CAPE FEAR ACADEMY

English

• Write an effective expository paragraph including a claim, clarifications, evidence, explanation of evidence, and a conclusion.
• Write a five-paragraph essay, complete with thesis statement, evaluative traits, and quoted evidence to persuade, describe, or evaluate.
• Write creative - yet logical - narrative stories, plays, and poems.
• Use Google Docs to communicate and collaborate on written assignments and projects.
• Recognize and apply the rules of grammar to written assignments (including parts of speech and commas.)
• Effectively use figurative language in written pieces and choose correct connotation of words in writing.

Literature

• Plot the structure of a novel- including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion.
• Effectively participate in Socratic Seminars with teacher-generated questions.
• Make inferences while reading.
• Critically respond to literary prompts in writing and discussion.
• Use context clues, parts of speech, prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin root words to understand unknown words while reading.
• Recognize and understand figurative language in literature (simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, and idiom).
• Deconstruct some media messages

Math

• Compute fluently with non-negative rational numbers, including ratios, percents and proportional reasoning.
• Model integers and additive inverses to develop an understanding of the number line.
• Apply properties of numbers and translating words to symbols to solve problems.
• Understand and use variables to solve simple equations.
• Develop an understanding of formulas and apply them to find the perimeter/circumference and area of triangles, quadrilaterals, circles and composite figures made from these shapes.
• Use appropriate tools to measure.
• Organize and summarize categorical and numerical data using summary statistics and graphical displays.
• Math Flow Chart with AP Scores

Science

• Be able to work safely in a laboratory environment
• Pose scientific questions that can be answered in a scientific investigation employing the scientific method.
• Design experiments by manipulating and controlling variables.
• Use grade-level math skills to collect and manipulate data.
• Understand Earth's role in the solar system and its position in our galaxy.
• Correlate relationships between topography, soil and water.
• Understand physical and chemical properties of water as well as water's role in our environment

Social Studies

Topics:

• Geography
• Prehistoric Man
• Mesopotamia
• Egypt Phoenicians and Hebrews
• Military Empires
• Minoans and Myceneans
• The Greeks
• The Romans

Foreign Language

• Identify singular pronouns and -ar verb endings
• Ask and answer simple questions on various topics
• Use correct word order when speaking and constructing sentences
• Demonstrate mastery of greetings and farewells
• Be familiar with cultures of some Spanish speaking countries
• Use useful expressions in and out of class
• Spanish Flow Chart

ENRICHMENT SUBJECTS

Theatre Arts

Topics:

• The history and progression of theater through the ages
• Basic theater vocabulary
• Writing plays as a collaborative process
• Everything involved in producing a play

Band

• Perform on an instrument accurately and independently, alone and in the ensemble, with good posture, good playing position, and good breath control
• Read at sight simple melodies in their clef in simple duple, triple and quadruple time signatures

Chorus

• Use correct posture and breathing technique while singing
• Sight-read vocal and guitar music
• Perform using concert etiquette

Visual Arts

• Understand the seven Elements of Art as they apply to student artwork and professional/historical examples
• Observe environment in greater detail and depth
• Demonstrate the ability to perceive, interpret, and respond to ideas, experiences, and the environment through visual art
• Understand visual art as a discipline of study that combines expression with specific needs of form, function, and communication.

Physical Education

• Demonstrate what having a healthy lifestyle involves
• Understand the benefits of participating in physical activities
• Understand the advantages to teamwork
• Participate in each activity with good sportsmanship
• Participate in each activity with effort and a good attitude
• Strive to perform physical movement skills effectively in a variety of stationary settings
• Strive to enjoy playing sports

Beginning Computers

• Identify the input, output, and processing components of a computer.
• Understand the mechanics and etiquette of email.
• Execute word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and publication tasks created on the computer.
• Develop more advanced keyboarding skills.

English

• Write a clear, coherent, and cohesive five-paragraph essay.
• Use proper parenthetical citation with a variety of sources.
• Respond critically (in the written form) to various texts.
• Write using various styles (speech, narrative, creative, essay).
• Collaborate with students to achieve a variety of goals: small presentations, informal mini-lessons, and final projects.
• Use parts of speech and rules of grammar to write clearly, logically, and creatively.
• Move beyond the five-paragraph essay, either longer or more concise, while keeping writing clear and organized.

