KANUIKAPONO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
HO'ULU (Grades 7th & 8th) YEAR 3 CURRICULUM OVERVIEW







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Subject/
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Hawaiian Values
Language Arts
Writing
Social Studies
Kukulu Kumu Hana
Fine Arts
Math
Science
Outdoor Lab/Projects
Ola Kino
Enrichment Friday
Aug/Sept
Aloha & Kuleana
Plot Analysis
Background knowledge
Migration Myths
Editing
Migration Myths
Global Markets
Intro to Marketing
Identifying nouns
School Protocol
Alphabet
Visual Arts
7th-Equations with variables
8th-Linear Relations
The Ocean

Plate Tectonics

Stretching Protocols
Non-locomotor skills

October
Mahalo Pila
Pacific Legends
theme, speech org.
author's style & opinion
Organization
Letters from a Canoe
Global Markets
Hawaii's Products
Introductions; Emotions
Kauai Oli
Numbers, Requests
Visual Arts
7th- Equations with variables
8th-Linear Relations
The Ocean

Currents

Physical Fitness
Locomotor Skills
Fitness Log

November
Kahiau & Pono
Analyzing Texts

annotation, inferences
Responding to texts
Summarizing
Details, listening
US & Pacific
Islands
Opinions, Calendar
Analyzing Mele
Hawaiian Music
Music        
7th-Similarity
8th-Geometry
The Earth and Moon

Total Body Health
Nutrition

Dec./ Jan
Lokahi
Whale Rider
Text influences
Draw conclusions
Book Report
Summarizing
Org. facts & details
US & Pacific Islands
Contemporary
Issues
Expressing Ideas
Calendar; verbs
Haku Mele, Ipu Heke
Music 7th-Ration, Percent
8th-Exponents
Weather

Healthy Behaviors
Health Goals
Nutrition






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Jan/Feb
Lokomaika'I
Research skills
Text Structures
Evaluate meaning
Research Plan
Evaluate Sources
Edit, Tone, Voice
US Government
Life in America
Conversation
Hula, Travel Journal
Crafts of Hula
Dance
7th-Inequalities
Negative Numbers
8th-Quadratic Formula
Newton's Laws

Tobacco Use
Team Games

March
Kuha'o
Reliable sources
Identify Evidence
Interviews
Organizing facts
Research Paper
Citing Sources
US History
Westward Expansion
Read Simple Stories
Hula, Phrases
Haku Simple Hula
Dance
7th-Linear
Relationships
8th-Geometry
Gravity

Alcohol & Drug Use
Team games

April
Na'au pono
Dialect
Literary Devices
Vocabulary
Creative Writing
Personification
Editing; clarity
US History
The Civil War
Hula, Summarize
Stories,
Assess Hula
Drama
7th-Measurement
8th-Linear System
The organization and
formation of the Universe

Body Systems
May/June
Ho'ike
Poetry
Stylistic elements
Vocabulary
Poetry
Dialect
Presentation
US History
Civil War
Reconstruction
Oral Report or Poem
Hula, Written Report
Ho'ike
Drama
7th-Probability,
Variability
8th-Statistics
Planetary
Composition

Sexual Health