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Academy Grades 6 - 8

Our curriculum is designed to:
- Challenge our students
  
  We challenge and inspire students through a rigorous high-school preparatory program.
  An emphasis on vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills prepares students for the rigor of college-preparatory coursework at schools like Marian and Brother Rice as well as local public schools.
  Students have the opportunity to complete Algebra I in eighth grade (either at St. Regis, or by attending Marian or Brother Rice for this class).
  Students will complete three years of Spanish language instruction and have the opportunity to place into Spanish 2 in high school.
- Prepare for high school & beyond
  
  Our highly-qualified and state certified teachers use varied methods to prepare our students for high school.
  Students use online tools to check grades and assignments and are assessed through testing, projects, and reports.
  Students participate in midterm and final exams and receive quarterly report cards.
  Students also participate in the STAR National Assessment.
- Reinforce respect & responsibility
  
  We partner with parents to reinforce the values of respect for others and self.
  We foster responsible behavior and choices through graduated levels of independence in school work and communication.
  Students participate in religion class daily and participate in discussions and projects that reinforce our Catholic values and beliefs.
- Academy Pillars
  
  Above the curriculum offered, students learn faith, service, and leadership concepts that are intertwined throughout their curriculum to prepare them for high school.
- Faith
- Academics
- Service
- Leadership
Faith
- Our goal for all St. Regis Catholic School students is to provide a learning environment where spiritual development complements intellectual development. We continually strive to ensure that the element of faith is integrated into every instruction plan in every program, to demonstrate its relationship to the world of human culture.
Academics
- We believe in a curriculum design where the common core disciplines are the cornerstone that promotes personal and social integration. This is achieved through the organization of curriculum around significant problems and issues, collaboratively identified by educators and young people, without regard for subject-area lines.
  
  Content and skills will be taught, learned, and applied as they are needed to work on themes. While knowledge is extrapolated from the traditional disciplines, students’ learning will also be enhanced through differentiated instruction and project-based assignments with an emphasis on real-life themes, contextual application of knowledge, and constructivist learning.
Service
- Academy students’ actions will exemplify the importance of living the message of Jesus Christ by helping others. All our students will participate in community service projects, giving them an opportunity to serve those in need and support their communities.
Leadership
- Through a series of classes and projects, curriculum is designed to improve character and leadership traits among St. Regis Academy students. Our leadership curriculum enhances the understanding of one’s leadership through service of God and community.
Academy Curriculum
- Sixth Grade
  RELIGION
  Creation
  God’s revelation and promise
  The Liturgical Year
  Jesus as teacher, healer, redeemer and savior
  The Church in the world
  Israel and the Northern Kingdom, Judah and the Southern Kingdom
  The Church’s beginnings
  Students participate in planning mass, adoration, and reconciliation
  The sixth grade is also in charge of creating a performance of the Living Stations of the Cross during Lent.
  
  SCIENCE
  In the sixth grade, students focus on five-step and eight-step labs and experiments within the four units of study. Five-step labs ask a question, conduct an investigation, gather data, develop explanations, and communicate discoveries. Eight-step labs ask a question, conduct an investigation, gather data, develop explanations, think critically, recognize alternatives, communicate discoveries, and use mathematics.
  
  READING
  Students read a variety of novels per school year.
  Discussions regarding vocabulary, conflict, characterization and questioning to ensure comprehension is the norm.
  Projects are done to enhance the novel studies, ex. literature circles, character autopsies, and creating book trailers using iMovie.
  Forms and genres of writing, plot and setting, understanding theme, how writers can be persuasive, and elements of fiction and non-fiction are studied as well.
  Students prepare for a Declamation Contest to enhance their oratory skills.
  
  WRITING
  Sixth graders continue to fine tune their writing through the writing process.
  Students work on grammar, write editorials, and create travel brochures, skits and commercials, and other creative and informational works.
  Our classes also explore essay writing, correct ways to write a paragraph, and creative writing.
  Students frequently keep their skills sharp by correcting paragraph and letter errors.
  All formal writing is completed in cursive or typed.
  
  MATH
  Four critical areas of focus are: (1) connecting ratio and rate to whole number multiplication and division and using concepts of ratio and rate to solve problems; (2) understanding of division of fractions and extending the notion of number to the system of rational numbers, which includes negative numbers; (3) writing, interpreting, and using expressions and equations; and (4) developing understanding of statistical thinking.
  Students build on collaborative skills learned in 5th grade reading and math to form a type of learning community.
  Students compare answers, verbalize their reasoning behind a solution, and critique the reasoning of others. This is a critical skill in developing mathematicians as they begin to use their own reasoning to determine whether an answer is correct as opposed to the teacher.
  
  SOCIAL STUDIES
  Our sixth-grade curriculum requires students to explore cultures and civilizations of the past to find out how our world works today.
  The focus of our study is ancient civilizations.
  We study Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, Ancient Greece, and Ancient China.
  We learn about our unique world through the regions, locations, places, environments, religions, and movements of the past and present.
  Students also review current events and work on their map skills.
  
  TEXTBOOKS
  The textbooks we use are evaluated on a five-year cycle. We choose books based on curriculum alignment, grade-level appropriateness, and overall quality.
- Seventh Grade
  RELIGION
  The seventh grade places special emphasis on the role of grace in the seven sacraments and in developing the virtues.
  Students learn about God’s loving gift of revelation through creation, the prophets, the Incarnation, and the Church.
  Grace is understood as being central to our relationship with God because it unites us with Him and allows us to share in His eternal life.
  
