Syllabus 2025-2026

 


Weekly Syllabus for Sierra and Sofia. 

1st Week of June 2025.

English

Objective completed: Enhanced vocabulary and understand sentence structure.

  • Practiced vocabulary: deplore, efface, enmity, exult, frivolous, gratuitous, improvident, absorption, accomplice, affiliation, altercation, ambiguous, austerity, authentic, auxiliary, ridiculous, hospitality.

  • Learned subject, object, and verb in sentence construction.

Literature and Composition I

Objective in course: Develop reading comprehension and analytical skills.

  • Reading: Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (autobiography).

Mathematics

Objective: Strengthen foundational math skills.

  • Practiced PEMDAS (order of operations).

  • Studied vertical and adjacent angles and properties of triangles.

Algebra 1

Objective: Build skills in algebraic problem-solving.

  • Began evaluating algebraic expressions.

Chemistry

Objective: Understand molecular structures and properties.

  • Crafted water molecule model using Styrofoam balls (hydrogen and oxygen atoms).

  • Learned about water polarity, color coding (oxygen: red, hydrogen: white), atomic reactions when frozen, hydrogen characteristics, and its periodic table location.

Spanish 1

Objective: Reinforce foundational Spanish knowledge.

  • Started beginner-level Spanish to build on existing basics.

Elective. Personal Finance (Taught by Jason) 

Objective: Develop financial literacy and decision-making skills.

  • Covered Lesson 1: Personal Finance Decision Making. What is a Budget? How to Budget (Next Generation Personal Finance curriculum).

  • Upcoming: Why We Pay Taxes.




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