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"We pride ourselves on our academic excellence and the commitment for students to Believe and Become. At St. Martin's, students feel safe to take educational risks, appreciate their abilities, and respect the abilities of their peers. We take pride in giving parents a sense of safety and a commitment to excellence when we welcome their children to our school. But, we are most proud of the feeling of family you get when you walk through our doors. It's a special part of our school community. "
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6th Grade
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Religion
The students will build on their faith and knowledge of God. They will read texts teaching them about different stories in the Bible and how these events helped shape what their religion is today.
Science
In 6th grade, the students learn about Life Science. The students begin the school year learning about eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. This topic then takes us into learning of the human body and all of the organ systems.
English Language Arts Curriculum:- Increase each student's vocabulary and approach to understanding new vocabulary through literature and informational texts
- Increase comprehension in both literature and nonfiction texts
- Writing coherent sentences/paragraphs, using proper grammar, spelling & mechanics to convey information
- Read novels that are currently recommended by the current standards or seasoned educators as a whole class but use differentiated reading when students are completing their reading journal assignments weekly
- Students work together at times, in both small and large groups to enhance listening for information
- Students are encouraged to demonstrate information/directions/information that is both given orally and written
Community Service
Have the students complete 9 hours of community service throughout the school year. Help the students realize they can make a difference in their community and provide them with the tools to do so.
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Social Studies Skills:
All students enrolled in social studies are expected to provide the following skills- Gathering, interpreting, and using evidence
- Chronological reasoning
- Comparison and Contextualization Skills
- Geographic Reasoning
- Understanding of economics and economic systems
- Civic Participation
Social Studies Curriculum:
6th Graders will learn all about Global History!- Understanding of global geographies; the difference in regions, how climates may affect the development of civilizations
- The first humans (from paleolithic to neolithic) and their migration across the globe
- Early River Civilizations and their development of technology, global religions, and society [Mesopotamia/Egypt, India/China]. More importantly how the nations had developed empires, social hierarchies, and government
- Understanding popular religions and their origins: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism
- Examine early civilizations of Western Civilizations, beginning with the Greeks (Sparta, Athens), Rome (its rise from a Republic to an Empire- to its fall) and the Byzantine Empire
- Understanding the role the Byzantine Empire had on the spread of Christianity
- Interactions between the Mongols and Chinese empires
- Middle Ages European history: feudalism, Crusades between Christianity and Islam until the Bubonic Plague (Black Death)
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7th Grade
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Religion
The students will build on their faith and knowledge of God. They will read texts about their religion as well as different religions as well. The students will compare and contrast our religion with those different from ours all over the world.
The students in Grade 7 at St. Martin of Tours School are instructed in religion on a daily basis, as they prepare for the Sacrament of Confirmation for the following year. The curriculum is structured into different units of study utilizing the Sadlier "We Live Our Faith" series. Some of the units include The Blessed Trinity, The Good News of Jesus Christ, The Coming of God's Kingdom, the Sacraments, Works of Mercy, and the Saints. In addition to attending mass on a weekly basis, they complete at least five hours of community service per trimester. The development and cultivation of a community of discipleship is an objective for our students at St. Martin of Tours School.
Community Service Grade 7:Have the students complete 12 hours of community service throughout the school year. Expose and teach the students to and about people who are at a disadvantage (socially, medically or economically) in our community and have them complete service hours to help these people less fortunate than them.
English Language Arts Curriculum
The objectives of the English Language Arts courses at St. Martin of Tours School are to create independent thinkers, lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and responsible students. Through reading and engaging with various pieces of literature and informational texts, students will become proficient in the skills they need to be successful in this globally competitive community. Within this engagement, students will practice the skills of evaluating, analyzing, finding meaning, and making connections in complex texts, through different reading and writing activities. Students demonstrate a command of the conventions of English grammar and punctuation when writing or speaking during classroom discussions.
As previously noted, there will be a focus on many components of the English language including vocabulary and spelling. Furthermore, students are assigned new vocabulary words every other week and take an assessment, after completing activities associated with synonyms, antonyms, sentences, and more. Some of the books our students read in Grade 7 are A Long Walk to Water, My Brother Sam is Dead, and The Westing Game. Developing as a reader is a lifelong journey which begins in the classroom, and having a deep desire to read is an objective that our school has for our students this year. With each novel we work with there will be shorter articles, poems, etc. that will be examined and analyzed to help with the understanding of the main pieces of literature.
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Science
In 7th grade science, the students learn about Earth Science. We start the school year learning about Earth’s characteristics, such as ocean life, different ecosystems, and climates. After learning about what our Earth is like, we then begin learning about Earth’s neighboring planets and finish the school year learning of astronomy.
