Electives provide students with multiple opportunities to explore a rich variety of topics and interests in order to develop their identities, learn about their strengths, discover and demonstrate their own competencies and plan for their future. Students decide which electives they want to take between a one year long Music Elective or four quarter long Exploratory Electives.

Key components of Middle School

Students are placed on core academic teams and share the same teachers.
More availability of extra-curricular and co-curricular activities.
Students are encouraged to explore. Exploration is done through after school clubs, in-school activities, and through our Exploratory classes.

Some classes are all year (Band, Choir, Orchestra) and others are 1/4 of the school year (9 weeks).

Middle School Students

Moving to a learning environment of more application of their learning.
Grades and academic performance become more important.
Moving from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation to be successful and do well in school.
Beginning to express the desire for more independence.

Course Schedule - All grades

Literacy (2 periods every day)
Math (2 periods every day)
Science (2 periods every day for 4 ½ weeks)
Social Studies (2 periods every day for 4 ½ weeks)
World Language (1 period daily)
PE/Health (1 period daily)
Exploratory Elective - Music (Band/Orchestra/Chorus) or Exploratory (1 period daily)
Lunch (30 minutes daily)
Advisory (9 minutes daily)

Your Elective Choices

All families decide whether to take a music elective or the exploratory elective. We have several after-school clubs and activities that allow students to continue participating in Music (Band/Orchestra/Chorus) while also participating in clubs that are extensions of some of the Exploratory classes. This way, students can participate in both without giving anything up.

Music Electives
(Year Long)

Music courses allow students to explore instrumental and/or vocal music for the entire year. Our goal is to provide students a place to grow musically, socially, and academically. Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity are "constants" in our music classes and rehearsals. Students’ participation in music fosters creativity, promotes critical thinking, and increases aesthetic awareness, equipping them to thrive in a 21st Century world.

Band
Chorus
Orchestra
Instrumental/Chorus Combo (3 days band/orchestra and 2 days chorus during the same class period)

Hadley Exporatory Electives (Quarter Long)

Hadley operates on a quarter system; students have 4 classes that last 9 weeks each. Exploratory courses allow students to explore hands-on, interest-driven challenges inspired by real-world science, technology, engineering, arts/design, and mathematics (STEAM) topics while fostering the development of important 21st century skills. Students rotate through four quarter long EXPLORATORY classes offering an array of projects and other learning activities that integrate inquiry based learning, creative expression, problem solving, and the engineering processes.

BookTok
Family & Consumer Science
General Music - Ukulele, Music in Media, Production
Performing Arts - Drama and Speech
STEM Exploration
Visual Arts

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