A comprehensive program that provides the resources needed to plan and assess effectively, as well as teach and engage students. The Match Fishtank curriculum uses the Common Core to engage students and build comprehension skills with materials leveled to ensure all readers receive the proper support and challenge. We use authentic texts in the classrooms to ensure that students are not just preparing for a standardized test, but preparing to be lifelong learners and active citizens. We ensure that the texts we choose reflect our students and our community.
In the Social Studies component of Humanities, our program includes history, economics, geography, and civics, citizenship, and government. Students learn about the community, workforce, connections to family, and diversity within and among cultural groups that span across time and geographical locations.
The books we read in Middle School Humanities classes include: Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi, Night by Elie Weisel, The Giver by, Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland, A Raisin in the Sun, The House on Mango Street, Animal Farm, Persepolis, An Inconvenient Truth to Power by Al Gore.