What's Happening in the Seventh Grade?

English Language Arts

Unit Four

Moment of Truth

EQ: How can one event change everything?

We will be reading:

Casey at the Bat

An American Plague

Fever 1793

Harrison Bergeron

The Last Human Light

The Tequila Worm

We will be writing:

Students will write an informative essay answering the essential question "How can one key event or moment change everything?". They will choose three texts from the unit to write about and focus on one character who had a moment that changed everything for them.

Students will again focus on the craft and structure of their writing to include a thesis statement, transitions, and citing where their evidence is coming from. There will also be a focus on the difference between quoting and paraphrasing evidence from a text.

Academic Vocabulary Words for the Term:

Link to all 40 term 4 vocabulary words

Beyond the Classroom: ELA

Math

Mathematics

October

Unit 2: Introducing Proportional Relationships

In this unit, students begin to explore what it means for two quantities to be proportional. They build conceptual understanding of proportional relationships across tables, equations, and graphs, and distinguish proportional from nonproportional relationships.

Resources available in the beyond the classroom section.

Focus:

Students will be focusing on the routines of our 7th grade math classroom and developing techniques to be successful using our new resource called ALEKS.

Reminders:

Unit 1 Retake - Oct. 8th
Unit 2 Formatives:
- #1 - Oct. 3rd
- #2 - Oct. 9th
- #3 - Oct. 15th
Unit 2 Final Assessment - Oct. Oct. 17th

Additional Reminders:

Continue Practicing Basic Facts - (Multiplication 0 thru 12)

Working on operations with fractions

Beyond the Classroom: Math

Geography

Welcome to 7th Grade World Geography!

It's hard to believe that we are in the 4th quarter of the school year! I'm very impressed by this wonderful group of young people I get to serve each day and wish I could enjoy another year with them!

We are in the midst of a unit on Modern Europe (roughly 1500-present) and will be learning about a number of important events during that time period ranging from the Scientific & Industrial Revolutions, Ages of Enlightenment and Discovery as well as the conflicts of the 20th century and their impacts on the world we live in today. I am anticipating having our unit test around May 1st but your student will have a better idea of a date as we get closer to the middle of April.

Essential Question for our Modern Europe unit: Has Modern Europe's influence on the rest of the world been positive or negative?

As always, please reach out via email if you have any questions or concerns.

Outside Activities:

Looking for something to do outside of class? Students have a number of activities on Schoology that focus on our social studies vocabulary and work on their map skills. Students also have the Seterra App on their iPads that has a bunch of different interactive map games and activities they can work on too. You can also watch/read the news with your student and discuss things that are going on in the world.

Beyond the Classroom: Social Studies