Middle School
ENGAGED, ENRICHED, INSPIRED
AWS’s middle school classes strengthen students’ individuality and character by fully engaging them intellectually, emotionally, artistically, and physically.
- Our interdisciplinary curriculum explores the essential questions in each subject. This helps students develop the intellectual and moral foundation for a productive and meaningful life.
- Challenging assignments and projects require students to develop critical thinking skills, integrate what they have learned, and express themselves skillfully and creatively.
- Classes in music, drama, arts, and crafts teach students to express themselves with competence and confidence and to become practical, self-reliant individuals.
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
SIXTH GRADE
The Art of Language: Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary
Making Math Meaningful: Business Math & Geometry
Roman History, Medieval History
Earth Science
Introductory Physics: Sound, Light, Heat, Magnetism, Electricity
Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation
SEVENTH GRADE
The Art of Language: Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary
New Horizons in Mathematics: Introduction to Algebra; cont. Geometry
European History: Renaissance, Reformation, & the Age of Discovery
Cultural Geography: The World and Its Peoples
Astronomy: Astronomers and their Discoveries
Biology: The Mysteries of the Human Body
Adventures in Physics: Electromagnetism; Mechanics
Introductory Inorganic Chemistry
Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation
EIGHTH GRADE
The Art of Language: Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary
Mathematics in Theory and Practice: Algebra; Geometry
World History: Revolutions Past and Present
Cultural Geography II: The World and its Peoples
Biology: The Miracles of Human Anatomy
Experimental Physics: Fluid Mechanics; Aeromechanics; Meteorology
Experimental Chemistry: Organic Substances
Drama/Speech: Class Play, Poetry recitation
A new capacity for exact observation is cultivated through the physics lessons, in which students move from the mystery of phenomena to its exact measurement.
The physical changes of this age lead naturally to a study of human physiology, which is taught from the hygienic perspective of responsibility for the integrity and health of our bodies. Earth science supports the ever-expanding geographic studies of Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the planet as a whole.
Business arithmetic, algebra and geometry become formal disciplines and are studied over the course of all middle school grades. The language arts curriculum expands into the interweaving branches of literature, grammar and composition and along with mathematics, occupies both main lesson and ongoing skills classes.
In addition to the broad arts-infused academic curriculum, Asheville Waldorf School offers a variety of specialty classes taught by teachers whose focus in on a particular subject.
Read more about our Subject curriculum here.
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for a life of continuous learning
and meaningful engagement with the world.
Asheville Waldorf School does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or national origin in its employment policies, educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.