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S P O R T S Boys BasketballGirls BasketballGirls VolleyballCo-ed SoccerCo-ed TrackCo-ed Cross Country

C L U B S & T E A M SRoboticsDramaSpeech TeamYearbookCulinary Skills

M I D D L E S C H O O L E X P E R I E N C E

C I N C I N N AT I6th Grade – Overnight TripUnderground Railroad Freedom CenterOhio River Steamboat Trip

House System: Small groups blending grades to promote friendship and serviceTheatre and Symphony TripsScience Exhibition ProjectsForest Days at State ParksChristmas SocialSpring Fling: Historic DancesField DayThesis Interviews: Faith, Truth, Beauty C H I C A G O

7th Grade – Overnight Trip Chicago Art InstituteOriental InstituteBronzeville History Tour/JazzWalking Architecture Tour

WA S H I N G T O N D . C .8th Grade – Week TripNational Gallery of ArtMt. VernonNational Museum of African American HistoryFrederick Douglass HomeHolocaust MuseumNational CathedralGettysburg Battlefield

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HUMANITIESAFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS

19TH CENTURY AMERICAAntebellum America Civil War Reconstruction to Gilded Age Morris Butler House Soldiers and Sailors Monument Colonel Eli Lilly Civil War Museum

ART African art, Winslow Homer, Henry Tanner, Jacob Riis, Impressionism, Early Modernism, Amedeo Modigliani

MUSICScott Joplin, Claude Debussy, Spirituals, Civil War Songs, Stephen Foster, William Henry Fry

ARTAfrican textiles Figure Drawing Still Life Painting Impasto Intermediate Grid Drawing Exaggerating a Design Element: Modern Art Exploration Sculpture: Wire Sketchbook/Art Journal

MUSICEXPLORATORY BAND, STRINGS, & CHORAL ENSEMBLES

Music Theory Introduction to Ensemble Skills Performance Opportunity

PHYSICAL EDUCATIONTeamworkGame play

HEALTHNutrition, Life Fitness, Mental Health Awareness, Online Safety, Drug and Alcohol Education

TECHNOLOGYBEGINNING

PC Applications Online Course Management System Hardware and Software Research Skills: Website Evaluation, Citing Sources Coding: Scratch

FOUNDATIONSStudy Skills and Organization Computer Keyboarding Dancing Handwork (i.e. Knitting)

LANGUAGE ARTSClassical Writing: Encomium and Vituperation Persuasive and Narrative Focus in Writing Humanities-based Spelling Compound Subjects and Predicates Pronoun Review Sentence Variety Recitation: Speeches, Poetry, Bible Excerpts Scored Discussions

LANGUAGESLATIN

Derivatives, Latin in English Romance Languages First, Second, and Third Declensions Cases and Their Functions Tenses: Present, Imperfect, Future Christmas With the Ancients and Latin Caroling Prepositions Adjectives Parsing and Translating

MATHEMATICSMath Course 1 Math Course 2 Math Course 2 Accelerated

SUMMER MATH ACADEMY OPTIONMath Course 3

SCIENCEGENERAL SCIENCE

Scientific Method Measurement and Lab Skills Waves, Sound, Electromagnetic Waves, Light, Optics

EARTH SCIENCERocks, Minerals, Weathering, Soil, Erosion, Deposition Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes and Volcanoes

LITERATURETwelfth Night (Shakespeare) Mansa Musa (Burns) The Glory Field (Myers) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass) The Call of the Wild (London) The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)

CIVIL WAR BOOKSThe Boys War (Murphy) Civil War Stories (Bierce)

BIBLE CHRONOLOGYHebrews The Universal Epistles: James, Peter and John

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HUMANITIESWORLD HISTORY: ANCIENT SUMER THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES

20TH CENTURY AMERICA TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION

World War I Roaring Twenties Great Depression World War II (Atlantic Theatre) Holocaust

ARTCharlie Chaplin, Jacob Lawrence, Mark Chagall, Dorothea Lange, David Roberts, Peter Breughel, Raphael, Ancient Art

MUSICKings of Jazz, Swing Band, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner

ARTElements of Design: Formal StudyTurning Shape Into Form: Level 1Mosaics: Composition and TechniquesPrintmakingBook MakingSculpture: WoodSketchbook/Art Journal

MUSICBAND, STRINGS, AND CHORAL ENSEMBLES

Music TheoryMusic Performances: School and CommunityFolk SongsEnsemble SkillsSolo and Small Group Playing and SingingExpanded Instrumentation

PHYSICAL EDUCATIONTeamworkGame PlayGame and Sport Strategy

HEALTHNutrition, Life Fitness, Mental Health Awareness, Online Safety, Drug and Alcohol Education

