Arts Elective Courses Grade 7. Thomas W. Pyle Middle School

Arts Elective Courses Grade 7 Thomas W. Pyle Middle School

7 th Grade Arts Courses Semester Courses Digital Photography and Desktop Publishing Family and Consumer Science (FACS) Gateway To Technology: A Ceramics Studio Studio Art Exploratory Theater TV Production Full Year Courses Band Orchestra Chorus Drama Performance Gateway To Technology:A/B Yearbook

7 th Grade Elective Course: Digital Photography and Desktop Publishing Students will use a variety of publishing software, such as PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, Google Slides, and Photoshop, to create professional-looking and visually appealing digital creations. Students will use school digital cameras to take pictures around the school, and use their photos to create projects. Students will learn and practice: Effective use of digital camera and digital photography Downloading, saving, manipulating photos Principles of effective graphic design Just a tiny example of the amazing things we create!

7 th and 8 th Grade Elective Choice: Yearbook Class Olivia and Miku snapping a photo in the hall. Student in this class become a staff, work as a team, and publish the yearbook! Students will learn basic principals of publishing, layout design and photojournalism. Lauren finding a creative angle! What makes it so special? It is a lot of fun, students have a very important job to do; their work become a part of Pyle history; it sometimes involves a lot of work. Students in this class must be hard workers, very responsible and very motivated! John M. and Amir viewing a photo of a student viewing a photo.. meta.

Yearbook Class Nico edits a spread layout while listening to music. Creating the yearbook involves: Choosing a theme, cover, style and color scheme Taking photos throughout the year Learning principals of layout design Designing pages Selecting photos, captions, headlines and text John B. and Ryan D. cruising the hall for a good photo op. Research includes finding out who is who, what is their real name Matching names with faces Publicizing the yearbook throughout the year Sorting and delivering the books when they arrive in the spring. Margot and friends busy at work.

Family and Consumer Cooking Sciences

Family and Consumer Sciences Sewing

7 th grade students may select to take Gateway To Technology: A (semester) or Gateway To Technology: A/B (full year) as part of the Pre-Engineering Pathway. Accelerated Pre-Engineering Pathway Introduction to Design & 3-D Modeling: Grade 6 9 weeks Energy & the Environment: Grade 6 9 weeks Gateway To Technology-A/B: Grade 7 full year Pre-Engineering Pathway Introduction to Engineering Design A/B: Grade 8 full year Principles of Engineering: Grade 9 full year Other HS or AP Credit Courses Introduction to Design & 3-D Modeling: Grade 6 9 weeks Energy & the Environment: Grade 6 9 weeks Gateway To Technology-A: Grade 7 semester Gateway To Technology-B: Grade 8 semester Introduction to Engineering Design A/B: Grade 9 full year

Gateway To Technology: A is divided into 2 Units Magic of Electrons and Science of Technology In Magic of Electrons we Learn about electricity Create a DC motor Design & Fabrication Circuits In Science of Technology we Design, create and race Magnetic levitation vehicles Design, create and race Dragsters cars Design and test Rube Goldberg projects (like Mousetrap Game)

Gateway To Technology: B is divided into 2 Units Flight & Space and Automation & Robotics In Flight & Space we Learn principles of flight Make and fly Gliders Design and create motorized airplanes In Automation & Robotics we Create mechanisms using Fisher Technik kits Program machines/robots created to solve problems Complete an Assembly Line using the robotic parts and computer program.

7 th Grade Exploratory Theater 1 Semester

Theatre Games & Movement Puppetry & Final Performance

Full Year Class 7 th & 8 th Grade Drama Performance

Full Year of Technical Theatre Work and

Performance Work

Instrumental Music Department Promoting individual musical growth, ensemble-building, and leadership!

Cultivate leadership skills. Perform three concerts each year. Participate in the MCPS Band Festival. Compete at the Hershey Park Music Festival. Intermediate Band Refine instrument tone production and technique. Dive into music vocabulary and theory. Build the Pyle musical community and strengthen friendships! Engage in ensemble clinics with professional musicians.

Advanced Orchestra Refine string instrument tone production and technique. Dive into advanced music vocabulary and theory. Join the 8 th grade string players and develop new friendships! Engage in ensemble clinics with professional musicians. Cultivate leadership skills. Perform three concerts each year. Participate in the MCPS Orchestra Festival. Travel to New York City for an orchestra clinic and weekend of fun!

Audition-Based Ensembles: Jazz Band Tuesdays after-school. Saxes, Trumpets, Low Brass, Keyboard, Guitar, Bass, Drum set. Develop the fundamentals of jazz ensemble playing. Dive into Jazz Theory and improvisation. Perform in four concerts each year. Have fun in an advanced ensemble! Flute & Clarinet Choir Tuesdays after-school. Develop advanced woodwind technique. Experience chamber music small-ensembleplaying. Learn a variety of repertoire, from classical to jazz to contemporary. Perform four concerts each year. Have fun in an advanced ensemble!

Award winning choral group in county, state, and regional competitions. All are welcome. No prior experience necessary. 7 th Grade Chorus Exciting course designed to strengthen the voice, sharpen skill in music, and perform with friends and classmates. Perform a wide variety of choral music including classical, pop, musical theatre, folk, rock, and more. Explore the fundamentals of musicianship and choral singing including reading and interpreting the score, vocal health and sound production, singing successfully through the changing voice, and singing within an ensemble. Perform in two major concerts and participate in performance field trips including traveling to a music competition and festival in NYC. Excellent opportunity to make new and lasting friends.

Ceramics Studio Develop 3 dimensional sculptures in a variety of modes and materials.

Ceramics Studio Explore various historical cultures and artists. Explore the manipulation of tools Develop techniques and skills.

Studio Art Explore mainly 2D projects. Emphasis on techniques and various mediums.

7 th Grade TV Studio Help create Panther TV; Pyle s weekly TV show

7 th Grade TV Studio Learn the Ken Burns Effect in imovie with the Wiesner Project Get your license to film and create video projects in groups