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Middle School Curriculum

Middle School Curriculum

MIDDLE SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

CINCINNATI 6th Grade – Overnight Trip Freedom Center River Steamboat Trip

House System: Small groups blending grades to promote friendship and service Theatre and Symphony Trips Science Exhibition Projects Forest Days at State Parks Christmas Social Spring Fling: Historic Dances Field Day Thesis Interviews: Faith, Truth, Beauty 7th Grade – Overnight Trip Chicago Art Institute Oriental Institute SPORTS Bronzeville History Tour/Jazz Boys Basketball Walking Architecture Tour Girls Basketball Girls Volleyball Co-ed Soccer Co-ed Track Co-ed Cross Country

CLUBS & WASHINGTON D.C. TEAMS 8th Grade – Week Trip Robotics National Gallery of Art Drama Mt. Vernon Speech Team National Museum of African American History Yearbook Frederick Douglass Home Culinary Skills Holocaust Museum National Cathedral Gettysburg Battlefield THE OAKS ACADEMY is a Christ-centered school that exists to provide a rich, classical education to children of diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, preparing them to succeed in a rigorous secondary educational program and to demonstrate spiritual, social and emotional maturity. CURRICULUM OVERVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL THEOAKSACADEMY.ORG 6 TH GRADE

HUMANITIES LANGUAGE ARTS ART AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS Classical Writing: Encomium and African textiles Vituperation Figure Drawing 19TH CENTURY AMERICA Persuasive and Narrative Focus in Still Life Painting Antebellum America Writing Impasto Civil War Humanities-based Spelling Intermediate Grid Drawing Reconstruction to Gilded Age Compound Subjects and Predicates Exaggerating a Design Element: Morris Butler House Pronoun Review Modern Art Exploration Soldiers and Sailors Monument Sentence Variety Sculpture: Wire Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War Museum Recitation: Speeches, Poetry, Bible Sketchbook/Art Journal ART Excerpts African art, Winslow Homer, Henry Scored Discussions Tanner, Jacob Riis, Impressionism, Early Modernism, Amedeo Modigliani MUSIC MUSIC EXPLORATORY BAND, STRINGS, & Scott Joplin, Claude Debussy, MATHEMATICS CHORAL ENSEMBLES Spirituals, Civil War Songs, Math Course 1 Music Theory , William Henry Fry Math Course 2 Introduction to Ensemble Skills Math Course 2 Accelerated Performance Opportunity SUMMER MATH ACADEMY OPTION Math Course 3 LITERATURE Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) PHYSICAL EDUCATION Mansa Musa (Burns) Teamwork The Field (Myers) SCIENCE Game play The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) GENERAL SCIENCE HEALTH Narrative of the Life of Frederick Scientific Method Nutrition, Life Fitness, Mental Health Douglass (Douglass) Measurement and Lab Skills Awareness, Online Safety, Drug and The Call of the Wild (London) Waves, Sound, Electromagnetic Alcohol Education The Importance of Being Earnest Waves, Light, Optics (Wilde) EARTH SCIENCE CIVIL WAR BOOKS Rocks, Minerals, Weathering, Soil, TECHNOLOGY The Boys War (Murphy) Erosion, Deposition BEGINNING Civil War Stories (Bierce) Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes and PC Applications Volcanoes Online Course Management System Hardware and Software LANGUAGES Research Skills: Website Evaluation, BIBLE CHRONOLOGY Citing Sources Derivatives, Latin in English Hebrews Coding: Scratch Romance Languages The Universal Epistles: James, First, Second, and Third Declensions Peter and John Cases and Their Functions Tenses: Present, Imperfect, Future FOUNDATIONS Study Skills and Organization Christmas With the Ancients and Computer Keyboarding Latin Caroling Dancing Prepositions Handwork (i.e. Knitting) Adjectives Parsing and Translating 7 TH GRADE

