Mission Statement:
Westchester Country Day is a college preparatory school that seeks to educate each child toward moral, academic, artistic, and athletic excellence in a nurturing, family environment where students, teachers, and parents support one another. By respecting the student and honoring
learning, Westchester aims to cultivate informed citizens who are ready for a rapidly changing world and to graduate students who view the pursuit and wise use of knowledge as a lifelong joy.
Grade 6
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Literature
Literature
Mandarin
Mandarin A
Mandarin B
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Literary criticism
Literary terms application
Nov els, short stories, and poetry
Vocabulary in context
Tex ts: Elements of Literature, The Watsons Go to
Birmingham -- 1963, The Brothers Grimm Favorite Fairy
Tales, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Miracle
Worker, Having Our Say, The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer
Writing
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 Half-y ear of a more formal study of introductory
Mandarin
 Sy stematic approach to writing and conversation
 Analy tical, creative, expository, and expressive
composition
 Grammar, usage, mechanics, and punctuation
 Vocabulary
 Tex ts: Vocabulary Workshop, Grammar and
Composition Handbook
 Descriptiv e, expository, narrative, and persuasiv e
composition
 Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, and Punctuation
 Public speaking and debate
 Vocabulary (Vocabulary Workshop, Fourth Course,
HRW)
 Equiv alent to first half of Mandarin I
 Basic grammar using present tense, future tense, and
past tense
 Basic v ocabulary of likes and dislikes, family, time, and
food items
 Listening, speaking, reading, and writing with integration
of culture
Spanish A
 Equiv alent to first half of Spanish 1
 Basic grammar using present tense
 Basic v ocabulary of likes and dislikes, personality,
school, food and restaurants, health, and celebrations
 Listening, speaking, reading, and writing with integration
of culture
Academic Coaching
 Organization
 Note taking
 Test preparation
 Time management
 Equiv alent of second half of Mandarin I
 Continued basic grammar in sentence structure and
tenses (perfect tense and future tense)
 Dev eloping v ocabulary on shopping, transportation,
w eather, and daily routine at school
 Continued building of Listening, speaking, reading, and
w riting w ith integration of culture
Spanish B
 Equiv alent to second half of Spanish 1
 Continued basic grammar introducing past tense
(preterite)
 Basic v ocabulary of house, shopping, vacation,
env ironment, movies, television, and technology
 Continued building of listening, speaking, reading, and
w riting skills with integration of culture
Academic Coaching
 Organization
 Note taking
 Test preparation
 Time management
7th Grade Music
 Music reading skills
 Various musical genres
 Production of original music
 Collaboration on and performance of choral music
 Introduction to piano
8th Grade Art
 Observ ational drawing
 Critically reading and writing about art
 Collaboration
 Ex ploration through self ex pression
Classes
 Fit in Mind, Body and Habits
 Wildcat Fitness
 Sex and health education unit
Classes
 Fit in Mind, Body and Habits
 Wildcat Fitness
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Literary terms introduction
Nov els, short stories, and poetry
Vocabulary in context
Tex ts: Elements of Literature, The Lightning Thief, One
Crazy Summer, Heat, The Adventures of Ulysses, The
Giver, The City of Ember, Hoot, Chasing Vermeer, Al
Capone Does My Shirts
Descriptiv e, imaginative, and reflectiv e composition
Grammar, usage, mechanics, and punctuation
Vocabulary
Tex ts: Vocabulary Workshop, Grammar and
Composition Handbook
6 Math
 Decimals, fractions and percentage system
 Operations w ith w hole numbers
 Basic equations and inequalities
 Statistics and probability
 Variables
 Geometry
Mathematics
Ancient Civilizations
 History of the ancient w orld
 Social, economic, and political institutions of those
cultures
Social Studies
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Science
Grade 8
Literature
Writing
Language Arts and Literature
Grade 7
Div ersity of life
Env ironmental science
Scientific inquiry
Technological design
Water and air properties
7 Math
 Variables, like terms, evaluating expressions
 Positiv e and negative numbers
 Rational numbers
 Equations and inequalities
 Ratio, proportion, and percent
 Linear equations
 Radicals and probability
 Poly nomials
Literary criticism
Literary terms analysis
Nov els, short stories, plays, and poetry
Vocabulary
Tex ts: Elements of Literature, (2nd course, HRW); To
Kill a Mockingbird; "Flowers for Algernon;"
Homecoming; Midsummer Night's Dream; The Weirdo;
Call of the Wild; The Outsiders; The Hobbit; "The Diary
of Anne Frank;" The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Writing
Modern Languages
Pre-Algebra
 Operations w ith w hole numbers, signed numbers,
decimals, fractions, and percent
 Graphing
 Adv anced equations and inequalities
 Ratios and proportions
 Problem solv ing
Algebra 1
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Adv anced equations, inequalities, systems of
equations, v ariations
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Poly nomials and factoring
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Ratios and proportions
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Linear and quadratic functions
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Absolute v alue equations
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Radicals
NC History
 Civ ics and economics
 Geographical and cultural concepts
 Local and state political institutions
 Migration and immigration
 Gov ernment types and their dev elopment
 Geopolitics that hav e shaped our state and nation.
Global Studies Non-Western World
 Culture
 Economy
 Geography of the dev eloping world
 History , mainly 20th century issues
 Political institutions
 Compare and contrast different forms of gov ernment
 Comparison and contrast of dev eloped world and
dev eloping world
 Policies and themes related to energy, food, resource,
and w ealth
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Earth’s structure and history
Human body
Matter
Scientific inquiry
Technological design
Spanish
 Half-y ear of a more formal study of introductory Spanish
Academic Coaching
 Organization
 Note taking
 Test preparation
 Time management
6th Grade Art
 Elements of Art: line, shape/form, color/value, texture,
space
 Critical analy sis
 Art v ocabulary
Arts
Classes
 Fit in Mind, Body and Habits
 Wildcat Fitness
Physical Education
Constancy, change, and measurement
Ev idence, models, and explanation
Ev olution and equilibrium
Form and function
Sy stems, order, and organization
Technology
Teams
 Baseball
 Basketball
 Cross Country
 Golf
 Soccer
 Sw imming
 Tennis
 Track
 Volley ball
Computer Tech
 Digital Compass
 Scratch/Coding games
 Key boarding 30/wpm
 Legal uses of images, text, music
 File management
 Formal lay out and design in presentation software
 Google Sheets, data collection and manipulation
 Uploading and dow nloading in Google Drive
 Minecraft
 Adv anced photography
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Teams
 Baseball
 Basketball
 Cross Country
 Golf
 Soccer
 Sw imming
 Tennis
 Track
 Volley ball
Computer Tech
 Digital Compass
 Scratch/Hour of Coding project
 Key boarding 35/wpm
 Adv anced searching skills
 Design Thinking
 Adv anced presentation software
 Practical application in Google Sheets
 Google Apps and Ex tensions
 Minecraft
 Adv anced videography
8th Grade Music
 Introduction to guitar
 Music composition
 Honing of choral performance skills
 Music history
Teams
 Baseball
 Basketball
 Cross Country
 Golf
 Soccer
 Sw imming
 Tennis
 Track
 Volley ball