Middle+School+Global

Science is Life Science- studying about life in the environment and around us Social Studies: US history. Students take a trip down to Williamsburg in Spring Art: make Japanese Teabowls and have a tea ceremony with Sensei Kimura. They also do some American Indian Art Music: the students play and study Baroque recorders Service Learning: The Baer School- all year! Annual field trip to Old Saint Paul’s to learn the school history English: they read and study the following works of literature: // Iqbal // (a book translated from its original Italian into English which is about the child slave trade in Pakistan) "The Sniper," a short story about the Irish Civil War in 1929 "The Trojan Sofa," a short story about the Catholic-Protestant conflict in Ireland in the early 1980s Social Studies: continue studies of US history from 5th grade, from the Constitution to the Cold War. Throughout, the courses places an emphasis on social history, examining civil rights, women, and socio-economic issues, and independent thinking, pushing the students to connect cause and effect, fashion and defend their own conclusions and interpretations and pursue questions of personal interest. Music: uses and studies English Handbells Service Learning: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Clean-up and Cylburn Aboretum Science: studies of weather: hurricane and typhoon formation in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Studies of climate: el Niño and la Niña Studies of geology: earthquakes and volcanoes along the ring of fire (Pacific Oceans) and other places in the world, Earth’s plate tectonics World Geography: world cultures and history- focus on South America, Africa and Middle East. The students are masters of one country and do a scrap book on that country. They will then display their books in a country fair. English: work a lot on grammar and studying the English language. They will also read several short stories by Shakespeare and Orwell. Music: use and study steel drums which are strongly connected with Trinidad, the Caribbean nation, where they were first created. World Geography: Ancient Civilizations: Ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece English: a lot more work on grammar as well as reading about 8-9 novels. Mostly US authors, but some more Shakespeare and Orwell. Science: physical science and chemistry Music: use and study percussion instruments along with the steel drum ensemble. The instruments originated in Latin America, Africa and Korea Japanese: study language and culture of Japan Spanish: study language and cultures of all 24 countries in which Spanish is spoken (as well as the Hispanics found here in the US) Music: songs in Japanese, Spanish, Swahili, Italian and Latin Art: study the elements of design, study different artists from US and abroad Woodshop: Discussion of wood species from around the world. Discussion about deforestation. In the lesson on wood as a material, the classes discuss growth rings and how they are affected by different climates, change in season or lack of the change in seasons. For example, trees that grow in the Amazon have almost no growth rings as compared to trees that grow in Maryland. In the wood turning portion of the curriculum, discussions are held on the very first known lathes that were used by the ancient Egyptians.
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