Read each lesson, watch the videos, and look at the diagrams.

Complete all questions including the vocabulary.

Try your best.

Ask for help when needed.

Complete at least 5 lessons total each day in at least 2 different subjects.

Language Arts is a survey of literature that explores the work of various writers of different time periods through a historical lens, studying a range of classic and contemporary literature to convey themes of American history, natural history, world civilization, and air and space. Students will also develop writing skills while producing informative, argumentative, and narrative compositions. Supported by a balance of fictional and informational texts, students will learn and practice close reading, modeled reading, writing, speaking, and listening strategies. To become critical consumers of text, students will be exposed to increasingly more complex texts to apply those skills, including high-quality contemporary works, the classics of American literature, and Homer’s Iliad. 

Mathematics is an introductory algebra course designed to prepare junior-high school students for Algebra I. The course focuses on strengthening needed skills in problem solving, integers, equations, and graphing. Students will begin to see the "big picture" of mathematics and learn how numeric, algebraic, and geometric concepts are woven together to build a foundation for higher mathematical thinking.

• The Real Number System: Student will explore different properties of numbers, and how to use them to simplify expressions and formulas to make computations easier.

• Modeling Problems in Integers: Student will translate and solve one-step equations, or two-step equations in context, and check solutions for reasonableness, using the order of operations, and by substituting values for variables.

• Modeling Problems with Rational Numbers: Student will add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals, fractions, and mixed numbers with variables, likes, and unlike denominators to solve one and two-step word problems.

• Proportional Reasoning: Student will convert between fractions, decimals, and percents, and compare them, and identify similar and congruent figures and their corresponding parts, and solve for missing measures.

• More with Functions: Student will identify the parts of a line or quadratic equation and be able to graph it, and explore arithmetic and geometric sequences, as well as exponential growth and decay.

• Measurement: Student will explore relationships between sets of lines and the angles they create, understand and use the Pythagorean theorem, and identify characteristics of polygons.

• Plane Geometry: Student will determine how to calculate areas of common polygons, identify different transformations and how to determine the type and original image location.

• Measures of Solid Figures: Student will calculate surface area and volume of different objects, and solve for missing measures of 3 dimensional figures when given surface area or volume, and explain the relationship between surface area and volume.

• Data Analysis: Student will identify the mean, median, mode, range, lower quartile, and upper quartile of different data sets and construct the best display of the information.

• Probability: Student will identify all the possible outcomes of a given situation using combinations, permutations, and probability, and determine if events are dependent or independent.

Science is a basic intermediate course intended to expose students to the designs and patterns in the physical universe. This course expands on 6th grade Science and 7th grade Science, providing a set of basic scientific skills and a broad survey of the major areas of science. Some of the areas covered in Science include the structure and properties of matter, measurement and mathematics of science, geology, oceanography, natural cycles and resources, science today and tomorrow, and astronomy.

The curriculum seeks to develop the students' ability to be aware of and participate in scientific inquiry. The units contain experiments and projects to capitalize on the students’ natural curiosity. The students will explore, observe and manipulate everyday objects and materials in their environment. Students at this level should show understanding of interrelationships between organisms and the environment, recognize patterns in systems, and expand their knowledge of cellular dimensions of living systems. Collectively, this should help students develop and build on their subject-matter knowledge base.

• Our Atomic World: Students will use their main senses for observation of the world around them and describe the atomic structure of different elements.

• Perceiving Things: Students will explore different quantities and how to measure them and use graphs to display and analyze data.

• Physical Geology: Students will identify different types of geological changes.

• Historical Geology: Students will discuss how the layers of the Earth’s crust can show history.

• Oceanography: Students will describe the different parts of the ocean, both living and non-living.

• Balance in Nature: Students will discuss the balance in nature regarding the various cycles.

• Science and Tomorrow: Students will explore the relationship between science and society and its possible effects on the future.

• The Solar System: Students will explore the solar system and its components.

• Astronomy: Students will explore celestial bodies and describe how to make distance measurements and make observations of objects in the universe.

History and Geography 800 focuses on American History, covering the subject from early exploration through the present day, with special emphasis given to the Civil War and to inventions and technology of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These areas of focus target three major content strands: History, Geography, and Government and Citizenship. Additionally, students will gain practice in research and writing, covering topics like explorers, the thirteen colonies, famous battles, the U.S. Constitution, western expansion, the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, propaganda, citizenship, and inventors. In addition to the default course program, History and Geography includes alternate lessons, projects, and tests, for use in enhancing instruction or addressing individual needs. 

The Career Explorations III course is designed to give middle school students an opportunity to explore various CTE subjects. Specifically, students will be able to learn about careers involving human-related services.

Each unit introduces one particular field and explains its past, present, and future. The goal is to whet students' appetites for these careers. Students can then explore that career in more detail as a high school student.

Health Education is a health science elective course that introduces students to what good health is, why good health is important, and what students should do to achieve good health.

• Body Essentials: This unit introduces the different systems in the human body, showing how the body develops.

• Physical Health: This unit demonstrates to students how they may develop good practices as they promote proper physical health.

• Social and Mental Health: This unit teaches how to establish strong social and mental health though true health wisdom.

• Preventive Healthcare and First Aid: This unit focuses instruction on safety, emergency care, and disease prevention.

• Responsible Living: This unit discusses how students may apply the principles of good stewardship, covering topics like pollution, drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.