Curriculum

Oregon School District

Overview
2007-2008
Brooklyn, Netherwood Knoll
and Prairie View Elementary Schools
Grades Kindergarten – 4

Rome Corners Intermediate School

Grades 5 - 6

Oregon Middle School

Grades 7 - 8
 OREGON SCHOOL DISTRICT
MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Oregon School District is to educate

all students by helping them acquire the skills,
knowledge, and attitudes needed to achieve their
individual potential, to contribute to a changing
society, and to be receptive to learning as a lifelong
process. The mission will be accomplished by
delivering a high quality program through the joint
efforts of students, staff, parents and community.

This curriculum overview is designed to provide information about what

is taught in the Oregon School District in grades Kindergarten through 8.
It does not list everything students are taught or all things to which
students are exposed. Instead, for each content area and grade, it outlines
the most important skills or units that students are taught.

Our curriculum is reviewed annually by K-12 Subject Area Committees.

The K-12 committees make changes when deemed appropriate.

The Oregon School District does not discriminate against pupils on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin,
ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, or physical, mental, emotional or learning
disability or handicap in its education programs or activities. Federal law prohibits discrimination in employment
on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, or handicap.
 KINDERGARTEN
LANGUAGE SOCIAL STUDIES
Speaking: • Demonstrate following class routines to show
• Verbally respond, using a complete sentence, consideration for oneself and others.
in both social and instructional settings by
expressing comments, questions, information, • Identify individual attributes about oneself
ideas, or opinions. and others.
• Role-play a character from a story, song, or
poem. • Differentiate between land, air, and water.

Listening:
• Interpret auditory messages to gain
information, follow directions, and solve MATHEMATICS
problems.
Number Sense:
Reading: • Orally count to thirty.
• Demonstrate pre-reading strategies.
• Count from any given point to 30.
• Choose and evaluate various forms of
• Create and explain varied pattern sequences
literature based on his/her aesthetic taste.
using manipulatives.
(genre-variety of types of reading)
• Pair and write numerical symbols with
• Verbally express letters and sounds of the
equivalent sets to ten.
alphabet.
• Prove if a set of one to ten objects is greater
Writing: than, less than, or equal to another set of one
to ten objects.
• Generate new ideas through group stories,
journals, experience stories, brainstorming, • Solve number problems that involve
webbing, and categorizing. combining, separating or comparing sets.
• Produce a meaningful written message, in a
Measurement:
specific situation, that utilizes initial sounds
• Estimate and prove length/height
and any combination of middle or ending
(longer/shorter), volume (holds more/holds
sounds.
less), and weight (heavier, lighter).
• Write or recite the order of the alphabet.
Spatial Sense:
• Identify and classify objects based on the
SCIENCE/HEALTH following shapes: Circle, square, triangle, and
rectangle.
Matter/Science, Technology & Society: • Interpret information given on a graph.
• Use the five senses to observe, describe,
and classify items in his/her daily
environment.

Life Processes and Diversity:

• Describe activities or methods to maintain
a healthy body.
• Explore plants and their characteristics.

