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2022-23 Middle School Course Catalog
CONTENTS
Introduction-------------------------------------------------------------------3
Course Descriptions- Visual Arts---------------------------------------4
Course Descriptions- Performing Arts------------------------------5
Course Descriptions- Science ----------------------------------------6
Course Descriptions- English------------------------------------------7
Course Descriptions- CTE-----------------------------------------------8
Course Descriptions- Social Studies & World Languages---9
Math Pathways at LACES----------------------------------------------10
Online Elective Sheets-----------------------------------------------------11
Course Descriptions- Visual Arts---------------------------------------4
Course Descriptions- Performing Arts------------------------------5
Course Descriptions- Science ----------------------------------------6
Course Descriptions- English------------------------------------------7
Course Descriptions- CTE-----------------------------------------------8
Course Descriptions- Social Studies & World Languages---9
Math Pathways at LACES----------------------------------------------10
Online Elective Sheets-----------------------------------------------------11
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Grade 6 - choose one elective course
Grades 7 and 8 - choose two electives.
Every effort is made to try to place students in their first choice, but as popular electives fill quickly, some students will be placed in alternative courses.
Courses are subject to change based on student requests and staffing.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Visual Arts
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Visual Arts
Art Production: Grades 6-8
This yearlong course is designed for beginning art students. It follows the California State Framework for Visual Arts and Common Core Standards. We will focus on art elements and principles as they relate to four components of art education: artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context, and aesthetic valuing. Creative thinking, problem solving, and skill acquisition are stressed in all assignments. Projects will be in a variety of media, and will be both two and three-dimensional. Student success will depend on full participation in class activities, adherence to project requirements, and quality of execution.
Advanced Art: Grades 7-8; Prerequisite: Art Production
This yearlong course is designed for experienced art students. It follows the California State Framework for Visual Arts and Common Core Standards. We will focus on art elements and principles as they relate to four components of art education; artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context, and aesthetic valuing. Creative thinking, problem solving, and skill acquisition are stressed in all assignments. Projects will be in a variety of media, and will be both two and three-dimensional. Student success will depend on full participation in class activities, adherence to project requirements, and quality of execution.
This yearlong course is designed for beginning art students. It follows the California State Framework for Visual Arts and Common Core Standards. We will focus on art elements and principles as they relate to four components of art education: artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context, and aesthetic valuing. Creative thinking, problem solving, and skill acquisition are stressed in all assignments. Projects will be in a variety of media, and will be both two and three-dimensional. Student success will depend on full participation in class activities, adherence to project requirements, and quality of execution.
Advanced Art: Grades 7-8; Prerequisite: Art Production
This yearlong course is designed for experienced art students. It follows the California State Framework for Visual Arts and Common Core Standards. We will focus on art elements and principles as they relate to four components of art education; artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context, and aesthetic valuing. Creative thinking, problem solving, and skill acquisition are stressed in all assignments. Projects will be in a variety of media, and will be both two and three-dimensional. Student success will depend on full participation in class activities, adherence to project requirements, and quality of execution.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS -Performing Arts
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Beginning Strings: Grades 6-8
Beginning Strings: Grades 6-8 - This is a year-long course for students with no experience playing Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass. Students in this course will learn how to read music in addition to playing their instrument. After completing this course, students can move to Beginning Orchestra. Please note: This is not a guitar class.
Orchestra (Strings*** and Winds***): Grades 6-8
This is a year-long course for students with intermediate experience playing Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass or a wind instrument. Students in this class should know how to read music and be able to play between 1-6 major scales. Students who want to sign up for this course but have never taken a music class at LACES are encouraged to send an audition video through Schoology to Mr. Lubin. In the audition, students should play as many scales as they know in addition to any music that shows their proficiency on the instrument. The student must know how to read music. Please note: This is not a guitar class.
***String Instruments include: Violin, Viola, cello, bass.
***Wind Instruments include: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba.
Beginning Orchestra: Grades 6-12, 1-2 years of previous experience with the same instrument
Primarily for middle school students who have had at least one year or more of effective instruction on their orchestral instrument.
Beginning Band: Grades 6-12, 1-2 years of previous experience with the same instrument
Primarily for middle school students who have had at least one year of effective instruction on their concert band instrument.
Choir: Grades 6-8, No audition for the beginner class This yearlong course is geared toward performance and will emphasize music notation reading, sight-singing skills, and offer multiple opportunities to perform.
Intro Theatre MS: Grades 6-8, Auditions and interviews required
This course requires no prior experience in theatre and is designed to explore the nature of theatre as a performing art. This class will train the actor in the areas of speech, voice, movement, music, and dance. Students will study selected plays from the perspectives of actors and directors, and the strategies of playwrights to develop the ability to imagine the play in performance and to appreciate the range of theatre's possibilities.
