Warwick Middle School

Units of Study

Units of Study

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Period 3:  Learning Support ELA 

  • Mythology/Fantasy (September/October)
    • Favorite Greek Myths (text)
  • Short Stories/Literature (November/December)
    • Adventures in Reading (text)
  • Coming of Age/Family (January/February)
    • Novel: How to steal a dog 
  • Empathy/Prejudice (March/April)
    • Novel: Rules
  • Holocaust/World War II (May)
    • Graphic novel: Diary of Anne Frank
  • Poetry (June)
    • Elizabeth Blackwell or Mother to Son poems
  • Skill Focused (entire year)
    • Grammar/Writing
    • Reading Comprehension

Period 5:  Co-taught Pre-Algebra (Zeiset) & Co-taught Pre-Algebra (Mills)

  • Units/Concepts
    • Unit 1 - Square/Cube Roots and exponents (September)
    • Unit 2 - Order of Operations & Exponent Rules (October)
    • Unit 3 - Scientific Notation & Irrational Numbers (November)
    • Unit 4 - Expressive, Evaluating, & Simplifying  (December)
    • Unit 5 - Solving 1 and 2 step equations (January)
    • Unit 6 - Solving multistep equations (February)
    • Unit 7 - Functions/Graphing (March)
    • Unit 8 - Pythagorean Theorem (April)
    • Unit 9 - Systems of equations (May)
    • Unit 10 - Probability (June)

Period 6 & 7 Co-taught Social Studies 8

  • Units/Concepts
    • Creation/Discovery of 13 colonies (September)
    • Life in Colonial America (September/October)
    • French & Indian War (November)
    • Pre-American Revolution (December)
    • American Revolution (January)
    • Creating the United States (February)
    • Age of Jefferson/War of 1812 (March)
    • Building America/Age of Jackson/Manifest Destiny (April)
    • Civil War (May)
    • Reconstruction/Growth of the West (June)

Period 6 & 7 Co-taught Science 8

    • Units/Concepts
      • Scientific Method (September)
        • Bouncing ball lab
      • Lab Safety (September)
      • Metric Measurement (September/October/November)
        • Mass Lab
        • Measuring Volume Lab
        • Density Lab
      • Measurement Skills Assessment (December)
      • Physics unit (January)
        • Motion and Force
        • Laws of Motion
      • Simple Machines/Work/Power (February)
      • Energy (March)
      • Changes of Matter/States of Matter (April)
      • Periodic Table (May)
      • Energy Resources/Earth Processes/Rock Cycle (June)