Academic Classes at North Country School 8th Grade
Pre-Algebra and Modified Pre-Algebra
Social Studies
Language Arts and Literature
Earth Science
Language
Mode of Study
Glencoe Math Accelerated, McGraw-Hill Education
History Alive! The United States, Bert Bower
Reading and Writing Workshop Model using select texts
Natural features found in the local environment are used for site studies.
Students use conversation to develop language skills in this course.
Special Units
• Film study • Period poetry • Skits and historical reenactments
• Hispanic cultures • Conversational vocabulary • Verb conjugation
-Gain a critical understanding of the history, geography, economic, political, and social institutions, traditions, and values of the United States as expressed in both their unity and diversity -Apply terms relevant to the content appropriately and accurately -Interpret timelines of key historical events, people, and periods; locate significant historical places and events on maps -Utilize research strategies, methods, and sources to obtain, organize, and interpret historical data -Analyze how the past influences the lives of individuals and the development of societies
-Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend reading selections -Apply reading strategies to improve understanding and fluency -Comprehend a broad range of reading materials -Understand how literary elements and techniques are used to convey meaning -Read and interpret a variety of literary works -Compose well-organized and coherent writing for specific purposes and audiences -Speak and listen effectively using language appropriate to the situation and audience -Prepare and orally present original work
• Problem solving investigations • Integer operations • Procedural skill and fluency • Inquiry labs • Geometric modeling
Objectives -Extend an understanding of ratios and Skills and develop understanding of proportionality to solve single- and multi-step problems including percent problems -Develop a unified understanding of number, recognizing fractions, decimals, and percents as different representations of rational numbers -Extend addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to all rational numbers -Reason about relationships among two-dimensional figures using informal geometric constructions -Work with three-dimensional figures, relating them to twodimensional figures by examining cross-sections -Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume of two- and three-dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes and right prisms -Begin informal work with random sampling to generate data sets and learn about the importance of representative samples for drawing inferences
• Refugee novel study • Poetry study • Character analysis essay • Novel study
• Climate change • Avalanche study • Erosion site study • Stream morphology
-Use scientific inquiry to formulate testable questions and hypotheses -Use a variety of tools and techniques to collect data -Use data as support for observed patterns and relationships, and to formulate hypotheses to be tested -Use scientific inquiry to evaluate explanations and findings -Identify patterns of change and use those observations to make predictions about the future -Understand that weather variables are interrelated -Identify common forms of rocks
-Gain a deep knowledge and understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world and become acquainted with the unique features of places where Spanish is spoken -Develop new insights into the nature of language and culture and establish comparisons not only between languages, but also between the Hispanic cultures and students’ own -Acquire the vocabulary necessary to successfully handle a variety of basic communicative tasks in Spanish both orally and in writing