Madeleine Choir Students strive to be:
Responsible World Citizens
- Are respectful, responsible, and hospitable to others
- Provide service and support to the local and global communities in need
- Apply Catholic social teaching to current issues in civic and international affairs
- Develop a sound sense of stewardship for the earth’s resources and one’s personal gifts and abilities
Engaged Scholars
- Demonstrate mastery of rigorous academic curriculum
- Utilize a variety of resources to effectively comprehend curriculum
- Develop critical thinking skills to solve problems
- Appropriate and engage the Catholic intellectual, artistic, and moral tradition
Effective Communicators
- Articulate and defend well-supported arguments
- Use different written genres and technological innovations to communicate ideas in multiple academic fields
- Explore and critically evaluate diverse viewpoints
- Advance Gospel values when considering issues in the public forum
Dedicated Liturgical Musicians
- Preserve and further the choral tradition of the Roman Catholic Church
- Strengthen full, conscious and active participation in the Liturgy
- Enhance the Cathedral’s public worship life through regular musical service
- Offer the larger community inspiring music through the annual concert series, performance tours and collaboration with other artistic institutions
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
- Cite textual evidence accurately
- Identify and summarize the theme of a text
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases using figurative language
- Explain how a develop point of view
- Analyze how written text compares to visual or oral presentations of that text
- Compare and contrast text in different genres
Reading Informational Text
- Cite textual evidence accurately
- Determine main idea and key details to summarize text
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases using figurative and technical language
- Determine an author’s point of view
- Compare multiple accounts of the same event or topic
- Compare one author’s presentation of events with that of another
- Trace and evaluate the specific claims in a text, identifying those backed by research
Writing
- Write arguments to support claims
- Write informative texts to examine a topic and convey ideas
- Write narrative texts to develop real or imagined experiences
- Produce clear and organized writing
- Plan, revise and edit for conventions
- Use technology to produce and publish writing (includes keyboarding)
- Conduct short research projects
- Gather information from various sources to support research projects
- Gather evidence from texts to support analysis, reflection, and research
Speaking and Listening
- Engage effectively in discussions (partners and groups)
- Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats
- Outline a speakers argument and specific claims, identifying those supported by research
- Give a presentation providing facts and pertinent information using eye contact, adequate volume and clear pronunciation
Language
- Use grammar and conventions in speaking, writing and spelling
- Clarify the meaning of unknown words, multiple-meanings and phrases
- Consult reference materials (dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses) to find pronunciation or clarify meaning of words
- Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances
Mathematics
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
- Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems
The Number System
- Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions
- Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples
- Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers
Expressions and Equations
- Apply and extend previous understanding of arithmetic to algebraic expressions
- Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities
- Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables
Geometry
- Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume
Statistics and Probability
- Develop understanding of statistical variability
- Summarize and describe distributions
Science
The Moon/Seasons
- Identify the patterns of changes in the appearance of the moon as it orbits the Earth
- Demonstrate how the relative positions of Earth, the moon, and the sun create the appearance of the moon's phases
- Understand how Earth's tilt on its axis changes the length of daylight and creates the seasons
Solar System
- Describe and compare the components of the solar system
- Describe the use of technology to observe objects in the solar system and relate this to our understanding of the solar system
- Describe the forces that keep objects in orbit in the solar system
- Compare the size and distance of objects within systems in the universe
- Describe the appearance and apparent motion of groups of stars in the night sky
Heat, Light, Sound
- Determine the different types of waves and how to identify their behaviors
- Investigate the movement of heat between objects by conduction, convection and radiation
- Describe how light can be produced, reflected, refracted and separated into visible light of various colors
- Describe the production of sound in terms of vibration of objects that create vibrations in other materials
- Identify different forms of energy
- Compare the differences between heat and temperature
Microorganisms
- Identify the use f classification with living organisms
- Explain the characteristics of the five kingdoms of organisms
- Determine the parts of animal and plant cells
- Observe and summarize information about microorganisms
- Demonstrate the skills needed to plan and conduct an experiment to determine a microorganism's requirements in a specific environment
- Identify positive and negative effects of microorganisms and how science has developed positive uses for some microorganisms and overcome the negative effects of others
Social Studies
- Introduction to cultural universals: archaeology, anthropology, examining prehistory artifacts and historical records
- Civilization of Mesopotamia: hunters and gatherers vs. early farmers, characteristics of civilizations form of government
- Civilization of Ancient Egypt: Dynastic Rule, Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, religious beliefs, social order
- Civilization of Ancient India: Indus Valley civilizations, culture and architecture of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, introduction of Buddhism and Hinduism
- Civilization of Ancient China: Early dynasties, The Silk Road, Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism, and Maoism, calligraphy and poetry
- Civilization of Ancient Greece: Rise of City-States, Art and Architecture, Golden Age of Greece, The Origins of Democracy, Greek Mythology, Alexander the Great, Early Philosophers
- Civilization of Ancient Rome: Birth of Rome, Rise of the Republic and Empire, Citizenship
- Develop good citizenship qualities through a year-long service learning project TNA by the teacher and students each year as well a year-long service to our sister school in Palestine
Religion
Beliefs
- Created to be like God/belief in one God
- Created for God
- Original sin and God's mercy
- Knowing and reverence for the Old Testament of the Bible: books, stories, figures
- The Law of Love
- Paul and the early Christians
- The Works of Mercy
- Catholics and Jews
- The Beatitudes
- Death and eternal life
Worship
- Celebrating Reconciliation and Eucharist
- The vows of the sacraments of Matrimony and Holy Orders
- Passover and Easter
We Live as Children of God
- We receive God's own life in Baptism
- We are strengthened by Confirmation
- We are fed through the Eucharist]
- Living with faith and courage
Prayer
- Prayer through the Bible: intensive study of the Old Testament
- Formal and informal forms of prayer: The Apostle's Creed, The Nicene Creed, The Confiteor, Hail Holy Queen, The Angelus, How to pray the Rosary, Memorare, Acts of Faith, Hope and Love, Mass responses
Special Celebrations
- The seasons of the liturgical year
- Seasons of Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter
- Holy Week
Building Catholic Character (Virtues)
- Participate in rotating three-year Virtues program
- Participate in year-long service project to be decided upon at start of year
- Participate in global service in support of our sister school in Palestine
