Academics

Religion

• We Believe Textbook

• Saints

• Family Life

• VIRTUS

• Prayers

• Weekly mass led by students

• Stations of the Cross

• Living Rosary

• Various Service Projects

Language Arts

• Writing: Personal Narrative, Descriptive Essay, Persuasive Essay, Informational, Realistic Fiction, Literary Essay, Memoir

• Reading Skills: Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring & Predicting, Synthesizing, Evaluating

• Writing Conventions: Spelling, Grammar, Capitalization, Punctuation, Paragraphing

• Grammar: Subjects, Predicates & Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Punctuation

• Reading Genres: Poetry, Mysteries, Historical Fiction, Scientific Fiction

• Spelling/Vocabulary

• Accelerated Reading

Math

• Operations with Decimals

• Operations with Fractions and Mixed Numbers

• Proportional Relationships - ratios, rates, proportions, similar figures

• Percents - converting between percents, fractions and decimals, percent applications

• Introduction to Algebra - variables, solving equations, functions and expressions

• Whole Numbers - Order of Operations, Exponents, LCM, GCF, Factors, Divisibility

• Collecting and Displaying Data - Measures of Central Tendency, Graphs, Tables and Plots

• Geometric Relationships - angles, pairs of lines, triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, symmetry, transformations,

• Measurement - customary and Metric units, time and temperature

• Perimeter, Area and Volume - rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, circles, cylinders

• Operations with Integers

Science

3 Year Rotating Curriculum:

• Year A: Earth Science - prehistory, plate tectonics, fossils, weather, atmosphere, solar system, water cycle, soil/rock/mineral formation

• Year B: Physical Science - force/motion/energy, waves/sound, atoms/Periodic Table, chemical/physical change, electricity, magnetism

• Year C: Life Science - organism classification, cells, plant life cycle, photosynthesis, reproduction, ecosystems, human body systems

• Hands-on learning through labs, projects

• High school laboratory setting

• Lab report writing

• Group work

• New textbooks with online component

Social Studies

• Western Hemisphere: World Geography & History

Standardized Testing

• NWEA