This exploratory course is designed to help meet the academic and affective needs of gifted middle school sixth grade students. The curriculum for this course has been designed to help students develop coping strategies for learning encounters in middle school. This plan will be used with flexibility and fidelity based on school, student, and teacher needs and assessments. This course is designed to support English SOL 6.1 and 6.2. Students must be identified for gifted academic services in order to be accepted into the class.