AIG students have the opportunity to participate in the Middle School Curriculum. Hope offers curriculum service as an elective class that is offered during a semester (for sixth grade) and an all year setting (seventh and eighth grades). All AIG Curriculum is thematic based to help build a strong relationship of main ideas. The AIG Curriculum is designed to reach the whole child through all content areas to ensure students approach an idea from multiple perspectives.
Pitt County middle school curriculum consists of three themes, Change, Patterns and Conflict. Each of these is a year long curriculum.
Change: Students will examine the universality of change through personal change, dreams, art, pendulum theory, early childhood growth, adolescent growth, rites of passage, and anthropological studies of cultural behavior. See the Change Syllabus for an indepth look at our Change curriculum.
Patterns: Students will investigate patterns in problem solving, knots and mazes, participate in an Arctic survival simulation to understand patterns in scarcity in economics, patterns in science fiction writing through the novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, patterns in DNA and genetics through growing Wisconsin Fast Plants and patterns in social dilemmas. For a more in depth look at our Patterns currlculum see the Patterns Syllabus.
Conflict: Students will interpret and analyze different aspects of conflict across the disciplines and develop skills in detecting bias and point of view. Students preparing to engage in the “struggle” must understand conflict. Students will investigate conflict through how they handle personal conflicty (internal and external), positive and negative consequences of people who brought about conflict throughout history, detecting bias and propaganda, mass hysterias throughout history, and adolescent conflict through reading the play "Into the Woods". For more information regarding out Conflict theme, please visit our Conflict Syllabus.