Eighth Grade Orientation

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Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Middle Years Programme

• Eighth Grade Orientation

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Guiding Question

• How will MYP experiences
• help me in the future?

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Eighth Grade AssemblyOctober 4, 2013

• Interdisciplinary Unit Presentation
• 8th Grade Culminating Project
• High School Fair
• Eighth Grade Exams
• MYP Requirements
• Student Code of Conduct
• End of the Year Activities

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Eighth Grade Culminating Project

• Ada Merritt K-8 Center

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What is the 8th Grade Culminating Project?

• The MYP Culminating Project is an independent
  project. It will be
• completed at home with guidance from a mentor and
  your MYP
• Technology teacher.
• It is a great opportunity to
• learn about a topic that interests you
• apply the skills you have developed while
  participating in the Middle Years Programme at
  Ada Merritt K-8 Center in all your subjects and
  through Approaches to Learning
• develop and showcase talents and interests that
  you may have and apply them to a chosen goal
• apply your knowledge of the Design Cycle.

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What your 8th Grade Culminating Project Must

• Have a clear and achievable goal
• Allow you to express a truly personal message
• Be the result of your initiative, creativity, and
  ability to organize and plan
• Reflect your special interests, hobbies, special
  abilities, or concerns about particular issues
• Connect to the Community and Service Area of
  Interaction

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What your 8th Grade Culminating Project must

• Deal with a topic or area to which you are
  committed and which has an impact on your
  community
• Generate a product that connects to one of the
  MYP subject areas
• Be mentored by an advisor who is an expert in the
  field (instructor approval is required)
• Be of grade level appropriate scope and quality
• Be entirely your own workauthenticity is very
  important and you will be required to sign a
  document stating that the project is your own
  work.

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What are the required components of the
8th Grade Culminating Project?

• A Design Folder detailing your work through all
  the phases of the Design Cycle
•  A product
• A presentation of the project with visual aids
• A personal statement
• Remember successful completion of all components
  will be required to qualify for the Ada Merritt
  K-8 Center IB Certificate and Pin.

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How will it be graded?

• Your Design Folder will be graded using the
  Technology assessment criteria.
• The various phases of the Design Cycle will each
  receive a grade.
• Your final product will be graded using MYP
  criteria for the relevant subject(s)
• Your presentation/personal statement will be
  evaluated using a project rubric
• Successful completion of the project will be
  required to qualify for the Ada Merritt K-8
  Center IB Certificate and Pin.

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High School Fair

• Ada Merritt K-8 Center

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High School Fairs

• October 24, 2013, from 845 am to 1000 am
• Confirmed to attend
• Coral Gables Senior High School
• International Studies Prep Academy- ISPA
• Miami Beach Senior High School
• Miami Senior High School
• Iprep
• Young Womens Prep Academy
• Invited
• Young Mens Prep Academy
• International Studies Charter High School- ISCHS
• New World School of the Arts
• Terra
• Declined invitation Coral Reef High School,
  MAST Academy, Dash. Check those schools website
  for orientation dates
• Applications due January 15, 2014

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Eighth Grade Exams

• Algebra 1 End of Course Exam (May 2014)
• Geometry End of Course Exam (May 2014)
• FCAT in Writing, Science and Reading (April 2014)
• Spanish Language AP Exam (May6, 2014)

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Eighth Grade Requirements

• To receive an Eighth Grade Certificate of
  Promotion students must pass all Middle School
  core classes.
• To receive an Ada Merritt K-8 Center
  International Baccalaureate Middle Years
  Programme (IB MYP) Certificate and Pin students
  must meet the following criteria
• a GPA of 2.5 or higher in all Academic Courses
  and in conduct
• a minimum of 40 hours of Community and Service
  10 in grades 6 and 7, 20 in grade 8. All Service
  Record forms must be submitted before May 17,
  2013
• a satisfactory eighth grade research project
• a complete MYP portfolio.

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Student Code of Conduct
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End of the Year Activities

• Eighth Grade Field Trip
• Dinner/Dance
• End of the Year Awards Program

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• Eighth Grade Orientation
• October 4, 2013

The direction in which education starts a man
will determine his future in life. Plato