After instruction students will be expected to:

Language Arts/Reading

Language Arts classes meet for three periods in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.  These classes stress daily reading and writing and include the traditional subject areas of composition, grammar, and literature.  As a result of the learning process students will:

• Incorporate reading strategies (i.e. skimming, outlining, predicting, scanning, summarizing, questioning, evaluating, sequencing, reviewing, listing, grouping, labeling) through a variety of literary works.
• Read and comprehend literature representing diverse cultures, eras, and genres (i.e. novels, short stories, biographies, nonfiction, and poetry).
• Identify plot, characterization, setting, climax, resolution, and point of view.
• Implement active reading strategies: comprehension, questioning, connecting, predicting, reviewing, and evaluating.
• Identify mood, theme, and author's purpose.
• Be expossed to a number of different experiences, in both writing and literature, to expand their vocabulary.
• Learn and utilize the parts of speech using nouns, pronouns, and verbs.
• Identify and use transitional words and phrases beyond introductory words.
• Write in a variety of creative modes for different audiences.
• Utilize the writing process to create, revise, and publish multi-paragraph narrative, expository, and persuasive papers using focus, support, and elaboration.
• Listen and speak effectively in formal and informal situations using language appropriate to the situation and audience.

Mathematics 

Science

• Explore atoms and atomic structure.
• Describe the history of the periodic table and how ti is organized.
• Compare and contrast chemical bonds and how elements bond.
• Identify chemical reactions, formulas, and equations.
• Describe, calculate, and graph motion and momentum.
• Explain the relationship between mass and inertia.
• Identify and implement Newton's Laws of Motion.
• Describe and calculate work, power, mechanical advantage and efficiency.
• Recognize the various types of simple machines and their uses.
• Differentiate between temperature, thermal energy and heat.
• Describe the devices used to measure temperature.
• Identify insulators and conductors.
• Compare heat engines, internal combustion engines, and refrigerators.
• Describe electric charge, electric current, and electric circuits.
• Relate the behavior of magnets to magnetic fields.
• Explain how motion can produce electricity and electricity can produce motion.
• Identify different types of ecosystems and how they change.
• Compare biomes of the world.
• Describe population size, carrying capacity and limiting factors in an ecosystem.
• Recognize different interactions within an ecosystem.
• List and identify biotic and abiotic factors.
• Draw and label the water, nitrogen, and carbon cycles and identify their purpose.

Social Science

• Know and describe and responsibilites of the three branches of government: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.
• Understand the important events that led up to America's independence and adoption of a new constitution.
• Identify and compare the basic political systems of Illinois and the United States as prescribed in their constitutions.
• Understand what the Compromise of 1850 accomplished.
• Analyze the causes and effects of events at the beginning of the American Civil War.
• Identify the political movements made because of the Great Depression.
• Explain the effects of increasing and declining imports and exports to an individual and to the nation's economy as a whole.
• Explain how the new kinds of transportation and communication spread economic growth.
• Describe ways in which the United States developed as a world political power.
• Examine the settlement of the West and the interactions with the Native Americans.
• Explain the factors that led to World War I.
• Analyze how World War I & II affected the lives of Americans.
• Examine the cause and effect of the Holocaust.
• Examine the actions that led to the outbreak of World War II.

PE/Health

• Achieve and maintain an appropriate level of physical fitness.
• Acquire movement skills in individual activities.
• Develop team-building skill by participating in group games.
• Promote healthy living practices.
• Promote students physical, mental, and social health.
• Develop lifetime fitness routines.

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