The Classroom

What Sixth Graders Learn

• Write various forms of writing including reports, essays, stories, letters, and poems
• Read a variety of literature including novels, short stories, essays, myths, legends, fables, folk tales, poems, plays, magazine articles, and newspapers
• Use the complete writing process (organizing, drafting, revising, and editing)
• Use correct sentence structure and punctuation
• Expand spelling and vocabulary skills including knowing the roots of words
• Use word processing tools
• Perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations
• Perform problem solving tasks
• Solve problems dealing with ratios, proportions, geometry, statistics, and probability
• Do narrative oral presentations
• Perform scientific experiments
• Understand basic scientific principles of weather, gravity, motion, energy, fossils, chemistry, and the classification of matter
• Ancient civilizations and major historical events
• Learn about maps and globes

What Seventh Graders Learn

• Write papers that are grammatically correct and clearly organized
• Continue expanding sixth grade writing skills
• Continue reading a variety of literature
• Continue expanding grammar, vocabulary, and spelling skills
• Continue expanding oral presentation skills
• Learn about statistics, algebra, probability, and geometry
• Learn more about life sciences, chemistry, and perform scientific experiments
• World history
• Learn about art and music

What Eighth Graders Learn

• Read a variety of literature
• Write persuasive, narrative, comparative, and contrastive papers
• Continue expanding grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and oral presentation skills
• American History, world history, and U.S. government
• Geography
• Algebra and geometry
• Classroom and group discussions
• Electricity, plants and animals, geology, earth science, and astronomy