English/Language Arts: 三、预科课程注重培养学生的阅读能力, writing, vocabulary, and grammar skills, 这些组成部分之间的联系不断得到加强. 学生开始在字面和比喻层面上持续阅读, delving deeper than plot to engage with the texts’ themes and to discover how an author’s style contributes to the development of those themes. 阅读选择包括现代和古典小说, 以及被纳入主题单元的精选诗歌和短篇小说. 学生还将深入研究文本的象征意义以及反讽的深入研究. Students engage in an independent reading program that incorporates texts selected by the students themselves and contemporary high interest novels in small group book studies as well as whole class novel studies to advance the child’s literacy and to develop a robust classroom reading community meant to inspire a habit of reading in students so that they become life-long readers and learners.
Mathematics: 三年级预科学生有两种数学选择:三年级预科数学和预科代数. The value of a problem–based approach is that students spend most of their time in math class doing mathematics; making sense of problems and building their understanding. Not all mathematical knowledge can be discovered, so direct instruction is offered where appropriate. 目标是给学生足够的背景和工具来成功地解决最初的问题, 然后随着他们专业知识的增加,让他们解决越来越复杂的问题.
The III Preparatory pre–algebra course includes a review of basic math skills; then, 它从数据中得出结论, patterns and measurements in geometry, integers and variable expressions, algebraic equations and inequalities, graphing in the coordinate plane, functions, rational numbers, 百分比,比例和概率的应用. 重点放在技能掌握和使用数学概念.
Social Studies: 预科学生研究美国历史. Using essential questions, 学生们被引导去发现我们民族发展的原因. 学生们探讨了我们民主制度中各派之间的权力斗争, the people, 导致民族主义的思想和事件, 以及质疑我们如何与其他国家互动. . 研究单位包括美国独立战争、美国战争和美国战争. S. 政府,我国的实际扩张,内战和重建,以及工业主义. Key events and people are introduced to help students develop an accurate perspective of the history of our nation.
Science: 预备科学是对生活的研究, Earth, and the environment, the study of Earth’s crust, oceans, pollution and its effects. 与俄克拉荷马大学合作, 学生们收集土壤样本并进行分析, 与生物医学研究合作,努力从真菌中寻找新的药物样分子. III Preparatory students study the Mississippi watershed area with an emphasis on the effects of plastics in our ditches, rivers, gulf and oceans. The students participate in an overnight field experience at Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) where students work with researchers in the lab and field, 在沼泽中划独木舟,并参加墨西哥湾的研究巡航. III Preparatory science studies develop lasting impressions about making a positive impact on their environment and community. During their studies of life science, students investigate chemistry of life, plants and animals, living organisms, reproduction and heredity, 与康奈尔鸟类学实验室合作,BirdSleuths©, 学生们利用我们250英亩的校园来识别当地的鸟类, their calls and habitat requirements. As Citizen Scientists, 学生使用梅林鸟ID应用程序上传他们通过学习收集的数据. Incorporating environmental studies, 利用回收材料建造鸟屋,供校园享用.
Religion: 宗教在三预备根植于圣经, faithful to the Tradition of the Catholic Church and invites students into a relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Students learn about their faith, celebrate the Mass and sacraments, choose to show love and respect, pray every day, 与他人分享他们的信仰,并活出他们的信仰. Students study the New Testament, which tells the story of Jesus, 为研究耶稣和他的使命提供了背景. 学生检视耶稣的生平,并探讨他教导的意义. 圣礼是耶稣赋予生命使命的延续. Students are asked to measure their values with those of Jesus and are challenged to integrate Jesus’ values with their own. 关于祈祷和礼仪的课程有助于这种融合.
French: III Preparatory French uses listening, speaking, reading 和写作活动,以支持学生达到初级流利的工作水平. Listening exercises, online exercises, more extensive writing exercises; continuation of verb conjugation; oral presentations, 个人和小组项目提供评估和鼓励创造性思维. At this level, 学生专注于塑造他们的流利程度,并鼓励使用真实的交流. 工作教室的语言是法语.