Environment:
• Observe and describe the weather and
how it affects self and environment.
• Contribute positive ideas toward
conservation of the earth’s resources.
 KINDERGARTEN
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Sportsmanship:
• Demonstrate appropriate affective behaviors
during participation in specified activities.
Effort/Participation:
• Demonstrate high levels of effort and
participation in all specified activities.
Skills/Performance:
• Improve in the execution of fundamental
motor skills and selected activity related body
control skills through participation in
specified behaviors.
Attitude/Behavior:
• Demonstrate appropriate conduct in
controlled instructional settings.
MOVEMENT EDUCATION
• TLW demonstrate movement elements and
skills and demonstrate a working knowledge
of movement terminology.
• TLW connect movements to music to create
meaningful movement sequences aided by
music.
• TLW demonstrate an understanding of
choreographic principles, processes, and
structures. Moves to tell a story
understanding how gesture, mood,
expression and music create a message.
• TLW demonstrate and understand dance
from various cultures and historical periods.
Make connections between dance and other
movement activities.
• TLW understand how to prepare the body for
movement, identifying the components of
fitness and a variety of exercise methods to
achieve lifetime health and wellness.
• TLW understand appropriate performance
conduct for solo, partner and group work
and is able to respond to dance in written,
verbal and/or pictorial form.
LIBRARY/MEDIA SERVICES
Skills of information problem-solving:
• define the need for information
• initiate the search strategy
• locate the resources
• assess and comprehend the information
• interpret the information
• communicate the information
evaluate the product and process
GUIDANCE
Academic
• Acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that
contribute to successful learning in school and
across the life span.
• Develop the academic skills and attitudes
necessary to make effective transitions from
elementary to middle school, from middle school to
high school to a wide range of post secondary
options.
• Understand how their academic experiences
prepare them to be successful in the world of work,
in their interpersonal relationships, and
in the community.
Career
• Acquire the self-knowledge necessary to make
informed career decisions.
• Understand the relationship between educational
achievement and career development.
Personal/Social
• Acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and
interpersonal skills to understand themselves and
appreciate the diverse backgrounds and
experiences of others.
• Demonstrate effective decision-making, problem-
solving and goal-setting skills.
• Understand and use safety and wellness
skills.
ART
Design:
• Identify primary colors.
• Identify various textures in the environment
as rough, smooth, hard, soft.
Technique:
• Demonstrate proper use of selected art tools
and materials.
Art Heritage and History:
• Identify the use of basic shapes (triangle,
square, and circle) in cultural art form.
 FIRST GRADE
LANGUAGE
Speaking:
• Clearly express statements and/or questions
related to a specific topic.
• Respond to the sender’s message with a
statement of opinion/fact or with a related
question.
Reading:
• Comprehend, compare and evaluate a variety
of materials at an instructionally appropriate
level as defined in outcome 1-5.
• Sequence main story parts (beginning,
middle, and end.).
• Read an instructionally appropriate selection
using a variety of reading strategies.
Writing:
• Brainstorm, draft and edit with guidance at
least three related sentences in a writing log
and in a story.
• Organize given words (minimum of 7) using
alphabetical order to the first letter.
MATHEMATICS
Number Sense:
• Read, write, identify greater and less than and
sequence numbers and number patterns to
100.
• Write the number and identify the sets of tens
and ones to ninety-nine.
• Solve story problems involving addition and
subtraction to ten.
• Solve addition and subtraction facts to ten.
Measurement:
• Count pennies, nickels, and/or dimes to
purchase an object to thirty cents.
• Figure elapsed time utilizing a calendar
showing the days of the week and those
designated as yesterday, today, or tomorrow.
• Demonstrate the concept of half by dividing
an object into a set and into two equal parts.
• Transfer the reading of an analog (face) clock
to a digital clock to express time to the hour
and half-hour.
• Select the appropriate tool(s) necessary to
measure a specific object.
Spatial Sense:
• Organize, display and interpret information
through use of a bar graph.
SCIENCE/HEALTH
Matter:
• Describe and classify common objects in
their environment in order to sharpen
their powers of observation,
discrimination, and accurate description
Energy:
• Classify objects that are attracted to a
magnet and those that are not.
Life Processes:
• Select and describe simple disease
prevention techniques that promote
healthy lifestyles.
• Associate different animals with their
related habitats.
Environment:
• Demonstrate a sense of personal
responsibility for the environment by
formulating ways in which he/she can
prevent pollution.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Power (social and political systems):
• Self-evaluate his/her progress in following
class and school rules which show
consideration for self and others.
Culture:
• Investigate and report on the basic human
needs.
Economics:
• Examine and demonstrate understanding of
the roles of school and community helpers.
Geography:
• Utilize locational terms in relation to simple
maps.
LIBRARY/MEDIA SERVICES
Skills on information problem-solving:
• define the need for information
• initiate the search strategy
• locate the resources
• assess and comprehend the information
• interpret the information
• communicate the information
• evaluate the product and process
 FIRST GRADE
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Sportsmanship:
• Demonstrate appropriate affective behaviors
during participation in specified activities.
Effort/Participation:
• Demonstrate high levels of effort and
participation in all specified activities.
Skills/Performance:
• Improve in the execution of fundamental
motor skills and selected activity related body
control skills through participation in specified
behaviors.
Attitude/Behavior:
• Demonstrate appropriate conduct in
controlled instructional settings.
MOVEMENT EDUCATION
• TLW demonstrate movement elements and
skills and demonstrate a working knowledge
of movement terminology.
• TLW connect movements to music to create
meaningful movement sequences aided by
music.
• TLW demonstrate an understanding of
choreographic principles, processes, and
structures. Moves to tell a story
understanding how gesture, mood,
expression and music create a message.
• TLW demonstrate and understand dance
from various cultures and historical periods.
Make connections between dance and other
movement activities.
• TLW understand how to prepare the body for
movement, identifying the components of
fitness and a variety of exercise methods to
achieve lifetime health and wellness.
• TLW understand appropriate performance
conduct for solo, partner and group work
and is able to respond to dance in written,
verbal and/or pictorial form.
GENERAL MUSIC
• Perform, write and create rhythm patterns
using to a steady beat.
• Determine melodic contour using the
concepts of high, low, getting higher and
getting lower.
• Compare and contrast the timbre of speaking,
singing voices, and classroom instruments.
• Distinguish between fast and slow in music
through movement or performance.
• Analyze and compare loud and soft music.
• Perform movements to indicate different
sections in music.
ART
• Create two-dimensional compositions (i.e.
drawing, painting, printmaking, cutting and
pasting, etc.) using basic art elements
• Create three-dimensional forms (i.e.
sculpture, clay, paper, wood, etc.) using basic
art elements.
GUIDANCE
Academic
• Acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that
contribute to successful learning in school and
across the life span.
• Develop the academic skills and attitudes
necessary to make effective transitions from
elementary to middle school, from middle school to
high school to a wide range of post secondary
options.
• Understand how their academic experiences
prepare them to be successful in the world of work,
in their interpersonal relationships, and
in the community.
Career
• Acquire the self-knowledge necessary to make
informed career decisions.
• Understand the relationship between educational
achievement and career development.
Personal/Social
• Acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and
interpersonal skills to understand themselves and
appreciate the diverse backgrounds and
experiences of others.
• Demonstrate effective decision-making, problem-
solving and goal-setting skills.
• Understand and use safety and wellness skills.
 SECOND GRADE
LANGUAGE
Speaking:
• Present information on a topic with props to a
group.
Listening:
• Listen to an oral presentation and construct a
concept web showing the topic and supporting
details.
Reading:
• Utilize a variety of reading strategies to read
accurately unfamiliar selections at an
appropriate grade level.
• Utilize a variety of reading strategies to fluently
read an unfamiliar grade level passage.
• Comprehend unfamiliar written material using
skills of factual recall and meaning from
context at a second grade level.
Writing:
• Compose an original piece of writing using
main idea and supporting details.
• Complete a graphic organizer using at least two
research materials.
• Compose an informal, friendly letter.
SCIENCE/HEALTH
Physical Science-Matter:
• Investigate and describe the properties of
solids, liquids, and gases.
Earth Science-Matter:
• Investigate the origins of rocks and describe
their properties.
• Investigate and describe weather and air.
Life Processes-Health:
• Identify four major body organs (heart, brain,
lungs, and stomach) and determine ways to
keep them functioning properly.
Life Process:
• Illustrate life cycles to show life’s continuity.
Life Process-Environment:
• Participates in a plan to improve the
community’s environment.
SOCIAL STUDIES
(Power) Peace & Conflict:
• Evaluate his/her personal skills that facilitate
learning and develop a plan for growth.
Culture:
• Compare various family cultures.
• Investigate prominent Americans from past or
present
Geography:
• Design an original map with map key and
cardinal directions.
MATHEMATICS
Number Sense:
• Read, write, and sequence numbers and
number patterns to 999.
• Recall the addition and subtraction facts eleven
to eighteen.
• Solve two and three digit addition and
subtraction problems with and without
regrouping.
• Create, solve, and label addition and
subtraction story problems using learned facts.
Measurement:
• State or write the time to five-minute intervals
from a face clock or a digital clock.
• Recognize and state the value of coins (pennies,
nickels, dimes, quarters, and half-dollars);
count and write values to one dollar. Count
change to make a dollar.
• Determine and use the unit needed to measure
weight, length, or capacity of an object in U.S.
standard units (in/ft, oz/lb, cup/qt)
• Identify the fractional parts of the whole
(fourths, thirds, and halves).
Spatial Sense:
• Create and solve word and number problems
by interpreting information on bar graphs.
Technology:
• Perform addition and subtraction operations on
a calculator.
 SECOND GRADE

