Test taking skills are also taught. Placement in this class requires a recommendation from the Principal. Each course is one semester in length and offered only to seventh grade students. Life Management Skills is a study of personal growth and development, successful living with family, peers, and authority figures, problem solving, parenting skills, and general life skills. Family Living is a lab course designed to help students learn to cope with family life.
Students develop confidence and a better understanding of coping with the family structure.
This course is designed to increase reading comprehension. These objectives include the ability to identify and use vocabulary, identify significant details, identify the sequence of events, identify main idea, distinguish between fact and opinion, identify cause and effect relationships, identify generalizations, identify sources for locating information, and use graphic sources. Composition skills taught include a variety of purposes such as description and exposition. I, students will learn the concepts and skills associated with real numbers, will solve equations and inequalities, will work with polynomials, will find square roots, will graph and solve quadratic equations, and will work with rational expressions. Other topics presented are measurement, geometry, graphing, percents, proportions, probability and statistics, and integers.