7th Grade
Required
Language Arts
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated, Online - Off Campus, Online - On Campus |
| Online Course Type | First Time Credit |
Course Description
Seventh Grade English Language Arts will continue to develop reading, writing, information literacy, and listening and speaking skills. As students read a variety of texts, they will use metacognitive and active reading strategies to comprehend increasingly more complex material including fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama. Students will use the writing process in order to create multi-page pieces in a variety of genres including fiction, argument, information, and analysis. Media literacy skills will be developed as students conduct research and use their evaluative for information gathering. Students are also expected to participate in formal and informal speaking and discussion opportunities.
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of Sixth Grade English Language Arts, Sixth Grade Challenge English Language Arts, or Sixth Grade Compacted English Language Arts.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Draw conclusions, make inferences, and analyze by citing relevant and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and inferences drawn from the text.
- Using appropriate text, determine the theme(s). Summarize text distinct from personal opinions. Explain the central/main idea(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the text.
- Analyze how a text's organization or overall structure contributes to meaning.
- Analyze how an author develops his/her point of view or purpose and distinguishes it from those of others.
- Analyze how specific word choices contribute to meaning and tone.
- Analyze how the setting, characters, and plot of a text affect each other and contribute to meaning.
- Evaluate an author's argument, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
- Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, independently and proficiently. Read and comprehend informational text independently and proficiently.
- Conduct research to answer a question; gather relevant sources, print and digital; integrate information using a standard citation system.
- Follow a writing process to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience; develop writing with narrative, expository, and argumentative techniques.
- Follow rules for collegial discussions and decision-making, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
- Plan and deliver appropriate presentations based on the task, audience, and purpose including multimedia components in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize significant points.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Seventh Grade Challenge English Language Arts will continue to develop reading, writing, information literacy, and listening and speaking skills. As students read a variety of texts, they will use metacognitive and active reading strategies to comprehend increasingly more complex material including fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama. Students will use the writing process in order to create multi-page pieces in a variety of genres including fiction, argument, information, and analysis. Medial literacy skills will be developed as students conduct research and use their evaluative for information gathering. Students are also expected to participate in formal and informal speaking and discussion opportunities. This course requires students to work toward reading and writing expectations beyond the 7th grade level.
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of Sixth Grade English Language Arts, Sixth Grade Challenge English Language Arts, or Sixth Grade Compacted English Language Arts.
Enrollment Notes
Students who have been successful in this course typically read independently at an 8th grade level or higher.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Draw conclusions, make inferences, and analyze by citing relevant and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and inferences drawn from the text.
- Using appropriate text, determine the theme(s) of a text . Summarize the text distinct from personal opinions. Explain the central/main idea(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the text.
- Analyze how a text's organization or overall structure contributes to meaning.
- Analyze how an author develops his/her point of view or purpose and distinguishes it from those of others.
- Analyze how specific word choices contribute to meaning and tone.
- Analyze how the setting, characters, and plot of a text affect each other and contribute to meaning.
- Evaluate an author's argument, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
- Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, independently and proficiently. Read and comprehend informational text independently and proficiently.
- Conduct research to answer a question; gather relevant sources, print and digital; integrate information using a standard citation system.
- Follow a writing process to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience; develop writing with narrative, expository, and argumentative techniques.
- Follow rules for collegial discussions and decision-making, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
- Plan and deliver appropriate presentations based on the task, audience, and purpose including multimedia components in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize significant points.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Seventh Grade Compacted Challenge English Language Arts is scheduled in conjunction with Academic Stretch. This course meets on alternating school days and is ONLY offered to students identified for Rockwood's Gifted Program. It will continue to develop reading, writing, information literacy, and listening and speaking skills. As students read a variety of texts, they will use their metacognitive and active reading strategies to comprehend increasingly more complex material, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will use the writing process in order to create multi-page pieces in a variety of genres including fiction, argument, information, and analysis. Media literacy skills will be developed as students conduct, research, and use their evaluative skills for information gathering. Students are also expected to participate in formal and informal speaking and discussion opportunities. This course requires students to work toward reading and writing expectations beyond the 7th grade level and instruction moves at an accelerated pace.