PHYSICAL EDUCATION GENERAL MUSIC

Sportsmanship: • Create, write and perform rhythm patterns
• Demonstrate appropriate affective behaviors including
during participation in specified activities. • Differentiate and perform step and skip
intervals and repeated tones.
Effort/Participation: • Perform melody alone and melody with
• Demonstrate high levels of effort and harmony.
participation in all specified activities. • Demonstrate fast and slow tempi, and
increasing and decreasing tempi through
Skills/Performance: symbols and performance.
• Improve in the execution of fundamental • Analyze and classify music in AB and ABA
motor skills and selected activity related body form.
control skills through participation in
• Differentiate among different musical
specified behaviors.
styles/cultures.
Attitude/Behavior:
• Demonstrate appropriate conduct in
controlled instructional settings. LIBRARY/MEDIA SERVICES
Skills on information problem-solving:
• define the need for information
GUIDANCE
• initiate the search strategy
Academic • locate the resources
• Acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that • assess and comprehend the information
contribute to successful learning in school and • interpret the information
across the life span. • communicate the information
• Develop the academic skills and attitudes
necessary to make effective transitions from
• evaluate the product and process
elementary to middle school, from middle school to
high school to a wide range of post secondary
options.
• Understand how their academic experiences
prepare them to be successful in the world of work,
in their interpersonal relationships, and ART
in the community.
Career • Create two-dimensional compositions (i.e.
• Acquire the self-knowledge necessary to make drawing, painting, printmaking, cutting and
informed career decisions. pasting, etc.) using basic art elements.
• Understand the relationship between educational
• Create three-dimensional forms (i.e.
achievement and career development.
sculpture, clay, paper, wood, etc.) using basic
Personal/Social
art elements
• Acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and
interpersonal skills to understand themselves and
appreciate the diverse backgrounds and
experiences of others.
• Demonstrate effective decision-making, problem-
solving and goal-setting skills.
• Understand and use safety and wellness skills.
 THIRD GRADE
LANGUAGE
Speaking:
• Create and present a demonstration or
information speech using complete sentences
and delivered with expression in an audible
voice.
• Orally read a literary selection using
expression.
Listening:
• Listen to a presentation and extract key
information in a written response.
Reading:
• Use reading strategies to unlock the meaning
of unknown vocabulary.
• Use critical thinking skills when analyzing
reading material.
Writing:
• Draft a story with a beginning, middle and
end to be published after guided editing.
• Write a guided multi-paragraph report on a
topic using a variety of resources.
SOCIAL STUDIES
(Power) Peace & Conflict:
• Determine and classify personal rights and
responsibilities within various organizational
units (family, school, community).
Culture:
• Investigate the culture of two geographic
regions
Geography:
• Create a physical map showing at least four
land and four water features.
• Identify and locate the four oceans and seven
continents and apply to regions of cultural
study.
BUSINESS EDUCATION
KEYBOARDING
• Demonstrate proper use of the home keys
using left hand fingers on (asdf) and right
hand fingers on (jkl;).
MATHEMATICS
Number Sense:
• Use a variety of strategies to create, solve, and
label story problems utilizing multiplication
through nines.
• Create, solve, and label story problems with
up to 4-digit numbers using addition and 4-
digit numbers using subtraction with and
without regrouping.
• Read, write, and compare numbers to 9,999.
• Find and create patterns with numbers,
shapes and manipulatives.
• Estimate, solve and label addition or
subtraction story problems by rounding whole
numbers to the nearest ten or hundred.
Measurement:
• Compare, add, and subtract simple fractions
with like denominators (halves through
sixteenths).
• Make change up to five dollars.
• Identify and use appropriate standard units of
length (in, ft, yd, mi), weight (oz, lb), and
capacity (c, pt, qt, gal) to measure common
objects.
• Transfer the reading of a face clock to a digital
clock and express the time in 15-minute
increments.
Spatial Sense:
• Define (by providing examples of) point, line,
line segment, angle, congruency, and
symmetry.
• Make, read, and interpret bar graphs, and
line graphs.
Technology:
• Operate a calculator to prove/check
mathematical equations in addition,
subtraction and multiplication.
 THIRD GRADE
SCIENCE/HEALTH
Science, Technology & Society:
• Set up an experiment and record, analyze,
and discuss the results.
• Identify the planets and their position in the
solar system.
Life Processes & Diversity:
• Identify characteristics of the six animal
groups.
• A. Demonstrate knowledge of the functions
and location of body organs
B. Design a personal plan of healthy habits.
Environment:
• Analyze and predict how natural and
man-made forces affect life forms in a given
environment.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Sportsmanship:
• Demonstrate appropriate affective behaviors
during participation in specified activities.
Effort/Participation:
• Demonstrate high levels of effort and
participation in all specified activities.
Skills/Performance:
• Improve in the execution of fundamental
motor skills and selected activity related body
control skills through participation in
specified behaviors.
Attitude/Behavior:
• Demonstrate appropriate conduct in
controlled instructional settings.
ART
• Create two-dimensional compositions (i.e.
drawing, painting, printmaking, cutting and
pasting, etc.) using basic art elements.
• Create three-dimensional forms (i.e.
sculpture, clay, paper, wood, etc.) using basic
art element.
LIBRARY/MEDIA SERVICES
Skills on information problem-solving:
• Define the need for information
• Initiate the search strategy
• Locate the resources
• Assess and comprehend the information
• Interpret the information
• Communicate the information
• Evaluate the product and process
GUIDANCE
Academic
• Acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that
contribute to successful learning in school and
across the life span.
• Develop the academic skills and attitudes
necessary to make effective transitions from
elementary to middle school, from middle school to
high school to a wide range of post secondary
options.
• Understand how their academic experiences
prepare them to be successful in the world of work,
in their interpersonal relationships, and
in the community.
Career
• Acquire the self-knowledge necessary to make
informed career decisions.
• Understand the relationship between educational
achievement and career development.
Personal/Social
• Acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and
interpersonal skills to understand themselves and
appreciate the diverse backgrounds and
experiences of others.
• Demonstrate effective decision-making, problem-
solving and goal-setting skills.
• Understand and use safety and wellness skills.
GENERAL MUSIC
• Cooperatively create, write and perform
rhythm patterns including in groups of
two’s and three’s.
• Perform and write melodic patterns on the
staff
• Perform melody alone, ostinatos, rounds, and
partner songs.
• Classify orchestral instruments into the four
families of the orchestra.
• Cooperatively incorporate dynamic levels of
pp, p, mp, mf, f and ff into a performance.
• Compare and contrast characteristics from
different musical styles and cultur
 FOURTH GRADE
MATHEMATICS
Number Sense/Technology:
• Read, write, order, compare, and identify
place value through 999,999 and express
numbers in expanded form.
• Create, estimate by rounding and/or find the
sum and/or difference using a four digit or
larger number with regrouping, in word
problems and money problems containing
irrelevant information and check for accuracy
with a calculator.
• Estimate, by rounding, and/or find the
product in word and money problems using
one digit multipliers and check for accuracy
with a calculator.
• Find the quotient in word and money
problems dividing a three digit number or
larger by a one digit number and check for
accuracy with a calculator.
• Interpret data and solve problems by
demonstrating the use of some of the 10
problem-solving strategies.
1. Make it simpler
