Middle Years Programme
Eighth Grade Orientation
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Guiding Question
How will MYP experiences
help me in the future?
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Eighth Grade Assembly
October 4, 2013
 Interdisciplinary Unit Presentation
8th Grade Culminating Project
 High School Fair
 Eighth Grade Exams
 MYP Requirements
 Student Code of Conduct
 End of the Year Activities
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What is the 8th Grade
Culminating Project?
The MYP Culminating Project is an independent project. It will be
completed at home with guidance from a mentor and your MYP
Technology teacher.
It is a great opportunity to:
 learn about a topic that interests you
 apply the skills you have developed while participating in the
Middle Years Programme at Ada Merritt K-8 Center in all your
subjects and through Approaches to Learning
 develop and showcase talents and interests that you may
have and apply them to a chosen goal
 apply your knowledge of the Design Cycle.
What your 8th Grade
Culminating Project Must:
 Have a clear and achievable goal
 Allow you to express a truly personal message
 Be the result of your initiative, creativity, and ability to
organize and plan
 Reflect your special interests, hobbies, special
abilities, or concerns about particular issues
 Connect to the Community and Service Area of
Interaction
What your 8th Grade
Culminating Project must:
 Deal with a topic or area to which you are committed
and which has an impact on your community
 Generate a product that connects to one of the MYP
subject areas
 Be mentored by an advisor who is an expert in the
field (instructor approval is required)
 Be of grade level appropriate scope and quality
 Be entirely your own work—authenticity is very
important and you will be required to sign a
document stating that the project is your own work.
What are the required components of
the 8th Grade Culminating Project?
A Design Folder detailing your work through
all the phases of the Design Cycle
 A product
 A presentation of the project with visual aids
 A personal statement
Remember: successful completion of all components will be required
to qualify for the Ada Merritt K-8 Center IB Certificate and Pin.
How will it be graded?
 Your Design Folder will be graded using the Technology
assessment criteria.
 The various phases of the Design Cycle will each receive
a grade.
 Your final product will be graded using MYP criteria for
the relevant subject(s)
 Your presentation/personal statement will be evaluated
using a project rubric
 Successful completion of the project will be required to
qualify for the Ada Merritt K-8 Center IB Certificate and
Pin.
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
High School Fairs
October 24, 2013, from 8:45 am to 10:00 am
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Confirmed to attend:
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Coral Gables Senior High School
International Studies Prep Academy- ISPA
Miami Beach Senior High School
Miami Senior High School
Iprep
Young Women’s Prep Academy
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Invited:
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Young Men’s Prep Academy
International Studies Charter High School- ISCHS
New World School of the Arts
Terra
Declined invitation: Coral Reef High School, MAST Academy, Dash. Check
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those schools’ website for orientation dates
Applications due January 15, 2014
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Eighth Grade Exams
Algebra 1 End of Course Exam (May 2014)
 Geometry End of Course Exam (May 2014)
 FCAT in Writing, Science and Reading
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(April 2014)
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Spanish Language AP Exam (May6,
Ada Merritt K-8 Center
2014)
Eighth Grade Requirements
To receive an Eighth Grade Certificate of
Promotion students must pass all Middle School
core classes.
 To receive an Ada Merritt K-8 Center International
Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB MYP)
Certificate and Pin students must meet the
following criteria:
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 a GPA of 2.5 or higher in all Academic Courses and in
conduct
 a minimum of 40 hours of Community and Service: 10
in grades 6 and 7, 20 in grade 8. All Service Record
forms must be submitted before May 17, 2013
 a satisfactory eighth grade research project
 a complete MYP portfolio.
Student Code of Conduct
End of the Year Activities
Eighth Grade Field Trip
 Dinner/Dance
 End of the Year Awards
Program
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Ada Merritt K-8 Center
Eighth Grade Orientation
October 4, 2013
The direction in which education starts
a man will determine his future in life.
Plato
Ada Merritt K-8 Center