5th -8th GRADE
Guided by compassionate educators, our upper-grade students continue to flourish academically, spiritually, and socially. With a focus on character formation and moral leadership, students in grades 5-8 learn to navigate the challenges of adolescence with resilience, integrity, and compassion. Our rigorous academic programs encourage critical thinking skills across a range of subjects and to live out their faith in their daily lives through their religious education. Through their participation in extracurricular activities, leadership opportunities, and service projects, our students discover their passions and how they can make a positive impact in the world around them.
Curriculum
English Language Arts (ELA):
Teachers use the ELA standards of Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening and Language throughout each grade level. Students analyze stories, poems, and drama and discuss and interpret their findings. Students write argumentative, explanatory, and narrative pieces while using their developing organization and writing skills. They are also taught how to research a topic, cite sources, and present their research to an audience.
Mathematics:
Students learn about ratios & proportions, the number system, fractions, positive and negative integers, how to solve and write expressions and equations, geometry, measurement & data, statistics & probability, functions, and extended arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
Science:
Students explore Life, Physical, and Earth & Space Science concepts along with scientific inquiry to discover patterns, trends, structures and relationships that may be described by simple principles.
Social Studies:
Students learn about the history, geography, government, and economics of the Eastern & Western Hemisphere, Ancient Greece to 1st Global Age (750 BC-1600 AD), and the United States from Exploration to Reconstruction (1492-1877).
Religion:
The goal of our religious coursework is:
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to promote knowledge of the Catholic Faith
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to promote knowledge of the liturgy and sacraments
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to promote moral formation in Christ
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to teach how to pray
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to prepare the Christian to live in community and to participate actively in the life and mission of the Church
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to promote a missionary spirit that prepares the faithful to be present as Christians in Society
During their eighth grade year, students will receive the rite of Confirmation at Our Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo, Ohio.
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