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Middle School Academics

What to Expect

Each school is individual, however, most schools generally follow the below listed guidelines in education.

What to Expect in Sixth Grade

Children will develop deeper reading and interpretation skills.
Children will write reports and essays, learn to revise and do re-writes.
Children will learn how to write effective business letters.
Children will learn how to discuss issues in a group/debate forum.
Children will continue with spelling and enrich their vocabulary.
Children will learn about clauses, both dependent and independent.
Children will learn how to identify sentences, such as simple, compound, and complex.
Children will learn the proper use of troublesome words, such as good, well, sit, set, etc.
Children will learn more about map features, including Prime Meridian and dessert identification.
Children will learn about Ancient Civilizations.
Children will learn about the Laws of Nature.
Children will learn about natural rights.
Children will learn about positive and negative numbers and be able to add and subtract with them.
Children will learn about exponents.
Children will be introduced to ratios and proportions.
Children will learn how to convert measurements.

What to Expect in Seventh Grade

Children will continue to read deeper forms of literature.
Children will be introduced to more varied writing assignments, such as poems, stories, essays and summaries.
Children may be introduced to Latin and Greek root words.
Children will learn about prepositional phrases.
Children will learn about and study complements.
Children will learn about participles and participle phrases, gerunds, and infinitives.
Children will learn about World War I and World War II.
Children will learn about 20th century history, such as the New Deal, Prohibition, etc.
Children will learn the order of operations.
Children will have a basic introduction to algebra and geometry.
Children will learn how to add, subtract, multiply and divide with fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals.
Children will learn how to interpret data from tables and graphs.
Children will learn Earth Science.

What to Expect in Eighth Grade

Children will competently know how to write various writing assignments.
Children will learn how to identify misplaced modifiers in a sentence.
Children will learn about sentence structure, and study parallelism.
Children will learn about the origins of the Cold War.
Children will learn about the Korean War.
Children will learn about the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement.
Children will be able to solve basic equations.
Children will learn how to simplify expressions.
Children will learn how to add, subtract, multiply and divide exponents.
Children will learn how to change decimals to fractions and percent, and vice-versa.
Children will learn about matters in motion.

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