2. Choose an operation
3. Guess and check
4. Use or look for a pattern
5. Act out or use object
6. Make a picture or diagram
7. Use or make a table
8. Make an organized list
9. Work backwards
10. Use logical reasoning.
Measurement:
• Add and subtract mixed numbers using like
denominators and express all answers in
lowest terms.
• Tell time to the minute on a face and digital
clock and solve word problems within an
hour.
• TLW select and use an appropriate metric
unit of linear measurement to solve problems
relating to length/distance (mm, cm, m, km)
and calculate perimeter.
Spatial Sense:
• Identify and interpret 2-dimensional shapes
and 3-dimentional geometric figures.
LANGUAGE
Speaking:
• Deliver an original and prepared oral
presentation that includes an introduction,
body and a conclusion.
Reading:
• Locate and read two or more topic-related
selections, interpret and organize the
information into three or more paragraphs.
• Read a selection from any genre and sequence
any three major events.
Writing:
• Compose a written summary of a literary work.
• Write a letter, a personal narrative and a
creative story that meets the criteria for that
form of writing using the writing process.
• Use spoken or written language to present and
defend a viewpoint.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Geography:
• Interpret a Wisconsin highway map to locate
features and reach destinations.
Culture:
• Compare and contrast his/her culture with
another culture/time period in Wisconsin.
Power/Peace/Conflict:
• Explain how government functions in
Wisconsin
Economics/Geography:
• Investigate one of the principle economic
activities in Wisconsin (manufacturing,
tourism, agriculture, lumbering, or mining)
and evaluate how this activity impacts the
environment.
SCIENCE/HEALTH
• Given a problem, a list of materials and
procedures, form a hypothesis, observe
and collect data, and form an evaluation.
• Recognize and analyze simple machines
and how they use energy to make work
easier.
• Apply knowledge of the six nutrients to
analyze individual foods and a daily diet.
• Demonstrate refusal skills and apply
accurate information to make healthy,
safe, and legal decisions.
• Analyze how behavioral and physical
adaptations of plants or animals enable
them, through interrelationships, to meet
their needs and survive in a changing
environment.
 FOURTH GRADE
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Sportsmanship:
• Demonstrate appropriate affective
behaviors during participation in specified
activities.
Effort/Participation:
• Demonstrate high levels of effort and
participation in all specified activities.
Skills/Performance:
• Improve in the execution of fundamental
motor skills and selected activity related
body control skills through participation
in specified behaviors.
Knowledge:
• Analyze real and hypothetical situations
to determine appropriate application of
concepts, rules, strategies and safety
procedures necessary for active
involvement in a specific activity.
Attitude/Behavior:
• Demonstrate appropriate conduct in
controlled instructional settings.
ART
• Create two-dimensional compositions (i.e.
drawing, painting, printmaking, cutting
and pasting, etc.) using basic art
elements.
• Create three-dimensional forms (i.e.
sculpture, clay, paper, wood, etc.) using
basic art elements.
LIBRARY/MEDIA SERVICES
Skills on information problem-solving:
• define the need for information
• initiate the search strategy
• locate the resources
• assess and comprehend the information
• interpret the information
• communicate the information
• evaluate the product and process
GENERAL MUSIC
• Create, write and perform
and known rhythm patterns in simple meters
of 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.
• Read, create and perform a simple melody
using notes and letter names on the treble
staff.
• Identify instruments and voices by sound.
• Cooperatively perform a two-part vocal piece
incorporating known dynamics with
crescendo and decrescendo.
• Analyze repetition and contrast in music and
arrange a composition in rondo form.
• Compare and contrast characteristics from
different musical styles and cultures.
ORCHESTRA
• Produce and assess representative sound on
his/her instrument.
• Identify, diagram and compare AB and ABA
form on assigned pieces.
• Perform simple melodies on different strings
using different tempi.
• Perform by reading music on his/her
instrument containing quarter and half notes,
D major finger patterns on 2 strings, staccato,
and legato bowing.
BUSINESS EDUCATION
KEYBOARDING
• Demonstrate proper keyboarding techniques
including using the correct reaches (dcd and jnj).
GUIDANCE
Academic
• Acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that
contribute to successful learning in school and across the
life span.
• Develop the academic skills and attitudes necessary to
make effective transitions from elementary to middle
school, from middle school to high school to a wide range
of post secondary options.
• Understand how their academic experiences prepare
them to be successful in the world of work, in their
interpersonal relationships, and
in the community.
Career
• Acquire the self-knowledge necessary to make informed
career decisions.
• Understand the relationship between educational
achievement and career development.
Personal/Social
• Acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and interpersonal skills
to understand themselves and appreciate the diverse
backgrounds and
experiences of others.
• Demonstrate effective decision-making, problem-solving
and goal-setting skills.
• Understand and use safety and wellness skills.
 FIFTH GRADE
LANGUAGE
Speaking:
• Orally present and support ideas or opinions
based on research using prepared notes.
• Incorporate discussion skills and exhibit
participation in informal situations.
• Expressively read aloud a selection of
literature.
Listening:
• Listen to an oral fiction selection, summarize
the story elements, and discuss with others.
Reading/Writing:
• Read factual information in order to create an
original product and share knowledge gained.
• Compare and contrast related readings
including selections from diverse cultures.
• Create at least three sequential paragraphs
on a specific topic.
SCIENCE
Life Processes & Diversity:
• Create an unknown organism which they
will describe, classify, and give reasons
why they chose that classification.
(System, Organisms, Evolution)
• Compare and contrast vertebrates and
invertebrates to increase student
understanding of the diversity within the
animal kingdom. (Theory, Diversity,
Fundamental Entities, Theory)
Environment:
• Conclude how environment changes over
time and diagram the interdependence
between organisms and the environment.
(Interdependence, Interaction,
Cause/Effect, Population, Change
Culture, Cycle, Equilibrium, Model.)
Environment:
• Use the scientific method to conduct an
experiment.
• Investigate sound and light experimenting
with the nature of sound and light and
how its properties relate to one another.
• Select and use an appropriate metric unit
of measurement to solve problems relating
to capacity/volume and weight/mass.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Power/Peace/Conflict:
• Analyze opposing viewpoints and evaluate
the implications on society.
Geography:
• Explain how the landforms, climate,
resources and transportation have
affected the livelihood of one geographical
region of the U.S.
Economics:
• Investigate and examine
immigration in the U.S.
• Explain the role of the Constitution of the
government in the United States.
MATHEMATICS:
Number Sense/Technology:
• Read, write, compare and order numbers
to include whole numbers to 999,999 and
decimals including word names.
• Solve algorithms that require
multiplication of up to four digits
(including money) by two digits and check
for accuracy using a calculator.
• Solve algorithms requiring division of four
digits (including money) by two digits.
• Solve problems that involve the addition
and subtraction of fractions and mixed
numbers with unlike denominators.
• Compute the sums and differences of two
or more whole numbers and decimals to
the thousandths using regrouping.
• Demonstrate the process of making
change up to $20.00 using the least
amount of currency possible.
• Measure the length of an object to the
nearest ¼ inch and nearest cm.
• Design a square or rectangle with
appropriate dimensions given an area in
square units.
• Solve problems by choosing he
appropriate operation, estimating and
calculating the answer.
 FIFTH GRADE

