Shakopee Middle School 7th and 8th Grade Registration All About - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Shakopee Middle School 7th and 8th Grade Registration

All About Middle School ● Schools Starts at 7:45 ● School Ends at 2:25 East Middle School ● 7 Period Day, bi-monthly Block Days ● Advisory ● Class periods are about 45-50 minutes ● Sports, clubs, activities to join! West Middle School

7th Grade Required Courses Full-Year Classes: Quarter-Long Classes: ● English ● GTWY: Think Tank ● U.S. Studies ● GTWY: Teen Engineer ● Life Science ● GTWY: Snack Attack ● Mathematics ● Health Semester-Long Classes: ● Physical Education - 1 semester or alternating all year ● 3 Elective choices!

8th Grade Required Courses Full-Year Classes: Semester-Long Classes: ● English ● Physical Education - 1 semester ● Global Studies or alternating all year ● Earth Science ● 5 Elective choices! ● Mathematics

What if my student is an English language learner or has special education classes? No need to worry! Case managers/EL teachers will be working with you and your student to make a schedule based on your student’s needs!

Areas of Interest & Academies By the end of 7th grade, students will have taken 1 quarter-long Gateway class for each Area of Interest.

7th/8th Grade Elective Options Arts & Communication Engineering & Manufacturing ● Digital Art! ● GTT: Architecture ● Draw, Paint, and Print it! ● GTT: Design and Manufacturing ● Drop a Beat ● GTT: Robotic ● House of Style ● Saber Animation & Video Science & Technology ● Sculpt it! ● App Creations ● The Invisible World of Science & Technology Business & Entrepreneurship ● Innovation Lab Global Electives ● Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees ● Spanish 1 (Full year) ● Teen Chef ● Spanish 2 (Full year)- 8th grade only ● Spanish for Spanish Speakers (Full year) Health Sciences ● Spanish for Spanish Speakers 2 (Full year)- 8th grade only ● 2 Fit 2 Quit ● AVID 7th and 8th (Full year) ● Study hall (every other day or everyday) ● Code Red ● Band (every other day) ● Medical Detectives ● Choir (every other day) Human Services ● Law and Order ● More than Social Media

High School Credit ● These are the same courses that 9-12 graders take ● The grade students earn will be on their high school transcript and impact their high school GPA Spanish, Spanish for Spanish Speakers, Acc. Geometry, & Acc. Algebra 2

Math Class Sequence Grade Regular Accelerated Twice Accelerated Math 6 Accelerated Accelerated Algebra 6 Pre-Algebra 1 Pre-Algebra Accelerated Algebra Accelerated 7 1 Geometry Algebra 1 Accelerated Accelerated Algebra 8 Geometry 2

7th/8th Grade Accelerated Classes Will remain in Acc. track (unless they Student is currently in an Acc. class opt out) Newly qualified students invited MCA/MAP scores and current grades to Acc. track will be reviewed in the spring Student is not invited in the spring, Can go through the appeals process but wants to join Acc. track available in the spring Accelerated Classes: 7th: Accelerated English, Accelerated Life Science 8th: Accelerated English, Accelerated Earth Science

7th Grade Options

8th Grade Options

Alternating Class Options ● Choir ● Band ● Physical Education ● Study Hall

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Registration Materials Can Be Found Here... On both schools websites under Each student has the guide on their ‘Quick Links” ipad in the library of the app ‘Books’

How to Register for the 20-21 School year ● Review Registration Guide ○ Students have the guide in their Books app ● Students will receive Registration Forms the week of January 27th ○ Complete form by Friday, January 31st ● Students will then work with their advisory teacher and enter their registration on Infinite Campus.

Questions? Joan Hunstiger, Counselor: Last Names A-L Erin Richter, Counselor, Last Names A-L East Middle School West Middle School 952-496-5773 952-496-5739 jhunstiger@shakopee.k12.mn.us erichter@shakopee.k12.mn.us Megan Morinville, Counselor: Last Names M-Z Amy Gerster, Counselor, Last names M-Z East Middle School West Middle School 952-496-5711 952-496-5723 mmorinville@shakopee.k12.mn.us agerster@shakopee.k12.mn.us Matt Headrick, Asst. Principal Paul Nettesheim, Asst. Principal East Middle School West Middle School 953-496-5709 952-496-5759 mheadric@shakopee.k12.mn.us pnettesh@shakopee.k12.mn.us