HUMANITIES LANGUAGE ARTS ART WORLD HISTORY: ANCIENT SUMER Classical Writing: Comparison And Elements of Design: Formal Study THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES Description Turning Shape Into Form: Level 1 20TH CENTURY AMERICA TO THE Expository and Descriptive Focus in Mosaics: Composition and Techniques Writing Printmaking Informative/Research Writing Book Making Roaring Twenties Coordinating Conjunctions, Sculpture: Wood Great Depression Quotations, Misplaced Modifiers, Sketchbook/Art Journal World War II (Atlantic Theatre) Transition Words Holocaust Complex Sentence Imitation Solving Awkward Sentences ART MUSIC Charlie Chaplin, Jacob Lawrence, Recitation: Speeches, Poetry, Bible BAND, STRINGS, AND CHORAL Mark Chagall, Dorothea Lange, David Excerpts ENSEMBLES Roberts, Peter Breughel, Raphael, Scored Discussions and Debate Music Theory Ancient Art Music Performances: School and MUSIC Community Kings of Jazz, Swing Band, MATHEMATICS Folk Songs Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner Math Course 2 Ensemble Skills Math Course 3 Solo and Small Group Playing Algebra 1 and Singing Expanded Instrumentation LITERATURE SUMMER MATH ACADEMY OPTION Henry V (Shakespeare) Math Course 3, or Algebra 1 (Online) All Quiet on the Western Front LOGIC I (Remarque) Classical Deductive Logic PHYSICAL EDUCATION The Hiding Place (Ten Boom) Syllogisms and Propositions Teamwork Epic of Gilgamesh Valid Argumentation Game Play The Odyssey (Homer) Game and Sport Strategy Till We Have Faces (Lewis) HEALTH Antigone (Sophocles) Nutrition, Life Fitness, Mental Health Book of Martyrs (Foxe) SCIENCE Awareness, Online Safety, Drug and Beowulf BIOLOGY Alcohol Education Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) Cellular Biology, Heredity, DNA Photosynthesis and Cellular POETRY Respiration Keats, Shelley, Hughes Single-celled Life TECHNOLOGY Classification INTERMEDIATE Invertebrates PC Applications Mitosis and Meiosis LANGUAGES Online Course Management System SPANISH OR LATIN Hardware and Software Vocabulary Development Research Skills: Website Evaluation, Grammar Structures BIBLE CHRONOLOGY Citing Sources Translation Genesis Coding: Scratch, HTML Cultural Studies Daniel Conversation and Speaking Practice Luke/Acts (Spanish) 8 TH GRADE

HUMANITIES LANGUAGE ARTS ART WORLD HISTORY: TO Classical Writing: Thesis — Perspectives: One-Point, Two-Point, THE MODERN ERA What is Beauty? What Is Truth? Multiple-Point Midwinter Ball Personal Narrative: Foreshortening Re-enactment of Louis XVI Trial My Spiritual Journey Aerial and Atmospheric Perspective 20TH CENTURY AMERICA FROM Semicolon, Colon, Ellipses, Turning Shape Into Form: Level 2 WORLD WAR II TO CIVIL RIGHTS & Comma Splices Collage Techniques THE COLD WAR Complex Paragraph Relief Sculpture World War II (Pacific Theatre) Public Speaking: Semester Green Art Movement: Recycled Segregation and Civil Rights Celebrations, Trial Of Louis XVI Sculptures Cold War Recitation: Speeches, Poetry, Cubism Perspective Drawing of Victorian Bible Excerpts Sketchbook/Art Journal House/Tea Party Scored Discussions and Debate ART Baroque to Modern: Johannes Vermeer, Jacques Louis David, MUSIC Caspar Friedrich, Pre-Raphaelites, MATHEMATICS BAND, STRINGS, AND CHORAL Math Course 3 ENSEMBLES Pablo Picasso Pre-Algebra Music Theory MUSIC Algebra I Music Performances: School Johann Bach, Frederick Handel, Geometry and Community Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, LOGIC II Folk Songs Igor Stravinsky Classical Deductive Logic Ensemble Skills Informal Fallacies Solo and Small Group Playing Hypothetical and Complex Syllogisms and Singing LITERATURE Inductive Logic Expanded Instrumentation Paradise Lost (Milton) The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy) Pride and Prejudice (Austen) PHYSICAL EDUCATION To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee) SCIENCE Teamwork God’s Smuggler (Brother Andrew) CHEMISTRY Game Play Short stories: Jacobs, Tolstoy, Atomic Theory Game and Sport Strategy De Maupassant Periodic Table of Elements Chemical Bonds, Solutions, HEALTH POETRY Compounds Nutrition, Personal Fitness Planning, Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson Carbon Cycle Mental Health Awareness, Online Safety, Drug and Alcohol Education PHYSICS Motion and Forces LANGUAGES Gravity, Friction, Pressure SPANISH OR LATIN Energy TECHNOLOGY Vocabulary Development Mechanics ADVANCED Grammar Structures BIOLOGY PC Applications Translation Origins Online Course Management System Cultural Studies Hardware and Software Conversation And Speaking Practice Research Skills: Website Evaluation, (Spanish) BIBLE CHRONOLOGY Citing Sources Coding: HTML, Javascript Proverbs Revelation