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of Sixth Grade English Language Arts, Sixth Grade Challenge English Language Arts, or Sixth Grade Compacted Challenge English Language Arts.
Enrollment is limited to students who have been identified for the Rockwood Gifted program.
Enrollment Notes
Students who have been successful in this course typically read independently at an 8th grade level or higher.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Draw conclusions, make inferences, and analyze by citing relevant and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and inferences drawn from the text.
- Using appropriate text, determine the theme(s). Summarize the text distinct from personal opinions. Explain the central/main idea(s) of a text and cite evidence of its development; summarize the text.
- Analyze how a text's organization or overall structure contributes to meaning.
- Analyze how an author develops his/her point of view or purpose and distinguishes it from those of others.
- Analyze how specific word choices contribute to meaning and tone.
- Analyze how the setting, characters, and plot of a text affect each other and contribute to meaning.
- Evaluate an author's argument, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
- Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, independently and proficiently. Read and comprehend informational text independently and proficiently.
- Conduct research to answer a question; gather relevant sources, print and digital; integrate information using a standard citation system.
- Follow a writing process to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience; develop writing with narrative, expository, and argumentative techniques.
- Follow rules for collegial discussions and decision-making, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
- Plan and deliver appropriate presentations based on the task, audience, and purpose including multimedia components in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize significant points.
Social Studies
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated, Online - Off Campus, Online - On Campus |
| Online Course Type | First Time Credit |
Course Description
The World Geography course focuses on the human and physical characteristics of the world, with emphasis on the relationships between humans and their world and the impact on the establishment and development of societies. The course is organized by the regions of North America, Latin/South America, Southwest Asia, Africa, Asia and Europe. Units include the concepts of government, climate, economics, and culture. Students will develop and apply social studies inquiry skills of questioning, gathering and analyzing sources of evidence, communicating information and taking informed action. Students will develop skills for analyzing a variety of data and text, and social studies writing including arguments. This new understanding of our world will prepare students for our global society and their role as active citizens.
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of 6th Grade Challenge World History or World History.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.
- Describe the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations in shaping people’s lives.
- Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
- Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves.
- Analyze the combinations of cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from other places.
- Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.
- Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.
- Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.
- Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
The Challenge World Geography course focuses on the human and physical characteristics of the world, with emphasis on the relationships between humans and their world, and the impact on the establishment and development of societies. The course is organized by the regions of North America, Latin/South America, Southwest Asia, Africa, Asia and Europe. Units include the concepts of government, climate, economics, and culture. Students will develop and independently apply social studies inquiry skills of questioning, gathering and analyzing sources of evidence, communicating information and taking informed action as they analyze issues, evaluate problems and critique solutions. Students will develop skills for analyzing a variety of complex data and text, and social studies writing including arguments. This new understanding of our world will prepare students for our global society and their role as active citizens.
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of 6th Grade Challenge World History or World History.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.
- Describe the roles of political, civil, and economic organizations in shaping people’s lives.
- Explain how economic decisions affect the well-being of individuals, businesses, and society.
- Explain why standards of living increase as productivity improves.
- Analyze the combinations of cultural and environmental characteristics that make places both similar to and different from other places.
- Analyze how relationships between humans and environments extend or contract spatial patterns of settlement and movement.
- Analyze the ways in which cultural and environmental characteristics vary among various regions of the world.
- Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.
- Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments
Math
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated, Online - Off Campus, Online - On Campus |
| Online Course Type | First Time Credit |
Course Description
Math 7 builds on the skills and concepts developed in Math 6. Instructional time will focus on six critical areas: (1) developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships; (2) develop an understanding of absolute value to solve problems involving integers; (3) developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations; (4) working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving scale drawings, area, surface area, and volume; (5) drawing inferences about populations based on samples and (6) developing an understanding of simple probability models and using them to make predictions.
Course Prerequisite
Completion of 7th Grade Math.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Apply and extend previous understanding of numbers to add and subtract rational numbers.
- Apply and extend previous understanding of numbers to multiply and divide rational numbers.
- Solve problems involving the four arithmetic operations with rational numbers.
