2007-08 Middle School Course List

Science

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• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Ecology
• Figuring Stuff Out
• Inquiry and Tools
• My Ecological Footprint and Why It Matters
• Nature Nurture
• Physical Science
• Re-inventing the Wheels
• The Ring of Fire
• Story of Life
• Story of Science
• Voyage of the Mimi I and II

Technology

• Aeronautics
• Bicycle Refurbishing at R.I.B.S.
• Computer All-Stars at the Youth Bureau
• Designing and Building Bridges
• Clock Making
• Lego Dacta: The Fan Project
• Intro to Woodburning
• Re-inventing the Wheels
• Tech Is... ?
• Computer Lit: Keyboarding and Word Processing
• Compuer Lit: Spreadsheet, Database, and Multimedia

Language

• French A
• French B
• Spanish A
• Spanish B
• Intro to French
• Intro to Spanish (2nd semester only)

English

• American Experience
• American Drama (2nd semester only)
• Dragons and Robots
• Fiction Writing Workshop
• Great Classic Villains (2nd semester only)
• The Insiders (2nd semester only)
• Journalism
• Making History
• Nature Nurture
• People and Literature (PAL)
• Reading Between the Lines
• Reading Globally
• Researchers and Writers
• Shakespeare 

Social Studies

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• American Experience
• Atlantic World
• Civil Rights
• Colonial America
• The Decade: Popular Culture in America, 1900-1950
• The Decade: Popular Culture in America, 1950-2000
• Immigration
• People and Literature (PAL)
• Topics in US History
• Victorian America
• Who Built America?

Physical Education and Health

• Physical Education
• Our Sexual Selves

Mathematics

• Geometry I
• Geometry II
• Graphs, Statistics, Critical Thinking
• Inquiry and Tools
• Ratios, Proportions, Percents
• Pre-Algebra

Art

• 6th Grade Art
• 7-8 Art

Drama

• American Drama
• Middle School Play Productions

Music

• Chamber Orchestra
• Everything Orchestra
• Concert Band
• Wind Ensemble
• Musik Inside Out
• Music, Myth and Ritual: Then and Now
• Voices of the World