Students will learn of the social, economic and political causes and consequences of the Civil War. They will explore the connections between the Civil War and the LPS high school district division in our community to get a concrete connection to current for the students. Our school is divided between LHS & LNHS student population.

While reading The Diary of Anne Frank, students will be reflecting and analyzing how the characters in the play use the success habits to overcome the challenges. After the reading, students will write a narrative about how the success habits have helped them overcome a challenge or reflect on how they could have used the success habits to help them overcome the challenge.

• Curious- “I want to learn more.”
• Self-Advocate-“I recognize what I need and use resources to help myself.”
• Grit-“I keep trying even when something is difficult.”
• Problem Solving-“I recognize a challenge and apply strategies to find solutions.”
• Reflective- “I learn from successes and failures.”
• Collaborative- "

Transitioning to a new grade can be an exciting yet scary process for students. This project acknowledges older middle school students by giving them the opportunity to create a survival guide for younger middle school students. Students read literary texts about the transition to middle school, research informational text about adolescent psychology, conduct surveys of peers, and reflect on their own experiences to inform the development of the guide.

Students work in teams of four to create a wellness program for a client.

Students will research a teen activist and create an e-book based of their chosen person. Their e-book will include the problem, how the activist is working to solve the problem and the impacts of said problem and proposed solutions.

Students will learn a song from a member of their family. Students will present their song to the class, and will eventually record their song as part of a digital storybook.

The students will study how the perseverance helped people overcome the Great Depression. The students will be able to identify the political, economic and social causes and consequences of the Great Depression. They will transfer their understanding of perseverance into a narrative piece to showcase at 5th grade recognition night.

Students will dig into the questions: What are the obstacles have Americans had to overcome? What strategies did they use to persevere? In a 3 prong approach they will follow a theme of perseverance in historical figures, modern individuals, and fictional characters.

Students will define the components of the graduate profile and rank them in order of importance to them, according to their own goals. They will also reevaluate their rankings at the end of the 4 weeks after their new learning.

Students will read “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and various short stories within the horror genre, focusing on the author's craft and story elements. .They will collaborate through the writing process, studying published author’s (well-known and student), and revising their own narratives. This will lead to a piece of writing that will be submitted to the Scholastic Art and Writing contest, in January.

Students read Touching Spirit Bear whose theme are adolescence, responsibility, forgiveness, and healing. They write a character profile, conduct eyewitness interviews as a part of a newspaper report. They will reflect on the themes and build their own personal totems.

The students will learn about the grassland, ocean, desert, arctic and rainforest biomes. They will use the research process to understand the weather, environment and animal adaptations the biome that interests them.

Think about a problem that you can actually solve. Maybe you need to snack while we read and you can persuade parents to donate snacks to class. Maybe we need access to more books that we can keep as long as we need them and you can apply for an Eagle Club grant.

Students will learn the problems facing a fictional zoo and discuss what the zoo director will need to build a better zoo. They will use different standards to plan animal enclosures, attractions, and facilities around the zoo.

Students will study the purchase of Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark expedition. They will explain the importance through the lens of a historical figure. Students will also create current and historical maps of the Louisiana Territory.

Students will obtain, interpret and understand basic information about community issues, as well as use that information to make recommendations to representatives of the City Council and the Mayor of Liberty prior to the upcoming April election.

The students will share their presentations at the upcoming City Council meeting or display their visual aids at the meeting, if time does not allow them to be present at the meeting OR a panel will be invited in for the student recommendations.

While learning about what matter is made up, how it is organized and how it impacts our lives, students will be applying their knowledge to a specific type of synthetic matter of their choosing. They will research what their matter is composed of, the processes used to create it and how it impacts individuals, society and the environment. By the end of the project they will have created an informational "document" to share their knowledge, and they will have also created a public service announcement to promote or initiate change.

Currently, our school district is consciously integrating ELL students into all of the middle schools (instead of being housed at just one). This means we will have more diverse families whose home language is not English. All school resources are written in English only, causing a communication gap with our ELL families. This project is meant to help bridge the gap by creating resources for our Spanish-speaking families.

During the Ancient China unit students will analyze the importance of trade through the lense of the Silk Road and apply that knowledge to how trade affects their own lives and their local community.