This Yearlong Course is designed for 7th grade students or 8th grade beginners. Band instruments include flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, trumpet, french horn, trombone, baritone/euphonium, tuba, bass, and percussion. Band is a full year commitment.

Any questions regarding a student’s eligibility are to be directed to the Band Instructor, Andrea Fennern at afennern@ogsd.net

This Yearlong Course is a continuation of Concert Band and is designed for 8th grade students who have completed at least one year of band. Enrollment is based on instructor approval. Band is a full year commitment.

Course is for 8th grade students only.

This Yearlong Course is an advanced class for students who have completed at least one year of band. Students must audition for this course. The jazz band class performs concert band and jazz band literature throughout the year, with an emphasis on jazz. Enrollment is based on audition/instructor consent. Jazz Band is a full year commitment including mandatory Friday and Saturday concerts and festivals throughout the school year.

Course is for 8th grade students only.

Semester Course: App Creators will expose students to computer science as a means of computationally analyzing and developing solutions to authentic problems through mobile app development, and will convey the positive impact of the application of computer science to other disciplines and to society.

Semester Course: Art 1 includes a comprehensive study of art history, with a focus on various art styles, materials, and hands-on projects. Art projects will include drawing, painting, color studies, pastels, paper mache’, and other media experimentation.

Semester Course: Chess will teach students to learn or improve their play of the game of kings. Students will learn the pieces, openings, tactics and strategies to enjoy the game of chess. Students will then use that information to participate in class tournaments. The study of chess has been shown to improve critical thinking, planning, analysis, and the ability to follow through with a course of action.

Semester Course: Biomedical Engineering is a STEM field elective that combines biology and engineering, applying engineering principles and materials to medicine and healthcare. In this elective, you will collect and analyze medical data to diagnose disease. You will solve medical mysteries through hands-on projects and labs, measure and interpret vital signs, and explore how you can design robots to complete medical functions. Using Lego robotics, you will use engineering principles with biological knowledge to address medical needs.

Semester Course: Digital Arts and Design is an elective that takes art and uses technology as the primary tool. During the semester students will form skills across various software to expand the foundation for all digital arts and design such as photo manipulation, animation, and graphic design.

Previous art skills and classes not required.

Semester Course: Game Analysis covers the definition and history of games around the world. Students will analyze various games such as children's games, board games, card games, and video games. Students will dive deep through play, research, analysis, and exploration on what makes games fun.

Semester Course: This Health course goes beyond the importance of physical fitness. It provides the students with knowledge and strategies to support overall well-being and sense of empowerment. In this course students will spend approximately 2 weeks exploring, strengthening, and reflecting on each of the following topics and how they impact personal health: Nutrition, Emotional and Mental Conditions, Social Relationships, Spirituality, Financial and Occupational Options, our Environment, and Intellectual Development, with engaging activities and projects.

Semester Course: Piano Lab is a beginning level course for students who wish to develop basic music and piano playing skills. Class time will be spent in group instruction on music notation, theory, and history as well as individual practice on the keyboards to learn playing techniques and performance pieces.

Semester Course: Being a student aide is for students who have a strong desire to support administrators, secretaries, teachers, and/or counselors with administrative tasks. Students applying for this position should possess qualities that exhibit leadership skills, accountability, integrity, ethics, respect, trustworthiness, a positive attitude, supportiveness and respect for others.

Students may take this elective twice in one year.

Course open to 8th grade students all year and to 7th grade students for the second semester

Students must have great attendance, ahere to RISE expectations and earn above a 2.0 GPA.

Application must be completed prior to approval. Must have parent permission.

Yearlong Course: Advanced Art stresses more complicated techniques involving painting, drawing, portraits, sculpture, and mixed media. Students will learn strategies for art criticism, talking and writing about their own and other artists' artwork. Various art styles and important artists will also be discussed.

Prerequisite for this course: students must have completed Art 1 or prior teacher approval.

Yearlong Course: AVID 7 students will develop and reinforce life skills, and knowledge to successfully enter and complete a college prep academic program in high school. Students will learn and apply study skills and learning strategies to improve performance in the content areas: note-taking, outlining, writing, speaking, reading, test strategies and the use of technology to improve performance will be stressed.

AVID 7 students will automatically continue on to AVID 8.

Students in this course must meet AVID criteria. To see if you qualify and are interested, please contact Asst. Principal, Miles Garner at mgarner@ogsd.net

Yearlong Course: AVID 8 students will continue to develop and reinforce skills learned in AVID 7, including life skills and knowledge to successfully enter and complete a college prep academic program in high school. Students will continue to learn and apply study skills and learning strategies to improve performance in the content areas: note-taking, outlining, writing, speaking, reading, test strategies and the use of technology to improve performance will be stressed.

Must have taken AVID 7 to be in this class or prior administrator approval.

Students in this course must meet AVID criteria. To see if you qualify and are interested, please contact Asst. Principal, Miles Garner at mgarner@ogsd.net