Our Health curriculum provides students with the opportunity to become active participants in maintaining and improving their level of wellness. In eighth grade, some review is provided on seventh grade material. The course will prepare the students to improve their quality of life and help them to meet their present and future responsibilities. The state syllabus is used as a basis with modifications to meet the individual needs of the students at the Oceanside Middle School. The Language Arts Department at Oceanside Middle School is committed to an integrated curriculum.
Students read and write every day.
They talk about the books they are reading and the pieces they are writing. They make personal connections to the stories they read and share their knowledge, strategies, and reactions with partners and group members. Students build a strong vocabulary through the rich literature they read individually and as a class, as well as through a more thorough study of word origins. Control over the use of the conventions of standard American English grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc., are gained through mini-lessons taught by teachers and the process of students editing their own pieces of writing. In seventh grade and eighth grade, students read a wide variety of literature - novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, biographies, autobiographies, letters, diaries and journals.