- Apply properties of operations to simplify and to factor linear algebraic expressions with rational coefficients
- Understand how to use equivalent expressions to clarify quantities in a problem.
- Write and/or solve linear equations in one variable
- Use angle properties to write and solve equations for an unknown angle.
- Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
- Solve problems involving scale drawings of real objects and geometric figures, including computing actual lengths and areas from a scale drawing and reproducing the drawing at a different scale.
- Solve problems involving ratios, percentages, and proportional relationships.
- Use data from multiple samples to draw inferences about a population and investigate variability in estimates of the characteristic of interest.
- Investigate the relationship between theoretical and experimental probabilities for simple events.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 6, 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Integrated Math 7/8 is an accelerated course that merges Math 8 and part of Math 7 skills and concepts. Instructional time will focus on nine critical areas: (1) formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations, including modeling an association in bivariate data with a linear equation, and solving linear equations and systems of linear equations; (2) grasping the concept of a function and using functions to describe quantitative relationships; (3) working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving scale drawings, area, surface area, and volume; (4) analyzing two- and three-dimensional space and figures using distance, angle, similarity, and congruence, and understanding and applying the Pythagorean Theorem; (5) solving problems involving scale drawings and working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume; (6) drawing inferences about populations based on samples; (7) developing an understanding of simple probability models and using them to make predictions; (8) extending the number system to include irrational numbers and (9) develop an understanding of exponential properties to simplify expressions.
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of Math 6/7.
Students who completed Math 6 may enroll in this course after successful completion of the summer online Ramp Up to Math 7/8 course.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Write and/or solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable.
- Understand that two-dimensional figures are congruent if a series of rigid transformations can be performed to map the pre-image to the image.
- Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations and reflections on two-dimensional figures using coordinates.
- Understand that two-dimensional figures can be similar if a series of transformation (rotations, reflections, translations and dilations) can be performed to map the pre-image to the image.
- Use angle properties to write and solve equations for an unknown angle.
- Explore angle relationships and establish informal arguments.
- Investigate concepts of square and cube roots.
- Use models to demonstrate a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse.
- Understand the relationship between area, surface area and volume.
- Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities.
- Apply concepts of slope and y-intercept to graphs, equations, and proportional relationships.
- Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent expressions.
Science
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated, Online - Off Campus, Online - On Campus |
| Online Course Type | First Time Credit |
Course Description
Earth and Space Science is the study of the processes that operate on Earth and the Earth's place in the solar system and the galaxy.Students will explore weather and climate patterns and interactions that drive changes over multiple time scales.Students will investigatethe processes that drive Earth’s conditions in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere and the change of the planet over time by studying fossils and platetectonics.Students will then look at the big picture by studyingEarth’s place in the Universe and its grand scale in both space and time.Human impact will be embedded throughoutthe course to explore society’s interaction with the planet.
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of 6th Grade Challenge Life Science or 6th Grade Life Science.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.
- Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.
- Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
- Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.
- Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Earth and Space Science is the study of the processes that operate on Earth and the Earth's place in the solar system and the galaxy. Students will explore weather and climate patterns and interactions that drive changes over multiple time scales. Students will investigate the processes that drive Earth’s conditions in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere and the change of the planet over time by studying fossils and plate tectonics. Students will then look at the big picture by studying Earth’s place in the Universe and its grand scale in both space and time. Human impact will be embedded throughout the course to explore society’s interaction with the planet. Students will be expected to work more independently, with increased rigor, and be able to analyze more complex multidimensional information as well as apply advanced math, literacy and technological skills.
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of 6th Grade Challenge Life Science or 6th Grade Life Science.
Enrollment Notes
Students will be expected to work more independently, with increased rigor, and be able to analyze more complex multidimensional information as well as apply advanced math, literacy and technological skills.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.
- Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.
- Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
- Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.
- Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.
- Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.
- Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth's mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes.
- Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions.
- Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system.
