The “Creekside Kids” TeamC U R R I C U L U M N I C U R R I C U L U M N I

G H TG H TSeptember 10, 2012

HAG Vision StatementThe aim of the Highly Academically Gifted Program is to develop future leaders who have the intellectual skills, attitudes, and character traits needed to meet the challenges of a complex, rapidly changing world.

HAG Mission StatementInstructors will create a rigorous academic environment that provides numerous and varied interdisciplinary learning challenges utilizing the following instructional strategies: differentiation, shared inquiry, acceleration, enrichment, technology, and reflection.

LiteratureWorks that may be read:• A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park• A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Bette Bao Lord• Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse• Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko• The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien• The Cay, by Theodore Taylor• Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen• The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor• Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine• Drizzle, by Kathleen Van Cleve• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick• The House of Dies Drear, by Virginia Hamilton• The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis

and others…

MathTopics include:• Number Sense• Data and Probability• Measurement• Pre-Algebra• Superstars, USA Today, 24 Challenge

ScienceTopics include:• Weather and Climate• Water Cycle• Heat• Ecosystems• Forces and Motion• Cells• Body Systems• Genetics• Conservation of MatterExploraVision and Engineering is Elementary Kits will be a part of

Science this year.

Language ArtsTopics include:• Note-taking• Summarizing• Presenting• Expository Composition• Persuasive Composition• Poetry• Writing Mechanics• Grammar• Vocabulary

Social StudiesTopics include:• U.S. Government• U.S. Geography• U. S. History through Reconstruction:

– Native Americans– Explorers– Colonial America– Westward Expansion– Civil War– Reconstruction

• Economics

Technology Technology will be integrated throughout the curriculum. Possible tools include:

Livebinders EdmodoGlogster WordPowerPoint ExcelWikis Museum BoxBlogs PreziGoogle Maps PhotoPeachFlip Charts Wikis & Blogs

… and a wide variety of education search engines and databases

Other Information• Arrival (morning work) and Dismissal• Parent Assist• Make-up Tests (Wednesdays)• Tuesday Packets• Family Life• Field Trips (Camp Thunderbird-TBA;

Spring Field Trip under discussion)• “Creekside Kids” T-Shirts & USA Today• Supplies

Homework Homework Policy #6154 adopted October

2009 explains the purpose, characteristics, guidelines, and completion time schedules.

Average Time Estimate, excluding reading:

Elementary gr. 5: 45-75 minutes daily

Middle Schools gr. 6-8: 45-90 minutes daily