6th Grade

Students will be finishing up Unit 1 of Thinking Like a Historian with their 5 Themes of Geography Project. The project is due on Thursday, October 2nd. Afterward, we will begin Unit 2 on geography, which introduces students to physical features of our world and the effect the natural world had on the emergence and expansion of civilizations.

7th Grade

Students will finish up Unit 2 by focusing on contextualizing the historic importance of the Age of Exploration and its impact on globalization. Students will understand how overseas exploration emerged, and how this exchange of culture and competition for resources influenced the development of the modern world. The end of the unit test will take place mid-October. The following unit is on colonization and global empires.

8th Grade

Students have finished Unit 1 with their map projects. In the next unit students explore the historical significance of Native Americans and the transformative effects of European exploration and colonization on North America. They examine how Native Americans, Europeans, and enslaved Africans contributed to the development of the thirteen colonies, each group facing unique challenges that shaped their histories and traditions. The unit highlights how social, religious, economic, and political patterns in North Carolina and America were influenced by the region's geography and the diverse ideas and traditions brought by colonial groups such as in Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay.

Math 6 and Math 6+

• Students will begin Unit 2 — Ratios during the month of October. 
• In this unit, students will be introduced to ratios as an association between two quantities. They will analyze contexts that are expressed in terms of ratios like recipes, paint mixtures, speed, and uniform pricing. They will encounter equivalent ratios in terms of multiple batches and that equivalent describes a perceivable sameness of two ratios. Students will analyze situations involving both discrete and continuous quantities and involving ratios of quantities that are the same and different. Later in the unit equivalent acquires a more precise meaning involving multiplying both a and b by the same non-negative number.

Math I

• Students will begin Unit 2 — Linear and Exponential Functions during the month of October.  
• In this unit, students broaden their understanding of arithmetic and geometric sequences from the first unit to include linear and exponential functions with a continuous domain. Students continue building fluency in writing explicit function rules for both linear and exponential functions. At the same time, students analyze the context to determine if the relationship being described is continuous or discrete. Therefore, these lessons naturally evoke discussions about the domain of a function and how it affects the graph and other representations of the function.

6th grade

• Use details to determine the main idea
• Use context clues to determine the word's meaning
• Compare and connect ideas and themes between two texts
• Explain how an author uses a claim and chooses details in a text
• Cite evidence from text
• Draft and refine final essay writing

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6th Grade:

• In the weeks ahead, students will be investigating the properties and characteristics of substances as they begin to explore how the periodic table is organized into families based on chemical properties. 
• They will continue hands-on experiments to study the physical properties of density and solubility, including a gummy bear lab and a soda density activity, while also reviewing what happens during phase changes. 
• Students will then apply their learning by working on an Element Baby Book project, which will allow them to demonstrate their understanding of elements and their chemical properties.

7th Grade:

• Students wrapped up the Forces & Motion Unit with an assessment the week of 9/29/25. 
• As we move through October, the focus will be on our Energy unit (various forms, transfers & transformations, and conservation of energy within closed mechanical systems). This will include investigating energy in our everyday lives, and lots of hands-on activities to explore mechanical energy systems (like pendulums, bouncing balls, and more!). 
• This unit will take us through the end of Quarter 1.

8th Grade:

• Our 8th grade Chemists are continuing to learn about the Periodic Table of Elements, particularly how it is structured and can be used to determine an element's properties and reactivity.
• This month, they will learn to classify matter as elements, compounds, or mixtures based on how the atoms are arranged.
• Students will also use models to illustrate how atoms are rearranged during a chemical reaction so that balanced chemical equations support the Law of Conservation of Mass (in both open and closed systems.
• We will conclude the unit with a summative assessment the last week of October. 
• NC Check-In (Physical Science) will be on November 5th and 6th.