Physical Education and Health
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated, Online - Off Campus, Online - On Campus |
| Online Course Type | First Time Credit |
Course Description
Physical Education/Health in the 7th Grade will provide students the opportunity to learn and practice a variety of fundamental movement skills while participating in various games, team and individual/lifetime sports, as well as team building activities.Primary focus will be on skill development and application in team sports.Character education traits will be incorporated throughout the class. Physical fitness will be emphasized through the teaching of the principles of health and skill-related fitness.Health topics will be integrated throughout the course and will include nutrition, the cardio-respiratory system, the reproductive system, first aid and personal safety, and alcohol use and abuse, inhalants and other illegal drug use and abuse.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Define, develop, and demonstrate sport and activity skills in a variety of team, individual, and lifetime sports.
- Acquire and apply the personal fitness and wellness skills associated with a healthy active lifestyle.
- Develop and demonstrate responsible safety and social skills while participating in a variety of physical activity settings.
- Demonstrate various dance forms and activities and understand the benefits as a lifetime activity.
- Acquire and apply wellness skills associated with a healthy active lifestyle.
- Understanding the negative effects different substances have on overall health and wellness.
- Demonstrate the refusal skills needed to avoid unhealthy behaviors.
- Examine and analyze the effects of risk behaviors on a healthy lifestyle.
Elective
World Language
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated, Online - Off Campus, Online - On Campus |
| Online Course Type | First Time Credit |
Course Description
Seventh Grade Spanish 1 is a year-long class equivalent to the 1st semester of the Spanish 1 high school course. Seventh Grade Spanish 1 is centered around thematic units to give students exposure to Spanish culture, language and grammar through a variety of activities. Students will read, listen and watch a variety of Spanish texts, audio selections, and programs related to food, family, travel, daily routines, entertainment and life in the Spanish-speaking world. They will learn to initiate, participate in, and sustain short conversations on a variety topics in Spanish. Written and spoken presentations will be a regular part of the learning experience. Throughout the year, students will develop an understanding of how cultural perspectives influence cultural practices and products as they research and study food, family, travel, daily routines, entertainment and life in the Spanish speaking word. They will also develop the habits and strategies of a successful language learner
Course Prerequisite
Seventh Grade Spanish 1 is the equivalent of the first half of the high school Spanish 1 course. Students will complete the second half of the high school Spanish 1 course, Eighth Grade Spanish 1, in 8th grade.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
- Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read or viewed on a variety of topics.
- Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, and viewers.
- Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
- Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated, Online - Off Campus, Online - On Campus |
| Online Course Type | First Time Credit |
Course Description
Seventh Grade French 1 is a year-long class equivalent to the 1st semester of the French 1 high school course. Seventh Grade French 1 is centered around thematic units to give students exposure to French culture, language and grammar through a variety of activities. Students will read, listen and watch a variety of French texts, audio selections, and programs related to food, family, travel, daily routines, entertainment and life in the French-speaking world. They will learn to initiate, participate in, and sustain short conversations on a variety topics in French. Written and spoken presentations will be a regular part of the learning experience. Throughout the year, students will develop an understanding of how cultural perspectives influence cultural practices and products as they research and study food, family, travel, daily routines, entertainment and life in the French-speaking word. They will also develop the habits and strategies of a successful language learner
Course Prerequisite
None
Enrollment Notes
Seventh Grade French 1 is the equivalent of the first half of the high school French 1 course. Students will complete the second half of the high school French 1 course, Eighth Grade French 1, in 8th grade.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
- Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read or viewed on a variety of topics.
- Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, and viewers.
- Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
- Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Course Details
| Offered at | Rockwood South Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Semester |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated, Online - Off Campus, Online - On Campus |
| Online Course Type | First Time Credit |
Course Description
Seventh Grade German 1 is a year-long class equivalent to the 1st semester of the German 1 high school course. Seventh Grade German 1 is centered around thematic units to give students exposure to German culture, language and grammar through a variety of activities. Students will read, listen and watch a variety of German texts, audio selections, and programs related to food, family, travel, daily routines, entertainment and life in the German-speaking world. They will learn to initiate, participate in, and sustain short conversations on a variety topics in German. Written and spoken presentations will be a regular part of the learning experience. Throughout the year, students will develop an understanding of how cultural perspectives influence cultural practices and products as they research and study food, family, travel, daily routines, entertainment and life in the Spanish speaking word. They will also develop the habits and strategies of a successful language learner
Course Prerequisite
Seventh Grade German 1 is the equivalent of the first half of the high school German 1 course. Students will complete the second half of the high school German 1 course, Eighth Grade German 1, in 8th grade.
