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The Upper Grades at Charles River School
Our curriculum in sixth through eighth grade prepares students for a wide range of traditional secondary school curricula and builds on the multidisciplinary approach utilized in the lower grades. Thinking process skills are applied in more complex ways as young people enter the middle grades. Students apply such skills as observing, hypothesizing, categorizing, and inferring, when they compute, interpret literature, read history, construct extensive research papers and carry out science experiments.
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Our literature program expands students' appreciation of and ability to interpret texts-short stories, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Students write expository essays and papers, as well as narratives from personal experience. Sharing and critiquing their work, they learn about effective communication and grow significantly as writers.
Our mathematics program continues to emphasize problem-solving strategies and real life applications, but also moves into pre-algebra, statistics, geometry, and algebra.
The science program continues to emphasize investigation, experimentation, and the scientific method, but also focuses more insistently on the material studied-river and ocean systems, life science, earth science, astronomy, physical science, and environmental studies.
In social studies, students consider the justice system from a variety of perspectives-focusing on the literature, history, and art of suffrage movements in the United States, and considering law and government in the context of the Constitution.
Students study one of two languages--French or Spanish--for three years beginning in sixth grade.
Technology is woven throughout the curriculum in these years. Students use software tools for research and data collection, synthesis and analysis of information, and for research presentations.
A variety of interscholastic sports are offered, and many students elect to play all three seasons. The focus is on building skills, respecting others, working hard, and having fun.
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The Charles River School, 56 Centre Street, PO Box 339, Dover, MA 02030-0339
T: (508) 785-0068 • F: (508) 785-8290 • info@charlesriverschool.org
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