What's Happening in the Seventh Grade?

Language Arts

January 2025

Highs and Lows

EQ: What do we learn from love and loss?

We will be reading:

The Assignment (Realistic Fiction)

We will be writing:

Students will write an argumentative essay about a controversial topic of their choice. We will be focusing on transitions in writing and using evidence within a written response.

February 2025

Chasing the Impossible

EQ: What makes a dream worth pursuing?

We will be reading:

We Beat the Street (Nonfiction)

The First Americans (Nonfiction)

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad (Nonfiction)

Beyond the Classroom: ELA

Math

Mathematics

March/April 2025

Unit 8 - Probability and Sampling

This unit introduces students to fundamental concepts in probability and statistics, focusing on understanding chance events and making inferences about larger populations based on samples.

Resources available in the beyond the classroom section.

Unit - Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities

This unit focuses on developing students' abilities to represent and solve linear equations and inequalities, enhancing their understanding of algebraic concepts.

Resources available in the beyond the classroom section.

Focus:

March 18th - Unit 8 Mid-unit Assessment

April 17th - Math Forward Assessment

May 7th - Spring STAR Assessment

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!

WOW! It is hard to believe that we are this close to the end of the school year already! We will kick of 4th quarter with a unit on Modern Europe but don't be deceived by the title, "modern" for Europe starts at essentially 1500 and goes until today. We will be working with some maps of Europe and will focus on cultures as well as a quick highlight of some of the more important historical events from the past 500 years.

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

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