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List of 11 items.
Reading & Literature
Read and explore novels, short stories, poems, and plays whose protagonists represent a variety of backgrounds and challenges
Identify literary elements: metaphor, symbolism, foreshadowing, theme, and historical and cultural references
Independent and in-class reading and literature criticism
Analyze and identify literary themes: friendship, identity, tolerance, diversity, and beliefs
Connect literature to history, author, personal experience, and the modern world through discussion, journal entries, and group work
Writing & Language Arts
Write multi paragraph essays (narrative, memoir, analysis and research paper)
Practice debate skills in an end of the school year debate
Practice Courageous Conversations (community circles)
Focus on writing process: prewriting, writing, editing, and rewriting
Develop research skills: internet and library
Maintain a notebook and practice note-taking and organizational skills
Strengthen vocabulary and grammar skills
Make oral and visual presentations
Analyze and write poetry, short stories, and fiction
Social Studies
Explore Medieval Europe, the Arabian Peninsula, West Africa, Japan, China, and The Americas
Politics, Economics, Geography, and Society of different civilizations
Note-taking skills: history notebook, document analysis, paragraph, and essay writing
Cause, effect, and impact of historical events Comparison of present-day case studies and literature to historical studies
Mathematics
Proportional relationships
Scale drawings
Percent change
Circles, angles, triangles, surface area, and volume
Operations with negative numbers
Expressions, equations, and inequalities
Data analysis, probability, and graphing techniques
Problem-solving strategies
Interpret and solve problems about real-world situations
Share multiple perspectives and communicate mathematical thinking
Science
Work as a scientist: observe, research, develop controlled experiments, communicate
Evolution
The microbiome, viruses, the immune system
Life processes: strategies and solutions from cells to plants to human beings
Genetics and heredity
Sex and drug education: accurate information leads to informed decisions
Develop research skills, apply scientific method, create models, write scientific arguments
Buddy science projects with Lower School students
Spanish
Project-based learning that focuses on authentic, meaningful situations. Verbal communication is highly emphasized
Use
Realidades
textbook, workbook, and interactive website
Active learning through Total Physical Response games, art, music, and dance
Celebration of Latino culture through study of music, stories, dance, traditional holidays, and geography
In-depth individual PowerPoint presentations on Mexico
Interrogatives, the imperative, the preterit tense, formulas tener que + infinitivo and ir + a + infinitivo
STEAM/Technology
Digital Citizenship: online persona, social media life
Google Slides presentation
Design Challenge: popsicle bridge design
No Wikipedia online scavenger hunt
Trebuchet design & build
3D Cell Models
Coding with Scratch 2.0 & Code.org
Visual Arts
Drawing: contour lines, shading, grid enlarging, layout, lettering
Guided self-portraits: Chuck Close
Day of the Dead papier-mache masks
Print making: linoleum blocks
Oaxacan animal sculptures
Arts of Asia: India, China, and Japan
Public art opportunities
Music
Advanced drum ensemble workshop
Year one drum ensemble
5-part 6/8 pattern
Dividing beat into three and four parts
Mayi, Ibo, Samba
Featured performance at African American Cultural Celebration
Exploration of the cultural role music plays in a community
Performance band for instrumentalists
Physical Education
Analyzing an opponent’s strengths and
weaknesses and using this analysis in a game situation
Demonstrating appropriate sportsmanship
in game situations
Working cooperatively with all peers
regardless of skill level
Community Engaged Learning
Service to Alzheimer’s patients, toddlers at
day care, and others off-site
St. Paul's Episcopal School
116 Montecito Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
510.285.9600
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