Enrollment Notes
This course is only available at Rockwood South Middle School.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
- Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read or viewed on a variety of topics.
- Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, and viewers.
- Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
- Use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Course Details
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| Grade Levels | 6, 7, 8 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
The ESOL program focuses on understanding of social and academic language to promote competency in school and community settings through individualized instruction and support. Students acquire the needed social language skills to engage in our school community. An important objective is to guide students to improve academic language so they learn and grow toward competency in Rockwood curricular areas. Note the following description of the ESOL program: •Instruction is provided in students' home schools. •Instructional models include one-on-one, small group, or assistance within the regular classroom instruction. •Social language instruction is emphasized with the concurrent development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing through authentic student-centered materials •Academic language instruction is a strong focus of the program. •Computer technology is an educational component. •Instruction in U.S. cultural literacy is provided. •Support of students' home cultures through comparison of cultures within the instructional framework, including district-wide celebrations, school-based multicultural festivals, and educational outreach to individual classrooms is emphasized.
Fine Arts
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Semester |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Explore new opportunities to develop your creativity by experimenting with a variety of art materials that may include drawing, painting, mixed media, printmaking, sculpture, photography, digital media, and more. Be free to take risks while working with others to explore new art processes and discover creative ways to express your interest in art. Both beginning and experienced artists will be challenged in this course through a personalized learning approach that honors the connection between personal context and our world.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.
- Develop criteria to guide making a work of art or design to meet an identified goal.
- Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.
- Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.
- Interpret art by analyzing art-making approaches, the characteristics of form and structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
- Compare and explain the difference between an evaluation of an artwork based on personal criteria and an evaluation of an artwork based on a set of established criteria.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Semester |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Think outside the box and work with others to communicate new ideas. Collaborate to create original designs that connect your big ideas to real world experiences. Design processes may include use of technology, drafting, mixed media, choice-based methods, and more. Leave class able to judge positive design messages and know how to use your strengths as a tool for your work, Both beginning and experienced designers will be challenged in this course through a personalized learning approach.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Apply methods to overcome creative blocks.
- Develop criteria to guide making a work of art or design to meet an identified goal.
- Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.
- Apply visual organizational strategies to design and produce a work of art, design, or media that clearly communicates information or ideas.
- Interpret art by analyzing art-making approaches, the characteristics of form and structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
- Compare and explain the difference between an evaluation of an artwork based on personal criteria and an evaluation of an artwork based on a set of established criteria.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Cadet Band is a student’s second year of instruction in the Rockwood Band Program. Students who do not take beginning band must demonstrate their competency in an audition for the instructor to participate in band during 7th grade year. This course is designed for students interested in continuing their music education on an instrument with a focus on technical development and music literacy. Attendance at all performances is required and part of the class grade as covered in the Rockwood School District Concert Performance Expectations document.
Course Prerequisite
Successful beginning band experience and/or permission of the Band Instructor.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Produce characteristic sound exhibiting tone, timbre, breathing, and posture.
- Perform grade level 1-2 band literature within various styles in public settings with others.
- Sight-read grade level appropriate band literature in various styles alone and with others.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency on their instrument as it relates to rhythm, note accuracy, articulations, key signatures, time signatures, tempo, precision, and scales/scale patterns.
- Interpret and perform music using expression such as dynamics, phrasing, and style.
- Apply concepts in independent practice skills.
- Distinguish between quality and non-quality performances, identifying the elements of music to justify a response through listening and self-assessment.
- Infer connections between the arts or non-arts related disciplines (science, language arts, physical education/health, etc.) to the performance of band literature.
