High School Prep Curriculum

7th and 8th GRADE CURRICULUM

Seventh and Eighth Reading 

  • Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
  • Determine a theme or central idea of a text.
  • Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
  • Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.
  • Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts.
  • Analyze differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience in a text.
  • Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types.
  • Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems.

 

Departmental Science Grades Fifth – Eighth 

  • Formulate hypotheses that can be tested by collecting data.
  • Conduct scientific experiments that control all but one variable.
  • Describe features common to all cells that are essential for growth and survival.
  • Diagram how matter and energy cycle through an ecosystem.
  • Describe the relationship between living and nonliving components of ecosystems an describe how that relationship is in flux due to natural changes and human actions.
  • Describe the basic structure of DNA.
  • Explain that all objects and substances in the natural world are composed of matter in different states with different properties.
  • Understand that there are different forms of energy with unique characteristics.
  • Understand the cellular structure of single-celled and multicellular organisms.
  • Explain that energy cannot be created or destroyed but instead can only be changed from one form into another or transferred from place to place.

Departmental Math Grades Seventh – Eighth 

Eighth Grade Math

  • Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers
  • Work with radical and integer exponents
  • Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneously linear equations
  • Define, evaluate and compare functions
  • Use functions to model relationships between quantities
  • Understand congruence and similarity using physical model, transparencies, or geometric software
  • Understand and Apply the Pythagorean theorem
  • Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data

 

Seventh Grade Math

  • Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real world and mathematical problems
  • Apply and extend previous understanding of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numb
  • Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expression
  • Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations
  • Draw, construct and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationship between them
  • Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population
  • Draw informal comparative inferences about two population
  • Investigate chance processes and develop, use and evaluate probability models.