Literature

• Identify various moments of plot structure within novels.
• Make connections regarding texts read (text to text, text to self, text to world).
• Participate in Socratic Seminar discussions and other student-led discussions appropriately, effectively, and collaboratively.
• Develop open-ended questions regarding reading.
• Recognize and analyze how figurative language is used by various authors to enhance text.
• Suggest how modifying text can change or improve one's perception.
• Collaborate with peers to dissect a text.
• Use informational and persuasive techniques to present information to an audience.
• Use Greek & Latin root words, prefixes, and suffixes to deconstruct unknown words.
• Analyze various characters based on the author's use of characterization methods.

Math

• Compute fluently with rational numbers including integers, fractions, decimals, and percents
• Solve problems using rational numbers.
• Simplify an expression using appropriate number properties.
• Solve 1- and 2-step equations (and 1-step inequalities), including the use of simple formulas, to solve problems.
• Apply properties of angles and figures to solve problems.
• Answer questions by collecting, organizing, analyzing and interpreting data.
• Math Flow Chart with AP Scores

Pre-Algebra

• Compute fluently with rational numbers including integers, fractions, decimals, and percents and solve problems using rational numbers.
• Identify and work with irrational numbers including square roots and pi.
• Simplify an expression using appropriate number properties and the rules for exponents.
• Solve 1 and 2-step equations (and inequalities), including the use of formulas, to solve problems.
• Apply properties of angles and figures to solve problems including finding volume and surface area of prisms and cylinders.
• Formulate and answer questions by collecting, organizing, analyzing and interpreting data.
• Develop and apply connections between rate of change and linear relationships

Science

• Demonstrate the abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry and problem solving
• Be able to use science process skills in experiments and investigations
• Show an understanding of the characteristics of living things
• Demonstrate an awareness of the role of trees and other plants in our environment
• Develop a sense of stewardship for the protection of the environment.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the structure and function of the cell.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how traits are passed from one generation to the next.
• Demonstrate an awareness of what disease organisms are and how to maintain healthy lifestyles to prevent the spread of pathogens.
• Show an understanding of the organization of the human body and the interaction of body systems
• Have a basic understanding of healthy habits for healthy bodies.

Social Studies

Topics:

• The Germans, Goths, and Vandals
• The Franks
• Celts
• Anglo-Saxons
• Vikings
• Byzantines
• Arab Empire
• Eastern Slavs
• Feudalism
• The Church
• Rise of Towns and Trades
• Rise of Monarchies
• Renaissance and Reformation

Foreign Language

• Tell time, give dates, discuss weather, and use numbers
• Formulate sentences with correct agreement and word order
• Compare and contrast American culture with those of Spanish speaking cultures
• Ask and answer questions
• Use the language appropriately for targeted topics
• Understand the relationship between pronouns and verb conjugations
• Spanish Flow Chart

ENRICHMENT SUBJECTS

Theatre Arts

Topics:

• Understand different genres of theater.
• Understand the collaborative nature of theater arts.
• Expand performance abilities with a deeper knowledge of character development, a solo monologue project, and a movie project

Band

• Perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
• Read sixteenth and dotted notes and rests in 6/8, 3/8, and alla breve (2/2) meter signatures
• Read at sight simple melodies in their clef
• Perform music at a grade level II-IV.

Chorus

• Use correct posture and breathing technique while singing
• Sight-read vocal and guitar music
• Perform using concert etiquette
• Sing in 2-3 part harmony with confidence

Visual Arts

• Understand the seven Principles of Design as they apply to student artwork and professional/historical examples
• Observe and appreciate surroundings with an "artist's eye"
• Be aware that successful creativity can be related to experimental ideas and risk taking
• Demonstrate the ability to organize knowledge and ideas for expression in the production of art

Physical Education

• Understand how to be a good teammate
• Understand the traits of a good leader
• Participate in each activity with good sportsmanship
• Participate in each activity with effort and a good attitude
• Strive to perform physical movement skills effectively in movement scenarios
• Strive to enjoy playing sports

Beginning Computers

• Identify the input, output, and processing components of a computer.
• Understand the mechanics and etiquette of email.
• Execute word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and publication tasks created on the computer.
• Develop more advanced keyboarding skills.

