Our Seventh grade program continues to build independence in all our students and instill a sense of purpose rooted in the Gospel values. Our Junior High program equips students will the skills needed to succeed in high school.
Curriculum
Religion
Our Religion curriculum encourages students to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, while they evaluate and grow in their faith through service, retreats, weekly Mass participation, and leadership opportunities. Students are introduced to a wide variety of prayers in the classroom and engage in discussions centered on the life of Christ and his universal call to evangelization.
Reading
Our Reading Curriculum covers short stories, poetry, and novels of all genres by both classical and current authors. Students will recognize, demonstrate, analyze, and discuss language, character traits, plot and other literary devices. As students examine the structure of fiction and nonfiction, they will continue to interpret and develop their vocabulary through context clues, demonstrate an understanding through the use of supporting evidence, and advance their analytical thinking. Class discussions, small group responses, personal reflection and self-monitoring strategies will be used to help with reading comprehension, critiquing, and fluency.
Language Arts
Our Language Arts covers active reading, critical thinking, and the writing process with attention to the grammatical concepts that affect clarity and style. Topics covered within Language Arts include critical thinking strategies, active reading strategies, and well-developed paragraph construction. This course emphasizes the development of specific writing types: arguments, informative/explanatory texts, and narratives in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Students demonstrate increasing sophistication in all aspects of language use. A variety of literature and informational texts serve as models to improve writing skills.
Math
Our Math curriculum studies the relationship between ratios and proportions, percent, integers and rational numbers. Students explore expressions, equations, and inequalities while studying geometrical figures with area and volume. Probability and statistics are introduced using dice games and sports statistics.
Our Accelerated Math curriculum covers the language of algebra and all operations with integers, rational numbers, powers and roots. Students study the beginnings of functions and solving systems of equations with graphing and algebraically. Sampling and inference are practiced with probability and statistical analysis. The year ends with congruency, similarity and transformations of geometric figures.
Our Accelerated Math curriculum covers the language of algebra and all operations with integers, rational numbers, powers and roots. Students study the beginnings of functions and solving systems of equations with graphing and algebraically. Sampling and inference are practiced with probability and statistical analysis. The year ends with congruency, similarity and transformations of geometric figures.
Science
Our Science curriculum offers an in-depth exploration of Earth Science by exploring the cycles and patterns of the Earth and Moon. Students with investigate the different rock/soil layers, Earth’s physical layers, geological processes that formed the Earth, climate, moon phases, ocean currents, and Earth’s geological time scale.
Social Studies
Our Social Studies curriculum explores the five themes of social studies (culture, economics, geography, government, and historical perspective) as they study America. Writing, projects, performances, class discusion, note taking, videos, music, research, maps, etc. are used in their exploration of the time that starts with the development of America and goes up to 1900.
Weekly Specials: Music Elective (band, orchestra, or music), Foreign Language Elective (Spanish, French, or German), Physical Education, Technology, and Mass.
Field Trips: Carillon Park, University of Dayton Aquatic Center
Unique Experiences: Muse Machine Performances, Talent Show, Science Fair, STEM
Field Trips: Carillon Park, University of Dayton Aquatic Center
Unique Experiences: Muse Machine Performances, Talent Show, Science Fair, STEM
