7th and 8th Grades

Seventh and Eighth Reading

·         Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

·         Determine a theme or central idea of a text.

·         Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

·         Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.

·         Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts.

·         Analyze differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience in a text.

·         Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types.

·         Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems.

Departmental Science Grades Fifth – Eighth 

·         Formulate hypotheses that can be tested by collecting data.

·         Conduct scientific experiments that control all but one variable.

·         Describe features common to all cells that are essential for growth and survival.

·         Diagram how matter and energy cycle through an ecosystem.

·         Describe the relationship between living and nonliving components of ecosystems an describe how that relationship is in flux due to natural changes and human actions.

·         Describe the basic structure of DNA.

·         Explain that all objects and substances in the natural world are composed of matter in different states with different properties.

·         Understand that there are different forms of energy with unique characteristics.

·         Understand the cellular structure of single-celled and multicellular organisms.

·         Explain that energy cannot be created or destroyed but instead can only be changed from one form into another or transferred from place to place.

Departmental Math Grades Fifth – Eighth 

Eighth Grade Math

·         Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers

·         Work with radical and integer exponents

·         Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneously linear equations

·         Define, evaluate and compare functions

·         Use functions to model relationships between quantities

·         Understand congruence and similarity using physical model, transparencies, or geometric software

·         Understand and Apply the Pythagorean theorem

·         Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data

Seventh Grade Math

·         Analyze  proportional relationships and use them to solve real world and mathematical problems

·         Apply and extend previous understanding of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numb

·         Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expression

·         Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations

·         Draw, construct and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationship between them

·         Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population

·         Draw informal comparative inferences about two population

·         Investigate chance processes and develop, use and evaluate probability models.

Sixth Grade Math

 ·         Solve Algebraic expressions

·         Write linear equations

·         Solve simple inequalities

·         Solve real world problems: equations and inequalities

·         Find the coordinates of points on a coordinate plane

·         Find the length of line segments

·         Graph equations on coordinate plane

·         Find the area of triangles

·         Find the area of parallelogram and trapezoids

·         Find the area of polygons and composite figures

·         Find the radius diameter, and circumference of a circle

·         Recognize the nets of solids

·         Find the surface area of solids

·         Collect and tabulate data

Fifth Grade Math

·         Write numbers in word and standard form

·         Place Value, Comparing Numbers, Rounding and Estimating

·         Multiply and Divide Whole Numbers

·         Use multiplication and division to solve real world problems.

·         Fractions and Mixed Numbers

·         Multiplying and Dividing fractions and mixed numbers

·         Write numerical expressions to show how numbers are related

·         Simplify Algebraic Expressions

·         Find the base and height of a triangle

·         Find the area of a triangle

·         Find ratios

·         Understand and Write Decimals

·         Multiply and Divide decimals

·         Make and Interpret Graphs

·         Identify point, line and line segments and ray

·         Classify Properties of triangles and four sided figures

·         Find Surface Area and Volume

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION:

St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran School exists to bring children to know Jesus Christ through (1) His Creation, (2) His Son, Jesus Christ and (3) His Holy Word, through the Bible.  Biblical stories are taught that stress that Jesus wants us to be a sharing, loving, caring and forgiving community of Christians.

Our Christian Education classes are based on the teachings and practices from the Holy Bible. We believe in God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The purpose of Christian education is to help direct the process of human development towards God’s objective for man; 2 Timothy 3:17 King James Version (KJV) 17 “That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”