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Grade 8

Glenwood Middle • Middle School

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Career and Technical Education
In this quarter-long course, students prepare for careers by exploring a variety of interests and talents, develop an understanding of current and emerging career possibilities, while learning and applying career readiness skills. Students will connect their own career aspirations and classroom learning to real-world roles and opportunities. Students will research and participate in project-based activities in each of the HCPSS Career Academies. Students will learn about costs and planning for opportunities after high school. This career exploration course is designed to support the Maryland Career Development Framework standards and indicators while also providing opportunities for students to think critically.
Career and Technical Education
Foundations of Technology
Career and Technical Education
Exploring Computer Science
Career and Technical Education
English Language Arts
English Language Arts 8
English Language Arts
English Language Arts 8 G/T
English Language Arts
Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop
English Language Arts
Other
Prerequisite: Visual Arts Studio I
Other
This full-year course introduces students to a basic working knowledge of performance concepts that can be applied to all dance forms. Students will create, perform, and respond to dance through creative movement, social/cultural dance, ballet, modern jazz, choreography, and composition. Students will learn and apply dance concepts and vocabulary through class discussion, performance, demonstration, and selfreflection.
Other
In this full-year course, students will expand their knowledge of performance concepts that can be applied to all dance forms. Students will continue to create, perform, and respond to dance through more complex creative movement, social/cultural dance, ballet, modern jazz, choreography, and composition experiences. Students will refine and apply dance concepts and vocabulary through class discussions, performances, demonstrations, and evaluations of themselves and others.
Other
Prerequisite: Theatre Arts A
Other
Students will study the first part of a two-year program in United States History, focusing on the period from approximately 1763 to the 1800’s. This program provides opportunities for students to develop an understanding of historical reading skills, chronological reasoning skills, key historical concepts, and content related to the history of our nation. There will be a statewide Middle School Social Studies Assessment as part of the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program given in grade 8. This assessment will cover the content of United States History covered in this course but will also reflect an assessment of skills built throughout a students’ middle school studies courses. This course includes an embedded student service learning experience.
Other
This course provides a differentiated curriculum for the United States history content listed above in which students engage in more rigorous critical thinking and problem solving activities that require deeper analysis and understanding. All students complete a multi-stage historical research paper based on national standards or participate in National History Day. This course includes an embedded student service learning experience.
Other
In this course, students with IEPs are working towards a Maryland Certificate of Program Completion and are working on individualized reading and written language goals and objectives aligned with modified English curriculum and alternative state standards. Students take the Multistate Reading Alternative Assessment in grade 6, 7 or 8.
Other
This course is for students that have IEPs and require additional instruction in the area of written language, reading, and/or executive functioning skills. Students will receive specialized instruction in the area(s) aligned with their goals and objectives.
Other
In this course students with IEPs are working towards a Maryland Certificate of Program Completion and are working on individualized goals and objectives aligned with modified mathematics curriculum. Students take the Multistate Mathematics Alternative Assessment in grade 6, 7 or 8.
Other
In this course, students with IEPs are working towards a Maryland Certificate of Program Completion and are working on individualized goals and objectives aligned to the science curriculum and alternative state standards. Students take the Alternate Maryland Integrated Science Assessment in grade 8.
Other
In this course, students with IEPs are working towards a Maryland Certificate of Program Completion and are working on individualized goals and objectives aligned to the social studies curriculum and alternative state standards.
Other
Students will expand their skills by providing authentic school-based experiences connected to skills needed for future employment and community life. These experiences will be based on appropriate communication, self-advocacy and learning behaviors needed for any job or career. Students will effectively use purposeful and appropriate communication across all settings, exhibit behavior that matches their tasks and/or environment, and decrease the need for adult prompting and increase engagement for instruction/ learning. This course is designed for students with IEPs who are working toward a Maryland Certificate of Program Completion.
Other
Music
Grades 7, 8
Music
Mathematics
In this course, students will focus on the development of transformational, Euclidean, and coordinate geometry with extensive real-world application. Students work with rigid motions, dilations, and constructions of geometric figures to establish criteria for determining if two figures are similar and/or congruent. Student will prove and use theorems, definitions, and postulates to explain mathematical conjectures for various geometric figures and angle concepts. Students also explore probability of compound events, and an introduction to trigonometry. One high school mathematics credit will be awarded upon successful completion of this course. See Credit for High School Courses Taken in Middle School, page 7 for more information.
Mathematics
Physical Education
Instructional emphasis will focus on using the skills developed at the elementary level. Students will demonstrate motor skills and movement patterns in a variety of games, sports, outdoor pursuits, individual performance activities, and dances. Students will develop strategies and tactics used in a variety of games and sports. They will participate in physical activities that meet their specific needs and analyze components of health and skill related fitness. Students will continue to work on accepting feedback and differences among classmates. Areas of instruction include movement patterns and concepts, fitness and physical activity, and personal and social behavior.
Physical Education
Science
In this course, there are five physical science topics in middle school addressed through five units: Structure and Properties of Matter, Chemical Reactions, Forces and Interactions, Energy, and Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation. Units are organized around a driving question. Within each driving question, students engage in a series of hands-on learning experiences that are carefully designed to immerse them in a collaborative learning environment. Students utilize the science and engineering practices as they construct their understanding of important concepts. Students also have opportunities to learn and apply engineering specific practices such as designing solutions to identified problems. Teachers will differentiate the instruction to incorporate advanced, conceptually complex content that challenges high-ability learners and provides opportunities for self-directed inquiry.
Science
World Languages
French I Grades 7, 8
World Languages
Prerequisite: Chinese I
World Languages
Prerequisite: French I
World Languages
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