BAND
Beginning:
• Demonstrate proper care, assembly, and
use of the individual instrument.
• Demonstrate playing posture to produce a
characteristic tone incorporating attack,
sustain and release.
• Read and perform basic tonal patterns in
varied tonalities.
• Perform music containing whole, half,
quarter and eighth notes and rests in
simple meter using designated
articulation.
• Read and perform melodies independently
and in ensembles applying different tempi
and dynamics.
• Perform music in homogeneous/
heterogeneous group settings.
GENERAL MUSIC
• Create, write, perform, and count known
rhythm patterns.
• Distinguish between melodies in given
major and minor modes.
• Determine and perform chord changes in
known songs.
• Use expressive qualities to compare and
contrast music.
• Individually or cooperatively create a
variation on a given theme. ORCHESTRA
• Compare and contrast characteristics
• Compare the melodies being learned and
from different musical styles and cultures.
performed to the original composition in
relation to instrumentation, style, and
rhythm.
• Integrate staccato, legato, and detache
bowing styles into music for different Folk,
Baroque, and Classical periods.
• Play two parts music and differentiate
between melody and harmony.
• Perform by reading music using G major
finger patterns in 3/4 and 4/4 time
containing slurs.
• Compose and peer evaluate a short melody
in simple meter at least two different kinds
of notes or rest.
 FIFTH GRADE
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Sportsmanship:
• Demonstrate appropriate affective
behaviors during participation in specified
activities.
Effort/Participation:
• Demonstrate high levels of effort and
participation in all specified activities.
Skills/Performance:
• Improve in the execution of fundamental
motor skills and selected activity related
body control skills through participation
in specified behaviors.
Knowledge:
• Analyze real and hypothetical situations
to determine appropriate application of
concepts, rules, strategies and safety
procedures necessary for active
involvement in a specific activity.
Attitude/Behavior:
• Demonstrate appropriate conduct in
controlled instructional settings.
ART
Design:
• Produce the illusion of depth on a two
dimensional surface using simple perspective
and 1 point perspective.
• Produce an original monochromatic
composition.
Technique:
• Create a clay form using either additive or
subtractive methods and applying basic
modeling and forming techniques.
Art Heritage and History:
• Compare and contrast the styles of
assorted masters.
LIBRARY/MEDIA SERVICES
Skills on information problem-solving:
• define the need for information
• initiate the search strategy
• locate the resources
• assess and comprehend the information
• interpret the information
• communicate the
information
• evaluate the product and
process
BUSINESS EDUCATION
Keyboarding:
• Demonstrate the use of the touch method of
keyboarding including keeping eye on the cop.
• Apply word-processing to create a project/
• Demonstrate the use of the touch method of
keyboarding using the correct reaches (fbf
and jyj).
GUIDANCE
Personal:
• Demonstrate situations involving negative
and positive peer pressure.
• Identify personal boundaries and define
harassment.
• Identify positive methods of dealing with
stress.
Social:
• Utilize problem-solving strategies in
cooperative groups in order to create a
win/win situation.
Career-Vocational:
• Investigate and report the education, training,
and skills needed for a chosen career
 SIXTH GRADE
LANGUAGE
Speaking:
• Articulately deliver an oral presentation
that includes an introduction, body and
conclusion.
Listening:
• Take notes to summarize the main ideas
and supporting details of an oral
presentation without focusing on the
speaker’s delivery.
Reading:
• Identify the elements found in the selected
types of genre, and provide evidence to
support the elements of genre.
Writing:
• Write, revise and edit a research
document that includes a table of
contents and a bibliography using a
variety of sources.
• Identify and write an example of
persuasion by formulating a viewpoint
and supporting it with facts.
SCIENCE
Science, Technology and Society:
• Plan and conduct an investigation using
the scientific method.
Matter:
• Examine the structure and properties of
matter and when change occurs justify
whether it is chemical or physical.
• Describe how the three main types of
rocks are formed and examine various
characteristics of rocks to identify them.
Energy:
• Describe and demonstrate the movement
of electrons.
• Manipulate magnets to identify their
characteristics and explain their
interaction with magnetic and non-
magnet materials.
Environment:
• Develop and implement an environmental
action plan that will promote knowledge
and/or awareness of the environment or
positively impact the quality of the
environment after examining the ecology
for the woodland, prairie, and/or wetland.
MATHEMATICS
Number Sense/Technology:
• Write variable expressions utilizing a
single operation and use order of
operations, as applied to whole numbers,
to write and solve string operations.
• Explain the process and provide estimated
and accurate solutions involving
multiplication and division of decimals to
the thousandths.
• Create and solve multi-step word
problems with decimals by estimating and
computing (with calculators) using all four
operations.
• Estimate and accurately solve problems
involving multiplication and division of
fractions and mixed numbers with
answers expressed in lowest terms.
• Write and use ratios to illustrate the
relationship between fractions, decimals,
and percentages.
Measurement:
• Apply the concepts of time and use
elapsed time in real life applications.
• Identify triangles and quadrilaterals and
compute the perimeter and area of a
triangle, square, rectangle, and
parallelogram.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Culture:
• Identify and give example of each of the
seven- (7) cultural characteristics, which
will be used throughout the year.
Geography:
• Assess the relationship between
geographic features and their effect(s) on
the economy, culture, and boundaries of a
region.
Power:
• Using either historic or modern Canada or
Latin America, TLW compare and contrast
selected social groups, political groups or
forms of government.
Economics:
• Examine and interpret the economic
progression from self-reliance to
interdependence in Latin America and
Canada.
Peace/Conflict:
• Explain change in power, culture, or
boundaries as a result of peace and
conflict.
 SIXTH GRADE
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Sportsmanship:
• Demonstrate appropriate affective
behaviors during participation in specified
activities.
Effort/Participation:
• Demonstrate high levels of effort and
participation in all specified activities.
Skills/Performance:
• Improve in the execution of fundamental
motor skills and selected activity related
body control skills through participation
in specified behaviors.
Knowledge:
• Analyze real and hypothetical situations
to determine appropriate application of
concepts, rules, strategies and safety
procedures necessary for active
involvement in a specific activity.
Attitude/Behavior:
• Demonstrate appropriate conduct in
controlled instructional settings.
GENERAL MUSIC
• TLW demonstrate musical performance
proficiency through vocal and/or instrumental
performance alone or with others.
• TLW demonstrate musical creativity
through the use of improvisation and
composition alone or with others.
• TLW demonstrate an understanding of
music literacy through notations exercises
and reading musical symbols.
• TLW analyze and describe music and music
performances.
• TLW relate music to the arts, disciplines
outside of the arts, cultures, and history.
• TLW demonstrate the ability to correctly
operate available audio electronic equipment
commonly used in classroom and performance
settings.
BAND
Beginning:
• Demonstrate proper care, assembly, and use
of the individual instrument.
• Demonstrate playing posture to produce a
characteristic tone incorporating attack,
sustain and release.
• Read and perform basic tonal patterns in
varied tonalities.
• Perform music containing whole, half,
quarter, and eighth notes and rests in simple
meter using designated articulation.
• Read and perform melodies independently
and in ensembles applying different tempi
and dynamics.
• Perform music in
homogeneous/heterogeneous group settings.
ORCHESTRA
• Perform music for solo and ensemble
instrumentation and critique the role of both
melody and harmony.
• Analyze melodies and diagram their structure
s in a piece.
• Read and play musical notations involving C
and F major finger patterns, dotted half notes,
and staccato bowing.
• Write and compose short melodies using
dynamics and articulations.
ART
Design:
• Use the elements of art to create a two
dimensional artwork that may include line,
shape, value, pattern, texture and color.
• Use the principles of design to create a three
dimensional artwork that may include
balance, unity, rhythm, and variety.
Technique:
• Create and self-assess a realistic or abstract
painting while applying color theory.
Art Heritage and History:
• Individually or cooperatively survey a chosen
artist’s life and work and present a summary
using illustrations and original work in that
particular artist’s style and technique.
 SIXTH GRADE
KEYBOARDING GUIDANCE
• Demonstrate use of the touch method of Personal/Social:
keyboarding using proper hand placement, • Explore issues common to middle school
posture, and finger stroking at an appropriate students and apply effective communication
1-minute speed. and problem solving skills.
• Apply proofreading and editing skills
• through keyboarding and language Learning:
• applications. • Identify strategies for succeeding in middle
school