TECHNOLOGYINTERMEDIATE

PC ApplicationsOnline Course Management SystemHardware and SoftwareResearch Skills: Website Evaluation, Citing SourcesCoding: Scratch, HTML

LANGUAGE ARTSClassical Writing: Comparison And Description Expository and Descriptive Focus in Writing Informative/Research Writing Coordinating Conjunctions, Quotations, Misplaced Modifiers, Transition Words Complex Sentence Imitation Solving Awkward Sentences Recitation: Speeches, Poetry, Bible Excerpts Scored Discussions and Debate

LANGUAGESSPANISH OR LATIN

Vocabulary DevelopmentGrammar StructuresTranslationCultural StudiesConversation and Speaking Practice (Spanish)

MATHEMATICSMath Course 2 Math Course 3 Algebra 1

SUMMER MATH ACADEMY OPTIONMath Course 3, or Algebra 1 (Online)

LOGIC IClassical Deductive Logic Syllogisms and Propositions Valid Argumentation

SCIENCEBIOLOGY

Cellular Biology, Heredity, DNA Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Single-celled Life Classification Invertebrates Mitosis and Meiosis

LITERATUREHenry V (Shakespeare) All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) The Hiding Place (Ten Boom) Epic of Gilgamesh The Odyssey (Homer) Till We Have Faces (Lewis) Antigone (Sophocles) Book of Martyrs (Foxe) Beowulf Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)

POETRYKeats, Shelley, Hughes

BIBLE CHRONOLOGYGenesis Daniel Luke/Acts

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HUMANITIESWORLD HISTORY: REFORMATION TO THE MODERN ERA

Midwinter BallRe-enactment of Louis XVI Trial

20TH CENTURY AMERICA FROM WORLD WAR II TO CIVIL RIGHTS & THE COLD WAR

World War II (Pacific Theatre)Segregation and Civil RightsCold WarPerspective Drawing of Victorian House/Tea Party

ARTBaroque to Modern: Johannes Vermeer, Jacques Louis David, Caspar Friedrich, Pre-Raphaelites, Pablo Picasso

MUSICJohann Bach, Frederick Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, Igor Stravinsky

ARTPerspectives: One-Point, Two-Point, Multiple-PointForeshorteningAerial and Atmospheric PerspectiveTurning Shape Into Form: Level 2Collage TechniquesRelief SculptureGreen Art Movement: Recycled SculpturesCubismSketchbook/Art Journal

MUSICBAND, STRINGS, AND CHORAL ENSEMBLES

Music TheoryMusic Performances: School and CommunityFolk SongsEnsemble SkillsSolo and Small Group Playing and SingingExpanded Instrumentation

PHYSICAL EDUCATIONTeamworkGame PlayGame and Sport Strategy

HEALTHNutrition, Personal Fitness Planning, Mental Health Awareness, Online Safety, Drug and Alcohol Education

TECHNOLOGYADVANCED

PC ApplicationsOnline Course Management SystemHardware and SoftwareResearch Skills: Website Evaluation, Citing SourcesCoding: HTML, Javascript

LANGUAGE ARTSClassical Writing: Thesis — What is Beauty? What Is Truth?Personal Narrative: My Spiritual JourneySemicolon, Colon, Ellipses, Comma SplicesComplex ParagraphPublic Speaking: Semester Celebrations, Trial Of Louis XVIRecitation: Speeches, Poetry, Bible ExcerptsScored Discussions and Debate

LANGUAGESSPANISH OR LATIN

Vocabulary DevelopmentGrammar StructuresTranslationCultural StudiesConversation And Speaking Practice (Spanish)

MATHEMATICSMath Course 3Pre-AlgebraAlgebra IGeometry

LOGIC IIClassical Deductive LogicInformal FallaciesHypothetical and Complex SyllogismsInductive Logic

SCIENCECHEMISTRY

Atomic TheoryPeriodic Table of ElementsChemical Bonds, Solutions, CompoundsCarbon Cycle

PHYSICSMotion and ForcesGravity, Friction, PressureEnergyMechanics

BIOLOGYOrigins

LITERATUREParadise Lost (Milton)The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy)Pride and Prejudice (Austen)To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee)God’s Smuggler (Brother Andrew)Short stories: Jacobs, Tolstoy, De Maupassant

POETRYBlake, Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson

BIBLE CHRONOLOGYProverbsRevelation

THE OAKS ACADEMY is a Christ-centered school that exists to provide a rich, classical education to children of diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, preparing them to succeed in a rigorous secondary educational program and to demonstrate spiritual, social and emotional maturity.