| The CRITICAL WRITING (7TH GRADE) course is a small group class that provides instruction aligned with California's COMMON CORE State Standards: |
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Active Reading (Reading Comprehension): Students will read and understand 1 novel and multiple short stories, find similarities and differences between texts in the treatment, scope or organization of ideas, evaluate the unity, coherence, logic, internal consistency and structural patterns, and compare and contrast motivations and reactions of literary characters from different historical eras confronting similar situations or conflicts. Students will analyze the relevance of the setting–time, place, customs–to the mood, tone, and meaning of the text, identify and analyze recurring themes–good versus evil– across traditional and contemporary works, and identify significant literary devices–metaphor, symbolism, dialect, irony–that define a writer's style and use those elements to interpret the work). |
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Fundamentals of Effective Writing: Students will be writing clear, coherent, and focused essays that establish a coherent thesis and end with a clear and well-supported conclusion, establish coherence within and among paragraphs through effective transitions, parallel structures, and similar writing techniques, support theses or conclusions with analogies, paraphrases, quotations, opinions from authorities, comparisons, and similar devices. In writing persuasive compositions, students will learn to include a well-defined thesis–one that makes a clear and knowledgeable judgment, present detailed evidence, examples, and reasoning to support arguments, differentiating between facts and opinion, and provide details and examples, arranging them effectively by anticipating and answering reader concerns and counterarguments. Students will be practicing the four writing genres (expository, narrative and persuasive and descriptive) to include at least 500–1000 words in each composition. |
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Vocabulary Development: Students will integrate knowledge of individual words to enhance their writing, analyze idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes to infer the literal and figurative meanings of phrases, and use word meanings within the appropriate context and show ability to verify those word meanings by definition, example, restatement, comparison, or contrast. |
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Grammar: For the grammar module of the class, students will learn to use correct and varied sentence types and sentence opening to present a lively and effective personal style, identify and use parallelism, including similar grammatical forms, in all written discourse to present items in a series and items juxtaposed for emphasis, and use subordination, coordination, apposition, and other devices to indicate clearly the relationship between ideas. |
| Some book purchases will be necessary. Students can expect homework and weekly quizzes. Grades will be given. | |
| E07A | CRITICAL WRITING (7th Gr) |
| June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) | |
| Tuesdays and Thursdays | 3:30–5:30pm | LEE |
| COMMON CORE MATH 7 ACCELERATED at the BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER introduces the language and methods of algebra. Instruction will focus on 4 critical areas: |
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Ratios and Proportional Relationships: Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. |
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Expressions and Equations: Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical problem, and construct equations and inequalities to solve problems by reasoning about the quantities. |
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Geometry: Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles in a multi-step problem to write and solve equations for an unknown angle in a figure. Solve real-world problems involving area, volume and surface area of 2 and 3 dimensional objects composed of triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons, cubes, and right prisms. |
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Statistics and Probability: Investigate chance processes and develop, use, and evaluate probability models. Develop a probability model and use it to find probabilities of events. |
| This group class is for the 6th grade APAAS (with pre-test) or 7th grade student. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. | |
| M00A | ACCELERATED MATH 7 |
| June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) | |
| Tuesdays and Thursdays | 1:20–3:20pm | CHAALAN |
| COMMON CORE MATH 8 at the BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER introduces the language and methods of algebra. Instruction will focus on 4 critical areas: |
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Expressions and Equations: Solve real-world and mathematical problems of two linear equations in two variables algebraically, and estimate solutions by graphing the equations. |
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Functions: Interpret the equation y=mx+b as defining a linear function. Construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities. |
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Geometry: Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions. Apply the formulas for the volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems. |
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Statistics and Probability: Construct and interpret scatter plots for bivariate measurement data to investigate patterns of association between two quantities. |
| This group class is for the 7th grade student placed in the Math 7/8 or the 8th grade student. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. | |
| M01A | MATH 8 |
| June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Tuesdays and Thursdays | 1:20–3:20pm | KELLY |
| In ENHANCED MATH 1 at the BARUN ACADEMIC CENTER, students will learn to reason abstractly and quantitatively. Instruction will highlight 4 critical areas: |
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Algebra: Represent and solve equations and inequalities graphically. Explain why the x-coordinates of the points where the graphs of the equations y=f(x) and y=g(x) intersect are the solutions of the equation f(x)=g(x). Include cases where f(x) and/or g(x) are linear, polynomial, rational, absolute value, exponential, and logarithmic functions. |
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Functions: Calculate and interpret the average rate of change of a function (presented symbolically or as a table) over a specified interval. Estimate the rate of change from a graph. |
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Geometry: Develop definitions of rotations, reflections, and translations in terms of angles, circles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and line segments. Prove the slope criteria for parallel and perpendicular lines and use them to solve geometric problems. |
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Statistics and Probability: Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Fit a function to the data. |
| This group class is for the student enrolled in Enhanced Math 1. Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. | |
| M02A | ENHANCED MATH 1 |
| June 17–July 12 (4 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Mondays, Wednesdays,and Fridays | 1:20–3:20pm | KELLY |
| The SPANISH courses are small group classes that focus on the fundamental elements of the Spanish language to include the four basic communication skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students will be provided with instruction that teaches a basic understanding of Spanish culture, vocabulary, and grammar concepts. Upon completion, students should be able to comprehend and respond with increasing proficiency to spoken and written Spanish and should be able to demonstrate further cultural awareness. The course emphasizes understanding and practical application rather than rote memory. |
| Students can expect homework, quizzes, a mid-term and a final. Grades will be given. |
| P10A | SPANISH 1 |
| June 18–July 18 (5 weeks)* | |
| *July 4–5–Independence Day Holiday (No class) |
| Tuesdays and Thursdays | 1:20–3:20pm | GARCIA |