Curriculum: Yujin Gakuen Program
Curriculum: Yujin Gakuen Program
Types of Courses
CORE classes consist of traditional academic courses.
RELATED ARTS classes rotate between P.E., Spanish or Japanese, and Technology. Students in Yujin Gakuen attend Japanese Immersion classes during this time. These classes are ongoing all year.
FLEX classes are electives that vary in length, but most of them last nine weeks. Students choose an area of interest to pursue.
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Core Classes
Science
One of the strengths of our science program is the hands-on learning our teachers provide. Here students have created their own cricket environments. They study the effects of water, food, shelter, light, then record and compare their findings. No wonder our science scores are some of the highest in the district!
Social Studies
Project-based learning experiences designed to connect student explorations throughout the day often begin in social studies and extend into, science, math, Spanish and language arts classes. Geography, history, civics, and social science analysis skills and content fill three years of study and span the centuries for our students. Teachers create learning units that provide student with opportunities to form questions, seek answers and present findings to audiences beyond the classroom.
Ancient civilizations inspire student projects in sixth grade.
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The five themes of geography take students around the world in seventh
grade.
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U.S. History brings them back to the states in eighth grade.
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Language Arts
The ability to communicate clearly and effectively in today’s culture of information provides the context for building students’ skills and abilities in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Applying these skills to gain knowledge, to express understanding, to form opinions and to interact with people in our community happens throughout the year in our language arts classroom.
Frequent writing opportunities in expository, persuasive, and narrative writing; along with grammar and vocabulary building activities, encourage students to refine skills through the writing process. Traditional short stories, young adult fiction, newspaper articles, and other readings encourage students to develop skills that support individual learning across the curriculum.
Math
Students explore and apply math skills using the Connected Mathematics program that provides investigations and skills practice in each of the grade-level programs. Teachers build understanding of math concepts in algebra, geometry/measurement, probability and statistics and numerical operations. Students also use Accelerated Math at each grade level to practice and refine math skills. Daily feedback on attempted problems allows students to work through exercises at an individually appropriate pace to master math skills.
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Related Arts
Japanese Immersion
Yujin Gakuen Secondary Program is a comprehensive Japanese Language School
housed within Colin Kelly Middle School and North Eugene High School in
Eugene, Oregon. The program incorporates classes for students from Yujin
Gakuen Elementary Immersion Program with classes for non-immersion students.
This is the continuation program for students who attended Yujin Gakuen
Japanese Immersion Elementary School. Students attending this program do
not take part in the Related Arts rotation like other Kelly students. Immersion
students spend aproximately 85 minutes a day in the immersion classroom.
At all three levels the immersion classrooms function entirely in Japanese.
Students are expected to interact with their teacher in Japanese, in as
well as out of class.
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Flex (Electives)
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Aerobics
Power Walking
Read to Learn
Art
The Natural World
Team Games
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