The acting curriculum features improvisation, storytelling, poetry, text analysis, contemporary and classical scene studies, neutral mask, character mask, clowning, commedia dell’arte, television and film technique, and audition preparation. This Theatre program will include spots for students who are interested in set, costume, lighting and sound design for the theatre. Course may involve costs of attending professional theatre productions.
Beginning Strings: Grades 6-8 - This is a year-long course for students with no experience playing Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass. Students in this course will learn how to read music in addition to playing their instrument. After completing this course, students can move to Beginning Orchestra. Please note: This is not a guitar class.
Orchestra (Strings*** and Winds***): Grades 6-8
This is a year-long course for students with intermediate experience playing Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass or a wind instrument. Students in this class should know how to read music and be able to play between 1-6 major scales. Students who want to sign up for this course but have never taken a music class at LACES are encouraged to send an audition video through Schoology to Mr. Lubin. In the audition, students should play as many scales as they know in addition to any music that shows their proficiency on the instrument. The student must know how to read music. Please note: This is not a guitar class.
***String Instruments include: Violin, Viola, cello, bass.
***Wind Instruments include: Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba.
Beginning Orchestra: Grades 6-12, 1-2 years of previous experience with the same instrument
Primarily for middle school students who have had at least one year or more of effective instruction on their orchestral instrument.
Beginning Band: Grades 6-12, 1-2 years of previous experience with the same instrument
Primarily for middle school students who have had at least one year of effective instruction on their concert band instrument.
Choir: Grades 6-8, No audition for the beginner class This yearlong course is geared toward performance and will emphasize music notation reading, sight-singing skills, and offer multiple opportunities to perform.
Intro Theatre MS: Grades 6-8, Auditions and interviews required
This course requires no prior experience in theatre and is designed to explore the nature of theatre as a performing art. This class will train the actor in the areas of speech, voice, movement, music, and dance. Students will study selected plays from the perspectives of actors and directors, and the strategies of playwrights to develop the ability to imagine the play in performance and to appreciate the range of theatre's possibilities.
The acting curriculum features improvisation, storytelling, poetry, text analysis, contemporary and classical scene studies, neutral mask, character mask, clowning, commedia dell’arte, television and film technique, and audition preparation. This Theatre program will include spots for students who are interested in set, costume, lighting and sound design for the theatre. Course may involve costs of attending professional theatre productions.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Science and Wheels
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Science and Wheels
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Explorations in Science (MESA): Grades 6-8
This yearlong course is for students who wish to pursue independent projects to further their interest and understanding of science and/or engineering. Students will select one or more projects from various options including MESA, Science Bowl, and computer programming. MESA involves engineering competitions (egg drop, balsawood glider, and bridge-building are some examples? That start out at the regional level and all students are eligible to compete. Science Bowl is a quiz-based competition for all to try-out to make our school team. Our Science Bowl team has won the L.A Regional Competition the past two years, and members from those teams earned trips to Washington D.C. for the national competition. Students who choose the programming option will follow the curriculum on a coding website (code.org, and codeacademy are examples). In addition to working on the above, all students will participate in a science project with mentoring by UCLA undergraduate students. The UCLA students visit weekly, and this aspect of the course will culminate with a field trip to UCLA for a personalized tour and a science fair.
Exploratory Wheel – ex: Folk Art/Music (1 semester each): Grades 6-8
This is an introductory course designed to expose students to a wide variety of cultural and academic interests in art and music. Each segment is taught by a different teacher. Options may change.
World Languages & Cultures Wheel: An Introduction to French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish: Grades 6-8
This is an introductory course designed to expose students to the French, Japanese and Korean, and Spanish languages and cultures. Each 10-week segment is taught by a different foreign language teacher, and students rotate through each language/culture within the school year.
This yearlong course is for students who wish to pursue independent projects to further their interest and understanding of science and/or engineering. Students will select one or more projects from various options including MESA, Science Bowl, and computer programming. MESA involves engineering competitions (egg drop, balsawood glider, and bridge-building are some examples? That start out at the regional level and all students are eligible to compete. Science Bowl is a quiz-based competition for all to try-out to make our school team. Our Science Bowl team has won the L.A Regional Competition the past two years, and members from those teams earned trips to Washington D.C. for the national competition. Students who choose the programming option will follow the curriculum on a coding website (code.org, and codeacademy are examples). In addition to working on the above, all students will participate in a science project with mentoring by UCLA undergraduate students. The UCLA students visit weekly, and this aspect of the course will culminate with a field trip to UCLA for a personalized tour and a science fair.
Exploratory Wheel – ex: Folk Art/Music (1 semester each): Grades 6-8
This is an introductory course designed to expose students to a wide variety of cultural and academic interests in art and music. Each segment is taught by a different teacher. Options may change.
World Languages & Cultures Wheel: An Introduction to French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish: Grades 6-8
This is an introductory course designed to expose students to the French, Japanese and Korean, and Spanish languages and cultures. Each 10-week segment is taught by a different foreign language teacher, and students rotate through each language/culture within the school year.