  LITERATURE
  An in-depth study of poetry and text analysis for meaning is the main focus of seventh grade.
  Students are challenged by thematic units and higher-level thinking questions to help them make inferences based on the context.
  Students read several novels and have scholarly discussions.
  Students prepare for a Declamation Contest to enhance their oratory skills.
  
  WRITING
  The students develop high level thinking skills through an in-depth study of English grammar.
  Building vocabulary is a prominent part of the curriculum.
  Our classes also explore essay writing, correct ways to write a paragraph, and creative writing.
  Students frequently keep their skills sharp by correcting paragraph and letter errors.
  All formal writing is completed in cursive or typed.
  English classes are separated into Traditional and Accelerated classes.
  
  HISTORY
  Our curriculum focuses on world history.
  The program begins with a study of eastern civilizations and how they have influenced modern cultures.
  The relationship between geography and history will be thoroughly examined, including how geographic features have helped certain regions around the world to thrive.
  Map study, economics, government systems, and religions are integral to our curriculum.
  Cultural and religious diversity and tolerance are emphasized while examining the foundation of Christianity and the values that have helped shape modern cultures.
  Units of study include Rome, Roman Civilizations, Islamic Civilizations, Imperial China, Africa Civilizations, Medieval Europe, Renaissance & Reformation.
  Coursework involves critical thinking and writing, discussion, comparing and contrasting, analyzing, and constructing.
  Students will learn practical skills, including identifying main ideas and supporting details, writing and organizing study notes, strengthening critical thinking and comprehension, and public speaking.
  
  MATH
  On-level Pre-Algebra: In this course, introductory concepts of algebra are developed with applications interwoven throughout.
  Topics include but are not limited to, operations with integers, solving single and multi-step equations, functions, graphing, exponents and roots, ratios and proportions, and two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometry.
  Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and problem solving.
  Our mathematics curriculum is designed to be challenging and motivating for all students. The correct placement of students is essential for student success.
  Math classes are separated into Traditional and Accelerated sections.
  
  SCIENCE
  Students will develop their exploratory skills by generating their own questions while recognizing and explaining relationships that develop from scientific labs and activities.
  Students focus on the study of biology.
  Students participate in real-life dissections of worms, frogs, cray fish and cow hearts.
  
  TEXTBOOKS
  The textbooks we use are evaluated on a five-year cycle. We choose books based on curriculum alignment, grade-level appropriateness, and overall quality.
- Eighth Grade
  RELIGION
  The eighth grade covers the history of the Church – its founding by Christ, its birth and life in the Holy Spirit, the marks of the one true Church, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the saints, and the role of religious communities in Church history.
  Also covered are the structure and hierarchy of the Church, the Magisterium, clergy, religious, and laity.
  Students come to know and love the Church as Christ’s Body, to better understand the nature of their lives in the Church, and to respond to the teaching of the Magisterium.
  Students prepare for the sacrament of Confirmation within the classroom.
  
  LITERATURE
  In eighth grade, students analyze how modern works of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
  Students rad novels, dramas and short stories to inspire literacy discussion.
  Students use online tools to recreate storylines and show character development.
  
  WRITING
  Students prepare for high-school through informational writing across the curriculum to fine tune their abilities to express their academic knowledge through the craft of writing.
  Students write a formal research report and write daily in the content areas.
  We also finish our study of English grammar in preparation for high school level courses.
  
  HISTORY
  Our students explore history, geography, economics, government, and culture to gain a better understanding of their world.
  They are encouraged to relate past and present through the study of history and current events.
  The study of American history involves names, events, discoveries, and conflicts.
  Through the study of the facts, students will begin to see the relationships between individuals and groups that have shaped the history of the United States.
  It is important to present concepts that help students to understand the cause and effect of how historical circumstances have influenced the American experience.
  This course will primarily focus on Westward Expansion, Jacksonian Democracy, Civil War, Reconstruction, Progressive Era, World War I, Great Depression, World War II, and Cold War.
  Essay-writing, analysis of historical events, note-taking and memorization are all skill areas that students will work on in
  This grade will also participate in a class trip to Washington, D. C. and surrounding areas in the spring of their academic year.
  
  SCIENCE
  Students will have the opportunity to study various topics in the categories of Chemical Interactions, Matter and Energy, and Waves, Sound, and Light.
  Students will develop their exploratory skills by generating their own questions, while recognizing and explaining relationships that develop from scientific labs and activities.
  Students in 8th grade have the opportunity to make their own hot air balloons, trebuchets, toothpick bridges, and solid-fuel rockets.
  There is a strong focus on engineering skills like troubleshooting, problem solving, and design improvement.
  
  MATH
  Our mathematics curriculum is designed to be challenging and motivating for all students. The correct placement of students is essential for student success. Careful consideration of student abilities is critical to self-esteem. It is very important that all students be placed appropriately. This class is separated into traditional and accelerated sections.
  In 8th grade mathematics, the foundations of Algebra I are developed with applications interwoven throughout.
  Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and problem solving.
  Students will study the language of algebra, single and multi-step equations and inequalities, graphing, functions, linear functions, systems of equations and inequalities, polynomials, quadratic functions, and radicals.
  By successfully completing this Algebra 1 course in 8th grade, students may be able to progress ahead in their high school math programs at an accelerated rate.
  Students have the opportunity to place into Honors Algebra I. This class is taken at the neighboring high school. Completion of that course will place a student on an accelerated track for high school.
  
  TEXTBOOKS
  The textbooks we use are evaluated on a five-year cycle. We choose books based on curriculum alignment, grade-level appropriateness, and overall quality.