiential learning students develop the technical skills to create 2-dimensionally in a variety of drawing media such as graphite, colored pencil, collage, mixed media, watercolors and acrylic painting.

Through experiential learning students develop the technical skills to sculpt 3-dimensionally in a variety of media with an emphasis on ceramics.