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Language Arts
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These goal
statements establish general expectations of what Auburn Village
School students
should know and be able to do in language arts at the end of grade eight. They
will be attained as students acquire the facts, concepts skills and
processes enumerated under each on the four organizing strands -- reading,
literature; writing; speaking, listening, and viewing; and language uses--
presented in this curriculum guide.
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Goals
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- Students will read fluently, with
understanding and appreciation as well as interpret and critically
analyze literature.
- Students will write
effectively for a variedly of purposes and audiences.
- Students will speak purposefully
and articulately.
- Students will listen and
view attentively and critically.
- Students will use the
interactive language process of reading, writing, speaking, listening
and viewing to gather and organize information creatively to be used
in everyday situations.
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Mathematics
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The
mathematics curriculum is designed to develop practical knowledge,
mathematical skills, and the use of appropriate technology to the fullest possible
extent in each student.
Curriculum, is "an operational plan for
instruction that details what mathematics students need to know, how
students are to achieve the identified curricular goals, what the teachers
are to do to help students develop their mathematical knowledge, and the
context in which learning and teaching occur." This is defined by the
NCTM Commission on Standards for School Mathematics.
The scope of this curriculum will enable the child to value mathematics and
to build a foundation in order to deal with problems presented in everyday
life.
Students should reason, analyze, reflect and take risks with through
knowledge of mathematical concepts, computational skills, basic facts,
problem solving strategies and be able to communicate that understanding to
others.
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Goals
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- Problem Solving and Reasoning
- Communication and Connections
- Numbers, Numeration, Operations,
and Number Theory
- Geometry, Measurement, and
Trigonometry
- Data Analysis, Statistics, and
Probability
- Functions, Relations, and Algebra
- Mathematics of Change
- Discrete Mathematics
- Technology
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Science
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Auburn Village has used the New Hampshire State Framework as a
catalyst for the development for the scope and sequence of topics and
materials to address each of the curriculum standards. Students in all
grades study units in Life, Earth, Space, Physical and Technology Sciences.
Teachers promote and value:
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Goals
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- Cooperative learning
- Hands-on activities
- Network and distance learning investigation
- Independent learning
- Multimedia instruction
- Authentic research
- Data collection
- Open-ended questioning
- Constructivist approach
- Adequate tools and facilities to conduct
valid investigations
- Active student learning
- Integration of other subject areas
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Students at different
grade levels participate in AIMS-Activities for Integrating Math and
Science, FOSS-Full Option Science Systems, NGS-National Geographic Kids
Network, STC-Science and Technology and Delta Science Modules. Glencoe
Science Interactions is also used at the Middle School level.
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Social
Studies
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The Auburn School District
will provide the academic environment for developing active learning by
integrating geography, history, citizenship, government, economics, and
sociology.
Social Studies should take the student beyond the formal acquisition of
simple facts into the integration and application of knowledge. A we nurture this process of thought, we will provide
the opportunity to judge, comprehend, and confront present, as well as,
future issues in our community, nation, and the world.
Social Studies instruction is considered a process of life-long learning
that connects school to adult life. The ultimate goal should be to prepare
students for the rapidly changing world that waits them.
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Goals
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- Readiness: Self, Family and School
- First Grade: Self, Family and Community
- Grade Two: Neighborhoods Near and Far
- Grade Three: Community, Government, and Geography
- Grade Four: Regions of the United States/ Focus on New Hampshire
as a N.E. Region
- Grade Five: United States
Exploration/History to 1865
- Grade Six: World Geography, Cultures and Map
Skills
- Grade Seven: Ancient Civilizations; Middle
Ages, Rome, Greece,
Mesopotamia, and Egypt
- Grade Eight: U.S. History from the
Civil War to the Present
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Family and
Consumer Sciences
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Middle School students at
AVS. have Family and Consumer Sciences (a.k.a FCS) 40 minutes a day for half a semester each
year, with a full semester course offered as an elective at year's end. In
their regular classes, sixth graders learn some simple hand sewing, how to
operate a sewing machine, and make a bag or pillow, largely of their own
design. In the seventh grade, the emphasis is on following written
directions. Students construct sewn projects from kits. In the eighth
grade, students learn food preparation with the focus being on attractive
presentation of healthy foods.
FCS offerings for last semester are; Babysitting for sixth grade, Foods and
Cultures of the World for seventh grade, and Interior Decoration for eighth
grade.
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