Curriculum Highlights
Religion
- Catholic Church and its history
- Sacraments
- Service Projects - pen pals with Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, Catholic Charities, and Gabriel's Angel's Project, Assist Parish
- Living Rosary
- Host and attend Mass
- Monthly Adoration
- Stations of the Cross
- Liturgy of the Hours
- Retreats
- Lead Middle School Faith Groups
Social Studies
- American history and culture
- Journal writing and reflections
- Team-building and individual projects
English
- Grammer - usage, capitalization, punctuation
- Composition - process of writing, business letters, compositions, (narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive) response writing in journals
- Vocabulary - correct usage, synonyms, antonyms, connotation, root words
- Oral Presentations
Literature
- Novels - one every three weeks, student selected and class novel studies
- Short Stories - setting, character, plot
- Nonfiction - autobiography, biography, essays, Upfront magazine
- Drama
- Research concepts (source cards, note cards, outline) and research paper
- Literary Technology
- Critical and Creative Writing
- Sustained Silent Reading - daily
- Accelerated Reading
Science
- Energy and motion
- Work and simple machines
- Atomic structure and chemical bonds
- Chemical reactions
- Waves, light, and sound
- Electricity and magnetism
- Labs –STEAM , Hands on and digital labs,
- Science Fair Projects
- Fort Worth Science and Engineering Regional Fairs
- Lab reports
- Science Partnership Labs and Demonstrations
- Guest Speakers
Pre-Algebra
- provides a strong foundation for those who will take Algebra I as a freshman
- Algebraic Expressions and Integers
- Solving one-step and two-step equations and inequalities
- Measurement conversions
- Prime factorization
- Powers of products and quotients
- Ratios, proportions, and percents
- Simple and compound interest
- Linear functions and graphing
- Solving systems of linear equations
- Spatial thinking
- Area and volume
- Pythagorean Theorem
- Data Analysis and probability
Algebra I
- taught as a high school level Algebra I course
- Variables, function patterns, and graphs
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers
- Solving two-step and multi-step equations and inequalities
- Pythagorean Theorem
- Absolute value equations and inequalities
- Direct and inverse variations
- Linear equations and their graphs
- Systems of equations and inequalities
- Exponents and exponential functions
- Polynomials and factoring
- Quadratic equations and functions
- Radical expressions and equations
- Rational expressions and functions