Career-Vocational:
• Identify factors that are important to consider
when choosing careers and leisure time
activities.

HEALTH
FIRST AID LIBRARY/MEDIA SERVICES
• TLW demonstrate basic first aid procedures to Skills on information problem-solving:
treat breathing problems and CPR victims. • define the need for information
• initiate the search strategy
AODA • locate the resources
• assess and comprehend the information
• TLW analyze the influences of society and • interpret the information
media in relationship to drug use validating
• communicate the information
the effects and utilizing refusal techniques.
• evaluate the product and process
HUMAN GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
• TLW demonstrate empathy and
understanding that occur with sexual
orientation and beliefs about gender roles in
current American society and develop ways to
build and foster positive relationships; and
healthy self images and analyze the influence
of media, family, and society on values.

• TLW identify parts of the reproductive

systems and understand consequences of
sexual behaviors using the decision making FAMILY & CONSUMER EDUCATION
model to make healthy choices.
• Evaluate a day’s meals for recommended
servings.
• Work as a cooperative team member.
• Demonstrate basic food preparation
VIOLENCE PREVENTION
procedures and techniques.

• Recognize triggers that ignite anger and

demonstrate constructive anger management
skills.
• Apply problem solving skills when dealing
with interpersonal conflicts.
 SEVENTH GRADE
LANGUAGE
Speaking:
• Present an informative speech using
conventions of formal presentation, such
as volume, posture, props, and
organization (introduction, body of
information, and conclusion).
Listening:
• Listen to a selection and identify tools
descriptive writing: comparisons (simile,
metaphor), hyperbole, and personification.
Reading:
• Analyze fiction in terms of
characterization, setting, plot, author’s
purpose, and supporting details, as
elements in the creation of a work of
literature.
Writing:
• Organize the English language in terms of
the eight word families/parts of speech:
nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
conjunctions, preposition, interjections,
and pronouns.
• Draft, edit, and revise an informative
composition which incorporates a limited
topic and narrative view.
• Draft, edit, and revise a descriptive piece
of writing using descriptive writing tools:
comparisons (metaphor/simile) and
imagery (sensory details).
MATHEMATICS
Algebra:
• Evaluate expressions using the order of
operations and solve one and two step
equations.
Number Sense:
• Demonstrate the use of fractions,
decimals, and proportions to derive and
justify solutions to percent problems.
Statistics:
• Collect and organize data and defend one
or more meaningful conclusions.
• Produce a game and justify the probability
of at least three simple learner defined
events in the game.
Geometry:
• Analyze and construct 2-dimensional
geometric relationships.
• Demonstrate techniques of sectioning and
transfer to solve problems of area,
perimeter and circumference in irregular
polygonal and circular shapes.
LIFE SCIENCE
• Compare and contrast the structures and
functions of a living cell and the diversity
of microscopic life by comparing it to a
functioning organism.
• Dissect selected organisms comparing and
contrasting the anatomy of these animals
to the human body systems.
• Utilize selected systems of the human
body and their structures and discuss the
functions of each and their
interrelationships with other organisms.
• Construct a model of biome and discuss
how the factors of biomes interrelate in
response to a given variable.
• Utilize and design classification keys for
identification of animals, or unknown
species, according to defined structures
and life functions utilizing available
technology and resources.
• Utilize available information to compare
and contrast current and former theories
of cellular and organismal evolution.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Culture:
• Analyze the similarities and differences of
people of different cultures and regions to
help strengthen common bonds among
individuals of diverse backgrounds in our
local communities, Wisconsin, the United
States, and the world.
Economics:
• Research and communicate the movement
of people, goods, and ideas across the
earth to meet social-economic needs.
Geography:
• Recognize geography terms and physical
geography that deals with the physical
features and changes of the earth.
Peace/Conflict:
• Analyze the impact man has on the
environment through science and
technology to be able to critique past,
present, and future environmental effect
 SEVENTH GRADE
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Sportsmanship:
• Demonstrate appropriate affective
behaviors during participation in specified
activities.
Effort/Participation:
• Demonstrate high levels of effort and
participation in all specified activities.
Skills/Performance:
• Improve in the execution of fundamental
motor skills and selected activity related
body control skills through participation
in specified behaviors.
Knowledge:
• Analyze real and hypothetical situations
to determine appropriate application of
concepts, rules, strategies and safety
procedures necessary for active
involvement in a specific activity.
Attitude/Behavior:
• Demonstrate appropriate conduct in
controlled instructional settings.
ART
Design:
• Create a composition using highlights and
shadows to create a three-dimensional
effect on a two-dimensional surface.
Technique:
• Use and evaluate two-point perspective
technique in a drawing to produce a
three-dimensional effect.
• Create a drawing using graphing
techniques, and then paint using either
realistic color or expressive or
nonrealistic color.
Art Heritage and History:
• Analyze works of art specific to a cultural
group and create a work of art reflective of
that culture.
HEALTH
• Analyze food labels to become aware of
their personal diet habits.
• Assess how the non-use and abuse of
legal/illegal substances affect physical,
social and emotional health.
LIBRARY MEDIA SERVICES
Skills of information problem solving:
• define the need for information
• initiate the search strategy
• locate the resources
• assess and comprehend the information
• interpret the information
• communicate the information
• evaluate the product and process
FAMILY & CONSUMER EDUCATION
• Evaluate a day’s meals for recommended
servings.
• Demonstrate basic food preparation
procedures and techniques.
• Work as a cooperative team member to
produce a community project.
• Analyze the relationship of family to
individual development.
• Assess how the non-use and abuse of
legal/illegal substances affect physical, social
