Middle school students in grades 6-8 participate in CSA (rotations in computers, Spanish, and art). The rotations are generally 3 weeks long and they complete the rotation three times during the school year.
6th Grade September 6 - September 23 |
| Week |
Dates |
Description |
1 |
Sept 6-9 |
- Overview of class expectations, employability, rules/procedures
- Ultra-key typing review & timings
- Summer Vacation Class Graph
- Music on Friday
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2 |
Sept 12-16 |
- Ultra-key warm up & AQZ drill
- Vacation Summary & graph
- Learning Style Assessment - Choose the assessment link and print your result sheet as a pdf document and save to your MS computer folder (6th, 7th or 8th grade)
- Language Arts integration - How I spent my summer vacation 6 Traits
- Profile Interests graph
- Music on Friday
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3 |
Sept 19-23 |
- Ultra-key warm up & AQZ drill
- Profile Interests graph
- Ultra-key practice
- How I Spent my Summer Storybook
- Keyboard Assessments
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8th Grade September 26 - October 14 |
1 |
Sept 26-30 |
- Overview of class expectations, employability, rules/procedures
- Ultra-key typing review & timings
- Office 2010 Differences
- Overview of Excel Basics
- Folder organization for unit 2 Excel
- Stepping Through XP-Excel Lesson One Ex 3-4 (cell format, find/replace both text & formatting options)
- Guided Activity 1.2 (Expenses) page 182
- Do it Yourself 1.2 (Sales Data) page 184-185
- Do it Yourself 1.3 (My Schedule) page 185
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2 |
Oct 3-7 |
- Ultra-key typing
- Vocab & test review
- Test - Excel Lesson one
- Stepping Through XP-Lesson Two
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3 |
Oct 10-14 |
- Ultra-key typing
- Do Yourself 2.3 (page 221) - CD Inventory assignment (Monday)
- Keyboard Test (Tuesday)
- Do Yourself 2.4 (page 222) - Balance Sheet (Tuesday)
- Wednesday - Review Game Powerpoint
- Thursdsay - Partner Demo Quiz Review
- Friday - Excel Test-Lesson 2
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7th Grade October 17 - November 4 |
1 |
Oct 17-21 |
- Overview of class expectations, employability, rules/procedures
- Ultra-key typing review & timings
- Stepping through XP - Word Lesson 1
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2 |
Oct 24-28 |
- End of chapter 1 exercises:
- GA 1 - Resume (page 33-34)
- GA 2 - Mayor Letter (page 34)
- DY 1 - Promotion Letter (page 35-36)
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3 |
Oct 31 - Nov 4 |
- Monday & Tuesday wrap up problems from chapter 1 & Vocab Jeopardy Game Review & Relay Review
- Wednesday - Test
- Thursday - No Class - Hot Air Balloon
- Friday - lesson 2 assignments
- GA 1 - Itinerary (page 73)
- DY 1 - Truck Complaint (page 76)
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6th Grade November 8-Dec 2 |
| Week |
Dates |
Description |
1 |
Nov 8-11 |
- Ultra-key warm up & AQZ drill
- Language Arts Integration
- Music on Friday (no class)
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2 |
Nov 14-18 |
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3 |
Nov 21-Dec 2 |
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8th Grade December 5 - 21 |
1 |
Dec 5-9 |
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2 |
Dec 12-16 |
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3 |
Dec 19-21 |
- Monday - finish end of chapter activities
- Guided Activity 2 - Page 261
- Do It Yourself 2 - Page 265
- Tuesday - Review for test - Lesson 3
- Wednesday - Test Lesson 3
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7th Grade January 3 - 20 |
1 |
Jan 3-6 |
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2 |
Jan 9-13 |
- Guided Activities & Do it Yourself - Lesson 2
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3 |
Jan 16-20 |
- Monday - Finish Lesson 2 Step XP Assignments
- Tuesday - Review for Lesson 2 Quiz & exam
- Thursday Exam - Word Lesson 1 & 2 and keyboard eval
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8th Grade January 25 - Feb 10 |
| Week |
Dates |
Description |
1 |
Jan 25 - 27 |
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2 |
Jan 30 - Feb 3 |
- Monday - Go over research project & timeline and
play Career Interest Game
- Tuesday- Holland Personality Test & finish "Who am I" chart
- Wednesday - Career Research select career and begin 1st 2 sections of research paper (title page & assessment results)
- Thursday/ Friday- research & complete Explore Careers Chart
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3 |
Feb 6 - 10 |
- Monday - finish research & submit Explore Careers Chart
- Tuesday - Thursday - Work on research paper
- Friday - complete works cited document (use online sources)
- Tutorial Video - Works Cited
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4 |
Feb 13 & 15 |
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7th Grade Feb 13 - Mar 2 |
1 |
Feb 16 - 17 |
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2 |
Feb 20 - 24 |
- Continue working on Road Trip Table
- Itinerary Table
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3 |
Feb 27 - Mar 2 |
- Create Letter for project
- Photostory - See sample (Thing 19 - PhotoStory Nov 19)
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6th Grade March 5 - 23 |
1 |
Mar 5 - 9 |
- Iditarod Project
- Musher Record Sheet (update race log stats)
- Musher Profile
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2 |
Mar 12 - 16 |
- Notebook organization Tool (Excel document)
- Iditarod Scavenger Hunt (open document & save to your p:drive under your iditarod folder - type answers to questions with URL link where you found the answer
- Musher Record Sheet (race log stats)
- Wednesday - Begin Table of Contents (notebook organization)
- Thursday (field trip - no class)
- Friday (music - no class)
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3 |
Mar 19 - 23 |
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7th Grade April 2 - 20 |
| Week |
Dates |
Description |
1 |
April 2-5 |
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2 |
April 10-13 |
- Ultra-key
- Excel - Lesson 1 & 2
- Number, text, cell & alignment formatting
- Page setup
- Find & replace (text & formatting)
- Filters
- Autoformat
- Page Setup
- Keyboard Graphs
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3 |
April 16-20 |
- Map Testing (M, T, Th & F)
- Wednesday -
- Excel GA 2.2 (Expense Summary) & DY 2.3 CD Inventory
- Ultra-key Timing Checks
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6th Grade April 23 - May 11 |
1 |
April 23-27 |
- Map Testing (Monday - Thursday)
- Friday - No class Music
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2 |
April 30-May 4 |
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3 |
May 7- May 11 |
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8th Grade May 14 - June 7 |
1 |
May 14-18 |
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2 |
May 21-25 |
- Keyboarding Warmup (daily 10 minutes) - Daily Results
- Dream Home Project
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3 |
May 29-June 1 |
- Create Keyboard Timing Graph
- Access Unit -
Individual Keyboard Assessments
- Tech Standards & Individual Keyboard Assessments
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4 |
June 4-7 |
- Tech Standards & Individual Keyboard Assessments
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