- Compose and notate melodies applying ensemble terminology and standard notation practices using Concert B-flat, C, D, E-flat, and F, and rhythms learned in class.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
The training provided in Sixth Grade Intermediate Orchestra continues in this course. Students continue to receive instruction in music reading skills, tone production, and right/left hand techniques. The fundamentals of performance within an orchestral ensemble will be developed. Students are prepared for the demands of more advanced orchestra and varied literature. Students will be exposed to both large and small ensemble performances. Students are encouraged to participate in enrichment opportunities including private instruction and honors orchestras. Attendance at all concert performances is required and part of the class grade as covered in the Rockwood School District Attendance Procedure for Secondary Music Programs. Students must provide their own instrument and supplies. A limited number of instruments are available for students based on financial need.
Course Prerequisite
Beginning Orchestra, Intermediate Orchestra or evidence of equivalent training satisfactory to the instructor.
Enrollment Notes
Attendance at all performances is required and part of the class grade as covered in the Rockwood School District Attendance Procedure for Secondary Music Programs.
Students must provide their own instrument, book, and supplies.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Demonstrates correct placement of the left hand.
- Performs bowing techniques.
- Applies concepts in independent practice.
- Displays ensemble skills.
- Matches and manipulates pitch and maintains a steady pulse.
- Identifies and performs music notation.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Mixed Choir is a full year performance course designed to reinforce fundamentals of music and the skills required for effective ensemble singing. Students will rehearse and perform level-appropriate two- and three-part choral literature. Attendance at all scheduled performances is required and a part of the class grade as stated in the Rockwood School District Concert performance Expectations document. The voicings for Mixed Choir are Soprano, Alto and Baritone.
Course Prerequisite
Enrollment requirement - successful 6th grade choral experience and/or vocal music instructor approval.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate vocal performance techniques as it relates to posture,breathing, vocal production,tone, diction,articulation.
- Sight-read grade level appropriate choral literature in various styles alone and with others.
- Interpret and perform music using expression, such as dynamics, phrasing and style.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency as it relates to rhythm, note accuracy, key signatures, time signatures and tempo.
- Distinguish between quality and non-quality performances, identifying the elements of music to justify a response through listening and self-assessment.
- Compose and notate melodies applying ensemble terminology and standard notation practice using pitches and rhythms learned in class.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
|---|---|
| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Year |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Treble Choir is a full-year performance coursedesigned to reinforce fundamentals of music and the skills required foreffective ensemble singing. Students will rehearse and performlevel-appropriate two- and three-part choral literature. Attendance at allscheduled performances is required and a part of the class grade as stated inthe Rockwood School District Concert Performance Expectations document.The voicings for this choir are Soprano, Second Soprano and Alto.
Course Prerequisite
Enrollment requirement - Successful 6th grade choral experience and/or vocal music instructor approval.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate vocal performance techniques as it relates to posture,breathing, vocal production,tone, diction,articulation.
- Sight-read grade level appropriate choral literature in various styles alone and with others.
- Interpret and perform music using expression such as dynamics, phrasing and style.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency as it relates to rhythm, note accuracy, key signatures, time signatures and tempo.
- Distinguish between quality and non-quality performances, identifying the elements of music to justify a response through listening and self-assessment.
- Compose and notate melodies applying ensemble terminology and standard notation practice using pitches and rhythms learned in class.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
|---|---|
| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Semester |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Through activities involving movement, improv, script writing, scene work, filmmaking, voice, and performance, students will learn to develop their knowledge of theatre and acting. Using their imaginations to make artistic choices, students will develop strategies to collaborate, memorize, empathize and problem solve. Evaluations are based primarily on performances/projects.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Perform a drama/theatre work for an audience.
- Develop effective physical and vocal traits of characters in an improvised or scripted drama/theatre work through repetition and self-review.
- Use supporting evidence and criteria to evaluate drama/theatre work.
- Integrate technical elements into a drama/theatre work.
Career and Technical Education
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Semester |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Spark your inner entrepreneur and learn to design your own mock social media business. Students will explore a variety of business programs while learning the business basics necessary to start a social media business. By the end of the course, students will understand and apply the business design process, the role of digital citizenship, and the importance of both self and business branding.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Use technology to enhance the effectiveness of communication.
- Communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
- Use multimedia software to create media rich projects.
- Cultivate and manage personal digital identity and reputation and develop awareness of actions in the digital world.
- Engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.
- Develop a business plan.
- Evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.
- Utilize information and technology tools to conduct business effectively and efficiently.