Social Studies Skills:
All students enrolled in social studies are expected to provide the following skills- Gathering, interpreting, and using evidence
- Chronological reasoning
- Comparison and Contextualization Skills
- Geographic Reasoning
- Understanding of economics and economic systems
- Civic Participation
Social Studies Curriculum:
7th Graders will learn all about Early US History!- Native Americans of North America, their development and first governments (particularly the Iroquois)
- Age of Exploration in the New World, the Columbian Exchange, and the emergence of the British 13 Colonies
- Different geographical features and development of the 13 Colonies; how Enlightenment and Great Awakening had unified them against tyrannical government
- Tensions between the colonists and Britain; American Revolution and its independence
- Failures of the Articles, the Constitutional Convention and how our current Constitution serves the government, ratification of the Bill of Rights
- Early Supreme Court cases of the US history that shapes the role of the Judicial Branch
- The first President of the United States; setting precedents for future presidents, the emergence of a split in politics - A growing nation, expanding borders, conflicts with natives as the US expands
- Growing regional tensions between the North and the South of economic institutions, the Second Great Awakening, developing nation, “manifest destiny” (US claim lands coast to coast)
- The Civil War, major battles, the importance of the Emancipation Proclamation, and how Lincoln had preserved the Union
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8th Grade
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Religion
The students will build on their faith and knowledge of God. The students will learn and get ready for their sacrament of Confirmation and what this means being confirmed.
They will also learn:- A deeper understanding of Catholic Faith
- Importance of religion to an individual in their adult life
- Understanding the Sacraments, preparing the grade for Confirmation
- Focus on Community Service, the value of Christian Community
- Order of Mass with a Congregation
Science
In 8th grade, the students learn Biology and prepare to complete and excel on the Biology Regents at the end of the school year. The students also complete over 1000 hours of hand-on labs to build on their understanding of the science topics we are learning throughout the year.
English Language Arts Curriculum
The objectives of the English Language Arts courses at St. Martin of Tours School are to create independent thinkers, lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and responsible students. Through reading and engaging with various pieces of literature and informational texts, students will become proficient in the skills they need to be successful in this globally competitive community. Within this engagement, students will practice the skills of evaluating, analyzing, finding meaning, and making connections in complex texts, through different reading and writing activities. Students demonstrate a command of the conventions of English grammar and punctuation when writing or speaking during classroom discussions. As previously noted, there will be a focus on many components of the English language including vocabulary and spelling. Furthermore, students are assigned new vocabulary words every other week and take an assessment, after completing activities associated with synonyms, antonyms, sentences, and more. Some of the books our students read in Grade 8 are The Outsiders, Night, and The Hobbit. Developing as a reader is a life long journey which begins in the classroom, and having a deep desire to read is an objective that our school has for our students this year. With each novel we work with there will be shorter articles, poems, etc. that will be examined and analyzed to help with the understanding of the main pieces of literature.
Community Service
Have the students complete 15 hours of community service throughout the year. As they participate in their community service hours, actively meeting the needs of communities, the students develop practical skills, and a sense of civic responsibility.
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Social Studies Skills:
All students enrolled in social studies are expected to provide the following skills- Gathering, interpreting, and using evidence
- Chronological reasoning
- Comparison and Contextualization Skills
- Geographic Reasoning
- Understanding of economics and economic systems
- Civic Participation
Social Studies Curriculum:
8th Graders will learn all about the Latter half of US History!- Reconstruction Era, rebuilding the South and the nation after a civil war, providing institutions without slavery, Reconstruction Amendments (13, 14, 15), with some failures [Plessy v Ferguson]
- 2nd Industrial Revolution and rapid industrialization/urbanization/ immigration, effects that the growing nation had on the nation's economy- specifically NY, new innovations and technologies that changed the world (electricity, oil, telephone, automobile) and the rise of big business (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan)
- Solving problems created by big business by using the government (Progressive Era), progressive reforms, progressive Amendments (16, 17, 18, 19), expansion of government, political corruption in cities, expansion of democracy during the late 1800s/early 1900s
- US expansion: Conflicts with natives, effect on westward expansion, transcontinental railroad
- Spanish-American War and Imperialism: Acquisition of Hawaii, Alaska, US influence in Latin American countries, involvement and international trading partner with Asian countries
- US involvement in WWI, propaganda, warfare used, US refusal to sign the Treaty of Versailles, Wilson's 14 Points for a safer and more democratic world
- Culture of the Roaring twenties, red scare, use of credit until the great depression
- Great Depression, suffering of a nation, until the new deal and expansion of US Government, first-hand accounts of New Yorkers during the great depression
- US involvement in WW2: war tactics, major battles, fighting in Europe, Africa, and Asia
- US Foreign Policy after WW2: Containing Communism, international police power to protect democratic nations
- Marshall Plan, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis
- A growing nation and the baby boom after WW2, Civil rights movement, a changing and more diverse nation
- Effects that industrialization and growing population has on pollution, energy necessities, and plant/animal life
- The great society program under president Johnson, differences between medicare and Medicaid, recession of the 1970s - Reaganomics and Economic Boom under President Reagan and Bush (sr.)
- Federal responses to cyber-bullying, gun violence, and electronic surveillance
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