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Middle Years Curriculum
Middle Years Curriculum
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Our Middle Years curriculum is organized by essential questions that help students develop a better understanding of the connections between ideas and concepts within and between disciplines and between each year of the curriculum. They provide a framework for our overall curriculum approach. The current umbrella (over-arching) question for grades 6-8 is:
“How do disciplines of study help us understand our world?”
Each year we have a cross-disciplinary question as well. The 6th and 7th grade question rotates each year to account for the two-year curriculum sequence. Additionally, each core discipline connects topics of study to subject-appropriate, essential questions. Some disciplines use the same questions for both the 6th-grade and 7th-grade experiences. In Spanish and science, students engage in the same questions as these questions tend to be broader and often process-oriented.
“How do disciplines of study help us understand our world?”
Each year we have a cross-disciplinary question as well. The 6th and 7th grade question rotates each year to account for the two-year curriculum sequence. Additionally, each core discipline connects topics of study to subject-appropriate, essential questions. Some disciplines use the same questions for both the 6th-grade and 7th-grade experiences. In Spanish and science, students engage in the same questions as these questions tend to be broader and often process-oriented.
Essential Questions
List of 3 items.
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6th and 7th Grade: Year A
How do we become citizens of the world?
English- How do writers communicate effectively?
- How do our lives inform our writing?
- How does literature help us understand the large world and human experience?
Social Studies- How do societies balance the needs of the community with the needs of the individual?
- How can we expand our knowledge of ourselves and others through language?
- How can we put language together to create meaning?
- How can we take language apart to create meaning?
- How do we use numbers and mathematical thinking to better understand our world?
- How do we use mathematics to organize ourselves?
- How do we use algebra to generalize arithmetic?
- How do we use algebra to explain/model/represent natural phenomena?
- How do we apply our knowledge of physical, chemical and biological systems to live in harmony on Earth?
- How do we use cycles of scientific thinking to explain and gain a better understanding of the universe?
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6th and 7th Grade: Year B
How do we become global critical thinkers?
English- How do writers communicate effectively?
- How do our lives inform our writing?
- How does literature help us understand the larger world and human experience?
- How are societies created, organized and changed?
- How can we expand our knowledge of ourselves and others through language?
- How can we put language together to create meaning?
- How can we take language apart to create meaning?
- How do we use numbers and mathematical thinking to better understand our world?
- How do we use mathematics to organize ourselves?
- How do we use algebra to generalize arithmetic?
- How do we use algebra to explain/model/represent natural phenomena?
- How do we apply our knowledge of physical, chemical and biological systems to live in harmony on Earth?
- How do we use cycles of scientific thinking to explain and gain a better understanding of the universe?
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8th Grade
What does it mean to be human?
English- How do we use language to construct meaning and value?
- How are humans unique?
- How do social scientists study human behavior?
- How can we expand our knowledge of ourselves and others through language?
- How can we put language together to create meaning?
- How can we take language apart to create meaning?
- How do we investigate and understand the biological, chemical, and physical universe?
- How do we use algebra to generalize arithmetic?
- How do we use algebra to explain/model/represent natural phenomena?
- Honors HA and AHA
- How do we use algebra to explain/model/represent natural phenomena?
- As the culmination of student studies at High Meadows, 8th-grade students will complete an 8th-grade Capstone project. Students will conduct research on a topic of their choice under the direction of a faculty advisor who will help students formulate their research question, compose a project proposal, carry out their research, write their formal paper, and present their final projects in the spring.
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A few middle schoolers built bridges for our school-wide Emphasis project on Rivers.
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The High Meadows community celebrates and perpetuates each individual’s quest for knowledge and skill, sense of wonder, and connection to the natural environment. We empower each to be a compassionate, responsible, and active global citizen.
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1055 Willeo Road, Roswell, Georgia 30075 | (770) 993-2940 | info@highmeadows.org
1055 Willeo Road, Roswell, Georgia 30075 | (770) 993-2940 | info@highmeadows.org
