In Language Arts 600, students will delve into texts that span the genres of narrative fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and informational texts to build reading, writing and thinking skills. Students will also develop their writing skills as they focus on the six traits while producing narrative, argumentative, and explanatory compositions, as well as creative pieces including poetry. The course concludes with students completing a full research report. With a strong emphasis on close reading instruction, writing and thinking activities, as well as speaking and listening tasks, this course will help students expand their understanding of literature while building 21st century skills. Multimedia and interactive elements are built into every lesson to ensure a high-level of student engagement.
• Perform all four operations, including division, on whole numbers, decimals, and fractions.
• Convert between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Represent ratio and rate relationships using tables of equivalent ratios, double number line diagrams, tape diagrams,
equations, and the coordinate plane.
• Solve ratio and rate problems using proportional reasoning.
• Calculate perimeters and areas of regular plane shapes and calculate surface area and volume of right prisms.
• Use the number line to find the absolute value or the opposite of a rational number.
• Simplify variable expressions and solve one-step equations.
• Plot ordered pairs on the coordinate plane.
• Represent data on statistical graphs, including histograms, dot plots, and box plots.
• Recognize and summarize introductory concepts of financial literacy, including funding of educational goals.
• Use their main senses for observation of the world around them.
• Describe the different systems in plants and animals.
• Explain the various ways plants and animals behave.
• Explain how Mendel used observation to develop his theories.
• Demonstrate a basic knowledge of chemical structure and the periodic table.
• Discuss the layers of the atmosphere.
• Describe motion as it relates to force and work.
• Explain how time and season are related to the rotation and revolution of the earth.
• Explain the different forms of energy.
• Understand the world in spatial terms (according to hemispheres, latitude and longitude, maps, and time zones).
• Understand how cultures differ in each of the hemispheres studied.
• Understand Western civilization from its beginnings to the end of the Renaissance.
• Understand the significant religious, cultural, and scientific events in Europe during the Renaissance.
• Identify cultural and geographic differences between the South American countries studied.
• Identify cultural and geographic differences between the African countries studied.
• Identify key causes, events, and leaders of the two World Wars.
• Understand the history, culture, and politics of Eastern European countries.
My son did Calvert from Pre-K on up. When he got to 7th grade, he joined the juniors and seniors at our local public high school to try out the College Board SATs (as part of the Duke TIP), just to see how he would do. He came out with a 650 in Reading, a 590 in Writing, and a 510 in Math (and he hadn’t even learned any high school math, yet).
This is a competitive SAT score even for a high school graduate! I’ll say that Calvert has been preparing him well.— Bill L., Calvert Dad