and emotional health.
GUIDANCE
Personal/Social:
• Identify risk factors and protective factors
to promote violence prevention and
resiliency.
Learning:
• Identify skills which will contribute to
improved school performance.
Career-Vocational:
• Identify abilities and skills using
assessment resources to begin designing
an academic career plan.
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
• Select and use appropriate drawing
equipment to complete seven different
orthographic drawings (full scale).
• Use the computerized cad-draw software
program to draw descriptive furnishings
in specified rooms of an existing (top view)
floor plan.
• Operate safely and proficiently the band
saw, disc sander, and vertical drill press
to produce a wood project.
• Design, construct, and test a car powered
by a mousetrap from prescribed materials
 SEVENTH GRADE
KEYBOARDING
• Demonstrate use of the touch method of
keyboarding using proper hand
placement, posture, and finger stroking at
an appropriate 2-minute speed.
• Refine proofreading and editing skills
using simple word processing and spell
check software by completing and
understanding the formatting of a simple
unbound report.
INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN
(9 week course)
• Utilize orally and in writing some
commonly used foreign language
vocabulary and sentences.
• Perform a short dialog using adequate
cultural gestures and common phrases.
• Present some important geographical and
cultural information on German speaking
countries.
INTRODUCTION TO SPANISH
(9 week course)
• Utilize commonly used foreign language
terms in various situations.
• Prepare and demonstrate a dialogue using
cultural gestures and common phrases.
• Investigate and report on cultural aspects
of one or more Spanish speaking
countries which have been located on a
map.
VOCAL MUSIC (Chorus)
Time & Place:
• Identify, describe and discuss style
characteristics of traditional and non-
traditional music.
Elements:
• Use the elements of music to sing as a
cooperative member of a choral ensemble and
as a soloist; demonstrating understanding of
the elements, and the ability to sing
independently while sustaining technical and
expressive accuracy.
Literacy:
• Compose a piece for one or more voices.
BAND
Intermediate:
• Peer or self-evaluate playing posture and
tone quality.
• Perform music containing sixteenth note,
dotted, and triplet rhythms incorporating
designated meters.
• Demonstrate varied tempi, dynamics, and
articulation to produce a variety of music
styles independently in ensembles and in
whole group performance.
• Perform in homogeneous and
heterogeneous group settings various
styles of music representing different
historical periods.
ORCHESTRA
• Compose and perform on his/her
instrument an eight-measure piece using
his/her own system of notation.
• Improvise over 12-bar blues using jazz
swing style.
• Discuss and experiment with melody,
harmony, and texture in relation to
dynamics.
• Perform pieces written in homophonic and
polyphonic style and classify into different
historical periods
 EIGHTH GRADE
LANGUAGE (English)
Speaking:
• Develop and deliver a panel or individual
presentation.
Listening:
• Summarize panel or individual presentations.
Reading:
• Interpret literature through the author’s use
of literary elements; mood, suspense,
historical context, irony, foreshadowing,
parody, and symbolism.
Writing:
• Draft, revise, and edit a persuasive
composition of at least 4 paragraphs
which incorporates a limited topic stating
a specific position.
• Draft, revise, and edit an original
narrative dialogue.
• Develop and extend personal
vocabularies and utilize these words in
written or oral expressions. Vocabulary
will be based on literary selections and
will be appropriate to grade level.
MATHEMATICS AND PRE-ALGEBRA
Number Sense/Technology:
• Solve problems using order of operations
real numbers in numerical or variable
expressions.
• Estimate square roots of non-perfect
squares using both a square root table
and a calculator and solve problems using
the Pythagorean Theorem.
• Solve equations in one variable identifying
and using the axioms and theorems of
algebra.
• Write and solve multi-step linear
equations using rational numbers.
• Translate application problems into
mathematical expressions/equations and
vice-versa then apply simplifying and
evaluating techniques.
• Graph simple linear equations in two
variables on a coordinate plane.
Measurement/Spatial Sense:
• Determine perimeter and area of complex
shapes using techniques of segmentation.
• Determine volume and surface area of a
geometric shape by applying formulas and
segmentation.
• Determine, through definition, the
measure of the angles formed by a
transversal line cutting two parallel lines.
ALGEBRA I
(applicable for students enrolled)
Note: Apply estimation, checking, and techniques
of data organization, technology, and algebraic
skills to solve application problems throughout
the following units of instruction.
Number Sense/Technology:
• Use statistics, graphs, and technology as
tools to interpret mathematical
relationships expressed as functions.
• Calculate slope, investigate slope patterns,
and graph and interpret linear
relationships.
• Solve linear inequalities in one and two
variables.
• Solve systems of linear equations in two
variables and verify their solutions both
algebraically and through the use of
technology.
• Perform mathematical operations to
simplify polynomials.
• Solve second degree equations in one
variable using algebraic techniques.
• Perform mathematical operations to
simplify rational expressions and solve
rational equations.
• Solve problems with rational and
irrational numbers in all four operations
and estimate their position on a number
line relative to other numbers.
EARTH/SPACE SCIENCE
Science, Technology & Society:
• Predict weather conditions using weather
related technology and instruments.
Energy:
• Combine past and present scientific
knowledge to support and present the theory
of plate tectonics and apply it to explain a
problem or situation within the community or
vicinity.
• Compare and contrast the earth’s position,
motions, and significance in the universe with
respect to those of other celestial objects.
• Investigate the significance of celestial objects
in relation to our solar system.
 EIGHTH GRADE
SOCIAL STUDIES
(US History to 1900)
• Investigate the political, religious, and
economic roots and impact of settlement
patterns in North America.
• Analyze the impact of technology and
resources on the economic development of
U.S. society.
• Examine historic examples of U.S.
involvement in world affairs up to 1900.
• Analyze the development and expansion of
governmental power in order to evaluate
the balance of societal and individual