- Know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
- Apply basic social communication skills in personal and professional situations.
- Contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Semester |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Life Skills I will explore food preparation techniques and the science behind the recipe. Essential skills include kitchen safety and sanitation, measuring techniques, cooking terminology, kitchen equipment, and reading a recipe. Discovering how ingredients interact to impact the final product will enhance cooking lab experiences. A sewing project that reflects personal interest and ability will be completed. Hand and machine sewing will be explored during construction of the project. As part of the sewing unit, students will learn to select and care for clothing. Interior Design will be explored through a hands on project, incorporating the basic elements of design.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate basic skills for production, alteration, repair and recycling of textiles, fashion and apparel.
- Demonstrate ability to use technology for fashion, apparel, and textile design.
- Apply consumer skills to providing and maintaining clothing.
- Analyze safety and sanitation practices.
- Analyze conditions and practices that promote safe food handling.
- Analyze foodborne illness factors, including causes, potentially hazardous foods, and methods of prevention.
- Demonstrate ability to select, store, prepare, and serve nutritious, aesthetically pleasing food and food products.
- Analyze decisions about providing safe and nutritious food for individuals and families.
- Evaluate the effect of nutrition on health, wellness and performance.
- Demonstrate teamwork skills in school, community and workplace settings.
- Apply time management, organizational, and process skills to prioritize tasks and achieve goals.
- Arrange furniture placement with reference to principles of design, traffic flow, activity, and existing architectural features.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Selvidge Middle Rockwood Valley Middle Rockwood South Middle Wildwood Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Semester |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Computer Science is a growing, high-demand field. In this course, students will be introduced to a variety of core programming skills. Using a collaborative design process, students will apply these programming skills to create their own apps and games.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Decompose (break down) problems into smaller, manageable subproblems to facilitate the program development process.
- Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation and review of programs
- Document programs in order to make them easier to follow, test, and debug.
- Create clearly named variables that represent different data types and perform operations on their values.
- Design and iteratively develop programs that combine control structures, including nested loops and compound conditionals.
Course Details
| Offered at | LaSalle Springs Middle |
|---|---|
| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Semester |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
This is a hands-on activity class, in which students apply the safe, proper use of additional or advanced hand tools and machines to design and analyze the necessary procedures to complete a fabricated product. Increasing emphasis on accuracy and precision will be implemented in tool use and measurement techniques.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate safe and proper use of equipment and materials.
- Operate and utilize power tools and equipment correctly and safely in product completion.
- Fabricate a project using hand tools in an appropriate fashion to cut, shape, sand, finish, assemble and fasten.
- Fabricate a project using power tools in an appropriate fashion (eg. hand drill, saber saw, drill press, disc sander, scroll saw, finish sander, and router).
- Utilize global measurement systems to measure within specific tolerances.
- Assess physical properties to select the most appropriate materials to fabricate various products.
- Develop a system of procedures to construct final products within given parameters and specifications.
- Demonstrate teamwork by working collaboratively with groups of other students.
- Select, employ and design appropriate production processes as needed in addressing technological problems.
- Select and use appropriate machines, tools, processes, and materials to construct workable structures within guidelines given.
Course Details
| Offered at | Crestview Middle LaSalle Springs Middle Rockwood South Middle Selvidge Middle Wildwood Middle Rockwood Valley Middle |
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| Grade Levels | 7 |
| Course Length | Semester |
| Delivery Method | Traditional Seated |
Course Description
Students will follow the design process as they create a physical model/prototype to address a need or want in society. Through this process, students will learn how to use 3D software for modeling and 3D printing. Students will learn and apply measurement and dimensioning skills to replicate objects and then create original prototypes.
Expected Course Outcomes
- Apply an iterative process to solve a problem or create an opportunity that can be justified.
- Describe and/or analyze moments within a problem-solving process where persistence, iteration, and the positive role of failure played an important role in gaining understanding about a problem or unexpected observation.
- Measure and present values appropriate to standards of accuracy and precision.
- Sketch and/or interpret perspective, isometric, and multiview drawings with adequate attention to standards and critical annotations.
- Construct a computer-generated solid model.