Units of Study
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Period 3: Learning Support ELA
- Mythology/Fantasy (September/October)
- Favorite Greek Myths (text)
- Short Stories/Literature (November/December)
- Adventures in Reading (text)
- Coming of Age/Family (January/February)
- Novel: How to steal a dog
- Empathy/Prejudice (March/April)
- Holocaust/World War II (May)
- Graphic novel: Diary of Anne Frank
- Poetry (June)
- Elizabeth Blackwell or Mother to Son poems
- Skill Focused (entire year)
- Grammar/Writing
- Reading Comprehension
Period 5: Co-taught Pre-Algebra (Zeiset) & Co-taught Pre-Algebra (Mills)
- Units/Concepts
- Unit 1 - Square/Cube Roots and exponents (September)
- Unit 2 - Order of Operations & Exponent Rules (October)
- Unit 3 - Scientific Notation & Irrational Numbers (November)
- Unit 4 - Expressive, Evaluating, & Simplifying (December)
- Unit 5 - Solving 1 and 2 step equations (January)
- Unit 6 - Solving multistep equations (February)
- Unit 7 - Functions/Graphing (March)
- Unit 8 - Pythagorean Theorem (April)
- Unit 9 - Systems of equations (May)
- Unit 10 - Probability (June)
Period 6 & 7 Co-taught Social Studies 8
- Units/Concepts
- Creation/Discovery of 13 colonies (September)
- Life in Colonial America (September/October)
- French & Indian War (November)
- Pre-American Revolution (December)
- American Revolution (January)
- Creating the United States (February)
- Age of Jefferson/War of 1812 (March)
- Building America/Age of Jackson/Manifest Destiny (April)
- Civil War (May)
- Reconstruction/Growth of the West (June)
Period 6 & 7 Co-taught Science 8
- Units/Concepts
- Scientific Method (September)
- Lab Safety (September)
- Metric Measurement (September/October/November)
- Mass Lab
- Measuring Volume Lab
- Density Lab
- Measurement Skills Assessment (December)
- Physics unit (January)
- Motion and Force
- Laws of Motion
- Simple Machines/Work/Power (February)
- Energy (March)
- Changes of Matter/States of Matter (April)
- Periodic Table (May)
- Energy Resources/Earth Processes/Rock Cycle (June)
