Jr. High Curriculum (6-8)

The history curriculum is a broad sweep of history since 1500 and traces the major ideas of events that have shaped the modern world. This includes challenging topics like religion, slavery, war, and human oppression.

• The 6th grade curriculum covers the developments of the Western Civilizations, and African and Asian civilizations.
• The 7th grade curriculum covers medieval and early modern world history. The students study the rise and fall of empires, the diffusion of religions and languages, and significant movements of people, ideas, and products. The students grasp the larger picture of geographical, historical, economic, and civil patterns.
• The 8th grade curriculum covers American history including political, economic, social, cultural, and military. Students confront the theme of freedom, equality, and liberty and their changing definitions over time.

 The curriculum in the grades is organized chronologically.

A focus on engaging and motivating early adolescents is critical for success. Students should become increasingly effective at expressing themselves and engaging in meaningful collaborations with fellow students, teachers, and family members. Students evaluate cleaners in text and write and present their own arguments, with clear reason supported by text based information. Analysis includes not only what the site says explicitly but also what inferences can be drawn.

• English grammar and composition are developed.
• The classes introduced students to specific authors, their texts, and historical and cultural context. We aim to develop skills in reading, performance, critical thinking, composition, and written and oral interpretation of literature.
• The culminating assignment is the 8th grade speech providing the students time to reflect on the school’s mission and demonstrate their growth and learning in comparison to the intended mission.

Students should be able to demonstrate to quote or paraphrase, identify the source, conduct short research projects, include graphics.

6th grade:

• Students analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
• Students interpret figures of speech in context

7th grade

• Students analyze the structure an author uses to organize text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
•  Students interpret figures of speech in context.

8th grade

• Students analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text,including the role particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
• Students interpret figures of speech in context.

The objectives to build awareness of personal relationship with Jesus and to make connections with the blessings. The curriculum is set to have the students understand our Catholic traditions, values and mission, and what is expected of them as active Christians. 

The students will learn to understand: 

• What We Believe: Knowledge of the Faith, Creed, Scripture

• How we celebrate: Liturgy and Sacraments

• How We Live: Conscience and Christian Living

• How we Pray: Christian Pray 

• How we live in the Community: Catholic Church, Vocation

• How we as individuals and communities live in service to the World. 

Science is an active curriculum of inquiry because we believe our students are best served in and learning: demonstrations, labs, projects are designed to generate discussion, discovery, and cooperative problem solving skills.

6th Grade

• Systems and Subsystems in Earth and Life Science, 

• Earth System Interactions Cause Weather,

•  Causes and Effects of Regional,

•  Effects of Global Warming on Living Systems

7th Grade

• Organisms and Nonliving Things Are Made of Atoms 

• Matter Cycles and Energy Flows through Organisms and Rocks Natural Processes and Human Activities Shape Earth’s Resources and Ecosystems Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing World 

8th Grade

• Objects Move and Collide 

• Noncontact Forces Influence Phenomena 

• Evolution Explains Life’s Unity and Diversity

• Sustaining Local and Global Biodiversity

Many of our students are destined to be leaders in fields where analytical and problem solving skills are invaluable and offer specific applications. In grades six through eight, students move from arithmetic towards algebra. 

6th grade curriculum 

• early expressions and equations
• Multi-digit division and calculations with decimals
• Students notice patterns in ratios tables

7th grade curriculum

• ratios and proportional relationships;
• arithmetic of rational numbers
• notice patterns in ratios tables

The 8th grade curriculum math classes emphasize the concept of operations, algebraic expressions, solving, and graphing linear equations and inequalities.

• Students can do calculations with positive and negative fractions and decimal numbers.
• Students notice patterns in ratios tables

Essential to creative, social, spiritual and intellectual development is the study of music. 

The students have music history, creative projects, and rehearse songs for liturgy. Junior high is an  essential time for our students to be creative, social, spiritual and intellectual in the study of music. Students improvise, arrange, and compose music, and demonstrate and perform with technical accuracy as they evaluate and refine their work through specific student and teacher determined criteria and choices

Students participate regularly in athletics and value physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle. The program provides a setting in which students can develop themselves both as team players and as individuals. The weekly lessons are geared around the developmental levels of the students. Students participate in cardio, volleyball,  basketball, perform movement patterns, demonstrate mature techniques for the throwing, catching, kicking and dribbling skills.