Arts Elective CoursesGrade 7

Thomas W. Pyle

Middle School

7th 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

7th 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!

7th and 8th Grade Elective Choice:

Yearbook Class

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.

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!

Olivia and Miku snapping a photo in the hall.

Lauren finding a creative angle!

John M. and Amir viewing a photo of a student viewing a photo.. meta.

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

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.

Yearbook Class

Creating the yearbook involves:

Nico edits a spread layout while listening to music.

John B. and Ryan D. cruising the hall for a good photo op.

Margot and friends busy at work.

Family and Consumer Sciences

Cooking

Family and Consumer Sciences

Sewing

7th 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

• Pre-Engineering Pathway

Gateway To

Technology-A/B:

Grade 7

full year

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

Introduction to Design

& 3-D Modeling:

Grade 6

9 weeks

Energy & the

Environment:

Grade 6

9 weeks

Gateway To Technology: Ais 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: Bis divided into 2 UnitsFlight & 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.

7th Grade Exploratory Theater

1 Semester

Theatre Games & MovementPuppetry & Final Performance

7th & 8th Grade Drama Performance

Full Year Class

Full Year of Technical Theatre Work and…

Performance Work

Instrumental Music Department

Promoting individual musical growth, ensemble-building, and leadership!

Intermediate Band

• Cultivate leadership skills.• Perform three concerts

each year.• Participate in the MCPS

Band Festival.• Compete at the Hershey

Park Music Festival.

• 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

• 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!

• Refine string instrument tone production and technique.• Dive into advanced music vocabulary and theory.• Join the 8th grade string players and develop new friendships!• Engage in ensemble clinics with professional musicians.

Jazz Band • Tuesdays after-school.• Develop advanced

woodwind technique.• Experience “chamber

music” small-ensemble-playing.

• Learn a variety of repertoire, from classical to jazz to contemporary.

• Perform four concerts each year.

• Have fun in an advanced ensemble!

Flute & Clarinet Choir

• 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!

Audition-Based Ensembles:

7th Grade Chorus Award winning choral group in county, state,

and regional competitions.

All are welcome. No prior experience necessary.

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.

7th Grade

TV Studio

Help create Panther TV;

Pyle’s weekly TV show

7th 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

7th 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