rights.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Sportsmanship:
• Demonstrate appropriate affective
behaviors during participation in specified
activities.
Effort/Participation:
• Demonstrate high levels of effort and
participation in all specified activities.
Skills/Performance:
• Improve in the execution of fundamental
motor skills and selected activity related
body control skills through participation
in specified behaviors.
Knowledge:
• Analyze real and hypothetical situations
to determine appropriate application of
concepts, rules, strategies and safety
procedures necessary for active
involvement in a specific activity.
Attitude/Behavior:
• Demonstrate appropriate conduct in
controlled instructional settings.
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
• Select and use appropriate drawing
equipment to complete seven different
orthographic drawings and dimension
them to full scale specifications.
• Use computerized cad-draw software
program to develop and draw a front
elevation of a multi-level house.
• Design, build, and race a CO2 powered car
using prescribed materials and
specifications.
• Design, build, and test a side bridge truss
to given size and load specifications.
ART
Design:
• Create a work of art demonstrating the
principles of design (balance, unity,
variety, and repetition) and justify the use
of these principles.
Technique:
• Use various materials, tools, and
techniques to create a three-dimensional
art form.
• Use blind contour drawing techniques and
analyze them in terms of contour line.
Art Heritage and History:
• Contrast works of art, past and present,
and create a two-dimensional composition
reflecting a particular style.
LIBRARY/MEDIA SERVICES
Skills of information problem-solving:
• define the need for information
• initiate the search strategy
• locate the resources
• assess and comprehend the information
• interpret the information
• communicate the information
• evaluate the product and process
 EIGHTH GRADE
KEYBOARDING/BUSINESS
• Demonstrate use of the touch method of
alphabetic and numeric keyboarding using
proper hand placement, posture, and finger
stroking at an appropriate 3-minute speed.
• Refine word processing skills through
proofreading, editing, revision, and
composition skills by completing document-
processing tasks for personal business letters
and simple reports.
• Have an awareness of the role and function of
business in the American economic system.
• Develop an awareness of financial
management and the role of business in the
American economic system.
• Be acquainted with the opportunities and
process needed to establish a successful
business.
GUIDANCE
Personal/Social:
• Examine the life skills that are essential to
assisting young people develop emotional,
physical, and social well being.
Learning:
• Using WSAS results develop a personal
learning strength assessment and design a
plan for scholastic improvement.
Career-Vocational:
• Investigate occupational areas, identify school
subjects necessary for career prep and
predict the positive and negative effects of
career choice on one’s personal life.
FAMILY & CONSUMER EDUCATION
• Develop a concept of “family” and “work of
the family”, investigate various family
actions related to this work, and analyze
the significance of the work to individuals
and society.
• Produce an independent project using the
skills of time management, problem
solving and direction following.
• Use the practical reasoning process to
identify, analyze and predict ways of
dealing with concerns of families.
HEALTH
• TLW analyze and explain the relationship
of each system of the body to everyday
activities such as eating and exercise.
• TLW analyze food labels, health related
products and services in order to
determine their effect upon personal
requirements.
• TLW create a presentation about how
infectious diseases are prevented and
transmitted.
• TLW combine hereditary, environmental,
and/or lifestyle factors to create
situational characters which would likely
be victims of certain diseases.
• TLW assess how the non-use, use, and
abuse of legal and illegal substances affect
physical, social, and emotional health.
• TLW examine the consequences of early
sexual behavior and recognize abstinence
as the only healthy choice.
• TLW analyze the relationship between
personal sexual behavior, its
consequences, and life choices.
 EIGHTH GRADE
ORCHESTRA
• Compose and perform a solo on his/her
instrument which has 4 phrases, a
melodic theme, dynamics, bowings,
fingerings, and a single line harmony part.
• Conduct a short segment of an orchestra
piece using correct beat pattern in legato
and staccato style.
• Transpose a simple tune to a new key and
different style.
• Coach a peer on a solo and give
constructive criticism for stylistic
improvements.
VOCAL MUSIC (Chorus)
Time & Place:
• Identify, describe and discuss style
characteristics of traditional and non-
traditional music.
Elements:
• Use the elements of music to sing as a
cooperative member of a choral ensemble and
as a soloist; demonstrating understanding of
the elements, and the ability to sing
independently while sustaining technical and
expressive accuracy.
Literacy:
• Compose a piece for one or more voices.
BAND
Intermediate:
• Peer or self-evaluate playing posture and
tone quality.
• Perform music containing sixteenth note,
dotted, and triplet rhythms incorporating
designated meters.
• Demonstrate varied tempi, dynamics, and
articulation to produce a variety of music
styles independently in ensembles and in
whole group performance.
• Perform in homogeneous and
heterogeneous group settings various
styles of music representing different
historical periods.
GERMAN I
• Demonstrate the ability to initiate and carry
on a conversation about familiar German I
topics.
• Apply listening and reading skills to isolate
familiar language from normal conversation
and samples of very simple authentic
materials in order to get what information
they need.
• Give limited descriptions in a written form on
familiar German I topics.
• Demonstrate survival skills in a foreign
language classroom.
SPANISH I
• Apply numbers up to 1000 to situations
based on quantity, time, and calendar.
• Employ basic conversational phrases and
interrogatives in a competent communicative
form.
• Appropriately apply the verbs SER and
ESTAR through oral and written description
of people and places.
• Communicate actions using –ar, -er and –ir
verb with correct conjugations with
appropriate subject pronouns in a competent
communicative fashion
CAREERS
• Investigate occupational areas.
• Access and use the various sources of career
information to conduct a career search
• Develop a 4-year plan that supports their
career goal.
• Prepare items necessary for seeking
employment.