English

• Choose an appropriate length of writing to effectively respond to various literary models (5 paragraph essay, short answer, condensed response, etc)
• Personally organize pre-writing and implement within subsequent drafts
• Utilize appropriate (and show deeper understanding) of various vocabulary in written and spoken responses
• Choose a stance (either/or) in written expression and defend with evidence
• Apply personal context responses to readings
• Write sentences and paragraphs with clear understanding of proper and appropriate grammatical expression
• Write sentences and paragraphs that are more complex or simplified depending on audience and voice

Literature

• Apply moral and thematic context found in stories to personal and "true" life context
• Debate differences of opinion of context while maintaining respect of personal stances
• Find and define the nature of dichotomy in all story telling
• Constructively criticize peer and author expression
• Identify character choices in stories; how/why are there consequences
• Effectively and respectfully identify and criticize bias in storytelling
• Distinguish "voice" in storytelling
• Utilize all facets of literacy: reading, writing, watching, listening, grappling, and speaking

Pre-Algebra

• Compute fluently with rational numbers including integers, fractions, decimals, and percents and solve problems using rational numbers.
• Identify and work with irrational numbers including square roots and pi.
• Simplify an expression using appropriate number properties and the rules for exponents.
• Solve 1 and 2-step equations (and inequalities), including the use of formulas, to solve problems.
• Apply properties of angles and figures to solve problems including finding volume and surface area of prisms and cylinders.
• Formulate and answer questions by collecting, organizing, analyzing and interpreting data.
• Develop and apply connections between rate of change and linear relationships
• Math Flow Chart with AP Scores

Algebra

• Write and solve multi-step equations and problems, including work with formulas.
• Operate on polynomials, exponential expressions, rational numbers, and rational and radical expressions, including factoring, and to solve problems using these relationships.
• Represent, solve and interpret linear equations and inequalities to solve problems.
• Represent, solve and interpret systems of linear equations to solve problems.
• Represent, solve and interpret quadratic and exponential equations to solve problems.
• Operate on polynomials, exponential expressions, rational numbers, and rational and radical expressions, including factoring, and to solve problems using these relationships.
• Math Flow Chart with AP Scores

Science

• Demonstrate knowledge of safety and emergency procedures for the science classroom and laboratory
• Demonstrate understanding of scientific methods of problem solving
• Use science process skills in experiments and investigations and to solve problems
• Demonstrate understanding of scientific measurement including accuracy and precision in measurement
• Demonstrate understanding of processes involved in scientific data collection, manipulation, interpretation, and presentation
• Demonstrate understanding of atomic models, periodicity, bonding and chemical reactions
• Demonstrate an understanding of the properties of magnetism and electricity

Social Studies

Topics:

• Pre-Columbian Amerindians of the Southeast
• Early Civilizations of the Southeast
• Piracy in N. America and the Caribbean
• American Slavery
• American Revolutionary War in the Southern States
• Formation of American Government
• Antebellum Politics
• American Civil War
• Reconstruction
• Civil Rights

Foreign Language

• Demonstrate control of the present tense
• Develop a paragraph about school, life, and routines
• Compare and contrast American culture with those of Spanish speaking countries
• Ask, answer, and construct questions
• Read and understand a short novel in present tense
• Use the preterite tense of regular -ar, -er, and -ir verbs
• Spanish Flow Chart

ENRICHMENT SUBJECTS

Theatre Arts

Topics:

• Understand different genres of theater.
• Understand the collaborative nature of theater arts.
• Expand performance abilities with a deeper knowledge of character development, a solo monologue project, and a movie project

Band

• Perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
• Read sixteenth and dotted notes and rests in 6/8, 3/8, and alla breve (2/2) meter signatures
• Read at sight simple melodies in their clef
• Perform music at a grade level II-IV.

Chorus

• Use correct posture and breathing technique while singing
• Sight-read vocal and guitar music
• Perform using concert etiquette
• Sing in 2-3 part harmony with confidence

Visual Arts

• Understand the seven Principles of Design as they apply to student artwork and professional/historical examples
• Observe and appreciate surroundings with an "artist's eye"
• Be aware that successful creativity can be related to experimental ideas and risk taking
• Demonstrate the ability to organize knowledge and ideas for expression in the production of art

Physical Education

• Understand how to push oneself through self-discipline
• Participate in each activity with good sportsmanship
• Participate in each activity with effort and a good attitude
• Strive to perform to their "potential"
• Strive to perform physical movement skills effectively in movement scenarios against various styles of defense
• Strive to enjoy playing sports

Video Production

• Recall the technical and aesthetic vocabulary of filmmaking.
• Demonstrate a practical understanding of the mechanics of a film scene and its structure, compositional concepts, and technical aspects through a creation of projects from various film genres.
• Differentiate the benefits of planning compared to just shooting and editing without a predetermined plan.
• Identify how ideas, emotions, events and occurrences can be communicated as visual expression to an audience in the form of video.
• Understand how artistic production is often influenced by personal experiences, knowledge of materials, established principles, and how successfully creativity can be related to experimental ideas and risk taking.
• Recognize the importance of film as a part of overall media literacy.